Longjing tea crisp

Hangzhou Longjing is famous all over the country, and the taste of tea is naturally indispensable in the pastries. The locals often say that Longjing cake refers to both Longjing cake and Longjing cake. Longjing cake is actually a mung bean cake with green tea powder, with fresh color and rich tea aroma; Longjing crisp is divided into two shapes, one is made into a square shortbread, and the other is a tower spherical shape, with layers of skin. The biggest difference between tea cake and tea crisp is that shortening is used in tea crisp, and the high and low gluten noodles are baked out to form a uniform crack under the action of shortening, which is crispy but not scattered, and tastes elegant.

Compared with dried osmanthus granules, Longjing tea is ground into powder and does not affect its flavor at all, and it is not limited by the form when used to make pastries, and many chefs use it to make a fuss about pastries. In 2007, Chef Yan of Zhiweiguan Yanggongdi Store, on the basis of Wushan ghee cake, added Longjing tea juice and Longjing leaf mud, and inserted Longjing tea tip on the top to make it more Hangzhou-like, and the appearance resembles the artistic conception of the tea garden stacked neatly on the mountain, which can be called exquisite, and this tea crisp won two gold medals in the Hangzhou Tea Banquet Design Competition and the China Food Festival. Later, Hangzhou Tea House gradually launched its own Longjing tea crisp, which is roughly the same, but the details are slightly different. After the oil skin and puff pastry are fried in hot oil, the brown color is easy to become lighter and the coloring is uneven, so the audience added spinach juice to polish when they saw Lakeside House making Longjing tea crisp in "A Bite of China 3". Regardless of the shape or plating, the tea crisp packaged in the pastry shop is far less beautiful than the appearance of the teahouse, and the taste of the teahouse is better.

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Zhiweiguan (Yanggongdi store)

Address: No. 10-12 Yanggong Causeway (near the West Gate of Flower Port Guanyu)

Phone: 0571-87970568

Business hours: 10:30-14:00 16:30-20:00

Per capita: 146 yuan

Lakeside Tea House

Address: No. 1 Shengtang Scenic Area (opposite Wanghu Hotel)

Phone: 0571-87020701

Business hours: 09:30-24:00

Per capita: 239 yuan