The southerners' New Year's dishes are particularly hearty, because after a year of hard work, they always have to eat something good. The family is back for the New Year reunion, how can they treat their stomachs badly. But when southerners go to the north for the first time for the New Year, they almost think that their friends are not waiting to see them.
As a native southerner, Cantonese. Guangdong is also a coastal area, and the things you usually eat are better, not to mention the family banquet during the New Year, abalone and lobster will definitely be there.
Cantonese Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
This time I followed my friends back to Henan for the New Year, which was really surprising. It turned out that the host of the Spring Festival Gala asked everyone if they had eaten dumplings tonight? It's really not bad at all, and the enthusiasm of northerners for dumplings is not something that we southerners can understand.
Dumplings, originally known as wontons, are also known as slots, horns, plaque food, flat food, prison pills, powder horns, dumpling bait, dumpling bait, water dim sum, water dumplings, dumplings and so on. There are various cooking methods for dumplings, such as boiling, steaming, frying, and baking. Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, there has been the custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice, and since the Ming Dynasty, there has been the custom of eating dumplings on the first day of the first lunar month.
Chinese name
Ryūzi
Gaibun name
Dumpling
jiaozi
ravioli(法语)
classify
Snacks, snacks, staple food, tonic medicinal meals, breakfast
taste
Delicious, delicate and delicious
Main ingredients
Dough, meat (pork, sheep, beef, chicken, duck, goose), vegetables, sauces, seafood (shrimp powder, crab meat, shrimp meat), condiments, vinegar, chili paste, oyster sauce, sesame oil, mackerel, vegetables (corn, leeks, carrots, vegetables).
Cantonese dumplings
Dumplings are especially popular in the northern region, and they are occasionally eaten in the southern region, such as steamed dumplings in Guangdong, which are eaten during morning tea. But if you want to use dumplings as a staple food, southerners will never eat them.
Henan 饺子
Because the weather in Henan is relatively cold, the ingredients are prepared early. My friend's family said that they would invite me to a good meal and let me have a happy year in the north.
I am also full of expectations, after all, the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in Guangdong is the most sumptuous. Although it was my first time in the north and I was in the north to celebrate the New Year, I was still full of expectations.
Ryūzi
My friend's family was busy making dumplings, and I wanted to be a part of it, but I couldn't. Southerners don't seem to be born with a knack for making dumplings, and I can't learn what my friends teach me by hand.
In the end, I had no choice but to give up, just sit there and wait for eating! After being busy for more than half an hour, the beautiful dumplings were finally wrapped. There are leek fillings, beef fillings, and pork fillings, and I found that there are quite a lot of dumplings here.
And the size is also bigger than the steamed dumplings in Guangdong, dumplings in Guangdong are generally eaten when drinking tea, or buy some steamed dumplings in the morning to top the stomach, if you ask me to eat dumplings as a staple food, I can't, I think most Cantonese people do not agree and even southerners do not recognize.
In the north, dumplings must be served every New Year's holiday, otherwise it is not considered a New Year's holiday. Therefore, the difference between the diet of the north and the south is quite large, just like we must have white-cut chicken during the New Year.
You have to eat dumplings during the New Year
A friend's house served some cold meat, but the dumplings were definitely the protagonist. More than a dozen plates of dumplings were put up, and one person ate a large plate.
Why don't you eat vegetables here in Henan during the New Year? Can you celebrate the New Year with a large pot of dumplings? While eating dumplings, I turned on the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
We don't watch the Spring Festival Gala from childhood to adulthood, and the ratings of the Spring Festival Gala in the F3 region of South China are the lowest. We usually eat and drink as a family, play mahjong and burn fireworks, or go shopping in the flower street. The TV is turned on there and doesn't watch it at all. I feel that the cross talk sketches can't be watched.
When I saw a table of dumplings, I almost suspected that my friend didn't want to see me at all. Later, I learned that in the northern region, many places have to eat dumplings for the New Year.
Henan Chinese New Year's Eve dinner
However, the dumplings in the north are still delicious, because the skin is made by yourself, and the flour here seems to be better than that in the south, and it is more tenacious.
For example, we in Guangdong basically buy dumpling wrappers made by others, and there is no fragrance of flour at all. And the dumpling skin is soft, and there is really no fragrance.
I've never been a fan of dumplings, and I made a big plate, and it was really full. But after eating, I didn't feel like I had eaten anything, because there was no rice, and I didn't eat big fish and meat during the New Year, so I felt that something was missing.
Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for northerners
Later, I posted the matter of eating dumplings for the New Year on the Internet, but I didn't expect it to trigger a war of words, and netizens exploded in an instant. Netizens in the north and south have their own opinions, and friends in the south said that whoever eats dumplings in the New Year is just a usual snack, just like instant noodles.
Friends in the north said that if you don't eat dumplings in the New Year, can you count it as the New Year?