Regardless of the people in the north and south of the world, there will always be no obstacle to the communication of food. What kind of good feelings can be achieved by tasting food can make up for too many language deficiencies.
Therefore, many people who like to go out and play all over the country prefer to taste local food and feel the unique customs and customs. If you have been to Chaozhou and tasted brine goose meat and beef hot pot, the vitality that bursts out on the taste buds also makes many people experience the unique taste and vitality of Chaozhou.
In Chaozhou, since the Song Dynasty, there has been the custom of tasting tangyuan during the Lantern Festival, which is even more meaning of peace and auspiciousness and reunion. Tangyuan in the south is different from the north in many forms.
Especially in the Chaozhou area, there is a special traditional snack, a kind of tangyuan made of glutinous rice flour wrapped in filling, also known as duck mother twist.
Don't underestimate the bowl of tangyuan like a duck swimming in the water, which is full of Teochew people's unique views on home, and the Chaoshan area has been looking forward to reunion since ancient times.
There is a particularly interesting story about the duck mother twist in the Chaoshan region.
According to legend, there is a small shop in Chaozhou City that specializes in sweet soup. Once, a mr. teaching went to the sweet soup shop as usual to taste the sweet soup that could not be tired of eating, but this time, the owner of the shop brought out a bowl of dessert that Mr. Teaching had never seen before.
Floating in the bowl are a few balls that look like duck eggs, the appearance of the ball is particularly cute, the smell is even more sticky, bite on a bite, did not expect that there are sesame seeds, peanuts and other fillings, sticky and not sticky, especially delicious.
Such a taste has never been experienced by Mr. Teaching, and at this time, Mr. Teaching is taking a big bite of dessert that he has never eaten before and constantly praising it, saying that he will never forget such a delicious food in his life.
Later, when Mr. Teaching wanted to pay for the bill and leave, the owner of the shop said that he would not let Mr. Pay, only that he could go home and help him give himself a memorable name for this dessert.
While grinding ink and thinking, Mr. Li's mind constantly came up with the white balls in the boiling sweet soup half sinking and half floating, just like the spring flowers blooming one by one female ducks in the water up and down, and then Mr. named them duck mother twist.
In this way, the next day, Mr. Teaching sent the three words he had written to the shop owner. Since then, duck mother twist snacks have become popular in Chaozhou.
Like most pasta dishes, the mother-of-duck twisting method is simple and somewhat complicated. At the same time as the glutinous rice flour needs to be prepared, the corresponding filling should also be prepared.
The traditional mother duck twist is 4 grains in each bowl, and the filling in each duck twist is different. Clever Teochew people would mark different fillings with different duck mother twist shapes. The most popular duck twist fillings are mung bean filling, sesame sugar, red bean paste and taro puree.
In general, the glutinous rice flour is kneaded into a ball with appropriate warm water, a small part of the glutinous rice ball is boiled, and then kneaded together with other raw glutinous rice balls, and each glutinous rice ball is divided into small balls of 20 grams and wrapped in an appropriate amount of filling.
The difference from the northern tangyuan is that the duck twist does not need to be rounded when closing, but only needs to be directly rubbed at the closing place. Add sugar to the water in the pot, bring to a boil, and then put the mother duck twist in and cook for a minute.
In addition to the four cute balls in each bowl, Teochew people will also be equipped with lotus seeds, black fungus, papaya, red dates and other ingredients, which are particularly unforgettable when these ingredients are put together.
Therefore, the duck mother twist is one of the classic desserts in the Chaoshan region, and even people who do not like to eat desserts on weekdays will feel endless after tasting the duck mother twist.
Home will always be the place that Teochew people yearn for the most. Every year, the number of Chaozhou people who go out to study, work and look for better development is innumerable, and the expectations of parents and elders who stay at home for their children are also reflected in the duck mother twist.
In Chaozhou, every holiday, the husband and wife go home together to visit the elderly, many times, the father who is not good at words will carefully prepare a bowl of sweet and sweet duck mother twist for the little two, taking the intention of a hundred years of good union and happiness.
This is also a response to the saying: many unscrupulous parents express their endless blessings for their children through food. Compared with the tangyuan in the north, the duck mother twist that Teochew people often eat is more loved by people in normal times.
Under normal circumstances, people in the north will only taste the special festival food of Tangyuan'er in the days around the Lantern Festival. In the south, especially in the Teochew region, duck mother twisting has become a dessert often tasted by Teochew people today.
In order to better adapt to the tastes of young Teochew people, today's duck mother twist has added red beans, oat barley, pineapple and other ingredients to the original ingredients. Therefore, even in today's situation of so many types of food, duck mother twist is still deeply loved by Teochew youth.
If you have friends from Teochew, you will easily find that they have a special affection for this duck twist snack in their hometown, and almost every Teochew person grows up with the company of duck mother twist. Therefore, for Teochew people, duck mother twist is the taste of home.
Today, on Lianyang Street in Chenghai District, where Chaoshan snacks are very popular, there is a couple who run a duck mother twist dessert shop business that has been booming. Many locals are accustomed to making the mother-of-duck twist made by the couple as a daily must-eat dessert.
The owner of the shop is also accompanying his wife to inherit the culture of the family's duck mother twisting, and he has always believed that one day, the duck mother twisting can go out of Chaozhou to become a food that amazes the world, just like today's dumplings are a deep miss for the family for the Chinese people.
The lovely Teochew people have formed desserts into a unique local culture. Each round duck mother twist is also given a beautiful meaning by the Teochew people. In Chaozhou, elders have long been accustomed to making a bowl of sweet duck mother twists for their children to express their good wishes for the happiness of their children's lives.
For the Teochew people who once ran away from home and fled other countries, but have now formed their own unique culture, the duck mother twist is to tightly wrap the homesickness and affection of every Teochew person, just like every white duck mother twist in the sweet soup.
The white appearance is the simple and unpretentious appearance of teochew people, and the sweet filling like a duck mother twisting on the heart symbolizes the sweet nostalgia that every Teochew person puts in his heart. After all, the duck mother twist has also become an important inheritance of Teochew people's diet and customs.
Reference: "Food In All China"