Spring Rolls, Shanghai Style

Shanghai Spring Roll is an ancient Jiangnan food custom. On Lunar New Year's Day and beginning of spring Day, families get together, drink spring tea and eat spring cakes to celebrate the New Year. Spring cakes are made with spicy vegetables such as onions and leeks. "Xin" is homophonic with "new". Eating spring cakes with five spices (onions, garlic, leeks, mustard and Artemisia scoparia) in the New Year means getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. People eat spring rolls with chives and shredded pork in the Spring Festival in Shanghai, which is the inheritance of the ancient custom of eating spiced vegetables and eating spring cakes. There is also the custom of eating shepherd's purse spring rolls in early spring in the suburbs of Shanghai. This fried food has the characteristics of crispy skin, soft and tender stuffing, golden color, delicious flavor and so on. After the opening of Shanghai, spring rolls have been supplied in some snack shops all the year round, and the design and color of stuffing have also increased. The spring rolls with shredded pork with leek buds made by the Green Wave Gallery of Chenghuang Temple are the most praised by diners.
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