Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Wang Manqi
The series of Lingnan cultural short videos "UP in the Bay Area, Hong Kong, Seeing and Hearing" exclusively planned and filmed by Yangcheng Evening News, has been launched since now. Featuring Bay Area stars and KOLs (key opinion leaders), the series visits 11 cities in the Greater Bay Area to learn Lingnan's distinctive intangible cultural heritage skills and taste Cantonese cuisine.
This issue is the first issue of lingnan Cantonese cuisine series "Marrying Girl Cake", the team followed the well-known Hong Kong actor "Extraordinary Brother" Mai Changqing into the traditional long-established Praise Dragon Phoenix Cake Shop in Laoxiguan, Guangzhou, and learned to make "Wedding Cake" from the non-hereditary heir of "Wedding Cake" and the beautiful girl Cai Xin after 90s, in mai bao (Mai Changqing)'s own words: "Today is not Ah Mao learning whole cake, but A Bao learning whole cake!" ”
Through the lens of this issue of "Lingnan Cantonese Cuisine • Marrying Girl Cake", let's see how the post-90s "master" passed on the help to bring the post-60s "apprentice" -
"Dowry Cake": Four-color Aya crisp to send auspicious
In the Canton area, when men and women get married, gift cakes are indispensable, and sending gift cakes to relatives and friends is equivalent to officially announcing that there are daughters in the family who are about to get married, so the traditional cakes headed by "wedding cakes" are particularly solemn and honorable.
"Dowry cake" is also called Aya crisp, the traditional cake "Aya crisp" is related to the allusion to clothing, the former rich dowry to show decency and style with the richness of the cake, Aya silk satin is one of the four luxurious clothing of the nobility, of which "Aya" is the most expensive. Therefore, the gift cake is the first choice of "Aya crisp", which means glory.
The post-60s "apprentices" asked the post-90s "masters" for advice on the whole cake technique
Aya crisp is generally divided into white, yellow, red, orange four colors, white aya with refreshing sugar as the filling, representing chastity; yellow aya with bean paste as the filling, meaning the nobility and imperial spirit; red aya is the most exquisite and most expensive, with lotus paste as the filling, meaning festive; orange Aya is filled with bean paste or coconut shredded, meaning the life of the two small mouths and the beauty of harmony.
It is understood that the four-color Aya crisp pins the expectations of the common people for the new life of the newcomers, and also reflects the respect for the elderly from another angle. Therefore, authentic Guangzhou people, especially those with elderly people at home, will certainly do things according to tradition and seek great luck.
"Extraordinary Brother" Mai Changqing experienced making "wedding cake" in Old Xiguan
With a history of 114 years, Zanji Longfeng Cake Shop is the leader in the production and operation and inheritance of Xiguan Cake, and in 2020, it was listed in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Xiguan Cake Making Technology Protection Unit in Guangzhou Liwan District, and its main product "Wedding Cake" is very popular. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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