Jinhu Rice Dumplings Introduction
The owner, Li Huijing, started running a meat dumpling business by chance. She often made dumplings for her child, who loved to eat them. Due to their authentic taste, she began selling them on the recommendation of neighbors, initially allowing them to pick up from her home, and later setting up a stall at the Kouhu Market. "Jinhukou Meat Dumplings" are wrapped in bamboo leaves, using long glutinous rice. The filling includes dried shrimp, pickled vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes, salted duck egg yolk, and pork. The preparation method involves chopping pork shoulder into pieces and frying them, then adding oyster sauce, rice wine, and special seasonings (without artificial flavors) and simmering for one hour. The dried shrimp is cleaned and fried; the mushrooms are simmered in a special marinade for flavor; the potatoes are stewed with a special sauce; and the glutinous rice is stir-fried with marinade, mixed with the pickled vegetables, potatoes, and dried shrimp. The simmered meat, mushrooms, salted duck egg yolk, and glutinous rice are mixed together and wrapped in bamboo leaves before being boiled until cooked. Li Huijing noted that the treatment of glutinous rice differs between new and old types; new glutinous rice requires a shorter soaking time and cooks in about 30 to 55 minutes, while old glutinous rice requires longer soaking and cooking times, approximately 1 to 65 minutes. This is purely based on experience. The characteristics of Haikou Meat Dumplings...
