Small steamed buns
When it comes to the impression of Shanghai, small steamed buns have always been a topic. In the past, when relatives and friends from other places came to Shanghai, they would take them to the Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop of the City God Temple and order a few drawers of small caged steamed buns to show the friendship of the landlords.
Nanxiang Mantou Shop is also a century-old shop in Shanghai. It is said that during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a cake shop in Nanxiang, Jiading, Shanghai, which was "Rihuaxuan", which operated Su-style cake dumplings. As the sales of cake dumplings slowly shrink. Later, I changed my career to meat buns and wontons. Because of the exquisite use of materials, the fine workmanship business is also thriving. The shopkeeper who made money, took over Nanxiang's shop and began the road to the beach.
At that time, the Shanghai City God Temple was the most prosperous commercial area in Shanghai. The City God Taoist Temple is full of incense, temple fairs are continuous, and there are many tea shops and taverns around it. The owner's eyes are poisonous, and he meets the boat hall on the lakeside, facing the water on both sides, and the scenery is unique. There are many tea houses around, and most of the tea customers at that time liked to order some exquisite snacks in the nearby shops to wrap their stomachs.
Since then, Nanxiang Mantou Restaurant has gained a foothold in Shanghai Chengxiang and named it "Changxing Building". The novelty and unique mini-type meat steamed buns were a great success, and the shops were full of people all day long. The guests of the nearby tea house also often greeted "come to the second cage steamed bun", and later, the diners thought that the Changxing Building was too elegant and directly called it Nanxiang Steamed Buns. The owner is also a wonderful person, simply changed the name to Nanxiang Steamed Bun Shop. With the success of the shopkeeper, there are countless imitators, because this kind of bun is priced according to the cage, and everyone calls it "small cage steamed bun". Now some foreign steamed buns that sell small cage steamed buns are directly translated into small dragon steamed buns, which is also quite gimmicky.
Now the Nanxiang Mantou Shop is golden and brilliant, the private room serves the dishes of the gang, and the price of a cage of buns in the hall on the ground floor is not cheap. In the past, the prices here were still civilian, and it was common to see nearby residents holding rice boxes to buy a cage and go home as a snack. There is a long queue outside the store every day, the seats between the shops are not to be thought about, the street is full of diners squatting with hot small caged steamed buns, and chopsticks and other things scattered everywhere on the ground are a mess. Come to think of it, the current Nanxiang Mantou Shop is more to serve tourists.
Authentic Shanghai's small steamed buns are made of semi-baked flour, wrapped in meat filling, and then folded into fourteen folds, like the mouth of a fish, beautiful and interesting. A small steamed bun can be made of 10 pieces of flour, and the meat filling is made of pork leg essence and meat jelly, and the elaborate one will be boiled with the old hen stew soup base and the meat skin together into the skin jelly, and mixed into the filling. Steam for a few minutes over high heat to get out of the cage.
The small steamed bun should be eaten while it is hot. Just out of the cage of the small bun, chopsticks picked up, translucent bun inside the slightly pink small fresh meat in the gravitational action of the crumbling, dipped in some ginger soaked balsamic vinegar, gently bite a bite, piping hot soup scrambled out, delicious and tempting, but be careful to burn Oh. At this time, if you add a bowl of egg shredded soup, you will have nothing to say.
In addition to the most common crab powder for fresh meat, the filling of small cage steamed buns is famous for shanghainese people who like crabs, and crab powder small cages have come into being. The crab powder cage is made of pure crab meat and paste yellow, dipped in vinegar and ginger shredded in a bite, full of crab oil, full of satisfaction, teeth and cheeks left fragrant, wonderful. Another combination of fresh meat and crab meat is the crab meat cage. It's also good!
In addition to the Nanxiang Mantou Shop in the City God Temple, there are many delicious steamed bun shops in Shanghai, and there are also many good reputations in the downtown area.
Some years of Fuchun Xiaolong. The steamed bun is really good, that is, to queue up, eat a small cage and wait for half an hour should be the norm. However, I heard that it was going to be demolished recently, and I don't know whether it is true or not.
The Wanshou Zhai near Sichuan Road is also an old shop, the price is close to the people, and it is generally good to eat.
Shanshan small cage, there are Shanghai small cage and Wuxi small cage supply, I think Wuxi small cage is better, more convergent, not as sweet as the local. Although the Shanghai cage is also good.
The crab powder cage of Lailai Xiaolong is fresh, especially in the season when hairy crabs are on the market, the crab paste cage can be said to be amazing, and the price is fair. The meat filling is very general.
There are also many chains of small steamed bun shops in Shanghai, not to mention. Chain stores rarely step on the thunder, and there are also few surprises.