This article is written by activer
<h2>I. Prologue</h2>
With the approaching of the Mid-Autumn Festival, aunt Zhang's family has recommended more and more mooncakes, in addition to the familiar Cantonese and Su-style, a batch of Dian-style mooncakes has also been launched. However, many value friends are relatively unfamiliar with Dian-style mooncakes, both want to taste the delicacies from the south of the clouds, and worry about not knowing how to choose the delicious food they want.
For Yunnan cake products, we may be more familiar with the flower cake, the use of Yunnan's rich flower resources to make flowers into cakes, while tasting the fresh fragrance, you can also have visual enjoyment, can be described as the best of both worlds.
The mooncake industry is divided into five major mooncake genres: Guangchao Su Dianjing, the representative of the Dian-style mooncake is the cloud leg mooncake, the reason why the cloud leg mooncake can attract many foodies, there are two main reasons, the crust and filling are more unique. Cloud leg mooncake is divided into puff pastry, hard shell, buckwheat noodles, etc., in terms of hard shell cloud leg mooncake, the shell is mixed and baked with fine noodles, lard, honey, the entrance is crisp and not flying chips, which is tougher than other shortbread, and is not really "hard". The cloud leg mooncake to Xuanwei ham as the main filling, Xuanwei ham has fresh, crisp, crisp, tender, sweet and other characteristics, has long been known for rich nutrition, tender meat, oil but not greasy, rich flavor, salty and sweet. It is made with sugar, honey and refined. The cloud leg mooncake is oily and not greasy, salty and sweet moderate, crisp, fluffy, crisp, soft and both, with a strong ham aroma.
For cloud leg mooncakes, some people flock to it, because of its fat meat filling, fresh and sweet taste, let people eat a bite and then call it endless, so it has a lot of fans. But there are also some people who can't avoid it, because at the moment of health, the calories brought by ham and sugar are too large and are disliked by some people.
Of course, the real foodie will not give up the opportunity to taste the food, Friends in Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang called out delicious after tasting, praising its crispy outside and fresh inside, and the ham grains are visible. The special aroma of ham is fully exerted after baking, which makes people feel fragrant after eating, and they ask for purchasing or online shopping on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Aunt Zhang's family also often recommends cloud leg mooncakes.
Today I will talk about the main ham mooncake manufacturers around Kunming, and the scope is limited to Kunming, Qujing and Yuxi. For the huge mooncake brands and manufacturers, this article is only a brick and stone. Since I am not a glutton, I am not very familiar with history, and some of the contents of the article may differ from the facts, and I hope that all the friends on duty will correct it.
<h2>Second, before liberation, it was not spring to be left alone</h2>
In the era of handicraft workshops, people at that time were more important than quality and craftsmanship, because the four words "genuine" could only be passed on by word of mouth in those years, and it was not too much to say that four words were worth a thousand gold. Because of this, the "name" is a trusted advertisement, and naturally only those who are "business and not adulterous" can make the enterprise bigger and stronger.
<h3>1. Hexiang Building</h3>
Mention the cloud leg mooncake, I have to mention the Hexiang Building, before the liberation of the Hexiang Building, which is synonymous with the cloud leg mooncake. The cloud leg mooncake is also created by Hexianglou.
According to legend, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, after the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty retired to Kunming, he was worried all day long, and did not think about eating, and an imperial cook ingeniously selected Xuanwei ham fine meat cubes, mixed with honey and white sugar, called "cloud leg buns". During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, Shu Xing'a, the inspector who came to Yunnan from the capital, brought two Manchu masters, Hu Shan and Hu Zenggui, who made meals for themselves. The Hu family father and son opened a Hexiangyuan cake shop in Ru'an Street, and Hexianglou improved the ingredients and processing technology of "Cloud Leg Buns" according to local eating habits, changing the processing technology of "Cloud Leg Buns" from steaming to baking, and using the cracking method and diced ham to make pastries to make puff pastry ham lumps. The thin skin is carefully processed due to the addition of refined lard, and the skin of the mooncake is divided into more than ten or twenty layers after baking, which is exceptionally crispy. The puff pastry ham lump weighs four or two, and the four are exactly one pound of the old scale, so the name ham "four two lumps". During the Guangxu years, Hexianglou paid tribute to her pastries to the Beijing Imperial Palace, and Empress Dowager Cixi greatly appreciated it after eating it, so she wrote three big characters of "Hexianglou" with a pen, made a plaque and gave it to the Hu family, and the fame of Hexianglou was greatly shocked, and the business was even more prosperous. By the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1947, Hexianglou even hired police to maintain order.
With the changes in the internal and external environment, the increasing number of competitors, coupled with the loss of personnel, Hexianglou also gradually declined and was merged in the public-private partnership. In 1996, Kunming Jiqingxiang Food Company registered the trademark "Hexianglou" in the State Trademark Office, and it is regrettable that the plaque of "Hexianglou" inscribed by Cixi was destroyed and lost during the Cultural Revolution.
<h3>2. Auspicious</h3>
In the 1930s and 1940s, a number of new pastry factories appeared in Kunming, and most of the owners of these emerging pastry factories were relatives of Hexianglou, or the guys and apprentices of Hexianglou, who inherited and developed the pastry production of Hexianglou. As a result, the Dian-style mooncakes based on cloud leg mooncakes continue to innovate, and they have gradually grown up to become competitors of Hexianglou. Among them, Ji Qingxiang is the most famous
In the 33rd year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1907), the Kunming people Chen Huiquan and Chen Huisheng brothers, the two nicknames were Xiaoqing and Xiaoxiang, after receiving the support of their sister-in-law Yuan Jizhi, each took one of the three names, named "Jiqingxiang", and founded the Jiqingxiang Cake Shop at the west entrance of Huashan South Road in Kunming, the former shop and the factory, operated by Chen Huiquan. And asked the painter Hu Yingxiang to design the trademark, and the "戟" and "磬" in the trademark took the harmonic sound of "auspicious celebration", expressing the meaning of auspiciousness, celebration and reunion.
Ji Qingxiang's ham mooncake, set Guixianglou thin stuffed ham mooncake and Hexianglou dry stuffed ham mooncake long, selected raw materials, made of an outer layer of hard shell, inner thousand layers of puff pastry wrapped in the hard shell ham mooncake, the entrance crisp, loose, crisp, soft, salty and sweet suitable, oily but not greasy, the reputation is getting heavier. It is said that Ji Qingxiang only relies on the sale of Mid-Autumn Mooncakes, which is enough to maintain a year's expenditure. Long Yun, the chairman of Yunnan Province, also specially sent troops to defend Ji Qingxiang and maintain the normal production and supply of Ji Qingxiang ham mooncakes.
<h3>3. Gui Meixuan</h3>
In the spring of 1936, Mr. Ren Mingqing, the founder of "Gui Meixuan", invested in more than 100 oceans in fuxing village on the south Yudai River in the old Kunming City, and founded the Gui Mei Xuan Cake Industry Workshop. Ren Mingqing relied on the advantages of Kunming's peaceful and warm human geography to display the "Gui Meixuan" brand name. The name is headed by Gui, one is to miss relatives every Mid-Autumn Festival, may the world be thousands of miles together, and the second is the fragrance of The Osmanthus flowers are fragrant, and the name of the word is far and wide.
Kunming's several major pastry workshops have produced cloud legs in four and two lumps, and each has its own thousand autumns. The cloud legs of "Gui Meixuan" are full and large in shape, the shell is golden yellow, the ham cubes are large and well-proportioned, the entrance is crisp, sweet but not greasy, and has a unique ham aroma. Every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, customers place orders in advance. Kunming four rivers and six dams, eight streets and sixteen lanes are widely circulated: "Gui Meixuan" is the most affordable, dim sum is not expensive, and one or two cakes are only sold as one or two.
<h3>4. Kunming Guansheng Garden</h3>
The Guanshengyuan brand was founded in Shanghai in 1915 by the national capitalist Xian Guansheng, and has a history of 100 years. In 1939, Guanshengyuan came to Kunming and opened its first store in the most prosperous golden horse and bijifang in the city. So far, "Kunming Guansheng Park" has taken root in Yunnan and has continued to grow and develop.
The mechanism biscuits and sugar cubes produced by Kunming Guanshengyuan were also used as food for the random supply of passengers by Eurasian Airlines at that time, and even the "Flying Tigers" came to visit, especially the cream cookies were popular among the American Flying Tigers, and Kunming Guanshengyuan also became the only designated cream cookie supply unit of the Flying Tigers at that time. As early as 1945, Kunming Guanshengyuan began to use fresh edible rose petals to make rose candy and cake fillings, becoming the first enterprise to successfully develop flowers for consumption. Yun leg mooncake is made of Xuanwei ham, a specialty of Yunnan, with honey, lard, sugar and other fillings, and baked with purple wheat flour from Kunming Chenggong.
<h2>Third, during the Cultural Revolution, those difficult years</h2>
<h3>(1) Public-private partnerships</h3>
After liberation, with the general trend of public-private partnerships, various pastry shops have also been absorbed and merged to become state-owned pastry factories.
In 1955, Ren Zhiping, the then head of "Gui Meixuan", responded to the government's call, and "Gui Meixuan" and eight other pastry workshops in Kunming at that time jointly established the Kunming Gui Meixuan Pastry Factory.
On January 14, 1956, Ji Qingxiang merged 13 pastry shops such as Hexianglou, Cuixianglou and Demeixuan in the public-private partnership to establish Kunming Jiqingxiang Pastry Factory. The factory site is set up in Luofeng Street, and the store department is set up in Huashan South Road.
In 1956, Guanshengyuan carried out a "public-private partnership", and Guanshengyuan Co., Ltd., which was controlled by Sin, was dissolved, and the branches and enterprises in various places were subordinate to the local government, and had no relationship with Shanghai Guanshengyuan. The "Kunming Guansheng Garden" founded by Xian Guansheng has also been preserved, and the "Kunming Guansheng Garden" has been officially nationalized.
<h3>(2) During the Cultural Revolution</h3>
Then, during the Cultural Revolution, it began to "break the four olds and establish the four new" to fight the "bulls, ghosts, snake gods", from schools to factories to the countryside to set off a red storm, cultural relics and monuments smashed, burned, destroyed. At that time, food stamps were needed to buy food, and to buy mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, they also had to be rationed with food books, and it was said that the mooncakes on the counter were cut into four petals, which meant that the mooncakes were four old, and cutting it into four petals was broken four old.
During the Cultural Revolution, the pastry factories were also forced to change their names because they belonged to the four old areas. "JiQingxiang" was renamed "DongfangHong Pastry Factory"; Kunming Guimeixuan Pastry Factory was renamed "Kunming Red Star Pastry Factory", and Kunming Guanshengyuan was renamed "People's Pastry Factory".
At that time, Zhou Xing, secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Cpc Committee of the Communist Party of China, went to Jiqingxiang to observe that the hard-shell ham mooncake used the unique characteristics of Xuanwei ham, also known as cloud legs, to change the hard-shell ham mooncake to "cloud leg mooncake", and this name is still used today.
<h2>Fourth, before 2000, the top four pursued development</h2>
The process of reform and opening up has accelerated, but the economy has not been fully opened. Under the state planning system, state-owned enterprises are uniquely positioned to compete in a market with fewer competitors. From the early 1980s to the end of the 1990s, there were not many choices in the market, mainly Ji Qingxiang, Gui Meixuan and Kunming Guanshengyuan and Xiangyang Pastry Factory, which coincided with the Kunming World Expo, and the Dian-style mooncakes also accompanied foreign guests out of Yunnan and went to the whole country and even the world.
During this period, there were also Dian-style mooncakes produced by Dahua Pastry Factory and Wuhua Pastry Factory, but compared with the above four giants, the brand was relatively inferior, and the quality was not stable, so it failed to become a climate.
<h3>1. Auspicious</h3>
In 1983, Ji Qingtian restored the name of "Kunming Jiqingxiang Pastry Factory". In October 1978, the trademark "Jiqing Brand" was officially registered. In 1999, it was renamed from "Kunming Jiqingxiang Pastry Factory" to "Kunming Jiqingxiang Food Co., Ltd.", and in 2006, it was recognized as one of the first batch of Chinese time-honored enterprises by the Ministry of Commerce.
Ji Qingxiang's pastry industry in Yunnan has always had the tradition of taking the lead in using new craftsmanship and new equipment, taking the lead in packaging cakes in packaging boxes, improving the traditional cloud leg mooncake production process according to contemporary technology, and taking the lead in changing wood and coke baking to electric baking. In 2016, traditional pastries such as heavy oil cakes, hui cakes, gluten sachima and other traditional pastries in the "Jiqingxiang" shop on Huashan South Road and Luofeng Street were still in bulk, and the salesman in white coats used the abacus to calculate the price. The heavy oil cake that I took home was still dry and not broken for four or five days, and the cake was put in the mouth, crispy and fragrant; the gluten sachima melted in the mouth and was full of sweetness.
Personal opinion: Ji Qingxiang's factory site is located on Luofeng Street, and in early August, the whole street is filled with ham incense. Ji Qingxiang's cloud leg mooncakes have slowly declined due to their adherence to tradition, less product publicity, and institutional reasons. But unfortunately, this century-old brand was acquired by the new company "Pan Xiangji" on November 1, 2016, and the price of my favorite cake and gluten sachima has increased compared with before.
<h3>2. Gui Meixuan</h3>
In 1980, the enterprise name was restored to Kunming Guimeixuan Pastry Factory, and in November 2005, the (state-owned) Kunming Guimeixuan Pastry Factory was restructured to establish Kunming Guimeixuan Food Co., Ltd. In 2006, "Gui Meixuan" was identified as one of the first batch of Chinese time-honored enterprises by the Ministry of Commerce.
In the early 1990s, Gui Mei Xuan began to enter the fast lane of development, and the six-story Gui Mei Xuan building was built during this period. In that era of rare high-rise buildings, the Gui MeiXuan building stood out from the crowd. However, due to the taste, variety and other reasons, the market of Gui Meixuan is also shrinking, and the original Gui Meixuan building now has only one store selling Gui Meixuan's products.
Personal opinion: Gui Meixuan's cloud leg mooncake is not as delicious as other Dian-style mooncakes in its home, which may be a difference in personal taste, but also because of the adherence to tradition, so the taste is still relatively good, but like other old enterprises, it is still in the transformation and exploration period, mainly relying on mooncakes to support. At present, there are also rumors of acquisitions.
<h3>3. Guansheng Garden</h3>
In 1980, the "People's Pastry Factory" was renamed "Kunming Guanshengyuan Pastry Factory", and the "Plum Blossom Brand" trademark was also registered in the same year. In 1985, "Kunming Guanshengyuan Pastry Factory" was officially renamed as "Kunming Guanshengyuan Food Company". In 2006, the "Meihua Brand" trademark of Kunming Guanshengyuan was recognized by the Ministry of Commerce as a "Chinese Time-honored Brand" enterprise.
Guanshengyuan was once relatively popular, opening a Cantonese restaurant on Jinbi Road, and its biscuits and Cantonese mooncakes were also very popular, and then moved to Dianchi Road with the strengthening of industry competition and the impact of factors such as demolition, feeling that the popularity was not as good as before.
Personal opinion: Affected by the Shanghai Guanshengyuan incident, the sales of mooncakes in Kunming Guanshengyuan once declined sharply, but after adjusting the strategy, sales began to rise steadily.
<h3>4. Xiangyang Pastry Factory</h3>
Kunming Xiangyang Pastry Factory, founded in 1954, in the early 1980s as a key pastry food backbone enterprise in Kunming, Yunnan Province, is famous for the production of "Dian-style" famous pastries, and the first to promote Eight Pieces of Dian, Eight Pieces of Dian, that is, "Twin Tower Brand" Eight Pieces of Dian, there are hard-shell ham cakes, washed sand white crisp, crystal crisp, hemp seed crisp, rose puff pastry, Wu Ren crisp, chicken brown pastry, ham kohlrabi puff pastry, is the classic of Dian-style traditional pastry. It also makes Kunming Xiangyang Pastry Factory "Twin Towers" brand products also have a place in the market.
Personal opinion: Unlike Ji Qingxiang, Gui Meixuan, and Guanshengyuan, Xiangyang Pastry Factory has not had much historical accumulation and institutional reasons, although it has also opened a chain store, but it seems that the transformation is not very successful. At present, it is very rare to hear or see the pastries of the Xiangyang brand, which is a pity.
<h2>After 2000, a hundred flowers bloomed in the spring and filled the garden</h2>
Faced with problems such as heavy variety burden, aging equipment, shortage of funds, brain drain, concept and technology, the original Big Four were defeated under the challenge of the new power, and from the former customer surplus to sparse crowds, they are struggling to maintain. Due to the "mass base", the output of several long-established brands accounts for 30%-40% of the province's mooncake production. But at this time, the mooncakes outside the province and some rising stars have begun to compete for the market, on the one hand, small manufacturers hit the market at low prices, on the other hand, the particularly high-end market is occupied by Cantonese mooncakes, and the long-established Dian-style brands are trapped in pricing embarrassment. Coupled with the impact of the fresh pastry of the factory before and after the shop, the pastry factory is called the pastry factory, which is actually a mooncake factory, and every year in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it becomes a life-and-death battle for the old brand. Due to years of experience in cake making and the continuous formation of word of mouth, in the eyes of outsiders, The above three families of Ji Qingxiang, Gui Meixuan and Guanshengyuan have no chance to represent the strength of cloud leg mooncakes. But for authentic Yunnan people, they prefer newly emerging brands.
<h2>(1) Kunming area</h2>
<h3>1. Hongshan long-established ham mooncake as desired</h3>
Hongshan Wish Ham Mooncake is produced by the former Kunming Flour Mill in Wuhua District, Kunming City, and now Kunming Hongshan Flour Co., Ltd. Hongshan Flour Mill has been making mooncakes since the early 1990s, but it does not sell them to the outside world, only to employees. Later, because of its excellent quality, its reputation gradually became popular, and more and more people came to visit.
Personal opinion: Its mooncake has a pungent ham aroma, a sweet and salty seductive honey juice, a comfortable entrance, a clear skin and meat filling, the meat filling looks fatty, and the taste is sweet. Many people only know about the Hongshan Flour Mill, but do not know that there is such a brand as desired. Because the price is moderate and the portion size is sufficient, many Kunming people eat mooncakes at home from Hongshan Flour Mill.
<h3>2. Kunyan mooncake</h3>
Kunyan mooncake is produced in Kunming Cigarette Factory, as a representative of the "canteen mooncake" system, "Kunyan goose meat flatbread", "Kunyan Fragrant Extreme Ren Mooncake", and the old Kunming people's favorite 60 grams of 1 "Kunyan Xiaoyun Leg Mooncake" are the classics of that year. The high-quality and delicious Kunyan mooncake is "difficult to find" in Kunming City.
Personal opinion: Due to the good welfare of the tobacco factory, the mooncake of Kunyan is sufficient, the taste is good, and the aftertaste is endless, and so far the taste and quality have remained unchanged, the skin is soft and sticky, and the ham filling is salty and sweet. The traditional packaging of small cakes, more lean meat, and dense and delicious, is very suitable for people who like mooncakes and worry about too high calories.
<h3>3. Source Trade Park</h3>
Yuanmao Park focuses on traditional Dian-style pastries, with solid ingredients, affordable prices, and the taste of old Kunming. The store layout is more retro, or the feeling of the 80s, the packaging is also a retro style, the ham series products taste good, and it is freshly baked without additives.
Personal opinion: Look at the packaging to know the taste of which time, like cloud leg mooncake, ham crisp cloud leg mooncake are traditional Dian-style mooncakes with unique flavors.
<h3>4. Economic and trade mooncakes</h3>
Due to the relatively high profit of mooncakes, in addition to the canteen pie mooncakes, there are also hotels trying to make mooncakes, and the economic and trade hotels are among the well-known brands. Their registered trademark is called "Economic and Trade Lucky Moon", because the price is affordable, and the baking technology is good, the mooncake produced has a good taste, which is more delicious than Jiahua and Pan Xiangji.
Personal opinion: The sales of mooncakes in the past few years have been good, but in the past two years, it seems that the taste has not caught up with the trend, turning to a larger sales of foreign groups, making flower cakes, but for customers who are accustomed to the taste of its home, the price is affordable and tasteful.
<h3>5. Jawa Mooncake</h3>
Founded in 1988, Jiahua Cake House is a comprehensive food factory that produces cakes, bread, midpoint and western pastry. In the spring of 1988, Mr. Huang Lao, the founder of Jawa Cake House, was on a business trip to Shanghai and accidentally tasted delicious French bread, determined to bring this delicacy back to his hometown so that people in his hometown could also taste it. On August 8, 1988, the first store of Jiahua Cake House was established in Xiaoximen, Kunming. Jiahua stores are like a huge net, radiating in the streets and alleys of Yunnan, integrating into people's lives and becoming a part of people's lives. And The Ka Wah Mooncake has also become a rising star of the Cloud Leg Mooncake through the concept of freshly baked.
Personal opinion: The real name of Jiahua is its flower cake, and its cloud leg mooncake tastes not very delicious. Mainly because of the great fame, the sender is also more face-saving, and the locals themselves do not eat too much of Jiahua.
<h3>6. High mooncakes</h3>
Kunming Gaoshanggao Food Co., Ltd. was established in 1994, the production of "Hexianglou" brand cloud leg mooncake (guess may be a tribute to Hexianglou and take the harmonic bar), because of the excellent selection of materials, fine workmanship, unique taste, has now become a famous cloud leg mooncake brand in Yunnan Province, and is deeply loved by the majority of consumers.
Personal opinion: The high and high in the previous few years is indeed a leading enterprise in the meat products industry, and the meat quality of the mooncake in Hexianglou is also relatively good and fragrant. But in recent years, it seems to be declining, and the taste is not known?
<h3>7. Pan Xiangji mooncake</h3>
Founded in 1941 in Xuanwei, Yunnan, "Pan Xiangji" is mainly engaged in the production and operation of traditional Dian-style pastries. Pan Guangming, the founder of Pan Xiangji, was born into a traditional handmade food workshop in Jieyang, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. In 1941, a pastry shop was founded, the pastry shop was named "Pan Xiangji", and the descendants of the Pan family established Kunming Pan Xiangji Food Co., Ltd. in 2005 to resume production, and applied for the registration of the "Pan Xiangji" trademark in 2005. Pan Xiangji spread throughout the country with the advertisement of the famous Chinese artist Ms. Yang Liping, and gradually became a well-known brand in Yunnan.
Personal opinion: As a local, I seem to have only tasted its ham mooncake once or twice, and it feels more average. I don't know if I have a prejudice against his home, in fact, his family's mooncakes, some people say delicious, but I prefer other home.
<h3>8. "Silver Rabbit Mooncake" in the staff canteen of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University</h3>
"Silver Rabbit" puff pastry ham mooncake uses the best Xuanwei ham as the filling, completely in accordance with the traditional way of the old Kunming ham mooncake, without any additives, so that the old Kunming people can eat the traditional mooncake taste of the ham four or two. Because the starting point is to "do a good job of welfare" for the employees of the unit, and do not want to make money, so the quality is good, the price is low, the taste is good, and it is very affordable.
Personal opinion: I have always heard that the mooncakes of the Workers' Hospital (Kunyi Second Hospital) are good, it is said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, people who buy mooncakes line up and feel more than the people who see a doctor, but they have not tasted its mooncakes, and I don't know if there is a chance to try it this year.
<h3>9. Baimakou chewing incense</h3>
Yunnan BaimakouKouxiang Trading Co., Ltd. (Kunming Xiqing Honglian Food Factory) was established in 1996, is a collection of production, procurement, processing, sales and service as one of the professional food production and sales enterprises.
Personal opinion: This brand, only seen in the market, but has not been tried, feel that it is a low-price route, should be good and cheap, but I have always believed that a penny for a penny, and a first-line brand should still have some gap.
<h3>Regional review: Kunming as the center of Yunnan, the competition is also the most fierce, the local mooncake manufacturers competition, but also need to face the pressure of mooncakes in various states across the province and mooncakes in other provinces. Whether it is an old brand or a new brand, most of them pay attention to quality and taste in order to occupy their own share of the world in the market. </h3>
<h2>(2) Qujing area</h2>
<h3>1. Qujing Agricultural School MoonCake</h3>
For qujing home school mooncake, there are three sayings on the market: Yueyuan, Hongyi, and Jingfuyuan.
According to the introduction of the locals, Yueyuan is the real agricultural school mooncake, the reason why qujing agricultural school mooncake is very famous in the whole of Yunnan, only because Yueyuan sold a name at the entrance of Qujing agricultural school at that time, so everyone called agricultural school mooncake;
"Qujing Agricultural School Hongyi Cake House" was opened later, the boss's family is a teacher of the agricultural school, Hongyi saw yueyuan make a word of mouth, and preemptively registered the words "Qujing Agricultural School".
Jing Fuyuan was red in the eyes of the agricultural school after the moon source moved away, so he opened a shop and said that he was a moon cake of the agricultural school by geographical location
Therefore, according to locals and sayings, the real "agricultural school mooncake" brand is played by Yueyuan, and it is still the Yueyuan card that is really delicious!
However, there is also a statement on the Internet: Qujing "Agricultural School Mooncake" officially registered trademark name is "Jingfuyuan", by the food research and development center of our school using traditional processing technology in the new campus Ruijing Building production, respectively, in the new and old campuses and counties and cities to set up a store is our main marketing method. Coming in, there are counterfeit "agricultural school mooncakes" products on the market, infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of the majority of consumers, please look for trademarks and production places, to the "agricultural school mooncakes" specialty store to buy, other trademarks are not Qujing "agricultural school mooncakes".
<h3>2. Yunwei mooncake</h3>
Yunnan Yunwei Co., Ltd. is a listed company, of course, the performance is not good at present is ST. Yunwei mooncake was first made by the canteen of Yunwei Group for employees to make Mid-Autumn Welfare Mooncake, with good ingredients in the Qujing mooncake industry to break through the famous, these years also sold mooncakes to the outside world, the popularity is limited to Qujing City, picked meat lustful, fat and moderate Xuanwei ham. In addition, the oil must also be guaranteed, and the Yunwei Ham Mooncake Factory has a base in Qujing Luoping, and the oil used comes from the base.
Personal opinion: Some people say that Yunwei's is better than the agricultural school's, of course, there are also opposite opinions. Because Yunwei is a listed company, the welfare is better, the canteen pie to make mooncakes, do not care about profits, only care about the taste, so the taste is still good. However, the current economic benefits are not good, and it is uncertain whether it can maintain a high standard, but there is no problem in the small workshop of the second kill.
<h3>3. Jinlan family</h3>
Qujing Jinlan Shijia Food Co., Ltd. (formerly Qujing Jinlan Pastry Factory), founded in 1986. Its predecessor, the Jinlan State-owned Pastry Factory, is the oldest local pastry factory, and the post-80s Qujing people all grew up eating Jinlan's pastries.
Personal opinion: I have tasted its mooncakes, and the taste is not bad, but compared with the previous ones, the popularity is slightly inferior. Its flower cake feels more delicious than Jiahua's.
<h3>4. Xuanhefang mooncake</h3>
Speaking of this pastry shop, Qujing Xuanwei is particularly familiar with this old shop founded in 1918, their authentic ham shortbread, many people from wearing open crotch pants began to eat this taste until they became a family. The ingredients are all from Xuanwei, the hometown of Ham in Yunnan, and are pickled by themselves to ensure the quality of all materials.
Personal opinion: There are stores in Kunming, and it is not far from home, so from time to time I will taste its ham cake, its ham cake is a small cake, full of material, the taste is crisp and fragrant, but the price is slightly higher.
<h3>5. Xuanwei Yongdi</h3>
Sherwin-Williams Yongdi Minsheng is one of the companies under Sherwin-Williams Zhongtian Enterprise. Founded in 2011, it has successfully shaped three well-known brands in Yunnan Province, namely Yongdi Minsheng, Yongdi Ham Mooncake and Yongdi Ham. The focus is on the hard shell ham mooncake and the bitter buckwheat ham mooncake, and the filling is the use of Sherwin-Williams aged ham to occupy the market at a low price.
Personal opinion: Xuanwei Yongdi was able to expand the market through low prices, the price is relatively close to the people, the taste is not bad, but some people say that the quality is unstable.
<h3>6. Old Pu family</h3>
In the early years of the Republic of China, Xuanwei man Pu Zaiting founded the "Pu Zaiting Brothers Food Canning Company" alone, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen specially wrote an inscription for Pu Zaiting's support for the revolution and his contribution to the establishment of industries. In 2005, the Pu clan founded Xuanwei Puji Ham Food Co., Ltd., which mainly produces ham series products, and ham mooncakes are considered by-products.
On the morning of August 17, 2018, more than 20 chefs of Puji Food joined forces to make China's largest ham mooncake, with a diameter of 2.68 meters, a thickness of 6.5 centimeters, and a total weight of up to 300 kilograms! I still despise the various Guinness records in the food industry that are the largest in the world and the largest in China, because most of them are on a show, and they should not use manpower and material resources to accumulate in order to simply be on the list. It's a complete waste, and it never tastes good.
Personal opinion: The new brand wants to get a piece of the lucrative mooncake market. I haven't tasted it, but during the brand creation, the taste will not be bad.
<h3>Regional review: Thanks to the excellent quality of Xuanwei ham, the ham mooncake in Qujing has always dominated the market with sufficient materials, and the quality of several major brands has also been maintained well, and the new brands have also attracted consumers and occupied the market through low prices. </h3>
<h2>(3) Yuxi area</h2>
<h3>1. Yuxi Red Pagoda</h3>
Hongta Food Co., Ltd. was established in 1956, formerly known as the state-owned Yuxi Food Factory, is also a long-established brand mooncake, and has won the title of famous trademark in Yunnan Province and time-honored brand in Yunnan. The level of cakes in Yuxi is relatively leading in the province, so although it is not a ham production area, it also has relatively good quality.
Personal opinion: The price of The Red Tower Mooncake is not cheap, compared to other brands of sweet ham mooncakes, the taste of the Red Tower Mooncake is slightly saltier.
<h3>2. Speicher</h3>
Sibeijia is also the largest bean sugar production enterprise in Yunnan, the founder Pu Ji learned to make sugar with his grandmother at the age of seven, becoming the leader of bean candy and the leader of food technology in Yunnan. Sibeijia cloud leg cake also won the title of "Chinese Famous Cake" at the 2017 China Mooncake Cultural Festival.
Personal opinion: I always thought that Sibeijia only made bean foam candy, I didn't expect to make mooncakes, I watched the video of Ms. Puji making bean candy, and I can do the height that others can't do, which is very remarkable. It should be no problem to make a mooncake with the foundation of bean paste. After asking a friend who has tasted it, he said that its taste is also very good.
<h3>Regional comments: In fact, there are many mooncake manufacturers in the Yuxi area, the key is that there are folk self-baked large mooncakes, which are as large as a washbasin, but I have tasted only the Red Tower, and my friends have eaten The Bejia, so I have only written the Red Tower and the Sibeijia. </h3>
<h2>Sixth, how to crack the greasy cloud leg mooncake</h2>
Because the filling of cloud leg mooncake is mainly ham, it will feel greasy when eaten, so the current popular way is mainly Pu'er tea and fruit. Mooncake with Pu'er tea is the best golden partner, because its properties are sweet and cold, the degreasing effect is good, the so-called "one bite of mooncake one bite of tea". At the same time, it is accompanied by sour fruits, such as oranges, grapefruit, kiwifruit, hawthorn, etc., which can not only alleviate the feeling of greasiness, but also play a role in promoting digestion and degreasing.
<h2>7. Epilogue</h2>
Personal recommendation: Mooncake brand As far as I am concerned, the following ham mooncakes have a good taste and are very representative: Jiahua Qujing Agricultural School, Hongshan Flour Factory, Kunyan, Yuxi Hongta. But everyone's tastes vary.
In fact, in addition to ham mooncakes, I also buy Jianina's mini puff pastry mooncakes every year, basically buying two boxes at a time, which feels good.
In fact, there are many cloud leg mooncakes, but I only said more familiar brands. For the comparison of cloud leg mooncakes, you can refer to the previous article
For foodies or friends who are committed to becoming foodies, life is never monotonous, either thinking about eating or already eating. I hope that this article can bring you help, and I also hope that the small partners in Yunnan region will write about the beauty of their hometown, so that everyone can understand the taste of Yunnan, taste the beauty of Yunnan, and taste the taste of Yunnan cuisine.