The traditional food in Beijing --- Steam and Cook

As I said on the last blog, there are several kinds of traditional food in Beijing. Today I'm going to talk about The Steam and Cook genre of the traditional food in Beijing.


Based on my opinion, I think the symbol of the steam and cook food of traditional food in Beijing is Dumplings or 饺子 in Chinese.

















As you can see, there are variety types of dumplings. And as I said on the previous blog, each traditional food has their different stories and meaning behind it. For Dumplings, it was looks like Chinese money in the past. It represent if you eat a lot at the last day of the previous year and eat at the first day of this year, then you will get more money.

This is the picture of Chinese currency in the past.

Pretty shiny huh?



Making dumpling was not easy for the first time people, here is a video of how to make dumplings (English version) click here.


Beside of the dumplings, there are more steam and cook food for traditional food in Beijing. There are:

This is called Royal Wotou (Steamed Corn Bun)

Le Cha (noodles)

Flower Cake (The most beautiful hand craft cake I had ever seen in China)

Basically, the steam and cook food mostly were made by wheat flour, but most of them are made by hand.

In the next blog, I will introduce the Hu Tong, which is a old street most locate in Beijing. It is the original place of Old Beijing, it is still exist nowadays, because it is a symbol of both Old Beijing Culture and the tradition food of Beijing.

See you next time!!!
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Work Cited:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BklMAHxFaow