The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, there are more choices about eating zongzi, the traditional Cantonese style pig five flowers three layer meat Yaozhu abalone, to small and fresh afternoon tea-style ice dumplings, and then to a variety of creative packaging, it can be said that this year's zongzi pattern is particularly many.
Traditionalism -
Pure hand-made fragrant Dragon Boat Dumplings
Park Hyatt Guangzhou has launched three handmade traditional rice dumplings to bring festive delicacies. Three traditional dumplings, led by Chef Huang Yuan, Executive Chef of Chinese Cuisine at Yue Jing Xuan, who has won the Black Pearl Two Diamonds and Michelin Plate Awards for four consecutive years, include one salty dumpling and two lye dumplings, which will surely satisfy the tastes of different diners. Yaozhu abalone dumplings, the whole 30 heads of dried abalone, Japanese Soya Yaozhu, selected pork five flowers three layers of meat marinated in West China ice oil, with mangrove sea duck eggs, lotus seeds and fine mushrooms wrapped in peeled mung beans and Thai sticky rice, a variety of exquisite raw materials are intertwined, both delicious seafood and rich meat aroma, but also the light and elegant fragrance of rice dumpling leaves. Fragrant alkali water dumplings are golden and clear in color, one of which is soda ash water glutinous rice, and the other is added with handmade red bean paste filling, which can be sprinkled with sugar or honey according to personal preference.
Creative
From diverse flavors to exquisite packaging
Shangri-La Hotel, Guangzhou, this year launched 4 series of 11 Dragon Boat Festival, from specially customized recipes to rare and high-quality ingredients, integrating Asian flavors with different regional flavors of China, and innovating in traditional flavors, such as black truffle snowflake beef dumplings, French orange milk nut dumplings, hazelnut chocolate dumplings, etc.; there are also Cantonese traditional flavors such as old tangerine skin abalone roast meat dumplings, abalone sea cucumber dumplings, egg yolk fresh meat dumplings, etc.; as well as Chinese flavors such as Yunnan ham dumplings, osmanthus goji dumplings and other Chinese flavors. In addition, from the variety of flavors to the exquisite packaging, there is a festive atmosphere.
Literary and artistic fan
The dark green tone gives a natural feel
The Ritz-Carlton, Guangzhou, launched the "Qisi • Zongli" Dragon Boat Limited Edition Gift Bag, presenting a literary and artistic model, the gift box in the design, with a warm dark green tone to give people a sense of nature, while the inspiration fusion of Lingnan traditional weaving process bag lines are delicate and elegant, the overall style is also a holiday style, about can carry the Zongzi to the beach feeling. Chef Huang Shangfeng, Executive Chef of One Michelin-Starred Chinese Cuisine, has selected four flavors of fragrant dumplings, such as Tangerine Bean Paste Dumpling, OatMeal Eight Treasure Dumpling, Egg Yolk Fresh Meat Dumpling, and Abalone Wrapped Steamed Dumpling.
Lingnan traditional weaving craft bags, there is a kind of resort style.
Face value fan
The Dragon Boat Gift Box takes the shape of rice dumpling leaves as inspiration
Chef Huang Jinghui of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Guangzhou's two-michelin restaurant "Jiang - Managed by Chef Hui" has selected "Traditional Dragon Boat Festival Dumplings", inspired by the shape of rice dumpling leaves, the turquoise box is decorated with a gilded texture, and the rice dumplings are restored to the original taste with traditional craftsmanship, including abalone Yaozhu mushroom dumplings, chestnut bacon dumplings, and bacon egg yolk bacon dumplings.
Small fresh van
Ice dumplings with a summer atmosphere
This season's Star Ice Dumplings are the first time to try "eating with light bamboo leaves", with a light bamboo fragrance with a rich sweetness, so that every taste of the Dragon Boat Festival that haunts the tip of the tongue is full of summer surprises. At the same time, the rice dumpling leaves of Xingbing Dumpling are selected from the natural growth of bamboo leaves from Huangshan and Dabie Mountains, and transported throughout the cold chain to retain the green primary color and fragrance, so that the bamboo leaves are full of fragrance. Among them, bamboo shadow lemon incense star ice dumplings, inspired by tea Vana Biluo spring tea; black hazelnut hazelnut star ice dumplings, inspired by black qiao mousse star ice dumplings; Zhizhi salted egg yolk star ice dumplings, such as the New York cheesecake in the rice dumpling world; Tahitian vanilla cold extract flavor star ice dumplings, star ice dumplings filled with the same coffee beans used in the store to make cold brew coffee.
This season, Starbucks also extended the concept of "bamboo" to the design of bags, specially launching the Star Ice Dumpling Ice Gift Bag, the Star Ice Dumpling Ice Easy Gift Bag and the mobile phone bag to activate the trend style of the Dragon Boat Festival.
In addition, the introduction of ice dumplings is also 1968 Van Restaurant, ice dumplings are a bit like gel ice cream, light taste compared to traditional rice dumplings, more suitable for being used as afternoon tea snacks, including honey lemon, osmanthus berries, fish roe cheese and other girls like to taste.
Fish roe cheese ice dumplings.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zheng Haihong intern Ye Xiangyang