Oriental Network reporter Cheng Qi reported on August 17: The Mid-Autumn Festival has not arrived, and moon cakes go first. This year, a number of time-honored mooncakes collectively "debuted": the Chinese time-honored brand Shanghai Dexing Pavilion launched the "salty and sweet double file" scallion beef mooncake and nut rose mooncake for the first time, and also co-branded the "Black Gold Fresh Meat Mooncake" with Yayi for the first time, so that foreign diners also lined up for a long time; Songhelou, who is over 260 years old, is deeply involved in intangible cultural heritage, and for the first time held hands with Zou Yingzi, the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Suzhou embroidery, so that Suzhou embroidery can also jump on the tip of the tongue.
Caption: Chinese and foreign diners come to smell the fragrance and line up to buy mooncakes with fresh meat bursting sauce
Fresh meat mooncakes that burst with juice are back in limited supply in the "Black Gold Edition".
Recently, the fresh meat mooncake series of Shanghai Dexing Restaurant, a time-honored Chinese brand, was launched. Every year during the peak of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be a long queue of fresh meat mooncakes with bursting sauce this year, sticking to the classic recipe, crispy and fluffy skin wrapped with a full amount of pork filling, freshly baked and sold every day, you can also feel the unique taste of bursting juice when you taste it hot, which is the first choice for diners who love traditional tastes.
The reporter found that this year, in addition to the classic flavors, there are two new flavors: Shanghai Dexing Pavilion will be good at the local flavor and fresh meat moon cakes combined to launch green onion beef moon cakes, people who like to eat sweet can choose the newly launched nut rose moon cakes.
Caption: Shanghai Dexing Pavilion launched scallion beef mooncakes this year
According to Zhang Jian, the inheritor of the traditional cooking skills of the Benbang cuisine of Shanghai Dexing Restaurant, the scallion beef mooncake is mainly based on beef lin, with less delicate tendons, and after repeated tests, the current seasoning ratio is determined, and an appropriate amount of scallion oil is added to the filling, so that you can feel the unique taste of beef and the aroma of scallion oil when eating. "I quite like scallion beef, last time I happened to pass by and bought one to pad my stomach, but I didn't expect it to be particularly delicious, so I came to buy a box today." Ms. Cheng, a customer, said she liked the time-honored innovation, "The taste is good, the quality is good, and the price is affordable." ”
Caption: Foreign tourists like the fresh meat mooncakes of Shanghai Dexing Pavilion after tasting them
The nut rose mooncake is made with more ingredients: Yunnan rose sauce, winter melon sugar, melon seeds, raisins, walnut kernels, kumquats, pine nuts...... Nearly ten kinds of ingredients make the mooncake not only fragrant, but also delicious with the sweet and sour fruity flavor of kumquat and raisins. The sweet mooncakes are particularly favored by foreign friends, and Andrew and his friends from Italy tasted it for the first time and said that the praline rose mooncakes were unexpectedly delicious, and they were also surprised to feel the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival culture in this way.
Caption: Shanghai Dexing Pavilion × Yayi launched the "black gold version" of fresh meat mooncakes
Zhang Jian revealed that they also had a surprise in mid-August - Shanghai Dexing Pavilion joined hands with Yayi for the first time to launch the "black gold version" of fresh meat mooncakes with sauce. What sparks will collide between the black and gold fashion color scheme and the traditional fresh meat mooncake? Zhang Jian introduced: "A little cuttlefish juice is added to the puff pastry, and the filling is still a classic ratio. When developing this new product, we all joked that the high temperature days in Shanghai made the mooncakes 'tanned', and it looked black and not slippery, but the taste was absolutely guaranteed. ”
It is reported that at present, the fresh meat mooncake series of Shanghai Dexing Pavilion has been supplied simultaneously in all stores and takeaway platforms. In order to make it easier for diners from other places to taste the old taste of Shanghai, the Old Town God's Temple Tmall flagship store has also launched a frozen fresh meat mooncake that can be made in an air fryer, so that customers can avoid the peak of the Mid-Autumn Festival and buy it in advance.
Intangible cultural heritage cross-border co-branding enlargement move launched a new Chinese art mooncake for the first time
Songhelou, a time-honored Chinese brand with a history of more than 260 years, has "enlarged its move" in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year: for the first time, it has joined hands with Zou Yingzi, a master of Chinese arts and crafts and an intangible inheritor of Suzhou embroidery, to make Suzhou embroidery leap to the tip of the tongue; Exploring the aesthetics of oriental life with the Suzhou Museum's "Five Degrees of Plum Blossoms", integrating the "ideal of the world" with the Mid-Autumn Festival culture, making mooncakes more valuable for artistic appreciation, not only delicious.
Suzhou embroidery is the general name of embroidery products in Suzhou, as one of the four famous embroidery, national intangible cultural heritage, has always been known for "fine, fine, elegant and clean". "Lucid Waters and Lush Mountains are Gold and Silver Mountains" is a huge embroidery piece carefully embroidered by nearly 100 embroiderers in Zou Yingzi and his studio after two years, which contains Suzhou flower cinnamon, golden cinnamon and silver cinnamon, echoing the atmosphere of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, the gift box is named "Golden Cinnamon Fuyu", which symbolizes the beautiful meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Caption: Songhelou × Suzhou embroidery intangible cultural heritage inheritor launched the "Golden Cinnamon Fuyu" Mid-Autumn Festival gift box
The interior design is more ingenious: with the opening of the box, "Lucid Water and Green Mountains are Gold and Silver Mountains" slowly comes into view with the scenery of lakes and mountains, and the tea plantation, which integrates calligraphy, fine brush painting, landscape painting, seal seal and other arts, which is a feast for the eyes. The included heroic embroidery experience package allows people to embroider a piece of "golden cinnamon Fuyu" according to the box pattern, and at the same time taste traditional dim sum and appreciate art masterpieces, you can also experience the fun of intangible cultural heritage Suzhou embroidery.
At the same time, this year's fifth cooperation between Songhe Tower and Suzhou Museum is also highly anticipated. They take the Ming Dynasty poet Wang Wei's "Xingshu Poetry Volume" in the "Bright Moon Leisurely, White Clouds at Ease, Don't Be the Idle World in the World" as the theme, and use the chic and wanton poetry of the ancients to express the "human ideals" of contemporary people, and use simple and bright design to give the "Bright Moon Leisurely" Mid-Autumn Festival gift box a cultural connotation worth savoring.
The moon cakes inside are also very special: the ink style of the half-mountain and half-water and the eight calligraphy fonts of "bright moon, leisurely, white clouds, and freedom" engraved on the cake surface make every bite more pleasing to the eye.
Caption: Songhe Tower × Suzhou Museum launched the "Bright Moon Leisurely" moon cake gift box
In terms of mooncake flavors, Songhelou also innovated this year, with many emerging flavors such as Poria oatmeal puree, bean paste avocado walnut, black Wuzhen nuts, light milk Guanyin Liuxin, and lime cheese Liuxin combined with traditional egg yolk lotus paste, red bean paste, five kernels and other flavors, fully taking care of the preferences of customers of different ages and tastes. At present, the Songhelou Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake gift box has been sold on major online mainstream shopping platforms, as well as offline Songhelou and Songhelou noodle restaurants across the country.