If you ask Suzhou people, where is the best Xiaolongbao, they usually say that Wuxi is the best. If you ask Wuxi people where Xiaolongbao is the best, they will hesitate and ask you, can you eat sweet food?
In the past ten years, the spicy restaurant category has expanded rapidly, making the main sweet dishes category increasingly weak. There are very few sweet-eating areas in China, even if they are skilled and have a long history of culture. There is no spicy flavor, no exaggeration in the decoration, and there is no internet voice.
Wuxi's Xiaolongbao seasoning is very sweet (the meat filling and sugar are more than 4% of the total weight of the food), and locals dare not recommend it to friends from other places. Most old stores do not do brand upgrades, and young people are discussing less and less.
But I think that the recipe and production technology of Wuxi's Xiaolongbao, every one I have eaten, is better than the famous ones in Shanghai, and is more powerful than the most powerful Shengzhou Xiaolongbao , not to mention other regions in China.
There are several impressive Xiaolongbao
Xishengyuan
The first Wuxi Xiaolongbao , a female netizen who has known me for a long time took me there. The moisture content of the dough is about 50%, and the lean meat ratio of the meat filling exceeds 60%. The meat filling is very soft and does not dissipate or lose its shape. The soup is clear, sweet but not greasy. When I returned to Shenzhen, I packed 30 pieces, and later asked my friend to send me 30 pieces. Yes, they sell it by one, not by one. It is not a freshly wrapped one. Steam it and put it there, order it and then heat it again. But the taste is still very good, and the fermented noodles cannot be used like this. It is OK to use dead noodles , but you also need to control the firepower.
wonton skin is smooth and tough, and the soy sauce seems to be cooked, just right in viscosity.
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is packaged and steamed. The serving time is 11 minutes. It has been steamed and the firepower is not controlled well. The weight of the noodles and the meat filling ratio are about 1:1.75. The soup has a chicken flavor, and the fresh sweetness is supported by the grease, which is just right.
is very good in decoration, with good material texture and good light. Good workwear texture.
0 The female colleague who went with me took a photo for 20 minutes. After eating two bites, she said she was so sweet that she was so nervous, so she kept playing with her mobile phone. The temperature of the
noodles is very good, the scallion oil is very clear, but the scallion smell is a little light. The wontons are very sufficient, the meat filling is delicate, and the soup base is relatively thin.
Fule wonton
The decoration is already very old and the service model is more quaint. I took the ticket to the kitchen door to collect it. The aunts were all busy, so I had to rush in to the kitchen to serve the dishes.
Local friends came a bowl of red soup spicy wontons, and I came a sweet soy sauce mixed wontons. He said, "Oh, you have to come to eat this restaurant so sweet, I'm tired of it."
I asked, are you still from Wuxi?
Xiaolongbao has a slightly higher proportion of fatty meat filling, and the proportion of lily jelly in the soup is also relatively high, which has a heavy feeling similar to that of a Shanghai soup dumpling, so there is also more pepper. It is slightly spicy when you enter the mouth, and then it is full and sweet, with the fresh aroma of meat aftertaste.
wonton skin tastes very similar to Xishengyuan. I don’t know if it is a supplier. The taste of soy sauce is slightly different and the fat is heavier. The whole bowl can smell a faint lard smell.
Sweet diet taste is in decline
That night I arrived in Wuxi, my friend took me to have a midnight snack. At first glance, cameo appearance, Xiangxi small string.
I asked why I took me to eat this. He said, this is my favorite late-night snack club in Wuxi.
Why don’t you take me to a Wuxi-style late-night snack?
——Wuxi didn’t have any late-night snacks, and restaurants closed very early. Late snacks are nothing more than barbecue hotpot crayfish, which are all foreign dishes.
I asked my colleagues if there are any local Wuxi cuisine that has expanded to external areas. They said that Wuxi cuisine is very close to Suzhou cuisine. Everyone’s idea is Subang cuisine , Suxi cuisine. The farthest expansion across provinces is to go to Shanghai. "Everyone can’t get used to such sweetness in other places."
When I said at the dinner party that I was from Changsha, my colleagues present suddenly became active, "Your Changsha's catering promotion has been doing very well recently", "Look at how popular Hunan cuisine comes to us."
——"We went to Changsha to inspect. Oh, the design is done well and the marketing is done well, and the products are also great!"
In short, Wuxi does not have the confidence to export strong culture in developed regions.
is also eastern coastal area . People in some places have never left the county town, so they can tell me, "The food here is the best in the country." Wuxi people are too humble, and most of the time they promote food culture, they have to be brainless and arrogant.
Sweet dishes do have an appreciation threshold
My friend sent me to the airport and had my last Wuxi dish.
When the rice cakes with pine nut beef come up, the taste is appropriate, the aroma is pleasant, and the sweetness is beautiful.
When the plum juice strips came up, I felt the sweet and sour and sour, very satisfied.
When I started eating assorted gluten, I felt that the sugar and oil were mixed together, and I couldn’t afford to eat. I was so confused when I ate three dishes together. The sweetened vegetables get stronger and stronger as they reach the back, and there is too much sugar in their stomach, which makes them feel bad.
Fortunately, I got Caotou and a piece of steamed white fish, and I didn’t put chopsticks on the previous three dishes.
A friend asked, didn’t you say that you were very good at eating sweet dishes? Why can't you eat anymore?
I said, I have a small appetite, these dishes are enough for me to eat all day.
