Recommended Dumplings
Every Winter Solstice, dumpling restaurants are crowed with people like a pot crowded with dumplings. As the saying goes, “laying down is the most comfortable, and the dumpling is the most delicious.” The dumpling is very popular on the Winter Solstice, when the custom in Beijing is to “have dumplings on the Winter Solstice and noodles on the Summer Solstice.” In addition, it is said that with the dynamic integration of meat and vegetables, dumplings are suitable for the elderly, and very nutritious.

Several delicious dumplings are recommended here to warm your ears (whose shape is like that of the dumpling) and stomach in the winter.

First, Pork and Cabbage Dumplings:

Reasons for recommendation: It is simple and delicious. The cabbage dumplings with thin skin and abundant filling taste succulent. Taking the Cabbage Dumplings is just like stepping on the snow in the winter night, common, real and comfortable.

Recommended restaurant: Huifeng Dumpling House

The handmade Pork and Cabbage Dumpling of Huifeng Dumpling House is very popular. The cabbages are from Jiaodong, whose cabbage is very famous in China. The filling is made from the outer leaves of the second layers of the cabbage, and the meat with 70 percent lean and 30 percent fat pork from the bottom of the pig, with ginger juice, oil and 10 other spices. Every dumpling is made with exactly 5 pleats, for it is relevant to the taste: if the pleats are too many, then the dumpling will be stiff and hard to swallow; if too few, there is nothing to chew.

Second, duck tongue dumplings

Reasons for recommendation: unique taste

Recommended restaurant: Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant

There are two kinds of duck dumplings at Quanjude: duck heart dumplings and duck tongue dumplings. Pure duck heart or duck tongue is not delicious. Therefore, when making the filling, the duck meat should be kept outside. The heart and the tongue are both small parts of the duck, so the dumplings with that stuffing must be delicate. It is also very nutritious, with high protein content, low fat content, and an abundance of vitamins B and E.

Third, Shepherdspurse Herb dumplings Reasons for recommendation: natural and healthy Green food is very popular nowadays, so the edible wild herbs dumplings are popular in the dumping restaurant.