Why do Shanghainese love "fresh meat mooncakes"?

(Shencheng Scenic Line) Why do Shanghainese love "fresh meat mooncakes"?

Shanghai, September 21 (China News Service) (Li Qiuying, Gao Zhimiao) What is the indispensable food on the Table of Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival? The answer must be fresh meat mooncakes. According to data from a takeaway platform, Shanghai, where the resident population is less than 2.5% of the country's population, consumes 53% of the country's fresh meat mooncakes.

The joke circulating on the Internet that "the knife cannot stop Shanghainese from queuing up to buy fresh meat mooncakes in Guangming Estate" also tells the status of fresh meat mooncakes in the hearts of Shanghainese. Queue for hours to eat hot fresh meat mooncakes.

Recently, the reporter visited the shanghai's long-established Guangming Estate restaurant, and there was a long queue at the entrance of the store early in the morning. According to the staff, due to the restrictions of the venue, the site adopts a segmented queue. "A batch of mooncakes (baked) takes half an hour and can only (enough) sell for 7 people. Started at 6:30 in the morning, it was busy until 7:00 p.m. to finish work, five pots were made at the same time, and it could only meet the needs of some customers, and the fresh meat mooncake was still in short supply. ”

Mr. Jiang, a citizen who just bought two boxes of fresh meat mooncakes, told reporters: "Buying fresh meat mooncakes must be queued for at least two hours, since I was a child, I have eaten this mooncake, and I still want to taste the taste of childhood with my family in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a kind of memory and a feeling." ”

The reporter observed that the long queue is not only at the gate of Guangming Estate, but also the fresh meat mooncakes of Brands such as Xinya Cantonese Restaurant, Zhen lao Fang, First Food, Taikang Food and other brands on Nanjing East Road are also the "heart's favorite" of Shanghainese.

Fresh meat mooncakes are a classic on the tables of Shanghai citizens during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the long queues to buy fresh meat mooncakes have a long history. Yao Songming, deputy general manager of Shanghai Zhenlaofang Food Company, recalled in an interview that on September 20, 1999, nanjing road pedestrian street opened, it was a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the street was crowded, and the sales of fresh meat mooncakes suddenly went up. In the following years, more and more people bought fresh meat mooncakes, and the queue became longer and longer.

Gao Kemin, executive vice president of the Shanghai Food Association, once said that the essence of fresh meat mooncakes is freshly baked Su-style mooncakes, but after the development of Shanghai food enterprises, the influence has exceeded many Varieties of Su-style Mooncakes, and even Suzhou people have come to Shanghai to buy this Kind of Su-style Mooncakes.

The essence of the Su-style freshly baked mooncake lies in the puff pastry, which bites into the freshly baked fresh meat mooncake, which is soft and fragrant and layered. Fresh meat mooncake is different from fried meat buns, the crust adopts the Su-style mooncake process, layer by layer, the taste is different according to the method of baking and baking, the former skin is crispy, the latter skin is soft.

While inheriting the classics, the mooncake industry is also constantly creative, and new flavors and puff pastries are emerging in an endless stream. Bad fragrant fresh meat, green pepper bacon, pickled tuk fresh, cloud leg meat floss, tangerine red beans, popcorn durian, mustard salmon, whiskey five kernels, green bean puree, stinky mandarin fish... New flavors are constantly refreshing the taste buds of consumers.

Huang Renkang, executive chef of Xinya Cantonese Restaurant and senior Chinese cooking master, told reporters that in order to cater to the tastes and hobbies of young consumer groups, Xinya has launched a new rattan pepper fish meat mooncake this year, which is smooth with hemp and spicy, making many skeptical consumers shout "true fragrance".

It is worth noting that not only major food companies, but also various industries have also thrown themselves into the "mooncake war". Shanghai Mental Health Center launched "No. 600 Wanping South Road" mooncake, Shanghai's oldest Western hospital Renji Hospital joined hands "Shen Dacheng" to launch the "Hospital Emblem Mooncake", the taste is also rich and unique, milk cheese, green apple plum, coffee chocolate, yangzhi manna, matcha cheese, white peach oolong... (End)

Source: China News Network