Wontons, wontons, and chopsticks, many people can't tell the names of these three delicacies. In fact, they are originally three fruits on a branch, they are originally the same food, there is no need to distinguish . It's just that after being passed down to different regions, corresponding changes have been made according to different local eating habits, so that the fillings, eating methods and even names have changed, but they are still the same thing in the end.
Wonton is the most original name, and is still in use in most parts of the north, and it is also called that near Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. This is an ancient food. It is "Hunchuan". After writing the book, according to the rules of Chinese character creation, it was officially written as "wonton". At the beginning, wonton = dumpling, and it was only after the Tang Dynasty that the wonton and dumplings were gradually distinguished.
The biggest difference between wontons and dumplings in the north is: thin wonton skins, thick dumpling skins, less wonton fillings, dumplings with more fillings, only pork fillings for wontons, and various dumpling fillings.
The "bubble wonton" often eaten by northerners. The skin of the wonton is almost transparent and extremely thin. After being cooked, it floats on the soup surface like a small balloon. The soup is a broth made from bone broth. and other fresh ingredients, very few fillings, so little that you can taste the flavor but not the shape. What you eat is mainly a kind of flavor. It is not a problem to pack hundreds of wontons with a pound of meat stuffing. No one can eat wontons. If you are full, you don’t eat wontons to eat stuffing. Basically, you drink soup and eat noodles. In the eyes of northerners, the stuffing is dumplings.
is the name of the southwest region, why is called the sho? There is a saying that it is cooked quickly. In winter, when you cook a copy of the hand, put your hands into your sleeves, and you will be cooked after a while.There is also a saying that in the last step of the package, is closed on both sides to the middle , which means outflanking and closing.
Sichuan 's red oil shovel is more famous. The soup is different from the clear soup in the north. The fillings are thicker than the dumpling skin, which can better absorb the fragrant red oil.
Wonton is actually the Cantonese pronunciation of "wonton". Wontons are suddenly made finer when they arrive in Guangdong. The traditional filling of wontons is pork that is 30% fat and 70% thin, and the most popular and most consumed is the "high-end version": Shrimp + pork filling. Although Guangdong's wontons also pay attention to the thin skin and fresh soup, but unlike wontons, wontons are really filled with fillings.
Wonton's soup base is more particular, it will be cooked with earth fish , shrimp and pork bones, earth fish is a kind of flounder , the price is not expensive, but the taste is delicious, it is excellent for soup base, grilled The soup cooked by the fragrant earth fish has the flavor of Guangdong wonton.
Wontons are eaten with noodles, which is also a feature of Guangdong. It is the famous wonton noodles . The practice of this noodles is more particular. The noodles do not use water, only duck eggs and flour are used, and are repeatedly pressed with bamboo poles. Cheng, also known as "Bamboo Raising Noodles", is made of thin noodles with golden yellow and attractive, four wontons, one or two sides, this weight is called "Xirong", two bites, very satisfying.
If I had to choose from wontons, wontons, and chopsticks, I would choose wontons. I really can't resist the temptation of shrimp wontons, especially shrimp Cantonese wontons.The shrimp inside is particularly large, the seasoning of the stuffing can taste the natural fragrance, and the ratio of fat and thinness of the pork stuffing is just right.
I came home from get off work at night and wanted to eat wonton noodles. The wontons used "serious" shrimp Cantonese-style wontons. The noodles were not good enough, so I could only use ordinary noodles.
The soup base can still struggle a little bit. I use the soup base of boiled beef, add beef cubes, chicken powder, pepper powder, and shallots, and the taste is not bad.
The wontons and noodles are all cooked, first cook the noodles and then cook the wontons, put them into a bowl and pour the soup.
Eating such a bowl of wonton noodles at night is also full of happiness!
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