Taixiang Food
Batch 1Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Shidao, Rongcheng, Taixiang Group grew up on the rich catches of the Rongcheng coast to become one of Jiaodong Peninsula's representative marine-food enterprises, bringing the traditional fisherman's mackerel-dumpling craft into modern food production.
Taixiang is best known for its mackerel dumplings, championing the hand-made dumpling craft of the Jiaodong Peninsula; the technique was listed as Shandong provincial intangible heritage in 2013, carrying the fisherman's taste to a wider market and earning recognition as an emblem of Jiaodong seafood dumplings.
Its mackerel dumplings use fresh Spanish mackerel, boned and minced then beaten by hand to a springy paste, lifted with chive or scallion water and wrapped in vigorously hand-rolled skins, prized for thin wrappers, generous filling and a burst of juice, embodying the fisherman's wisdom of putting fish in the filling and keeping the flavour true.
Taixiang is a regional marine-food brand; its mackerel-dumpling craft is Shandong provincial intangible heritage (it is not a MOFCOM-recognised Chinese time-honoured brand, hence marked conditional).