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Cantonese people are famous for "eating", "How is the Mid-Autumn Festival near?" The cake bait family sends more food, worship Chang'e under the moon, and the taro is all over the snail. "This poem of "Yangcheng Bamboo Branches" at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China writes down the customs and habits of Cantonese people to eat mooncakes, taro and field snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Let's take a look at the representative foods that Cantonese people often eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Cantonese mooncake skin thin filling large
As a symbol of perfection and carrying the good intentions between people, mooncakes have become an indispensable delicacy for the Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times. Cantonese mooncake originated in Guangdong and surrounding areas, has been popular throughout the country, Cantonese mooncake to thin skin, large filling as the characteristics, usually the skin filling ratio is 2:8, the inner filling to lotus paste, bean paste, egg yolk is the mainstay, sweet and salty moderate, the surface gloss is prominent, the taste is soft and smooth.
"No chicken, no feast"
Cantonese people have always been "no chicken no banquet", eating whole chicken to take the harmonic sound of "home", which means eating chicken to start a family, the whole family reunion. In addition, the whole chicken is also an indispensable tribute for Cantonese people to worship the gods and ancestors, and fresh onion oil chicken and white cut chicken are the most loved by everyone.
Roosters and hens are slightly different in how they are eaten, with hens generally used for stewing soup, while roosters are suitable for quick stir-frying. Because the hen has a high fat content, the umami substances in the meat are easily dissolved in the soup, and the stewed chicken soup is delicious. Conversely, the meat of the rooster is relatively tight, and it is difficult to boil a thick soup. People eat roosters prefer tender "baby chicken", at this time it is more necessary to stir-fry quickly to keep it tender and delicious.
The snails are fat and fleshy
Field snail is an indispensable food for Cantonese people in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lingnan folk believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat field snails can be blind, and before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the field snails are empty, there is no small snail in the belly of the field snails, and the meat is particularly fat. Therefore, in Guangdong, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Here is a reminder that whether it is a field snail or a conch, it must be cooked thoroughly. The key to cooking thoroughly is to control the time, only after enough time of high temperature stir-frying, you can avoid parasite problems, rest assured to eat.
The whole family eats taro
Cantonese "taro" and "head protection" harmonic, mid-autumn festival to eat taro must be eaten together by a family, large taro represents adults, small taro represents children, family eating taro together means the meaning of family reunion and peace. August 15 is also known as The People's Day by the people. Eat taro in the morning, called early taste. At this time, taro is not the best harvest season, but because taro has the harmonic sound of "residual head", people hope that there will be surplus in good days in order to please a colorful head, so they are to plan taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival to taste fresh.
Eat the diamond horns, clever and clever
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the family sits around, relatives and friends in the two places look at the same round of bright moon together, gently break open a diamond horn, chew it carefully, and taste perhaps not only the diamond horn on the face, but also the faint taste of nostalgia. Common diamond horn black shell, two pointed, shaped like a black eagle. Because it is known as "angular and sharp", the Mid-Autumn Festival eats diamond horns, which is said to make children look smart and clever. However, diamond horns are often rejected by children because of their unpleasant image. Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the diamond horn is the most full and ripe, sweet, crisp, and the way to eat is also salty and sweet.
"Yuzu" is a harmonic sound with "you"
The shape of the grapefruit symbolizes the meaning of reunion, at the same time, "grapefruit" and "you" are harmonious, representing the good will to hope that the moon will protect you, coupled with the Mid-Autumn Festival and coinciding with the peak of the production period, grapefruit has naturally become the food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Or "Yitou" is good enough to make yuzu an indispensable protagonist of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eating grapefruit in Guangdong Mid-Autumn Festival is still a tradition. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the most delicious season for grapefruit, eating sweet mooncakes, and then eating some sweet and sour grapefruit, you can dissolve the greasy feeling caused by eating mooncakes or meat to a certain extent. Coupled with the fact that grapefruit is rich in nutrients, grapefruit is one of the indispensable fruits of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Fresh wind direction
Have you ever eaten these "brain-opening" mooncakes?
Nowadays, the mooncake market is hot, what five kernels, bean paste, jujube mud mooncake has not been able to meet the diversified needs of consumers, the market appears in the inner roll, roll out durian flavor, crayfish, mustard salmon mooncake, and even merchants in the development of stinky mandarin fish mooncake.
However, the outer packaging of mooncakes on sale this year is generally simple and exquisite as the mainstream, and there are fewer gift boxes and iron boxes, and the mooncakes packaged in cartons are quite popular with the public. Some citizens believe that this is a manifestation of the maturity of the general public's concept of consumption and the progress of civilization.
"In the end, Chang'e didn't hold back, and made a spicy rabbit from the pot"
There is a type of mooncake that evolves on the basis of fresh meat, fresh meat mooncake is the ancestor, and then there is braised meat mooncake, spicy beef mooncake, crayfish mooncake, hairy crab mooncake, sauerkraut bullfrog mooncake, etc., and the taste also makes many people "on the head".
There is also a type of mooncake that is purely "dry rice" series: instant noodle mooncake, snail powder mooncake, squeezed vegetable fresh meat mooncake, dried bamboo shoots fresh meat mooncake, Kung Pao chicken diced mooncake, leek egg mooncake, curd milk mooncake, ham bamboo shoot dried mooncake, etc. In short, what you like to eat, wrap it in the mooncake, eat the mooncake at the same time with the pleasure of "dry rice".
In addition, chocolate mooncakes, ice cream mooncakes, red wine mooncakes, coffee mooncakes, tea mooncakes, truffle foie gras mooncakes, etc., are more and more accepted by the public, and the mooncakes are also permeated with petty bourgeoisie.
In August this year, another merchant conducted a tasting of the stinky mandarin fish mooncake, and the results were not ideal, and it was said that it was too smelly. Netizens complained: This can be smelled across the screen.
Merchants launched, there are also cold pot skewers of mooncakes - beef breast, beef blinds, beef hoof tendons, beef tongue, tripe, bovine bacillus sauce, plus bean skin, humus bamboo, bamboo shoot raw materials strung together, with a fresh and spicy vine pepper pot bottom, red oil mixed with sesame seeds to make a filling. Some netizens asked: Is this still called mooncake?
Mooncake is a test field for foodies, everything can "go a wave" with the concept of mooncake, just as "foodies" often say a sentence, in the end, Chang'e did not hold back, and made a spicy rabbit.
Simple carton Mid-Autumn Mooncakes are popular
At a cake house on Jianshe Road in Yunfu City, Xiao Wu, a salesman, is packing mooncakes for guests. She told reporters that this year's mooncake sales are mainly based on cartons and bulk, and the cost of cartons is very low, so the retail price of a box of mooncakes is only a few tens of yuan, which is really inexpensive and civilized packaging.
"Mooncakes are bought and eaten, the materials are fresh, and the taste is pure, which is the most critical, not the packaging." It is our responsibility to refuse over-packaging and reduce waste of resources. Miss Zhang, a citizen, has just purchased 10 bulk Wuren mooncakes, and she said that she did not need a box to buy and eat at home. As for gift-giving, the carton can be, each box is about 40-50 yuan, suitable for mass consumption.
The relevant person in charge of the new cloud cake family told reporters that the sales of mooncakes in the Yunfu market this year are ideal, in addition to retail, companies and groups order more, and more than 70% of group purchase customers order "carton month". There have been few luxurious gift boxes such as mooncakes with red wine, mooncakes with cordyceps, and mooncakes with bird's nest that have appeared before, and everyone's awareness of civilization and environmental protection has gradually increased, and the concept of consumption is also very rational.
Doctor reminds
It is advisable to eat a moderate amount of mooncakes
There are many kinds of mooncakes on the market, including oil, sugar and other ingredients. How to eat mooncakes to be healthy? Doctors suggest that eating mooncakes in the morning or noon can supplement energy, so that it is not easy to gain weight, but also can not be overeating, if excessive consumption may cause stomach fullness, bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, blood sugar and other reactions, especially the elderly, children, gastrointestinal discomfort, more attention to the appropriate amount is appropriate.
Mooncakes are high-calorie, high-sugar, high-fat foods, people with high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes, cholecystitis, gallstones and other underlying diseases should try not to eat, as well as children, pregnant women, people with heavy gastrointestinal burdens eat less. If you want to eat, you can drink more boiled water and make some light tea.
Ask
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, how to deal with the mooncakes that have not been sold?
As a seasonal food, the value of mooncakes plummeted after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and supermarkets cancelled the mooncake counters and returned the remaining mooncakes to distributors or manufacturers. In order to maintain their own brand, large food companies usually take three ways to deal with inventory mooncakes: selling them at low prices; distributing them to employees as a benefit; and breaking the mooncake skin and filling together and selling them to feed mills.
Where did the mooncakes removed from the supermarket go?
Mooncakes are usually sold only 20 days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. As soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival passed, the mooncakes changed from people's hearts to no one. The reporter visited and found that most supermarkets will remove the mooncake stall on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival or the next day, and only the baking area can still see the figure of freshly baked mooncakes.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, the reporter saw in the Box Horse Fresh Mooncake Gift Box Area in Chengdu that the mooncake counter had been replaced by the Toy Counter for Halloween. The signature freshly baked mooncake stall before the Mid-Autumn Festival sells sandwiches. The staff said that after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the mooncakes have been completely removed from the box horse. Walmart's bulk pastry area also retains two month cake shelves, selling tianlun Zhile and Guanshengyuan's bulk mooncakes, buying one pound and getting half a pound. The sales staff said that other brands have returned to the manufacturer, and the two models are sold out of stock. According to her, in order to reduce inventory risks, supermarkets are based on previous years' sales data and public demand, and also signed an agreement with the mooncake manufacturer to return the remaining mooncakes after the holiday. "There are also mooncakes that cannot be refunded, and will be converted into employee benefits, but there will generally not be many mooncakes left after promotion." She pointed out that supermarkets will make promotional plans based on inventory, especially on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the promotion efforts are the largest, and it is as good as possible to ensure that they are sold out.
The reporter saw the mooncakes baked on the spot in the baking areas of Carrefour and Walmart, with beef and ham fillings. "We are ready to sell, sold out and then made new, no inventory." The staff said the freshly baked mooncakes would also be removed from the shelves within a month.
Where has the inventory of mooncake manufacturers gone?
Packaging accounts for most of the cost of a mooncake gift box. In recent years, the recycling method of mooncakes is mainly "reduced to zero", that is, the gift box is dismantled and reused, and the mooncakes are sold separately.
The shelf life of mooncakes is generally 30-90 days. In order to maximize the cost recovery, mooncake manufacturers try their best to sell the remaining inventory within the shelf life. In addition to selling at a discount in crowded areas, as the reporter saw, companies will also transfer inventory to township and rural markets.
"This is a very important sales channel," said Hibake's sales staff, "in the urban area we generally sell until 20 days after the holiday, generally at this time there is more than half a month before the expiration of the shelf life of the mooncake, and the acceptance of suburban counties and rural areas is higher." For expired mooncakes, she said that they will be crushed centrally, "sold to relevant companies to make animal feed, the most common is pig feed." ”
Consumers are most worried about buying aged mooncakes and remade snacks made from mooncakes. Some media have reported that the mooncakes of the previous year "returned" to sell again in the second year; there were also vendors who bought mooncakes at low prices and processed them into pastries to flow to the market... Some practitioners pointed out that the cost of refrigeration and storage of mooncakes is higher than that of remakes, and manufacturers generally do not choose to freeze for a year and then sell. "However, the mooncake fillings such as lotus paste are more feasible to make other dim sum after low-price acquisition, and consumers need to be vigilant."
Every year, the State Food and Drug Administration will organize and implement special law enforcement inspections for the production and sales of mooncakes, and prevent and crack down on the illegal acts of producing and processing mooncakes with obsolete raw materials or recycling mooncakes through inspection and verification of producer licenses, mooncake quality test batch reports, and surprise inspections and spot checks.
As early as 2013, Shanghai launched the "mooncake recycling reporting system", whether the distributor can not sell the mooncake, whether expired or not, must be reported to the regulatory authorities, before the return of the mooncake sales work.
In 2016, the Beijing Municipal Food and Drug Administration required the city's mooncake production enterprises to resolutely put an end to the modification of the production date, take the initiative to disclose the disposal of recycled mooncakes to the public, take the initiative to take centralized and unified destruction measures, and implement the "seasonal food daily reporting system" in 2017, from the date of mooncake production, production enterprises report to the local food and drug regulatory departments daily on the mooncake production, sales volume, sales destination, return volume, destruction and other information, and grasp the production, sales, return and recycling of mooncakes.