The footsteps of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger are gradually drifting away, the Lantern Festival is coming again, tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, today every household has begun to visit the supermarket to buy Lantern Tangyuan to eat tomorrow, the Lantern and Tangyuan are the food eaten in the Lantern Festival, so is the Lantern and Tangyuan a thing? Although both are round foods, but the two foods are not the same, so what is the difference between Lantern and Tangyuan? Which is delicious, Lantern or Tangyuan? Want to know whether the Lantern Festival Tangyuan eats singular or even numbers, and the Lantern Festival eats a Lantern festival and these exquisite.
Do Lantern and Tangyuan refer to the same food? Not really. Although the Lantern and Tangyuan look similar and look similar, they are also different. Let me tell you the difference between the Lantern and Tangyuan.
First, the taste of Lantern and Tangyuan is different
Tangyuan: In addition to sweet, tangyuan also has a salty taste, both stuffed and non-filling solid. Among them, the salty tangyuan is basically no filling in the middle, relying on the soup to taste; while the non-filling solid tangyuan is very light, just put a small amount of sugar in the soup, not as greasy as the sesame peanut filling, suitable for people who are afraid of oil.
Lantern: The biggest feature is sweet, the type of filling is relatively small, mainly black sesame seeds, five kernels, bean paste, etc., and then add some sugar.
Second, there is a difference between the filling wrapped in Lantern and Tangyuan
Tangyuan: The earliest black sesame seeds, bean paste, walnut kernels, nuts, date puree is the mainstay. Now people's taste is more and more picky, in order to meet the market demand, Lantern and Tangyuan'er also broke the tradition, to the fruit taste of the march, in the past two years there have also been coffee, matcha and other Western flavors, a little bit of random flowers gradually want to charm the eye feeling.
Lantern: The earliest is based on assorted fillings and date paste fillings. The assortment filling is actually a mixture of sugar, roses, sesame seeds, bean paste, yellow cinnamon, walnut kernels, and nuts, which feels like the five kernel fillings in the mooncake.
Third, there is a difference between the Lantern and Tangyuan in the production process
Tangyuan: The process of making tangyuan is like making dumplings. You need to first reconcile the glutinous rice noodles and wake them up thoroughly; then make the filling, the water content in the filling is more than the Lantern filling, it can be scattered like a dumpling filling, or it can be kneaded into small balls; finally, a piece of noodles, kneaded into pieces, wrapped the stuffing in it, kneaded into balls.
Lantern: It is mainly stuffing, first make the filling, cut into small pieces, and then put the filling in a large basket containing glutinous rice noodles and shake it back and forth (now using a machine), until the outside of the filling is rolled with a thick layer of glutinous rice coat.
Fourth, the Lantern and Tangyuan also have different tastes when eaten
Tangyuan: The skin is strong, the stuffing is also chewy, and the soup will be more viscous, a bit like drinking rice soup.
Lantern: The skin is smooth and the taste is delicate, because the filling has a lot of water, so the moment the tangyuan is bitten, the filling will flow out like quicksand; in addition, the soup cooked by the tangyuan is clearer than the Lantern.
Fifth, the Lantern and Tangyuan are also geographically different
On the mainland, northerners eat lanterns during festivals, and southerners eat tangyuan during festivals.
Having said so much, in the end which of the Lantern and Tangyuan is delicious, it is really difficult to say, both are delicious. It varies from person to person, so you can choose according to your personal preferences. Just as the so-called radish cabbage has its own love, everyone's preferences for food have their own differences, some people like to eat the lantern of the five sweet fillings, and some people love to eat tangyuan a variety of flavors, but according to the market sales situation, tangyuan than the lantern selling more hot, according to most people's choice, tangyuan than the lantern is indeed delicious, in the production of more refined, exquisite, careful, diverse, but also can be frozen for a long time, convenient to eat.
Lantern Festival tangyuan eat singular or even numbers
It is generally recommended to eat even numbers, 6, 8 or 10 are ALL RIGHT. Why is it even? In the customs of the mainland, everything is a good thing. The double number represents auspiciousness. As a kind of food unique to the mainland, the Lantern has a long history. In the Song Dynasty, a novel lantern food was popular in the folk. This food was originally called "Fu Yuanzi" and later "Lantern". Merchants also called it "Yuanbao".
In addition, the Lantern Festival has the meaning of reunion, in our custom of Chinese, even number means auspicious, so in order to please a good color, the natural Lantern Festival to eat the Lantern Festival to eat even numbers.
Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, love hunting Qi congratulations to everyone happy Lantern Festival, good things into a pair!