Jinhu Rice Dumplings Introduction
The owner, Li Huijing, started her business of selling meat rice dumplings by chance. Because her child loved rice dumplings, she often made them for her child. Due to their authentic taste, neighbors recommended her to start selling them. Initially, she offered them for pick up at home and later set up a stall at the Kouhu Market. "Jinhou Meat Rice Dumplings" are wrapped in bamboo leaves, using glutinous rice, with fillings including dried shrimp, pickled vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes, salted duck egg yolks, and pork. The preparation method involves cutting pork shoulder into pieces, frying them, and then simmering with oyster sauce, rice wine, and special seasonings (without any flavoring) for one hour. Dried shrimp is cleaned and fried; mushrooms are cooked in a special braising sauce to absorb the flavor; potatoes are simmered until tender in a special braising sauce; glutinous rice is stir-fried with braising sauce, mixed with pickled vegetables, potatoes, and dried shrimp. The simmered pork, mushrooms, salted duck egg yolks, and glutinous rice are mixed together, then wrapped in bamboo leaves and boiled until cooked. Li Huijing notes that there is a difference in handling new and old glutinous rice: new glutinous rice requires a shorter soaking and cooking time, about 30 to 55 minutes, while old glutinous rice requires a longer soaking and cooking time, about 60 to 65 minutes. This is based purely on experience. The characteristic of Haikou rice dumplings is the addition of pickled vegetables, while the main feature of "Jinhou Meat Rice Dumplings" is the simmered pork. "Jinhou Meat Rice Dumplings" only sell meat dumplings, not vegetable dumplings. Due to...
