Luminous cup gossip soup balls

Tang tuan, in the name of the shape theory of the noodle ball, floating yuanzi, yuanzi, the name of the human festival has the lantern, with the surname taboo under the power of the tangyuan or powder fruit, it can be seen that there are many names of the soup dumplings. Like most Shanghainese, I used to call it Tang Tuan, or Yuanzi, and it was a bit awkward to pronounce "Tang Yuan" in Shanghainese. Perhaps the meaning of "soup" and "round" is not clear, not as good as "meat balls, fish balls"; or the two syllables of Shanghainese are not pleasant, not as charming as "soup dumplings", of course, it is still due to the fame of Ningbo soup dumplings.

Whenever the memories of Ningbo soup dumplings are told from the mother's hometown voice, there is always a special thought; whenever I taste the soup dumplings made by my family, there is always a full sense of experience, sense of gain and happiness. Although grandpa has come to the beach as early as the grandfather's generation, eating soup dumplings on the first day of the first month has always been the family's constant insistence. In fact, many Shanghainese from Ningbo have a unique endowment in the cultural inheritance of Jiangnan snack soup dumplings, and women can wrap up the ningbo soup dumplings with white jade-like grains, fragrant fragrance, and pure taste in their mouths.

The soup dumplings are delicious, because of the choice of ingredients, the process of kung fu, and the cooking process at a glance, which may be the use of ingenuity, and only then can there be the beauty of the soup dumplings. I clearly remember that whenever the big Chinese New Year's Eve, the stone mill was particularly busy, and the uncle and aunt of the east family, including some neighbors who were not Ningbo villagers in the alley, would come to borrow the stone mill. Grinding glutinous rice procedure is very refreshing, the first day of water immersion glutinous rice, stone grinding when the slide mouth to put the powder basin, some people use foreign flour bags (after grinding powder to drain some water, so there is a "hanging pulp powder"). Water mill glutinous rice is a technical job but also need to have arm strength, some neighbors when the family will first try the humidity of glutinous rice infiltration, dip in the viscosity of grinding a few circles of powder mud, aim at the wetness of the powder flow, and then let the small circle that has been eager to try, after dozens of circles, the arm is sore, and the children on the side will help each other and show their arm strength.

That year I volunteered to replace my sister, but unexpectedly made a big mistake, the first grinding was still smooth, a few laps down the hand became heavy, I ingeniously wanted to intersect with the reverse time, may be good to offset and add strength, so I raised my hand to turn, but the grinding stone broke away from the grinding plate, crashed the exit bend...

Soup dough powder has requirements, lard sesame ratio kneading directly affects the taste, my family division of labor is clear, the little sister is more careful on the plate oil and sesame kneading, soup dumpling stuffing heart did not eat a trace of oil tendons. Of course, the soup dumplings are more exquisite under the pot, Tatsumi is not good, Tatsumi is fat and floating, sticky to the bottom of the pan is not ok, and boiling the stuffed soup is even worse. Whenever I take a bowl of soup dumplings from my eldest sister, the soup water is clear and not mixed, and the soup balls are white and clean.

Why is Ningbo soup dumplings not tired of eating? I understand: strong sense of ceremony, Ningbo people eat soup dumplings on the first day of the first month of the new year, with the intention of the beginning of the New Year, the family reunion and "hot and rolling", everything is enthusiastic, the pile pile is perfect; the operation is exquisite, the water mill glutinous rice hanging pulp is drained, the plate oil is torn fine white sugar hanging taste sesame coloring, the fingers are staggered black and white when wrapping; the sense of gain is large, the grains are evenly weighed and the petite lard soup balls can taste 8 pieces of 10 pieces, or even 12 pieces (the smaller the more flavorful, the larger the full stomach fast), so that you have a slow kung fu to experience the happiness of glutinous fragrance, filling oil hot but not greasy.

Ningbo "tank duck dog" soup dumplings, its brand effect is a must, the innovative story of Haipai QiaoJiazha soup dumplings is popular among the population. When the time came to sell soup dumplings, what should I do with the remaining soup dumplings? Entrepreneurs will roll the soup balls on a layer of bean paste powder, so that the soup balls can be eaten dry, the color and taste have changed, but also prolonged the life of the soup balls, the pain points in the innovative "beating sand round" new products, inherited so far, has created the reputation of Haipai dim sum, not long ago "into the Expo" has become a sought-after goods.

Ningbo tangtang itself has a prominent reputation and has endured for a long time, and also benefits from new products derived from the soup dumplings, such as wine-stuffed soup fruits, double-brewed dumplings, orange red cakes, etc. The cultural innovation and development of Haipai Dim Sum is improving the happiness of citizens with market demand, creating demand, meeting demand, and enriching demand. (Chen Yonghu)