Focusing on traditional flavor, Shimen meat zongzi in New Taipei City enjoy great renown

(Taiwan Business News) The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching. Liao Rongqing, Director of the Agriculture Bureau of New Taipei City, and entertainer Chen Meifeng specially visited the Shimen District Farmers' Association to personally take part in wrapping zongzi and experience the hard work of the homemaking mothers.

Because Shimen District is located by the sea, meat zongzi are convenient to carry and eat and are full of ingredients and nutritious, making them essential food for local fishermen when they go aboard ships to work. The local Shibawanggong Temple also commonly uses eighteen meat zongzi as offerings, and Shimen meat zongzi have thus gained great renown.

The Shimen District Farmers' Association established a meat zongzi sales department, "Tian Mama Beihai Station," in 2001. Its main members are local homemaking class mothers. Under years of guidance and subsidies from the Agriculture Bureau of the New Taipei City Government, "Shinong Meat Zongzi" obtained the highest ISO22000 food safety certification in 2007 and also passed HACCP certification, and in terms of ingredients it insists on selecting products that meet CAS certification. In order to let more people taste the good flavor of Shinong meat zongzi, the New Taipei City Government has also assisted with promotion and marketing work. In recent years, "Shinong Meat Zongzi" has built up recognition and won public approval.

Shinong Meat Zongzi's signature "traditional-flavor zongzi" is meant to let consumers recall a nostalgic old-time taste. It uses braised pork belly, paired with aromatic Taiwan shiitake mushrooms, peanuts and golden hook shrimp, and finally adds golden egg yolk. This is its signature flavor. The "Taro-Fragrance Sakura Shrimp Zongzi" first fries Jinshan taro and sakura shrimp oil in succession to bring out their aroma, mixes them into steamed round glutinous rice, and pairs them with roasted golden egg yolk, creating a wonderful flavor where mountain delicacies and sea flavors meet.

Shinong Meat Zongzi currently offers flavors such as traditional-flavor zongzi, taro-fragrance sakura shrimp zongzi, egg yolk zongzi and southern-style zongzi. To taste the good flavor of Shinong meat zongzi, you are welcome to contact the Shimen District Farmers' Association.