The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, have you eaten the mooncake? In our Fuzhou, when the older generation arrives at the Mid-Autumn Festival, they often eat not moon cakes, but gift cakes! During the Chinese New Year, friends and relatives exchange gift cakes to express their good wishes to each other.
There are gift cakes for gifts, festive days must have gift cakes, which is deeply imprinted in the memory of every Fuzhou people, in the Mid-Autumn Festival and family to share gift cakes, is the taste of home, but also the taste of reunion.
When I was a child, I always felt that the cake was too sweet, only my grandparents would like it, and when I grew up, I found that I didn't know the treasure; a piece of cake, with a fragrant sesame flavor, layers of crunchy puff pastry, rich and full filling, eating fat and fine.
Made with seasonal ingredients such as fresh pork, peanuts, sesame seeds, and winter melon candy, kneading flour into a skin, the handmade cake carries the temperature of the craftsmen, and the combination of sugar and meat has achieved the hometown flavor that Fuzhou people will never forget.
On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we traveled all over Fuzhou again, bringing a "Gift Cake Evaluation Set", punching in 8 old cake shops, and trying the gift cakes that Fuzhou people must eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
PART.
01
Drunken Immortal Building
Buying Fuzhou's traditional gift cakes, naturally you can't miss the century-old shop Drunken Xian Lou, after all, we Fuzhou people love to come here every New Year's Festival, and every dim sum and cake dumpling in his family is deeply liked by many people.
Drunken Xian Lou's gift cake starts at 9 yuan, quite touching thickness, very heavy in the hand; eat slightly elastic taste, not too sweet, and the more chewed sesame and lard aroma the more flavorful, the overall nice ✓
【Personal experience】The bullet is chewy and not sweet
02
Hundred Cake Garden
Speaking of traditional pastry shops in Fuzhou, Baifengyuan is also one that many Fuzhou people will recommend! Walking into the Hundred Cake Garden, there are not only traditional gift cakes, but also cheese cakes, taro mud mochi cakes and other choices, which are very up to date.
Tried the traditional gift cake of the Hundred Cake Garden, the peanut flavor is very fragrant, and the skin is very crisp, the sweetness of the winter melon strips and sesame seeds is obvious in one bite, and the ingredients are solid and the sweetness is very suitable for the Taste of Fuzhou people.
【Personal experience】The packaging is good for sending friends and relatives with solid materials
03
Beautiful and there is
Beautiful and ceremonial cakes larger than the face, gently cut open the cake with a knife, the crispy skin begins to slag off, full of inverted into the eyes, the fragrance sprays out, it is the familiar aroma of fat oil.
The thin dough crust is wrapped in pickled fat, winter melon strips, peanuts, black sesame seeds, etc., with amazing rich ingredients, one bite down, fat crisp, peanut crisp, sesame fragrance, winter melon strips sweet... It blends skillfully in the mouth and eats one bite at a time until it can't stop.
【Personal experience】Rich in ingredients, the skin is crispy to the point of crazy slag
04
Jufu Garden
Jufuyuan on Wushan Road is also an old-fashioned pastry shop, and like the Drunken Xian Lou opposite, there are many choices of pastry styles, and the price of gift cakes is similar.
Jufuyuan's gift cake personally believes that the salty and powdery taste is heavier, it is crisp and smooth to eat, and from time to time you can also eat small pieces of winter melon strips, the whole cake is sweet and salty, and the combination of sugar and meat is OK.
【Personal experience】Overall decent taste is more smooth
05
Aishan chestnut cake
This Aishang chestnut cake on Daming Road, every time I pass by, I will come to buy a few pieces of mung bean cake and chestnut cake to relieve my hunger; take advantage of the recent Mid-Autumn Festival, come to try his family's gift cake.
To be honest, his family's gift cake is the most surprising thing to me in this review! As soon as you break it open, you can see the peanut crushed melon seeds and melon seeds and plum tongue winter melon sugar... With a lot of ingredients and a tempting golden puff pastry, I have a perfect score for his family's cakes from the outside.
【Personal experience】The crust is very crisp and fragrant, and there are many ingredients
06
Ah Xiang pastry shop
In the long-established concentration camp of Qingcheng Road there are also many veteran pastry shops, A Xiang cake shop is one of them, walk to the front of the store, the cascading cakes are first printed into the eye, small and medium large gift cakes to choose, more than 16-50 prices range.
The cake aroma is over the sweet taste, it can be said that his family's gift cake I still quite like, the boss lady said that this is all their pure handmade, winter melon sugar meat fragrant sesame aroma ... Fully integrated together, no one stole the limelight from anyone when it was eaten.
【Personal experience】The cake is fragrant and suitable for sharing with the family
07
Gyeongseong Lin Huaguang Cake
A Xiang cake shop next to the Qingcheng Lin Hua light cake, before are to punch his family's light cake, this time punch card his family's gift cake; the price of 12 yuan, one side is sprinkled with the standard white sesame seeds of the gift cake, the other side is printed with the word 囍, get the festive ha ha in advance.
His family's cake is very fragrant, it is the kind of meat aroma that will linger between the teeth for a long time, the sweetness I hardly taste, but every bite I always want to eat a second bite, obviously so simple and unpretentious, eating a little hard cake, how can I eat more and more addictive.
[Personal experience] there is not a lot of material, but it is not bad to eat
08
Yongtai old Cai onion cake
Many people on the Yongtai Old Cai Shallot Cake on Daoshan Road came to his family's shallot cake, and this time, I came to his family's Yongtai Cake; compared to most Fuzhou Cakes, which are fried, Yongtai Cakes are baked and are healthier to eat.
Sure enough, the baked cake is different, did not give me the feeling of eating more on fire, but the aroma of baking is very sufficient, the crust and invert are slightly sweet, but not greasy, very suitable for the elderly and children.
【Personal experience】Very sweet taste The baked crust is crispy
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Overall
Suitable for giving: Hundred Cake Garden Drunken Immortal Building Beautiful and there is a Xiang cake shop
Favorite ingredients: Aishan chestnut cake Hundred Cake Garden Beautiful and there is
Our personal favorite: Ai Shang Chestnut Cake Drunken Immortal Building
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Written by / Seven Great Aunts
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