Cooking, Food & Wine

distance Festival there is also a month of time, but Guangzhou restaurant cake House was eager to launch all kinds of dumplings, scrambling for zongzi gift market. However, due to increased production costs, zongzi prices 15% around this year.

yesterday visited the market see, dumplings have put on the shelf for a number of restaurants and cake House early. In a branded cake House shop chain, reporters saw a certain brand of steamed dumplings wrapped in Zhaoqing on sale at $ 18/bag last year, the varieties of the same specification this year prices rose to $ 21; another five spice Bacon dumplings, on sale at $ 16/bags last year, the varieties of the same specification this year prices rose to $ 21. Sales person told reporters that every dumplings are more expensive than last year, three or four Yuan.

reporter learned from the many well-known restaurants in Guangzhou, zongzi prices overall increase in this year of around 15%. Guangzhou Restaurant Group Assistant General Manager Zhao Liping, told reporters, making dumplings with major raw material prices continued to rise, most of these are mung bean, in the middle of last year started to rise, since prices last year rose by 118%. In addition, the glutinous rice rose 30%, sugar rose around 80%, oil rose around 60%. This makes about Dragon Boat Festival rice dumplings overall price increase of raw material 25%.