蓮蓉第一家
 蓮香樓是一間百年老號，享有“蓮蓉第一家”之稱。說起蓮香樓的純正蓮蓉，還有一段故事，１８８９年，在古老的廣州城西一隅，蓮香樓開業了。那時，廣州城西多是商賈富裕人家，食肆十分興旺，競爭也異常激烈，為了招徠食客，各店均競相推出新特的食品。一天，蓮香樓老制餅師傅陳維清喝著用蓮子煲的糖水，苦思著如何改進制餅工藝，忽然一股清香的甜味沁入心肺，他定神望著碗里的蓮子，靈感一動，何不用蓮子來制作餅點餡料。于是，他把蓮子洗凈去心，放在銅鑊里煮，不停地攪拌，再放進白糖、花生油，最初制出來的蓮蓉帶點澀味。經過反復試驗，陳師傅終于研制出用枧水去蓮子皮的新工藝，使蓮蓉保持蓮子的清香而不帶澀味、色澤金黃、幼滑、蓮味濃郁，被譽為“蓮蓉第一家”。在粵港一帶餅食業內流傳著一句話：“有了蓮香樓蓮蓉，才有蓮蓉月餅”。從此，奠定了廣式蓮蓉月餅鼻祖的地位。
The First Firm for Producing Lotus Seed Paste
Lianxianglou is a famous old firm with a history of over one hundred years and enjoys a title of the First Firm for Producing Lotus Seed Paste. There is a story about the lotus seed paste of Lianxianglou.. In1889, Lianxianglou was established in the west part of ancient Guangzhou city. At that time, many rich families and businessmen lived around there. Catering trade was very prosperous and competition very keen. For soliciting customers, every firm vide with another to produce new and unique foods. One day, Mr.Chen qingjian, the master craftsman in Lianxianglou, pondered deeply over innovation of the method for cake making when he drunk a bowl of sugar water with lotus seed. He was refreshed by the fragrant smell of lotus seed .So he fixed his gaze on the lotus seed and suddenly he got an inspiration for producing cake stuffing with lotus seed paste. As a result, he tool some lotus seed, cleaned them with water and removed the core, boiled them in a copper cooker and well stirred meanwhile, then put into some white sugar and peanut oil. However, the earliest product of lotus seed paste had a little astringent. Testing again and again, Mr. Chen finally succeeded in developing a new method to remove lotus seed peel with soda water. Therefore, the lotus seed paste not only maintains the delicate fragrance of lotus seed, but also is free of astringent, featuring golden color and smooth feeling as well as strong lotus seed smell. For this reason, Lianxianglou has been honored as The First Firm for producing Lotus Seed Paste. There is such a word widely spread in catering industry of Guangdong and Hongkong that it was impossible for making lotus seed paste moon cake without Lianxianglou’s lotus seed paste. Since then Lianxianglou has been known as the originator of Guangzhou style’s lotus seed paste moon cake.
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