The severe cold of ice and snow cannot stop the people of Wuhan from pursuing the traditional New Year's flavor. On February 24th, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the crowd of people who bought stacked dumplings in front of the main store of Wuhan Wufangzhai, the "King of Rice Balls", lined up to buy stacked rice balls, and everyone wanted to draw a successful end to the Spring Festival with a bowl of authentic stacked rice balls.
In front of the gate of Wufangzhai, customers lined up to buy frozen rice balls, some of them bought more than a dozen bags of rice balls at a time, traditional black sesame rice balls, new burst rice balls and so on are very popular.
The stacked dumpling sales window on the right is more popular, and the queue crowd turns a few corners. In the transparent window, several masters kept stirring the rice ball machine, and boxes of stacked rice balls were constantly delivered to customers.
A customer who just bought two bags of rice balls told the introduction that although rice balls are no longer a seasonal food and can be eaten all year round, only handmade stacked rice balls "have that taste" during the Lantern Festival. Ms. Li, who works in Sichuan, said that the snow stopped today, so she and her family came to line up to bring friends in Sichuan to have a taste.
Wufangzhai glutinous rice balls are one of the traditional snacks in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and are known as the "King of Tangyuan". Li Jie, the intangible inheritor of Wufangzhai's glutinous rice ball production skills, introduced that every year on the eve of the Lantern Festival, Wufangzhai will launch a handmade "stacked glutinous rice ball", which is also the favorite old taste of Wuhan people's New Year's goods. In the past, stacked rice balls were rolled in bamboo dustpans, but now they are semi-mechanized, but they still take a long time to make.
This year, everyone's enthusiasm for buying stacked rice balls is even higher. Gong Xueping, the intangible inheritor of Wuhan Wufangzhai glutinous rice ball skills and the manager of Wuhan Wufangzhai Food, said that this year, Wufangzhai Wuhan head office deliberately increased its production capacity by 3%.
Starting from the morning of the ninth day of the first lunar month, the glutinous rice ball machine has been rotating for 150 hours", Li Jie, the intangible inheritor of Wuhan Wufangzhai glutinous rice ball skills, introduced that this year is the first time that Wufangzhai has produced stacked glutinous rice balls 24 hours a day. Approaching the Lantern Festival, the demand for stacked glutinous rice balls is greater. From February 18, the store will stop selling cooked food and start a 24-hour production mode, which will continue until 4 p.m. on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Every year, during the Wufangzhai Tangyuan Festival and the sale of stacked dumplings, a consumption boom of stacked dumplings has been set off in Wuhan and even Hubei and the whole country, and Wufangzhai will adhere to the tradition of selling stacked dumplings to meet the needs of the general public.