In northern China, there is a magical food that can sweep the big festivals, New Year's Day, Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the new year, the fifth day of the new year, the summer heat, the Chinese Valentine's Day, the beginning of winter, and the winter solstice...... You have to eat it even before you leave home!
Some netizens posted a video, saying [In the Northeast, you are the car at 8 o'clock in the morning, and you have to eat freshly cooked dumplings at home].
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The video struck a chord with the majority of northerners.
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Get on the car dumplings and get off the noodle refers to relatives and friends to eat dumplings before leaving home, and eat noodles when returning home to catch the wind, focusing on a long-distance person to miss the blessing and the expectation of reunion, many northern families may not have the attention to getting off the noodle, but must eat a dumpling before going out, and it is best to make a handmade package, in the process of making noodles, mixing stuffing, and making dumplings, full of love and reluctance and strong blessings incarnate into round dumplings.
It's not as delicious as dumplings|recipeshubs.com
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Where do dumplings come from?
Dumplings originated from the ancient "slot", which evolved from the "glaive-shaped wonton" from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. Initially, dumplings and wontons were indistinguishable from each other, after the Song Dynasty, gradually formed a "north loves dumplings and south eats wontons" food style, the Northern Song Dynasty "Qingming Riverside Map" is painted with food stalls selling slots.
In the Ming Dynasty, people made dumplings on New Year's Day to pray for longevity, and also wrapped coins in dumplings, believing that if they ate it, it would be auspicious and smooth for a whole year, and these customs have been followed to this day. Therefore, the cultural charm of dumplings is very thick.
Dumplings are easy, and everyone can use local materials to make a good table of dumplings. It is rich and thrifty by people, can be meat and vegetarian, meat and vegetarian combination, meat to take pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, fish, shrimp, shellfish, etc., vegetarian materials to take leeks, fennel, mushrooms, cabbage, green onions, etc., a small dumpling, can be wrapped into the four seasons of the scenery, mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, so how people do not love?
Fresh meat and cabbage dumplings, a poem of spring scenery|Sister Lele, a netizen of Douguo Food
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There are dumpling fillings all over the place
- Sauerkraut dumplings to relieve the nostalgia of the people of Northeast China
The hometown sauerkraut is the longing of every wandering Northeast person, because you really can't eat that taste in other places. The tender sauerkraut heart is chopped into a filling with pork belly and lard residue, and only the heavy fat can support the sauerkraut and the combination of meat and vegetables is just right.
Go home for the New Year, cook a pot of sauerkraut dumplings, bite it gently, the hot oil, the sour aroma goes straight to the nostrils, this mouthful of sauerkraut-filled dumplings is the year of the Northeast.
Sauerkraut dumplings|Picture worm creativity
- The old dumplings are unique Shenyang characteristics with stir-fried filling
Founded in the Qing Daoguang period, the old side dumplings are famous for their unique stuffing technology. His family's original soup filling, first fry the fat and lean meat in an oil pot, put the noodle sauce and pepper water and stir-fry in water, and then add seasonings and bone broth to simmer slowly, so that the meat filling and vegetarian filling are mixed well, and the dumplings are fragrant but not greasy, and the aftertaste is long.
Signature stir-fried stuffing and special ice flowers|youimg1.c-ctrip.com
- Fennel dumplings, Beijingers just like this bite
Fennel, which has a special fragrance, is the "muddy fragrance" that old Beijingers will never forget. Fennel, which loves to eat oil, is mixed with a lot of meat and oil to become plump and palatable. Pushing open the door, a strong fragrance greeted me, it was the smell of home.
Fennel dumplings|Douguo food netizen Mai Zi's mother
- Vegetarian dumplings, wrapped in the flavor of the New Year
Ordinary vegetarian stuffed dumplings, nothing more than a combination of cabbage vermicelli, eggs, tofu, mushrooms, etc., are fresh and delicious, but Tianjin people are different, they actually wrapped in steamed dumplings, and also served vegetarian dumplings to the Chinese New Year's Eve table.
Red powder skin and steamed buns are mixed with soy tofu (red bean curd), Chinese cabbage mung bean sprouts and fragrant dried fungus carrots have entered the field, and soy tofu, sesame oil and coriander are the finishing touches of this vegetarian filling, which is better than meat, no wonder it makes the delicious Tianjin people happy.
The sauce tofu dyed the filling red, and it should be dipped in laba vinegar to eat|The fat sister who is loved by netizens of Douguo Food Network
- Fish and meat dumplings, Shandong style of eating by the sea
The Jiaodong Peninsula is surrounded by mountains and seas, relying on the favorable time and place, Shandong people wrap all kinds of fish and meat into dumplings, blatantly showing off their freshness. In the rivers and lakes of fish dumplings, mackerel dumplings are the supreme Shaolin, cuttlefish dumplings are cutting-edge Wudang, and clams, sea intestines, and yellow croaker dumplings are post-secondary pies such as Emei Huashan Kongtong.
In the hospitable Shandong, a simple pairing of fresh fish with tender leeks and pork belly can easily capture a stranger who meets for the first time.
Mackerel dumplings with fresh eyebrows|Picture insect creativity
- Sour soup dumplings, eight hundred miles of Qinchuan into a bowl
Northerners eat dumplings and pay attention to the dumplings dipped in the seasoning, and the soup is on the side, but the Shaanxi people just soak the dumplings into the soup, and when they arrive in Xi'an, they must not miss a bowl of red and bright sour soup dumplings.
With specially boiled sweet vinegar and oil poured spicy seeds as the base, soy sauce, cooked beef (mutton) fat, sesame, shrimp skin, green onion, coriander, seaweed as the supplement, poured boiling dumpling soup into a sour soup, poured into the freshly cooked beef (mutton) dumplings, the unique sour soup dumplings practice the belief of "original soup into original food", and the flavor of Qinchuan is all in the bowl.
This soup is delicious enough|Douguo food netizen Liliumlys
- Zhong dumplings, this Sichuan flavor is really not spicy but sweet
As a northerner who is afraid of spicy, I refused the first time I saw Zhong Shui dumplings.
The white and flat dumplings were poured with a spoonful of red chili oil, fragrant and enchanting, and I dared to taste one, and found that the salty and spicy but wrapped in a trace of unexpected sweetness, and the sweet water surface that is also sweet and spicy has become my favorite Sichuan noodle dish.
Zhong Shui Dumplings|Picture Worm Creativity
- Crystal shrimp dumplings, revealing the delicacy of Guangdong
Further south, the dumplings become smaller and smaller, and the shrimp dumplings in Cantonese teahouses, like the sophisticated Cantonese people, are refined and delicious, and are transformed into dim sum rather than staple food.
With the clear noodles as the skin, the bamboo shoots, fresh shrimp and pork are filled, spread out in a small cage drawer, crystal clear, soft and glutinous and tender, dexterous and delicious, the mountains and Qinghai are wide in it.
Shrimp dumplings|Picture insect creativity
- Homemade dumplings are the most delicious
"Go out and go home to dumplings", the dumplings are wrapped in the thoughts of home. Their own dumplings are always the most delicious, and the family sits together, chopping the filling, stuffing, dough, kneading, rolling skin, wrapping dumplings, and cooking them in the pot. Making dumplings is actually a ritual, a social place for relatives and friends to sublimate their emotions, and we love dumplings as much as we love this hot life.