Every New Year's Festival, people are known for their habit of eating and steaming. Zhaoqing wrapped steamed is one of the rice dumplings. Special in packaging with materials. The general rice dumplings are mostly wrapped in mangrove leaves, showing a twisted quadrangle, while the Zhaoqing wrapping and steaming are wrapped with local winter leaves and aquatic plants, which are in the shape of an Egyptian pyramid, and each weighs about 0.5 kg. Its ingredients are mainly glutinous rice, stripped mung beans, pork, or added shiitake mushrooms, sausages, salted eggs and other fillings, take a large vat with firewood to cook for 7 to 8 hours to eat, hot food is refreshing, the entrance is loose and smooth and sweet.
Dinghu Mountain steaming is very exquisite, one should choose the winter leaves with green color, leaf fragrance, antiseptic as the skin of the steaming; the second should choose the best glutinous rice and mung beans of the year; the third is to make the stuffed pork with fat and lean as superior; fourth, add five-spice powder and koji wine as the seasoning, so that the filling is mellow, fat and not greasy. The soaked glutinous rice, mung bean paste, pork filling, etc. are wrapped in a mold to wrap the angular Dinghu Mountain and steamed; then the steaming is put into a bucket and boiled over an open flame for more than ten hours until the glutinous rice, mung beans and pork are completely integrated.
It is said that the Zhaoqing people made steaming began in the Qin Dynasty, when farmers wrapped rice with bamboo leaves or mango leaves to facilitate field work, and carried it with them as dry food after cooking, which is the earliest steamed dumplings.
Now in Zhaoqing, the Zhaoqing wrapped steamed dumplings made during the festival of individual shops, in addition to using glutinous rice, mung beans and fatty pork, also add mushrooms, eggs, sausages, etc., this kind of steaming is called "Zhaoqing special wrapped steaming king". The Zhaoqing steaming brands on the market include "Dinghu Mountain and so on."
Many Chinese and foreign tourists are famous for not only buying steamed dumplings as a gift for tourism, but also interested in learning about the production process and history of steamed dumplings. As a business card of Zhaoqing, the steamed dumplings are worthy of the name.