In recent years, Harmony Village, Zhaoxiang Town, has vigorously promoted the construction of rural revitalization, actively built Harmony Water Street around "Rural +", and attracted a group of makers who love the countryside to settle in Water Street to start a business. Among these makers, Fei Yaying, who has just retired, is a little special, unlike foreign makers, she is a native of Zhaoxiang, and she has a pair of skillful hands that can make local specialty pastries. The multiple superposition of these factors made Sister Fei, who had just retired and couldn't live in leisure, decide to start a business in her hometown, make food with skillful hands, and use "food" as a medium to convey the taste of the countryside and show the fireworks in the world.
In the early winter, in the early morning of Harmony Village, the mist is filled, and the cold sunlight is sprinkled, which clears the haze of Water Street. Different from the quiet water street, the rustic cottages on the side of the Harmony Garden are very lively with smoke rising from the cooking, and the fragrance of glutinous rice is emanating, filling with the sweet taste of the countryside. In the United Family Handmade Snack Shop, Sister Fei and her friends are busy, mixing noodles, stuffing, and making dumplings...... Busy and orderly, the hot village fireworks warm the morning of Harmony Village.
A cup of sweet and delicious snow swallow white fungus, paired with a large meat dumpling with rich sauce, sweet and salty blends between the teeth and cheeks, and opens the vitality of the morning with one click. In the increasingly busy city life, such a traditional local breakfast is precious, and the United Family handmade snack shop hidden in Harmony Water Street has left a strong hometown flavor for the surrounding laborers.
"Our store specializes in the local specialties of Zhaoxiang, which is not only loved by the local villagers, but also attracts many foreign tourists, who want to taste the local taste in Harmony Village. Fei Yaying said that she was originally a native of Fangxia Village, Zhaoxiang Town, grew up in the countryside, and preferred the comfortable life in the countryside.
The United Family Handmade Snack Shop specializes in traditional delicacies such as snow swallow white fungus, large meat dumplings, eight-treasure rice, square cakes, and harmony dumplings, as well as Chinese pastries such as Qingtuan, winter bamboo shoots, and osmanthus cakes based on seasonal ingredients and seasonal ingredients. In addition, UFH Handmade Snack Shop also collects fresh ingredients such as pumpkins and radishes from villagers to use as raw materials for pastries to ensure the original taste, which to a certain extent promotes the income of surrounding villagers.
"I am an entrepreneur, but also an original villager, and my own craftsmanship is so good, I want to inherit the intangible cultural heritage food skills, so that more people can eat delicious cake balls. Fei Yaying said that she has the skills and energy, and opening a snack shop to make pastries is not only to pass the time after retirement, but also to make some contributions to her hometown. In addition to selling traditional pastries, the United Family Handmade Snack Shop also provides handicraft experience services to attract tourists to participate in the production of traditional pastries and teach intangible cultural heritage food skills in the making, so that the skills learned from the elders in the family can continue to shine and more people can inherit the traditional food culture.
With the traffic base, the combination of traditional food and rural markets stimulates innovative intangible cultural heritage food ideas. According to Fei Yaying, in the future, the United Family Handmade Snack Shop will consider more diversified development, combine the overall tone of Harmony Water Street, strive for excellence in the production of traditional pastries, add Chinese pastries such as moon cakes and glutinous rice balls, try to develop in conjunction with surrounding merchants, and launch Chinese tea breaks, hoping to bring sweet memories to everyone with food, and better taste the local food culture and spiritual core of Zhaoxiang.