The Chaoshan people call it "millet". In the Chaoshan area, there are various "millets", such as fresh shrimp millet, emerald millet, cloth bag millet, fish skin millet, cabbage millet and so on. Some of these varieties are made of flour eggs, some are made of fresh fish, and some are made of vegetables. Chaoshan millet has its own unique place, its main ingredient meat is less and more auxiliary materials, such as vegetables, tofu and other ingredients are more proportionate. Due to the large number of seafood in the Chaoshan area, Chaoshan millet also uses fresh fish, shrimp and other raw materials.
It is a popular dim sum snack, which is listed as a delicacy everywhere and is more famous than wontons. However, in terms of its history, the burning and selling is not as good as the wontons, because the wontons were recorded in the Shang Dynasty, and the burning and selling was not recorded until the Qing Dynasty's "Xiangqiao Leaning Record".
Late rice
Burnt selling, in the Qing Dynasty called "slightly wheat". During the Qianlong period, there was a verse that "a little wheat wontons are lined up on the plate, and the new cinnamon powder is a good soup ball". Because the wheat is slightly shaped like a white flower blooming on the wheat, some people call it "roasted wheat", and some people call it "burnt selling". "Roasted wheat" is a staple food of the people in Beijing, the earliest roasted wheat restaurant, opened in 1738 (the third year of the Qianlong Qing Dynasty). It is said that on the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar in the third year of qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor went to Tongzhou to visit Beijing privately, and when he went to Qianmen Avenue, he saw that all the shops were closed, only this small hotel was still open, and the lights were bright, so Qianlong entered the store and drank wine, ate snacks, and chatted with the treasurer while eating, asking what the name of the shop was. When he heard that there was no name yet, he said that all the shops in Kyoto were closed for the year, but your one was still open, so he named it "All in One Place" and left. After a few days, several officials brought a plaque, painted with gold, finely carved, surrounded by tiger head lace, and the three golden characters in the middle of "all in one place" were dazzling. The eunuch said it was "Long live the gift". Since then, "All in One Place" has had this golden signboard, and the business has become more and more prosperous. This old shop with a history of more than 200 years is still famous for its snack "three fresh roasted wheat", and it is still in Qianmen Street in Beijing.
The food of "roasted wheat" is called "roasted sale" in the south, especially in Guangdong, it is also called "Shoumai". "Burnt" and "supper", "wheat" and "sell" homophonous, the original Guangzhou was the earliest called "supper sale", taking its meaning to specialize in the supply of supper snacks. Later, it was only in the form of early operation, which was called "burning and selling".
There are many varieties of roasted and sold, which are named after the filling, such as Hangzhou has lamb roasted for sale, Anhui has duck oil for sale, Guangzhou has crab meat dried for sale, Yaozhu dry roast for sale, pork liver for sale, ribs for sale, beef for sale and other different varieties of roasting.
From "slightly wheat" and "roasted wheat" in Beijing, to "supper selling" and "burning wheat" in Guangzhou, until the "millet" in Chaoshan are all harmonic sounds.