31 years of history of Hong Kong's North and South rice dumpling store, selling a thousand dumplings a day, just to leave behind the human touch and old traditions

When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, it reminds me that when I was a kid, I would pack rice dumplings with my mom around Dragon Boat Festival. Growing up, Dragon Boat Festival many times are spent outside, either on the Dragon Boat Festival this day for breakfast, hurriedly steamed a rice dumplings to eat, catch the subway on the spot, this is even after a Dragon Boat Festival, it is too no sense of ceremony.

These years often run Guangzhou and Hong Kong business trip, found that Hong Kong's dumplings are quite delicious. Combined with the Guangdong Zhaoqing wrapped steamed rice dumplings more material, but also combined with the flavor of the rice dumplings in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai (Hong Kong quite a lot of ancestry Shanghai) to eat up a lot of flavor. This issue, taking advantage of the Dragon Boat Festival, talk to you about the story of Hong Kong dumplings.

Hong Kong is a city of immigrants, naturally, the dumplings are a blend of flavors from the north and south. And in Hong Kong's Central Wing Kat Street, there is a store opened more than 30 years of the North and South, called: Sam Yeung No. Food, from the name of the store can be seen is a typical Shanghai South store, but the sale of meat dumplings can be said to be around the neighborhood is well known, and even a lot of celebrities will come to help.

The dumplings sold are also very diverse, a synthesis of the North and South, not only Hong Kong's favorite local spouted rice dumplings, but also Shanghai Jiahu dumplings, Zhongshan's Ludu dumplings and so on, both sweet and salty, you can choose.

And in the Dragon Boat Festival period, there are as many as 15 or 16 types of dumplings, and selling a thousand dumplings a day is not a problem at all. Because the flavor is the taste of residential dumplings, captured the love of many white-collar workers in the Central and Upper Ring.

A fresh meat and salted egg dumplings, steamed for four or five hours, meat, juice and rice into one, eating a soft and sweet. A food flavor is correct, many times the details determine success or failure. And the details of the dumplings, depending on the dumplings on the coat: dumpling leaves.

Each kind of zongzong use zongzong leaves are not the same, bamboo leaves with water zongzong, the taste will emit a slight bamboo fragrance, dipped in honey to eat when the taste will be particularly good; and wrapped in steamed zongzong with lotus leaves, because wrapped in steamed zongzong inside the material, with lotus leaves will be wrapped in a more solid, and lotus leaves of the fragrance will not make wrapped in steamed zongzong feel the sense of greasiness; and some of the local zongzong, such as zhongshan's ludu zongzong, should be on the local materials, use the reed pocket zongzong, the use of the reed pocket zongzong. It is necessary to use the local materials, the use of reed pocket leaves in order to make, steamed out will have the aroma of reed pocket.

Talking about Zhongshan Ludu dumplings, it can be said that the store is a major feature. The store is a husband and wife store, the couple are Zhongshan people, so the store Zhongshan Ludu dumplings absolutely authentic, and package Ludu dumplings Ludu leaves are from the local Zhongshan brought.

Zhongshan Ludu dumplings may be many people have not eaten, it is a layer of meat layer of rice so put in, and then add a layer of salted egg yolks, and so on until stuffed. The rice should be local glutinous rice, plus big Dutch beans, cashews, black-eyed peas, peanuts and red beans mixed together; the meat should be fat and lean five-flower brisket, so that the meat will not be eaten on the greasy.

And the salted duck eggs are also the store's own pickled, so that the oil will be better out of the sand, can really be said to be full of ingredients. An authentic Zhongshan Ludu dumpling, stuffed with ingredients and steamed, weighs almost three pounds, which shows how rich and solid the ingredients are.

The other specialty of the store is the Shanghai dumplings. The glutinous rice used in the store's Shanghai rice dumplings will be mixed with soy sauce beforehand, and Jinhua ham and salted egg yolk will be added inside. When steamed, these dumplings have a single word: fragrant!

Being called "Fat Mom" by her neighbors, Mrs. Yuen is the owner of Sam Yeung No. Foods, and the former chef is a consultant, so she shows off her skills, not only with the dumplings, but also with home-cooked Shanghainese dishes such as Dongpo pork, drunken chicken and drunken pork knuckles, and hometown dishes such as stuffed pangolins, pangolins in sauce, and even the local Pottinger's Cake, which is very tasty and plentiful in the small North-South food store.

And the boss Yuan Zhanming, stalls have sold fish eggs, to Shandong restaurant to learn teacher, in Shanghai store has done the chef - before starting a business, the last stop is the famous Shanghai General Assembly. When there is no store, he invested in the opening of the preserved skin factory, his wife has been at home in Hollywood Road, steamed cake wrapped in rice dumplings to do the vegetarian goose, to get the nearby Kahan Street market to sell, before opening the store. This inside the hardship, only Yuan Sheng Yuan Mrs. only know.

The couple are both from Zhongshan, childhood sweethearts; after the opening of the store in the South, has always been the man in charge of the woman in charge, Mr. responsible for wholesale, delivery, Mrs. guard store, every day, together with the store, go home together. "I'm sure you'll have a problem with that when you're tired from work," said Mr. Coyly. "When the two of us talk back, he lets me off the hook more, because I'm a hothead," Mrs. Yuan continued. "It's all about the little things," she adds in a folksy tone, and Mr. Yuan laughs easily.

The couple's small store opened and closed at the same time; you provided the cooking and I provided the craftsmanship. Morning and evening together, came to the age of old age. Dumpling fragrance, store old, love in, are the quenching chain of time.