Introduction: Delicious pastries have many beautiful meanings, representing sweetness, harmony, reunion, and upward mobility every year!
The Spring Festival of 2020 is an extraordinary festival, and the unexpected arrival of the epidemic in one month has disrupted the plans of the people of the whole country for the Spring Festival. On this road of epidemic prevention, we are not alone, pay tribute to those medical staff who are on the front line, all we can do is try not to go out, wear masks when going out, and do not add to the chaos.
It is also with these heroes on the front line that we have a safe home, but also to let everyone return to work after more reassuring eating and drinking, when it comes to the food that Xiaobian wants to eat most after the resumption of work, it is definitely the Shanghai cake dumplings, soft and sticky, elastic cake dumplings want to drool.
So which Shanghai cake dumpling is stronger? Here, Xiaobian must mention that Shen Dacheng, who is known as the king of cake dumplings! How hot is Shen Dacheng? It is a long-established brand known to all the people of Shanghai, from 1875 has been red to the present, the century-old brand that has been on fire for 144 years has been surrounded by aunts and uncles almost all year round, and every day when the door is opened, it is surrounded by groups! Don't panic, this is all a small scene, follow the editor to find out!
The double brewing group that has long occupied the No.1 of Shen Dacheng's sales list ↓↓↓
Shen Dacheng Nanjing East Road General Store, located at No. 636 Nanjing East Road, the geographical location is very conspicuous ↓↓↓
Located in the bustling Pedestrian Street of Nanjing Road, Shen Dacheng serves a variety of noodles, small cages and wontons at the fast food restaurant on the first floor, and gourmet snacks, stir-fry dishes and special dim sum on the second floor. According to the characteristics of the season, seasonal varieties are also supplied, such as: sugar rice cakes, eight treasure rice, muffin cakes, etc. during the Spring Festival, Qingtuan during the Qingming Festival, various rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, and Chongyang cakes during the Chongyang Festival. The price is well, in the "land and gold" of Shanghai can be regarded as the "most affordable" place.
"I've been eating for decades, and I've been coming to buy it!" "The price has always been this, the old affordable amount!" "Our whole family from snacks to big", "The taste has been delicious for decades, the family is most happy with Ira noodle cake and double brewing dumplings", "Queue up, I am willing, anyway, every day is like this!" ”...... Many diners who queued up outside the store to buy cake dumplings generally gave Shen Dacheng such an evaluation.
Shen Dacheng's takeaway window is always "crowded" with people ↓↓↓
Every day from 9 a.m. to 22 p.m. ↓↓↓
There are many varieties of cakes in the price list, sweet and salty, and there is always one that you love ↓↓↓
As soon as you enter the door, the store is spacious, the environment is comfortable, the wooden tables and chairs are very retro, very old Shanghai antique feeling, full of Haipai style. On the first floor are snacks and takeaways, flip over the table quickly, don't be afraid to queue.
At noon, the first floor entrance is like a city ↓↓↓
In the corner of Shen Dacheng's façade, there is a staircase on the second floor, specializing in receiving dine-in a la carte, the lobby business is very good, and the number of dining tables placed in the hall is very large, there are more than thirty, most of which are small tables for four people. Everyone chatted and ate vegetables in the day, which was very pleasant.
The second floor is clean and bright, and the popularity is very strong ↓↓↓
Private room elegant seat, clean and elegant ↓↓↓
There are many kinds of menu dishes ↓↓↓
When it comes to noodle cakes and double-brewed dumplings, the golden ratio is key!
During the visit, Master Shen Guoxing, the third generation of Shen Dacheng, revealed to the editor that the secret of the cake dumplings that have been selling hot for decades is that raw materials are the key.
According to him, the noodle cake is Shen Dacheng's self-created product, the bean paste filling is freshly fried in the factory, the proportion is one pound of red beans put half a pound of sugar, and each pound of red beans is good to fry two and a half pounds of bean paste. The ratio of the cake body to the invert is 3:2, 1700 grams of cooked flour, and the bean paste contains 1400 grams, which is a really high and demanding standard. "The store sells more than 10,000 pieces a day, and the Tmall Shen Dacheng flagship store sells more than 30,000 pieces a day." When it comes to sales volume, Master Shen is quite proud.
A whole strip of cake, the skilled Master Shen can accurately cut into 13 sections ↓↓↓
Shen Guoxing, the third generation of Shen Dacheng, was originally the head chef of the cake troupe department and is currently a consultant. At the age of 21, Master Shen replaced his father in shen dacheng to make cake dumplings, and worked diligently for more than 40 years.
"My father worked at Shen Dacheng at the age of 13 until he retired at the age of 62, when I took his place in 1979, when I was only 21 years old." When asked about the experience of learning art from a teacher, Master Shen Guoxing smiled and said, "I have always kept in mind that my father's teaching to me is to work diligently and earnestly, study seriously, learn technology well, work must be sincere, quality is in the first place, work and being a person are the same!" ”
Shen Dacheng's third generation shen guoxing ↓↓↓
Osmanthus striped cake can be described as stunning! The bean paste filling inside is sufficient, gentle and delicate, the cake body of the glutinous rice is also soft and pleasant, the overall sweetness is not greasy to bite down like a girl's crispy breast, the taste is really super good! Sweet and bouncy teeth, you'll fall in love with a bite.
Master Fu demonstrates the process of making noodle cake ↓↓↓
Double brewing dough is like a large black ocean crispy bean paste dumplings, filling enough to pounce out, soft, bean paste is particularly fine, bite down full of sesame aroma, touch the conscience does not blow not black, this is the best double brewed dumplings that Xiaobian has ever eaten!
"The reason why the double brewing group that is not sweet and not greasy has occupied the sales champion all year round is not unreasonable, its recipe is proportional, the proportion of each double brewed sesame ball is a pound of sesame seeds put two and a half sugar, so the taste is just right" According to Master Shen, "This is also our Shen Dacheng self-created fist product, so many years have maintained the original intention and original taste, small changes are just the outside wrapped coconut shreds, rolled full of coconut balls are more popular with the public." ”
Double brew dough white fat fat love ↓↓↓
Egg yolk meat pine green dumplings, the first internet celebrity originator
I don't know when it started, the Qingming Festival in my memories is inseparable from the Youth League. Shanghainese will go to Shen Dacheng every season to queue up to buy its own egg yolk meat pine green dough, with the major brands have successively launched the egg yolk meat pine green dough, this green dough has also once become a screen of the whole network of Internet celebrities, do not know Shen Dacheng's egg yolk meat pine green dough is the originator of the Internet red world.
About its advent, it also stems from a story, "About this yolk meat pine green dough is actually developed in 2016 by my son inspired by my son" Master Shen Guoxing said of the egg yolk meat pine green doughnut is quite proud of the inspiration for the creation. "The proportion of the green dough is also quite exquisite, and each green dough is made according to the 35 grams of filling with 65 grams of skin."
Master Shen Guoxing skillfully made the youth league ↓↓↓
Roll the kneaded dough into long strips, cut into small pieces, take a piece of dough, knead it into a circle, press out a nest, put in the stirred egg yolk meat pine filling, wrap the filling with glutinous rice balls, and knead the round.
Put the finished dough on the oil paper, put it in the steamer to steam, after steaming, and then brush a thin layer of oil on the surface of the dough so that it will not stick to the hand.
It turns out that each cake ball seems to be a simple step, each step can not tolerate sloppiness, and the ratio and rubbing must be properly benefited in order to have a softer and stickier taste.
The shiny green dough sat in rows ↓↓↓
The skin is soft and sweet, and the aftertaste is long ↓↓↓
Next is the crab powder cage on both sides of the yellow, the snacks here are also exquisite!
Shen Dacheng in addition to osmanthus striped cake, double brewing dumplings, green dumplings, etc. are famous, as well as crab powder small cage, wontons, a variety of two-sided yellow and banquet snacks, all unique, good reputation, so as early as the 1930s at home and abroad.
Speaking of crab powder cages, it is not only the top snack of Shen Dacheng's family, but also the famous Han nationality in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Made with crab meat and pork flavor filling, bite down on a packet of crab oil and eat it with a mouthful of flavor. People who have eaten it have rated it as delicious, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and it is precisely because of this that the crab powder cage of Shen Dacheng's family has always been favored by diners.
Xiaobian and Master Shen heard that the secret of crab powder cage is not fishy in three points: quality first, good raw materials, and good craftsmanship! Crab powder is freshly dismantled, the meat is hot meat, 10 grams of skin with 35 grams - 37 grams of filling, which has created a good reputation that has been praised countless times.
High quality raw materials ↓↓↓
The special master is responsible for the production of small dumplings, and in terms of techniques, he inherits the traditional handicrafts, kneading, rolling, pulling, wrapping, steaming, and each step is an attitude towards food.
The fresh meat filling is filled with boiled crab meat and crab yellow, and each small steamed bun is bulging. Gently picked up with chopsticks, the skin is tough but not broken, and each one is bulging and sacing, extra full.
The small steamed bun made by the master fu has a clear layer of folds and a mouth like a crucian carp mouth ↓↓↓
Round and full of small dumplings ↓↓↓
The rich broth must be sucked in one bite, and the delicious taste spreads to the entire mouth in an instant. The combination of crab meat and fresh meat is even more unique and delicious, and one bite is absolutely satisfying!
Broken skin! The juice flows out in an instant ↓↓↓
In addition, the two-sided yellow is definitely Shen Dacheng's signature product, the most classic shrimp two-sided yellow 38 yuan / pot, through the improved two-sided yellow, pay attention to the crunch, fragrant, and now more popular with young people.
"When frying, the heat is relatively stable, the temperature is about 180 ° C, the noodles should choose coarse noodles, fry golden brown, take out, drain, the whole process is between 30 seconds and 40 seconds, all kinds of toppings can be matched by themselves, the most classic is shrimp toppings." Master Shen said.
Master Fu skillfully fried two sides of yellow toppings ↓↓↓
Freshly baked shrimp on both sides of yellow ↓↓↓
There is also a need to mention that wontons, you know, Shanghainese love for wontons is seeping into the bones, and the size of the wontons is very clear, large wontons are heavy filling, small wontons heavy skin, eat a lot of exquisite. In Shen Dacheng, the noodle skins are processed by themselves and blended according to their own proportions, so the toughness is better, and the small wonton skins will not rot for a long time.
The skin was translucent, and the powdered meat filling loomed, and a mouthful of juice splashed, "Ouch! plump! ”
One bite at a time, one bowl is not enough ↓↓↓
The last snack to be said is tonkatsu! In fact, it is difficult to live in Shanghai without being attracted by this golden and attractive pork chop, and the old Shanghai pork chops are more emotional to eat. Tonkatsu is a "thin" word. An authentic Piece of Shanghainese Pork Cutlet, the master introduced that it is quite difficult to prepare in the early stage. It takes a long time to turn over and over with a knife until a piece of pork chop is twice the size of the original. It can be said that the chef's patting kung fu directly determines whether a piece of pork chop is crispy or not.
A piece of pork chops is enough to cover the whole plate, with bone and meat, full of portions, and it is crisp and tender in the mouth, very tender and thick!
Slightly browned pork chops ↓↓↓
After watching the food, let's take a look at the history of people! You know, the century-old shop Shen Dacheng, the boss is not called Shen Dacheng!
Speaking of history, Shen Dacheng, founded in 1875, everyone must be the same as Xiaobian, thinking that the boss is called Shen Dacheng! In fact, it is not, his founder is called Shen Ajin, a wuxi native.
Shanghai Shen Dacheng in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty (network data map) ↓↓↓
Shen Dacheng in 1935 (network data map) ↓↓↓
It was first opened at the intersection of Hubei Road and Fuzhou Road (now qinglian Pavilion) as Shen Dacheng Porridge Shop, and then moved to the original Bao Daxiang Silk Cloth Village on Nanjing Road, changing "Shen Dacheng" to the name of the store. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, the Nanguo Restaurant on the second floor was closed due to poor management, and was given to Shen Dacheng, so that Shen Dacheng's area continued to expand. In November 1987, Shen Dacheng ceased business and demolished, and after more than a year of construction, it reopened in April 1989 with a construction area of 750 square meters.
Shen Dacheng started when the founder Shen Ajin for the collection of dim sum and flavor snacks of the Dacheng, so the name of the store is "Shen Dacheng", because Shen Dacheng pays attention to the selection of materials, pays attention to fine production, stresses tradition, and emphasizes innovation, so it became famous in one fell swoop, and after several generations of careful management, it is quite influential in the minds of consumers.
Master Shen Guoxing recalled, "When Shen Ajin started with only a small storefront, doing small stir-fry to sell small old wine, there was a small store department selling cake dumplings next to it, with a salesman, and later the business became better and better, and the flow of people was also more, Shen Ajin bought the two floors, and only today's Shen Dacheng storefront. ”
Master Shen Guoxing talked about the history of Shen Dacheng ↓↓↓
Look at the status quo: note the taste of Shanghai style, shop more than 200 supermarkets...
The master also revealed that at present, Shen Dacheng operates a number of catering and a food processing factory, basically large supermarkets will have Shen Dacheng's counters, and there are more than 200 counters in the city's supermarkets and stores, providing Shanghai citizens with pastry foods with old Shanghai characteristics.
In recent years, Shanghai Shen Dacheng's financial operation has been good, and the income of employees has also increased year by year. In addition, Shen Dacheng also has the titles of "China Time-honored Brand" issued by the Ministry of Commerce of china and "Shanghai Famous Premium Store", "Spiritual Civilization Unit", "Assured Store", "Trustworthy Unit of Price Measurement", "Group Member of China Cuisine Association" and so on.
It is reported that since its inception, Shen Dacheng has never been relocated, only remodeled, from the original wooden structure to the current reinforced concrete structure, and the address of the main store has never changed.
Xiaobian feels that in fact, it is not important to change or not to renovate, and the taste that has not changed is the warmest food memory that Shen Dacheng brings to us. An old brand, a history of feelings, the taste of this memory is well preserved by this old brand, which accompanies the growth of generations of Shanghainese and has an irreplaceable position in its heart.
Talk about development: peer competition is not worried, coarse grain confectionery research and development...
On the basis of carrying forward the tradition, Shen Dacheng also spares no effort to carry out gastronomic innovation, Master Shen revealed that in order to attract more young consumer groups, in recent years, Shen Dacheng has successively launched several new products, there are coconut yellow pine cakes, which are pine cakes containing coconut butter milk powder. "The market of curd milk meat dumplings was quite successful, and the curd meat was also developed by myself, and the sales volume was very good, with a daily predetermined amount of more than a thousand pieces."
Shanghai Beach cake dumpling shop can be described as all over the streets, talking about the face of competition between these peers, in the view of Master Shen, will not cause the impact on the old brand, "Shen Dacheng pays attention to the selection of products, pays attention to fine production, employees often train, as long as the old brand does a good job in their own products, the production quality is well grasped, the quality is guaranteed, and the products are well known." ”
In addition, Master Shen also revealed that "we have never stopped the innovation plan of the old brand, considering that modern people pay more and more attention to health, from diet to work and rest to exercise, all of which are carried out in accordance with "health". In the future, we will be biased towards coarse grains and miscellaneous grains in terms of raw materials, and blood glutinous rice, black rice, and millet will be slowly integrated into our products, according to the needs of the market, inheriting the tradition and breaking through innovation at the same time. ”
Shanghai people understand that Shanghai, it is precisely because of the taste, story and feelings of the old brand that this city has a temperature. For the old Shanghainese, these old brands are indispensable culture, even deep-rooted habits.
In the editor's view, the times are developing rapidly, Shen Dacheng's "unique" delicacies are really enjoyed on the taste buds, inheriting 144 years of handicrafts, after several generations of painstaking integration, it is not easy.
Here, Xiaobian also hopes that Shen Dacheng can continue to adjust the pace of progress while inheriting history and culture, so that the old brand will continue to glow with new vitality, and bring more expectations and surprises to Shanghai's classic cuisine.