What is the difference between Cantonese style mooncakes and Suzhou style mooncakes?

There are some differences between Cantonese and Suzhou-style mooncakes in the following ways:

1.Appearance and taste: Cantonese-style mooncakes have a relatively thick appearance and a thin and soft skin, while Suzhou-style mooncakes are flat and small in shape and have a puff pastry appearance. In addition, the fillings of Cantonese-style mooncakes are richer and more diverse than those of Suzhou-style mooncakes, and different flavors of mooncakes can be prepared with one ingredient.

2.Production skills and raw materials: The popularity of Cantonese moon cakes mainly lies in their exquisite production skills and material selection, which have the characteristics of thin and soft skin, beautiful shape, exquisite patterns, clear patterns, and not easy to break.

Suzhou-style mooncakes are known for their fluffy texture and exquisite production skills, with fat but not greasy fillings and a fluffy and crispy texture.

3.Popular area: Cantonese mooncake is one of the characteristic spots in Guangdong Province, mainly popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places. Suzhou-style mooncakes are the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival food, and are more loved by the Han people in the Jiangnan area.

In general, Cantonese and Suzhou-style mooncakes have their own characteristics, and you can choose according to your personal taste and regional characteristics.

The main characteristics of Cantonese moon cakes are thin skin, soft, sweet, and beautiful filling, and the representative brands are Guangzhou Restaurant, Tao Tao Ju, Lianxiang Lou, etc. Suzhou-style mooncakes are characterized by crunchy, crispy, and layered crisps, heavy oil but not greasy, sweet and salty.

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The difference between Suzhou-style mooncakes and Cantonese mooncakes is that Cantonese mooncakes are one of the local characteristics of the Bai nationality in Guangdong. It is endemic in southern China, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan. Suzhou-style moon cakes originated in Suzhou, belong to Suzhou-style pastries, and are deeply loved by the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The shape of Guangdong moon cakes is thin and soft, the color is golden, the shape is beautiful, the pattern is exquisite, and the pattern is clear. Suzhou-style mooncakes have a crispy shape and rounded edges, with a pale yellow color.

Cantonese moon cakes originated in Guangzhou, and are now produced in Guangdong, Hong Kong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places. The cake crust is made from wheat flour, invert sugar syrup, vegetable oil, alkaline water, etc., and processed by filling, forming, egg brushing and other processes.

The main feature of Cantonese mooncakes is heavy oil, thin skin, and many fillings. The fillings are mostly made of famous local specialties, such as shredded coconut, olive kernels, tangerine cakes, Cantonese sausages, barbecued pork, salted eggs, etc. In terms of technology, leather making and stuffing are unique, the outer skin is brown and red, and there are clear, concave and convex patterns; The filling focuses on taste and texture.

In terms of flavor, it is good at using the interaction of various flavor substances to form a unique flavor, such as using sugar to reduce sweet and salty, using spices to remove the fishy smell of meat, and using the different molecular structures of various auxiliary materials to produce different colors, aromas and tastes, forming the delicate lubrication of sand filling, and the sweet and salty taste of meat, poultry and aquatic products.

The varieties of Suzhou-style mooncakes are divided into two categories: sweet, salty, baked and baked. The production process of sweet moon cakes is mainly baked, with roses, fruits, salt and pepper, bean paste and other varieties, and salty moon cakes are mainly baked, with ham lard, chive lard, fresh meat, shrimp, etc. Among them, clear water roses, refined hundred fruits, white sesame pepper salt, and sand lard are the best products in Suzhou-style moon cakes.

Suzhou-style moon cakes are made of raw and auxiliary materials, rich in local characteristics.

1. Cantonese moon cakes: thin skin, soft, sweet, and filling.

Cantonese moon cake is one of the local characteristics of Guangdong Province, in southern China, the special volt state is the folk Mid-Autumn Festival food in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places, is a form of Mid-Autumn Festival moon cake, Cantonese moon cake taste in line with the taste of southerners. Cantonese moon cakes are famous all over the world, the most important thing is that its selection of materials and production skills are extremely exquisite, its characteristics are thin and soft, beautiful shape, exquisite patterns, clear patterns, not easy to break, exquisite packaging, easy to carry, is a good gift for people in the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also an indispensable product for people in the night of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Suzhou-style moon cakes: crunchy, crispy, and layers of crisp are stacked on top of each other, heavy oil but not greasy, sweet and salty.

Suzhou-style mooncakes, traditional authentic skills are preserved in Suzhou. The basic content of this skill includes: material selection, primary processing, stuffing, leather making, crisp making, crisp wrapping, stuffing, molding leakage, stamping, baking, packaging and so on.

There are no molds in the production process, and the utensils used are relatively simple, such as scrapers, oily paper, baking trays, charcoal-based fir boxes, etc. The crust of this kind of moon cake is quite crispy, which is very different from the taste of ordinary Cantonese or pulp moon cakes. It has the same features as other Chinese puff pastry making methods, such as lotus pastry and chrysanthemum pastry.

3. The source moon cake of the Beijing shortage: exquisite appearance, thin and soft skin, clear layers, and attractive flavor.

Beijing-style moon cake is one of the representative varieties of moon cake food in the northern region, with many patterns. Originated in Beijing and Tianjin and the surrounding areas, there is a certain market in the north, its main characteristics are the sweetness and the skin-filling ratio is moderate, the general skin-filling ratio is 2:3, the reuse of sesame oil, the taste is sweet, the taste is crisp and loose.

The main products are Beijing Daoxiang Village's red moon cakes, white moon cakes, and five-kernel moon cakes.

The difference between Cantonese moon cakes and Suzhou-style moon cakes is: ** different, different shapes, and different raw materials.

First, ** is different.

1. Cantonese moon cakes: Cantonese moon cakes are one of the local characteristics of Guangsui Guandong Province, and they are the folk Mid-Autumn Festival food in southern China, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places.

2. Suzhou-style moon cakes: Suzhou-style moon cakes originated in Suzhou, which belong to Suzhou-style stool closed pastries and are loved by people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Second, the form is different.

1. Cantonese moon cakes: The form of Cantonese moon cakes is thin and soft, shiny, golden in color, beautiful in shape, exquisite in pattern and clear in pattern.

2. Suzhou-style moon cakes: The form of Suzhou-style moon cakes is crispy and loose skin, with light yellow round edges, clear and messy puff pastry, and no stiff skin and hard crust.

Third, the raw materials are different.

1. Cantonese moon cakes: Cantonese moon cakes are made of wheat flour, invert sugar syrup, vegetable oil, alkaline water, etc., and processed by filling, forming, egg brushing and other processes to make soft moon cakes.

2. Suzhou-style moon cakes: made of wheat flour, starch syrup, edible vegetable oil or lard, water, etc., wheat flour, edible vegetable oil or lard are made of crisp, and processed by the process of splitting the skin of the crispy jujube family, wrapping the filling, forming and baking.

The difference between Suzhou-style moon cakes and Cantonese moon cakes 1. Different materials: Suzhou-style moon cakes often use roses, bean paste, jujube paste, 100 fruits, and other processing materials for their sweet production; In the salty production, ham, shrimp, fresh meat, chives and lard are the main processing materials. Cantonese moon cakes have a wide range of sweet ingredients, generally using sesame, almonds, lotus seeds, pineapples, walnuts and other nuts as the main raw materials; The salty ingredients are more distinctive, and salted egg yolk, barbecued pork, dried shrimp, roast goose, shiitake mushrooms and other raw materials will be used.

2. The production process is different: the production process of Suzhou-style moon cakes is mainly baked, and there is almost no mold used in the production, and it is processed by puff pastry, filling, molding, baking and other processes. And it also distinguishes between the preparation methods of large and small cakes.

The production process of Cantonese mooncakes mainly lies in the production of the outer skin, which is generally made by using some molds that can print exquisite carvings or fonts. 3. Different appearance: The skin of Suzhou-style moon cakes is mainly round and light yellow, the skin layer is crisp and loose, and obvious layers can be seen after biting, and there will be almost no stiff skin and hard skin.

The crust of Cantonese mooncakes is mostly reddish-brown with a bright oily sheen. And printed with a clearer pattern or text.

Differences:

1. Different forms.

The form of Cantonese moon cakes is thin and fluffy, shiny oily, golden in color and beautiful in shape. The form of Suzhou-style mooncakes is crispy and loose skin, with light yellow round edges, and clear puff pastry.

2. The production process is different.

Cantonese mooncakes are made of wheat flour, syrup, vegetable oil, and alkaline water, and processed by filling, forming, and egg brushing. Suzhou-style mooncakes are made of wheat flour, starch syrup, edible vegetable oil, water skin, wheat flour, puff pastry nut filling, molding and baking.

3. The taste of eating is different.

Cantonese-style mooncakes have a soft and elastic taste, while Suzhou-style mooncakes are crispy and chewy.

4. **Different.

Cantonese moon cake is one of the local characteristics of Guangdong Province, in southern China, especially in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other places of folk Mid-Autumn Festival food.

Suzhou-style moon cakes originated in Suzhou, belong to Suzhou-style pastries, and are loved by people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.