Wuhan Evening News, February 28 (Reporter Zhao Xin Photo/ Reporter Shi Wei Photo) The day after tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, as the main festival in the New Year, symbolizing the full circle of tangyuan and other seasonal foods into the peak consumption season. Today, the reporter saw from the major stores in Wuhan that many Tangyuan Festival activities have been launched and have become hot goods, and at the entrance of the long-established Tangyuan King Wufangzhai General Store, the citizens who buy handmade tangyuan are lined up with hundreds of people, waiting for six hours just to taste the fresh.
<h1>Small benches, watching web dramas, back snacks</h1>
<h1>Citizens wait in line for 6 hours to stack tangyuan</h1>
"The Lantern Festival is coming, did you buy TangYuan?" Today, in the Tangjiadun store of Zhongbai Warehouse, the reporter saw that almost all the citizens' shopping carts had tangyuan as a seasonal food. According to the relevant sales staff, with the arrival of the Lantern Festival, the superimposed shopping mall Tangyuan Festival reduction activities, these days whether it is group purchase or individual to buy Tangyuan orders are many. "Mainly for the purchase of black sesame filling, colorful rice balls young people buy more." The staff said that this year is still based on traditional tastes, and it is mainly suitable for large packaging.
In addition to the hot sales in the supermarket, the long-established "Tangyuan King" Wufangzhai has become a favorite in the circle of friends of Wuhan citizens in the past few days, and the reporter saw in the Wufangzhai Zhongshan Road Aftertaste Restaurant that the annual handmade stacked tangyuan was sold, attracting citizens to queue up to buy, "The popularity is too strong, don't buy it early!" Wuchang's mother-in-law said that she left at 6 o'clock in the morning, arrived at the store at 7 o'clock, and waited for 5 hours and did not buy it. Mr. Zhang, a citizen who is in the first line to get the stacked tangyuan, said that it has been queued for 6 hours from 7 o'clock to taste fresh.
The reporter saw on the spot that due to the long waiting time, there were also queuing artifacts such as small benches and snacks prepared by the citizens waiting in line, watching popular online dramas. Ms. Wu, a citizen, said that after seeing the circle of friends, she was given a preventive injection and came with a bench.
On one side is the long line of 100 people stacking tangyuan, the reporter saw that on the other side of the sale of tangyuan powder and quick-frozen tangyuan area, although the team is also very long, but the speed is very fast, about 10 minutes can buy tangyuan.
How long do you wait for stacked dumplings? According to the person in charge of the relevant brand of Wufangzhai, the handmade stacked tangyuan is commonly known as the Northern Lantern, which requires the masters to rub the tangyuan core by hand, pour it into the machine cauldron to roll the stacked powder and dip the water, and the sixteen superpositions can be finished, which takes more than 2 hours to complete, so the waiting time is longer.
<h1>Salty and sweet taste live battle</h1>
<h1>Meat dumplings will be on the table of Wuhan people</h1>
Every tangyuan season, the north-south salty and sweet war has become a point of contention, although the Internet has a lot of words and swords, the public can really taste the authentic salty tangyuan chance is not much, really put the two kinds of tangyuan in front of the consumers what will be the scene? Today, for the first time in Wufangzhai, 200 southern revival meat dumplings were brought to the scene for the public to judge on the spot. "Delicious, the skin is sticky, and it will not feel greasy", ms. Li, a customer, gave a thumbs up after tasting, she said that she used to think that tangyuan must be sweet filling, and after tasting it today, I feel that the salty filling also has a different flavor. Among the dozens of customers surveyed, the vast majority of customers gave Fuxing Tangyuan a 10-point rating.
Jiang Zhonghong, a nearly 50-year-old fuxing tangyuan master, introduced that because he liked to eat tangyuan from childhood, he has been making tangyuan for 15 years, and has taught hundreds of apprentices. "In addition to the taste of the revival of tangyuan, the biggest difference in appearance is that tangyuan has a handmade pigtail." Jiang Zhonghong said that the production of revival tangyuan in Han this time will bring the most traditional Jiaxing flavor.
According to the relevant person in charge, although there is no finished product for sale in the store at present, the future public is expected to taste the fresh meat stuffed tangyuan of Wufangzhai in the various stores in Wuhan.
【Edited by Ye Feng】