Especially in autumn and winter, a bowl of hot "dumplings" has become a popular choice for Wuhan people too early. Wuhan people are accustomed to calling wontons "dumplings", and eating a bowl of "dumplings" in winter mornings not only fills the stomach but also drives away the cold. Located on Dacheng Road at the entrance of the Simen, the small autumn dumpling restaurant is a famous wonton shop in Wuchang.
Xiaoqiu dumplings first started in 1978, when Xiaoqiu's mother and two aunts jointly operated, named "Sanhe dumplings", in 1989 by Xiaoqiu officially took over, and changed its name to "Xiaoqiu dumplings restaurant", has been about 40 years. The taste that the neighborhood is accustomed to is still preserved in the small dumpling restaurant.
The dumplings in the small autumn dumpling restaurant only have one flavor, the original soup. The pork front meat is used as the filling, and the dumpling filling is large; The soup base is made from large pork bones; The lard is also boiled at home, and it is a real material. Xiaoqiu's dumplings inherit the flavor of old Wuhan, especially in the last step of the meal, put a touch of lard in the soup, which increases the satisfaction brought by the fragrance of lard. Not only that, the soup bowl containing dumplings is still a wide-mouthed, blue-edged porcelain bowl of the old era, and it is full of the style of old Wuhan.
Crispy dumplings are a special accompaniment snack in Xiaoqiu Dumpling Restaurant, which is made of glutinous rice noodles and fried in long strips, and the crispy dumplings just out of the pot are put into the powdered sugar and rolled, so that the crispy dumplings are wrapped in powdered sugar, and they taste sweet, crispy and glutinous. As a traditional snack in Wuhan, crispy dumplings are now difficult to find, and it is rare to be able to eat them here.