The bigger the crack, the better.
Red turtle kueh is being made.
Eating rice cakes during the New Year, the life expectancy is high. "Rice cakes, a traditional food, have a long history, and they are indispensable for sacrifices and gifts to relatives and friends. In addition to rice cakes, kueh also occupies an important position in Xiamen's New Year's snacks, and the good color of fried kueh steamed cakes during the Chinese New Year is deeply loved by the public.
Approaching the Spring Festival, cake cake has entered the sales season, sweet cake, salty cake, red turtle cake and other southern Fujian special cake cake cake are selling well, and customers come to buy in an endless stream. The merchant reminds that citizens in need had better book in advance so as not to miss the purchase time.
Rice cake and cake symbolize wealth and prosperity, and the bigger the hair, the deeper the crack, the better.
Next week is Chinese New Year's Eve, this week citizens have come to buy rice cakes, many people buy several kilograms at a time, some familiar even book 10 kilograms in advance, for fear of missing this sweet New Year's taste. Ms. Huang, the proprietress of an old cake cake shop, told reporters.
The shop is located in the Seventh Market near Datong Road. The reporter saw that the store was not large, and it was full of packaged brown sugar rice cakes and bowl cakes, exuding a rich glutinous rice fragrance. The owners, Mr. Lin and Ms. Huang, are constantly weighing and packing customers.
Ms. Huang said that every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, it is the busiest time for them, basically working 15 to 16 hours a day, "until Chinese New Year's Eve night." After the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, we will have to prepare for the next Jingtiangong and Lantern Festival. ”
Ms. Xu, a citizen, bought 10 kilograms of brown sugar rice cakes and 10 bowls of cakes in Mr. Lin's shop, "My family likes to eat sweet kueh (rice cakes) the most, which can be steamed, boiled, fried or baked, and the sliced sweet cakes are soaked in egg liquid, and then fried in a warm oil pot, which has a unique flavor." She told reporters that when it comes to the Chinese New Year, the children at home always urge her to buy sweet cakes, and they are worried about this mouthful of southern Fujian flavor, "I bought it home in advance and kept it in the refrigerator for twenty or thirty days, just enough to eat until the end of the New Year." ”
Ms. Ji, an old Xiamen native who lives on Siming West Road, booked a bowl cake early. "Fat cake (bowl cake) has the meaning of wealth and prosperity, and the bigger the cake and the deeper the crack, the better. She introduced that there are two colors of the bowl cake, the white one uses pure rice milk, and the brown snail meat bowl cake is named because there is a piece of core that looks like snail meat inside. "There is a slight difference in the taste of the two types of cakes, but they are both very popular."
In Xiamen's time-honored brand Jiawei and Huang Zehe, white sugar, brown sugar rice cake and salty kueh and other ancient flavors have become the "old Xiamen" rush to buy New Year's goods. "In previous years, until Chinese New Year's Eve, there were citizens who came early in the morning to line up, and when they came late, they had to wait an hour to buy them. Huang Zehe and the clerk Ms. Wu said that she suggested that citizens in need can book in advance. At present, the pre-order in the store, the public mostly chooses to pick up the goods around the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month.
Red turtle kueh can be sweet or salty, and you can make it at home.
In addition to rice cakes and bowl cakes, Xiamen people also have red turtle cakes on their Spring Festival tables. The hand-carved technique of turtle cake prints used to make red turtle cake cake has been included in the intangible cultural heritage.
It is not difficult to make red turtle cake, and many Xiamen people can make it at home. Ms. Ye, who runs a cake cake shop near the eighth market, said that red turtle kueh is mostly ground into rice milk with glutinous rice soaked overnight with rice, poured into a rice bag and tied tightly to remove water, and then taken out after being semi-dry, and then added magenta and formed into a ball, "Then, like making dumplings, knead the agent into a small piece of skin, wrap it in the filling, put it in the cake mark to flatten, print out the turtle mark, apply oil on the back and put it on the kueh leaves, bamboo leaves or banana leaves, and then put it in a steamer to steam it." ”
According to reports, according to personal taste, red turtle kueh can be sweet or salty, sweet bean paste, sesame seeds or peanuts, etc., salty meat and bamboo shoots.
Remind. Do not eat apples immediately after eating cake cake.
Although cakes and kueh have good taste and meaning, they should not be eaten too much. Yang Qingrong, a fourth-level health manager, said that they mostly use glutinous rice, which is very sticky, and eating too much at one time can easily cause indigestion, "and their calories are higher than that of rice of the same weight, and excessive consumption will make the calorie intake exceed the standard." ”
Chew slowly as you eat. Yang Qingrong reminded that patients with digestive diseases, the elderly and children should eat as little as possible, and diabetics should try not to eat. In addition, do not eat apples immediately after eating cake cake, preferably with an interval of 2 hours. Because minerals such as phosphorus in glutinous rice will combine with fruit acid in apples to produce indigestible substances, which can easily cause symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
Small recipes. Sliced fried rice cakes with egg liquid are more flavorful.
How to eat cake cake, Hokkien people also pay attention to it. Rice cakes (sweet cakes) can be cut directly and steamed. "But the sliced sticky egg is fried and eaten, and it tastes better. Mr. Lin, the owner of the cake cake, said that the fried rice cakes are sweet and delicious, blending the fragrance of eggs and the sweetness of sweet cakes, and will not be too tired. Fat cakes can also be sliced and baked, giving them a crispy texture.
Caitou kueh (salted kueh) is generally fried and eaten, but if steamed directly, it is too soft and tasteless. Mr. Lin said that another way to eat is to chop and soak the green garlic in early spring into soy sauce, and the fried cabbage cake is dipped in soy sauce and wrapped in some garlic, which is very refreshing and appetizing.
Text: Xiamen Evening News reporter Liu Jiaying).