Just after the Spring Festival holiday, the Lantern Festival followed, a simple bowl of tangyuan pinned on the Chinese pursuit of reunion, health, happiness of the desire, tangyuan naturally became the darling of the market. Lai Tangyuan Food Factory, a Chengdu catering company located in the eastern section of Industrial Avenue in Xindu District, is working overtime to make tangyuan and dumplings to meet market demand.
Tangyuan production is in full swing
As soon as you enter the park, the strong aroma of sesame seeds comes to your nose. Change clothes and hats, put on shoe covers, clean hands, disinfect, and follow the staff to the production workshop. Only to see the workers non-stop, a scene of heat. The workers cut the reconciled noodles and filling hearts into large pieces and put them into the machine in an orderly manner, and as the machine runs, the workers on the production line are busy making tangyuan. One by one, the dumplings are made from four high-speed equipment, and after freezing, plated, bagged and packed, a steady stream of shipments is supplied to the market.
Zhang Zebing, production manager of Lai Tangyuan Food Factory of Chengdu Catering Company, told reporters that it is the peak season for tangyuan sales, orders are in short supply, the enterprise is running at full capacity, in order to meet the market, the enterprise has not stopped production during the Spring Festival, and the staff has worked two shifts 24 hours a day, and the firepower is in full swing. The Lantern Festival is the peak of tangyuan sales, and the daily sales of tangyuan and dumplings are about 60 tons. In the off-season of sales from April to May every year, the sales volume in a month is only about 40 tons. "Based on the traditional 10 grams of one dumpling, the number of tangyuan produced per day is about 4.8 million." Zhang Zebing said.
Don't look at the tangyuan is not big, but the production process is very exquisite. "In the filling part, we choose the best, fresh peanuts, black sesame seeds, nuts and other ingredients, after cleaning, drying, drying, grinding, mixing and other processes, the finished filling is frozen. In the outer skin part, the glutinous rice will taste better and stickier after washing, grinding rice, grinding and grinding production steps. Zhang Zebing said.
It is understood that lai tangyuan in the production of traditional peanuts, black sesame, brown sugar and other fillings at the same time, according to the preferences of different groups of people, but also developed rose bean paste, ice orange quicksand, pearl color jade, sprout pork, shiitake mushroom fresh meat, as well as salty tangyuan and other new flavors of tangyuan. "Due to different tastes and packaging, there should now be about 108 kinds of various products in our company, of which there are more than 60 kinds of tangyuan and more than 40 kinds of dumplings." Hu Xingchun, director of the production department of Lai Tangyuan Food Factory of Chengdu Catering Company, said.
Develop new products and adhere to ingenuity
As a long-established brand in China, "Lai Tangyuan" has long been a household name and has become a regular customer on the table of Chengdu people. Why is "Lai Tang Yuan" delicious? Li Ming, a 67-year-old inheritor of Chengdu's intangible cultural heritage, became a reporter to solve his doubts. Li Mingcheng has worked in Lai Tangyuan for more than 40 years, and he has the most say in what kind of tangyuan is the best to eat.
"Lai Tangyuan is characterized by fine powder, fine as thick, white as jade, sweet and delicious filling, and many flavors." Li Mingcheng told reporters that the traditional handmade Lai Tangyuan first uses large round glutinous rice to grind flour, and then refines pork plate oil and chicken fat, according to the proportion and into a variety of filling hearts, taste a bite, full of raw flavor. "Lai Tangyuan has a long history, after more than 100 years of operation, from shop to factory, to the current shortage of supply, it is precisely because of the persistence of ingenuity." Li Mingcheng said.
In 2020, the total sales output of Lai Tangyuan Food Factory reached 1200 tons, orders continued, and the supply of products exceeded demand. Because the production in 2020 can not meet the market supply, in 2021 Lai Tangyuan Food Factory plans to increase investment, on the basis of 2020, the total sales will increase by 30%-40%. "Increase the production capacity to 1600 tons." Zhang Zebing told reporters that in order to meet this production volume, the company will increase the equipment investment in the production workshop on the one hand, on the other hand, in order to ensure market supply and meet the needs of consumers, it will also increase the development of new products in the market, "develop some differentiated products, products with local characteristics to meet market demand." Zhang Zebing said.
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Source: Xindu Rong Media
Reporter: Lai Tao, Cui Muchan, Earnest (Intern)
Editor: Luo Lan
Review: Huang Yangmin