Xiao long bao, fresh meat mooncakes, crab shell yellow ...... From April 25th to 28th, during the "2024 Hong Kong and Shanghai Week", under the guidance of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal Government, co-sponsored by the Federation of Shanghai-Hong Kong Community Organizations, the Huangpu District Government and Lingang Group, the Shanghai Food Festival with the theme of "Shanghai Style Xiangjiang Prosperous Encounter" was successfully held in Chater Garden, Central, Hong Kong.
On the evening of April 27, Shen Shanzhou, deputy secretary of the district party committee and head of the district, came to the scene to taste the time-honored food of Shanghai style with Hong Kong citizens.
Huangpu is not only the birthplace of Shanghainese culture, but also a gathering place of food culture. This time, our district selected 44 special products from 17 time-honored brands under New World Group, Huaihai Group, Yuyuan Co., Ltd. and other enterprises to enrich the delicious taste of Hong Kong residents, show the charm of Shanghai's time-honored brands, and expand the opportunities for Shanghai-Hong Kong cooperation.
In November last year, when Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee went to Shanghai to participate in an event, he visited the "century-old restaurant" Dexing Pavilion to taste Shanghai's authentic snacks. This time, the Dexing Pavilion invited the chef team to Hong Kong to bring special snacks such as black rice cakes, siu mai, and crab shell yellow to local citizens, and the products were sold out as soon as they were put on the shelves.
Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop's Xiaolong Steamed Bun Making Technique is an Intangible Cultural Heritage Project of Shanghai, and the dim sum team wrapped the "same style of Yu Garden" Xiaolong Steamed Bun in the central kitchen designated by the organizer, and followed strict process requirements at every step to ensure that each Xiaolong Steamed Bun was thin, juicy and delicious. On the first day of the festival, more than 900 xiao long bao made that day were sold out in less than two hours.
Guangming Village, which "has to queue up all year round", is a unique scenery on Huaihai Road. This time, the queue for the fresh meat mooncakes in Guangming Estate arrived on Hong Kong Island, and they were sold out as soon as they were baked, and many local citizens waited in long lines for the next pot to be baked. Guangming Estate Fresh Meat Mooncakes adhere to the hand-made, selected lean proportion of just the right meat filling, more juice, light puff pastry, similar to cotton paper, easy to soak in the soup, oily but not dry, well received by the local citizens.
Taikang Food, which will celebrate its 110th anniversary this year, brought the most famous century-old golden rooster to Hong Kong citizens, and also exhibited pastries co-branded with TV dramas and a newly developed snack brand. The company said that the company has always had the intention of going overseas, and will be based on its own development to expand overseas markets, especially the places where Chinese gather, which will be the preferred target market.
The rich siu mai and fresh meat dumplings brought by Dafugui Restaurant this time were also well received.
The reporter learned from the District Commission of Commerce that there are 96 time-honored Chinese brands in Huangpu, accounting for 49% of the city's total, ranking first in the city. These time-honored brands have been established for more than 50 years, and have products, skills or services that have been passed down from generation to generation, with a distinct cultural heritage and good brand reputation, and are outstanding representatives of Shanghai brands. Among them, the time-honored delicacies include both magnificent and famous stores, as well as snacks hidden in ordinary alleys, which are not only a kind of taste inheritance, but also a continuation of Shanghai-style culture. In the future, these time-honored brands will continue to innovate by adhering to traditional crafts, inheriting Shanghai-style classics, and integrating the atmosphere of the times, injecting new vitality and impetus into the development of "Shanghai Shopping".