What to eat in Ningbo Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, "Ningshi Mooncake" retains the traditional taste of Ningbo. As far as taste is concerned, there are sweet, salty and salty, sweet as roses, jujube paste, sesame seeds and sugar, and salty as three fresh meat moon cakes and ham moon cakes; In terms of fillings, there are five kernels, red bean paste, rock sugar, sesame seeds, ham moon cakes and so on; According to the skin, there are three categories: pulp skin, mixed sugar skin and crispy skin; As far as vegetarian fillings are concerned, Ningshi vegetarian moon cakes have rare fillings such as corn paste, taro paste, chestnut paste and Ma Tishuang, while classic vegetarian fillings such as rose paste and mung bean paste have different tastes through special formula and baking process. Ning style meat moon cakes: ham moon cakes and three fresh meat moon cakes.

2. "Rice steamed bread" is a round stuffing-free food steamed with wet rice noodles of early rice, also called white steamed bread. In Ningbo dialect, the sound of "steamed bread" is the same as that of "full rice head". The white round rice steamed bread symbolizes the full moon. Rice steamed bread is a Mid-Autumn Festival food and gift for Ningbo people. Good taste, sweet but not greasy, smooth and sticky, accompanied by slightly sour wine flavor.

3. Water cakes, the custom of eating "water cakes" is popular in Zhenhai, Beilun and Xiangshan in the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Water cake" is a kind of cake made of white rice flour, also known as "water cake", "water cake" or "rice cake". "Water muffin" is named after its texture. In Ningbo dialect, "water pine old stove" means damp.

4, ducks pounce on taro, Ningbo folk proverb "duck bones and water cakes, don't wait until August 16". Stewed taro with duck meat is an essential dish in Ningbo Mid-Autumn Festival. "Cooked taro with duck bones", commonly known as "duck taro", is especially popular in Fenghua and other places. "Duck bone" refers to sesame old duck. Old ducks generally don't lay eggs after autumn and are suitable for cooking. And the old duck smells better. There are also young ducks, which use the famous Fenghua taro or taro seeds to make taro. The so-called "running through the three customs and six docks and eating Fenghua taro" means that Fenghua taro is unusual. Most people use taro with dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, ham and other ingredients, which can be fried and cooked.

5. Osmanthus fragrans, around the Mid-Autumn Festival, is the season when Osmanthus fragrans is fragrant. Many Ningbo people of the older generation have the habit of making osmanthus. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, osmanthus fragrance, people in this "Jin Xue world", to explore and taste sweet and delicious sweet osmanthus candy and osmanthus fried chestnut soup.