During the Spring Festival, the food you have eaten can be said to be varied and varied. But if you find a dish in the north that almost everyone can accept and occupy the C position on the dinner table, there should only be dumplings!
There is a joke circulating on the Internet, when asked a Shandong person, when to eat dumplings, Shandong people will probably answer like this: Chinese New Year's Eve want to eat, break five to eat, ambush to eat, winter solstice to eat, farewell to eat, reunion to eat, when guests come to eat, and when you want to eat......
There is hardly one thing that cannot be solved by eating a dumpling. Among the industrial and commercial registered enterprises in Shandong, there are 142,000 enterprises containing dumplings, steamed dumplings, dumplings and fried dumplings. Similarly, in Taiwan, there are more than 60 Shandong dumpling restaurants.
When it comes to dumpling filling, Shandong can be said to be the master of dumpling filling. To give a few examples, such as: mackerel filling, mutton filling, carrot egg filling, fennel filling, shrimp filling, leek egg filling, seafood stuffing on the seaside, mountain mushroom stuffing in the mountains, fish stuffing on the lake, donkey meat stuffing, beef stuffing, shepherd's cabbage stuffing and so on in the plains. To a certain extent, Shandong people's love for dumplings is simply engraved into their DNA.
But dumplings can't win the love of southerners, after all, they don't eat dumplings during the New Year. A southern classmate you Yanjun knew didn't eat his first dumplings until he was in college. And he thinks that dumplings are the same as noodles, there is nothing different, and they are not worthy of being so praised, very ordinary noodles. Unlike most people in Shandong, who prefer to eat dumplings for breakfast.
But the dumplings that can't be promoted in the south are outstanding in Asia, and many countries have noodles similar to dumplings, let's count them together.
In Turkey, dumplings are called Manti, especially in the Kayseri region, where the bride will be asked to make dumplings at the time of the local wedding, to show the bride's ingenuity, the smaller the made, the more the in-laws will like it. When eating, it is usually drizzled with yogurt sauce, butter and spices.
In Uzbekistan, dumplings are also called Manti, and the local filling is almost all beef and mutton, and potatoes and spices are added if you want to eat vegetables. But the method of making dumplings is very different from ours, and the most significant difference is that the local dumplings are not sealed, but open. Locals believe that this makes it easier to pour ingredients into the inside when eating.
Also in Uzbekistan, there is a delicacy called Chuchvara, which looks and eats in a way that is very similar to the Ququ in Xinjiang, except that it is smaller. If it's on the street or in a restaurant, it's more often eaten as an appetizer with yogurt sauce.
If you think dumplings are pasta, in Vietnam, this soul is replaced with tapioca flour. Because tapioca flour becomes transparent when exposed to water, it is called "transparent pastry" in Vietnam. Vietnamese people prefer to wrap shrimp or pork belly with fried shallots on top and serve with a dipping sauce that is more common in the region. However, you Yanjun feels that this is more like the crystal shrimp dumplings in Cantonese cuisine, what do you think?
In Israel, there is a pre-dinner appetizer eaten on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, known as kreplach. There are meat fillings, as well as mashed potatoes, and they are also served with soup, and most locals choose chicken soup or beef soup. This made Youyanjun think of chicken soup wontons.
In India, there is a deep-fried snack called curry samosas, which is mainly filled with mashed potatoes, green beans, onions, and chili peppers, and is served with mint sauce or sweet and sour sauce. Of course, in India, everything is ultimately curry-flavored.
How about these foreign dumpling relatives, do you want to try it? Welcome to leave a message at the end of the article and participate in the discussion.