The Chongyang Festival is approaching, and this year's Chongyang Festival coincides with the National Day holiday. In the past few days, many of Shanghai's time-honored Chongyang cakes have been listed, with diverse tastes and good "appearance". Today, at the entrance of many old brands on Nanjing East Road, there are not only elderly people queuing up to buy Chongyang cakes, but also young people who come to buy Seasonal Foods such as Chongyang Cakes for the elders.
The history of Chongyang flower cake can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, and the meaning is first extended by ascending: people who cannot ascend to the heights taste Chongyang cakes, and the homophony of "cake" and "high" also symbolizes the blessing of "step by step". Chongyang cake is a traditional cake that the people like to eat during the Chongyang Festival. Chongyang Festival, carrying two boxes of Chongyang cakes to visit the elders in the family, is the tradition of many Shanghainese people.
The Xinya Cantonese Restaurant on Nanjing East Road is also a masterpiece in making Cantonese pastries and Haipai cake dumplings, and osmanthus cakes, Lunjiao cakes, strip cakes, double brewed dumplings, pine flower dumplings, etc. are sold out early every day. This year, Xinya launched the master's handmade Chongyang cake. "Today's seasonal market has become a position for various research and development competition, 'novel' filling varieties emerge in an endless stream, and in the face of the traditional Meaning of Chongyang, we still insist on traditional techniques, not curious, not flattering, but pay attention to the traditional Chongyang pastry 'appearance' innovation." Xinya master team leader said.
This year, Xinya launched the Chongyang cake with three colors and three flavors: red steamed red with red yeast rice juice, yellow concocted by Jishi powder, and natural green color of matcha powder, creating three colors of natural non-artificial pigments; the gang's characteristic black ocean crisp, the bean paste shoveled out of the Haimen Dahongpao red bean, with the "new net red" beibei pumpkin that many young people like, forming three different cores, and sprinkling northeast pine kernels, pumpkin seeds and Yunnan walnut kernels. In the selection of glutinous rice, a combination of Thai glutinous rice with a thicker sticky rice flavor and Thai japonica rice is used.
Not far away is Shen Dacheng, the cake dumplings in the window of the cake balls are neatly arranged: red bean cake taste soft glutinous, delicate bean paste, coconut pine nut Chongyang cake, sesame walnut Chongyang cake is a new product launched in the past two years, after increasing the pine nuts, walnuts, the taste is more abundant, by many elderly people like.
Shanghai cake dumplings are sweet, the original many young people dare not try, in recent years to be more suitable for modern people's health needs, many Shanghai long-established brands have reduced the proportion of oil and sugar in the cake balls, such as xinya Chongyang cake oil sugar is generally reduced by more than 20% than before. During the National Day, Xinya will also launch a banana flavored Chongyang cake, a Umi banana Chongyang cake made of fresh bananas and Yixing Umi, which has a sweet taste and young people will also like it.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Tang Ye Text Editor: Tang Ye