Kaifeng steamed buns have a long history. It has a unique flavor and is one of the famous foods in Kaifeng. Steamed buns are exquisite in material selection and production. It is made of lean meat from pig's hind legs, refined powder as skin and steamed with explosive fire. Its characteristics are: beautiful appearance, small and exquisite, thin skin and many fillings, oily soup, delicious taste, fragrant and delicious.
Steamed buns were originally run by Huang Jishan. He learned from the strengths of various families, and the steamed buns he made were white and soft, with unique flavor and were well received by diners. Xiaolongbao was originally steamed in a big cage, but after the reform of Master Huang Jishan, it became fifteen small steamed buns with one drawer. Moreover, the noodles and fillings of steamed stuffed buns are bold and innovative. For example, the original dough was made of one-third of hair and two-thirds of dead dough, and later it was changed to only use dead dough instead of hair, so that the skin would be thinner and the bottom would not fall off. The requirements of the living surface technology are quite strict, and it needs to go through the "three softness and three hardness" process of rubbing, throwing, pulling, dragging, pasting water several times and pasting film several times to meet the requirements. Steamed buns were originally mixed with aspic, which was too greasy to eat, and then they were taken off the shelf. Mix the stuffing with white sugar and monosodium glutamate and remove the sweet sauce. Only Jiang Mo was put in the stuffing, but no onion was put. It takes a lot of effort to make stuffing, and I have been stuffing until the filaments are pulled out. Steamed steamed bread is served on the table. Its shape: "Hold up a lock of silk and put down a small ball with a skin like a chrysanthemum heart and a filling like a rose petal."
Kaifeng steamed buns have spread all over the country, and Zhengzhou, Dalian, Shenyang and Taiyuan have all opened Kaifeng steamed buns shops. Foreign friends and overseas Chinese from Hong Kong and Macao who came to Kaifeng for tourism, after enjoying the scenic spots in the ancient city, tasted the steamed buns in Kaifeng with great interest and spoke highly of them.