Tea is the national drink of the Chinese nation, it originated in Shennong, smelled in Lu Zhougong, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and was indiscriminately coveted in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Refreshments are a type of dim sum developed during the tasting of tea. The refreshments are fine and beautiful, the taste is diverse, the shape is small, the amount is small, the quality is excellent, and the variety is rich, which is the main body of the tea food.
Refreshments are both a fruity and a flavor carrier. It has a rich connotation, and in the long process of development, many refreshment varieties with different types and styles of refreshments have been formed. In the collocation with tea, pay attention to the harmonious collocation of tea and tea, pay attention to the flavor effect of tea, attach importance to the regional habits of tea, reflect the cultural connotation of tea and other factors, thus creating the art of matching tea and tea in China.
Pay attention to the flavor effect of refreshments
Refreshments should be adapted to tea properties
Drinking tea in leisure time, the principle of matching tea can be summarized as a small recipe, that is, "sweet with green, sour with red, melon seeds with oolong". The so-called sweet with green: that is, sweets with green tea to drink, such as with a variety of sweet cakes, pineapple crisps and other green tea; Acid with red: that is, sour foods with black tea to drink, such as with fruits, lemon slices, preserves and other black tea; Melon seeds with oolong: that is, salty food with oolong tea to drink, such as with melon seeds, peanut rice, olives and other oolong tea.
Refreshments should be ornamental
Compared with traditional dim sum, the tea is more exquisitely made, paying attention to the color and shape of the refreshment, and paying attention to the ornamentality of the refreshment.
For example: crystal butterfly dumplings, want to speak shyly crystal clear, after the dumplings are steamed, quickly insert the shark fin fin needle made of "butterfly whiskers", but the wonderful portrait, it is a wonderful pen. The vegan filling is colorful through the transparent thin skin, which is pleasing to the eye; Another example: traditional refreshment shrimp dumplings in a small and exquisite bamboo steamer crystal clear, fresh shrimp exposed shy pink, faintly visible, the entrance is flexible and elastic, because the filling added horseshoe mud into it, so in the shrimp slippery room left crisp, it seems to be especially for tea customers to retain the spring; On the basis of fresh shrimp dumplings, the innovative "green white rabbit dumplings" use lean meat, fresh shrimp and other fillings, change into the shape of a small white rabbit, use ham meat as an eye, and then use coriander to pad the bottom plate, like a group of small white rabbits playing in the grass...
Refreshments should be savoury
The taste of refreshments focuses on chewing slowly and tasting them carefully, so as a refreshment, it should be extremely delicious. For example, "Lychee Backgammon" is a refreshment made of lychee black tea soup mixed with horseshoe powder, red and white, layered on top of each other.
First, a part of the tea soup, horseshoe powder, sugar and condensed milk are mixed to make a milk paste, and the remaining tea soup is boiled with sugar and powder pulp into a tea soup paste, and the two pastes are steamed in layers, and then frozen and engraved into various shapes with a mold. Chewed, cool, light and elegant lychee black tea aroma lingers in the mouth, accompanied by a cup of black tea, the aftertaste is long.
Another example: durian puff pastry, its puff pastry is as thin as a cicada wing, the surface is slightly brushed with oil, sprinkled with a few sesame seeds, gently bite open the outer thin shell, just like eating a newly peeled durian, durian is unexpected, the rich fragrance on the tip of the tongue, this durian is just the magic of durian crisp.
The Dragon Ball Fragrant Hemp Roll, which is made of dragon ball tea leaves, is made by wrapping lean meat, shrimp, carrots and other fillings with glutinous rice skin into a "day" shape, and then sweeping egg yolks, sesame seeds and dragon ball flower tea leaves, and frying them in a pot until golden brown; The tea leaves are inlaid on the outer crust, dotted with stars, crisp and fragile, and make people's lips and teeth stay fragrant.
Refreshments should be diverse
There are many kinds of refreshments in China and their tastes are diverse. As far as local flavors are concerned, China has the Jinglu flavor and northwest flavor of the Yellow River Basin, the Suyang flavor and Sichuan-Xiang flavor of the Yangtze River Basin, the Cantonese and Fujian flavors of the Pearl River Basin, etc., in addition, there are northeast, Yunnan- Guizhou, Eyu and various ethnic flavors of dim sum.
Under the general guiding principle of "dry and thin collocation, variety of tastes", you can choose any number of traditional dim sum such as spring rolls, pot stickers, dumplings, roasted sales, steamed buns, soup dumplings, buns, homemade cakes, white fungus soup, etc., and you can also use the varieties of refreshments that are innovative due to the different varieties of tea.
For example, tea jelly is made by carefully blending jelly into 4 different flavors of tea (black tea, green tea, jasmine tea, oolong tea), and does not add pigments, preservatives, unique taste, is a pure natural health food. In addition, there are tea melon seeds, tea milk candy and so on.