A heavy rain, the temperature plummeted,
The winter in Changzhou can be regarded as the eight classics of the eight classics,
The best way to open the empty stomach and intestines in the early morning,
Probably from a drawer of hot dumplings.
Speaking of small dumplings
It is the most famous on the Shanghai-Nanjing line
There is no better than Shanghai's Nanxiang Xiaolong and Wuxi Xiaolong
But in the minds of Changzhou people
Or the small cage steamed buns in my hometown
The skin is thin, juicy and delicious
It is the most memorable taste
So what are the delicious dumplings in Changzhou?
Let's take a look!
Welcome gui steamed buns
Speaking of crab steamed buns with a history of more than 100 years, it must be impossible to avoid Yinggui steamed buns. Pioneered by Changzhou Yinggui Mantou Shop, the crab dumplings are the first batch of Changzhou intangible cultural heritage.
"Crab" is the original creation of Changzhou's small cage steamed buns. What is added is not crab meat, but the crab meat, crab yellow, crab paste and cooked lard removed from the hairy crab are boiled into golden "crab oil", placed on the top of the steamed bun, elegantly called "top yellow", not only fresh, but also rich.
"Lift gently, move slowly; open the 'window' first, then drink the soup." This sentence of eating small cage steamed buns is the common sense of every old Changzhou. The ingredients are exquisite. A plate of Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar, sprinkled with fine ginger shreds, is a perfect match for eating crab steamed buns. This ginger shredded is not simple, when a piece of ginger shredded to the price of a steamed bun, cut ginger shredded fine enough to be able to wear needles, must be soaked with cold boiling water and a little salt to spread out.
Eat and add crab small cage steamed buns, pay attention to spot, fresh buns, steamed, eat now, "rather people and other steamed buns, not steamed buns and other people." Guests sit down, report the number of names, and wait for the steaming steamed crab buns to be served. Take a bite, the soup in the small steamed bun flows out, and the elastic meat mixed with the aroma of crab oil fills the entire mouth. The thin skin is stuffed with a large amount of juicy water, and a mouthful of soup with crab flavor is the essence.
Changzhou Silver Silk Noodle Restaurant
When it comes to Changzhou Silver Silk Noodle Restaurant, Changzhou people will naturally be no strangers. Everyone knows the famous silver silk noodles, but they don't know that their crab yellow dumplings are not inferior.
Thin and sticky skin with shimmering light, white and fat is cute. Slightly open a small mouth, full of marinade flow out in an instant, the aroma of crab yellow comes to the face, and the entrance is delicious.
Such a delicious little dumpling must have its own secret recipe. Four small cages and a crab are only selected from the high-quality female crabs of Changdang Lake in the current season, and the crab yellow and crab meat are separated by the traditional crab removal process. Use homemade lard to add green onion, ginger and garlic to a pan, and add crab meat to simmer for more than 1 hour, and the crab oil that comes out of the boiling is golden and beautiful. Crab yellow is made with a secret seasoning recipe, added with rapeseed oil, and the aroma is fragrant.
The secret recipe for a delicious yellow dumpling is not only fresh ingredients, but also ingenious craftsmanship. The little cage is made by a teacher for decades. Xiaolongbao pays attention to "thin skin, large filling, juicy and fresh taste", all in a pair of hands and a rolling pin.
Small dumplings should be delicious, and you must not be lazy when you order, cook, and steam. This is the old brand's emphasis on real materials.
Hexagonal Pavilion Bun Shop
In addition to the classic old brands that can be seen everywhere in the city, the tip of the tongue of the old Changzhou people is also deeply fascinated by the taste at the doorstep. Most of them do not have gorgeous storefronts, nor do they do any publicity, but they are greedy and dark as early as one day for more than ten years, the materials are solid, and the diners who come are also neighbors of the neighborhood for more than ten years, passing on each other by word of mouth and praising each other.
Qishuyan people all know the hexagonal pavilion bun shop, but if you are not a Qishuyan person, I am afraid that you will not find this bun shop anyway.
The owner of the bun shop is surnamed Wang, and this bun shop was run by Wang's boss-in-law more than 20 years ago. For more than 20 years, the taste of various kinds of buns has been consistent, and in order to facilitate the introduction, guests have named this bun shop "Hexagonal Pavilion Bun Shop" in order to facilitate the introduction.
Boss Wang has to get up at 3 o'clock every day to boil soup, chop meat, noodles, roll out the skin, and keep busy until noon to rest. Small dumplings sell more than 100 cages every morning. The meat filling of these more than 100 cages of small dumplings is all hand-chopped, and in the process of chopping the meat, it is also poured into the secret chicken soup, making the small dumplings not only thin and juicy, but also delicious.
In the bun shop, some people packed, some people dined in, some did not come by chance, and there was a queue. In the New Year, the hexagonal pavilion bun shop is busier, the neighbors bring the stuffing to make buns to boss Wang for processing, one is dozens of hundreds, boss Wang is often too busy to take care of a sip of water. It was this seemingly ordinary human true taste that opened a day full of vitality for the people of Qishuyan.
Open for a day
Speaking of small dumplings, Jintan people must think of "opening a day" for the first time. This is a restaurant founded before liberation, with the tradition of the morning market and the home cooking of "relying on water", it has become an "old taste" that Jintan people can't forget.
The most interesting thing about this old-fashioned brand is the name of the store "Open a Day", which also has a small story: during the Republic of China, on the banks of the Caohe River in Jintan City, two small shops, three worship brothers, both as treasurers, but also as guys, running halls, busy and busy.
Those who went into the city to sell vegetables, those who ran on the docks in the Cao River, the old people with children, rushed over early in the morning, ate a bowl of long fish noodles, a drawer of crab yellow soup buns or a bowl of duck dumpling soup. In the store, diners came in and out, and the runners shouted and said hello.
Heartless willow lining. The three brothers originally wanted to open a small liquor store to try out for a day, but just like that, they opened day by day, after a hundred years.
To this day, the daily morning market is still crowded, and the diners who come to visit are endless. A series of traditional snacks such as kolong soup buns, eel noodles, and steamed duck dumplings have been preserved to this day.
The most distinctive is the crab yellow soup bun, which uses the local Changdang Lake crab. When it comes to crab season, it is normal to sell two hundred cages a day.
"Go open a day to eat small dumplings!" Many students who are studying abroad return home during winter and summer vacations, and they will tacitly make an appointment with their old classmates for breakfast for one day. This taste is also the taste of hometown that Jintan people can't forget wherever they go.
Zhao's red treasure soup bun
Speaking of Liyang's small dumplings, we have to mention this old Internet celebrity shop in Lotus New Village - Zhao's Red Treasure Soup Buns. The owner of this shop once worked in Taibai Restaurant, worked hard for 53 years, focused on making soup buns with Liyang characteristics, and was twice elected as a model worker in Changzhou. How delicious is the soup bun she makes? Even people from Beijing, Shanghai and other places come here.
The crab yellow soup bun in the shop is the main one, and from the appearance point of view, the crab yellow that is about to come out at the top high-profile indicates that he is carrying a "treasure", which makes people's appetite multiply. From the inside, the crab yellow crab meat is generous and balanced, and the pork filling will not grab the flavor of each other, and the two are added together, but reach the maximum value of the umami taste. The moment it was bitten open, the golden light of the crab burst and the soup boiled hot and rushed.
In addition to crab soup buns, this family's fresh meat and shrimp soup buns are also particularly popular. The fresh broth bun is made of fresh native pork, and the fresh and sweet soup is mixed with refreshing and sweet vinegar and slightly spicy tender ginger, which is refreshing and not greasy, and the aftertaste is endless.
As soon as the shrimp soup bun is on the field, people will be moved by the fingers, and you can see the solid shrimp in one bite, the juice water flows in the mouth along with the meat filling, the aroma is diffused, and there is the blessing of fresh meat, so fragrant that the taste buds dance.
These shops are not popular spots for tourists, but they are the best places for nearby residents to choose breakfast. Eating it is decades. The young people who go to school in the neighborhood go from snacks to adulthood here, and even if they leave when they grow up, they will occasionally come back to taste this familiar taste.
These old shops, the secret recipe is not secret, there is not much ambition, guarding a store, maintaining a consistent quality, is their persistence.
I would like to ask which small dumpling in Changzhou is the most delicious?
You and I don't count, time will speak.