Minnan Zongzi: Roasted meat Zongzi and soda Zongzi in Xiamen and Quanzhou are well-known at home and abroad. The rice of roasted dumplings must be the best. Pork is pork belly, which is pickled and fragrant first, plus mushrooms, shrimps, lotus seeds, braised pork soup, sugar and so on. When eating, dip in garlic paste, mustard, red hot sauce, radish acid and other spices, sweet and smooth, oily but not greasy.
Ningbo Zongzi: Zhejiang Ningbo Zongzi is quadrangular, and its varieties include alkaline water Zongzi, red bean Zongzi and red date Zongzi. Its representative variety, Sour Water Zongzi, is made by adding a proper amount of sour water to glutinous rice and wrapping it with old yellow leaves. Glutinous rice turns pale yellow after cooking, and can be dipped in sugar, which is fragrant and delicious.
Jiaxing Zongzi: Jiaxing Zongzi is rectangular, with fresh meat, bean paste, eight treasures and other varieties. For example, in jiaozi, fresh meat, there is often a piece of fat in lean meat. After jiaozi is cooked, the fat oil seeps into the rice, which is fat but not greasy.
Beijing Zongzi: Beijing Zongzi is a representative variety of northern Zongzi, with a small head and an oblique quadrangle. In rural areas in the northern suburbs, people are used to eating rhubarb zongzi, which is sticky and fragrant, and the stuffing is mostly red dates and red bean paste.
Other famous zongzi are spicy zongzi from Sichuan and Hubei, pickled zongzi from Guizhou and salted egg zongzi from northern Jiangsu.
There are many kinds of zongzi in Shanghai.
Cantonese-style zongzi, represented by Xinghualou and Xinya, has a soft taste and a strong flavor. Its shape is flat at the bottom, square and pentagonal, with one corner facing upwards and the rest extending in all directions. There are many varieties in jiaozi, including chestnuts, fresh meat, egg yolk and mushrooms. Jiaozi has roast duck, mushrooms, chestnuts, fresh meat, egg yolk, rice kernels, etc., and others include jiaozi with alkaline water, jiaozi with bean paste, jiaozi with fresh meat, jiaozi with fresh egg yolk, and jiaozi with red beans.
The special dumplings in Huaiyang, represented by Laobanzhai and Yangzhou Hotel, are "eight flavors and eight styles", authentic "little feet" dumplings, quadrangular red dates and red beans dumplings, weight-shaped egg yolk chestnut dumplings, ingot-shaped ham dumplings, triangular douban bacon dumplings, pillow fresh meat dumplings, long pillow chicken dumplings and rhombic bean paste dumplings, all with their own characteristics.
Kutokuhayashi's mushroom dumplings, bean plate dumplings, bean paste dumplings, red bean and red date dumplings, pine nuts and white rice dumplings and arhat dumplings are all vegetarian.
The zongzi of Muslim Hong Changxing is very Muslim, with a slightly green shell, angular edges, delicate appearance and pure taste, especially the "beef zongzi", which is not available in other gangs.
Shen Dacheng, Jiaxing Zongzi Store, Wufangzhai and other traditional specialty stores supply all kinds of zongzi, such as red bean paste, fresh meat, white rice, red dates and red beans, and fresh egg yolk. Shen Dacheng pioneered curry chicken zongzi, which is colorful. All kinds of zongzi are different in variety, shape, taste and color. There are 450 grams of big zongzi wrapped in Cantonese pillows, but only 25 grams of mini zongzi.