Over the past century, Fa Bing Shop only sells winter solstice buns for 3 days a year.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)

[Reporter Wang Shuxiu/Tainan Report] The winter solstice will be ushered in on Thursday (22nd). Fucheng's unique glutinous rice balls and "winter solstice bag" have recently been on sale. In particular, the winter solstice bag has a pleasing gold ingot shape and is used to worship ancestors. It also symbolizes harvest harvest, wealth and safety, and is sold for only 3 days a year, which is very popular.

Over the past 100 years, the family mobilization of the cake shop has a limit of 3,500 pieces; the order of the Anping A Shuibo Baozi shop has exceeded 1,000, and the vegetable market can buy glutinous rice "Kui Cui" winter solstice buns. There are fans of all kinds of tastes!

Li Yunyu, owner of A Shuibo Steamed Bun Shop in Anping, pointed out that there is a custom of eating winter solstice buns in Fucheng. Every winter solstice, people start cooking glutinous rice balls and cooking buns. salty.

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Chen Shufen, the 4th generation of Jiulaifa, said that in ancient times, the winter solstice buns were made of glutinous rice "kueh", which contained a variety of vegetable ingredients, but it was not easy to preserve. , each family has different stuffing materials; it is recommended to use 12 as a benchmark for worshiping gods or ancestors, which symbolizes 12 months, and there will be 13 in leap months.

Chen Shufen said that because winter solstice buns are only sold for 3 days a year, even though the cost of ingredients has skyrocketed in recent years, the original price will still be maintained; winter solstice buns are an indispensable winter solstice food in Tainan. Since the winter solstice is the longest day of the night, the traditional winter solstice bag will be made into a half-moon shape, which is very pleasing to the shape of the ingot.

The century-old Fa Cake Shop Family Story has hand-made a limited number of 3,500 winter solstice buns, including meat and vegetarian flavors.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)

A hundred years old, the whole family mobilization of the pastry shop made a limited number of 3,500 winter solstice buns.

(Photo by reporter Wang Shuxiu)