National Intangible Cultural Heritage · 手工
手工The Process
A single shaomai is not one thing. It is eight moves of the hand — each unchanged since 1738: the wrapper scalded and rolled, its rim laced thin, twenty-four folds gathered, the filling laid in, the crown drawn closed and shaped, the mouth opened, and steam. Scroll to watch one made.
八道工序 · by one pair of hands
Eight moves,
in order
The making runs left → right. Keep scrolling — every step by hand, unchanged since 1738.
皮薄透馅
形如石榴
Thin enough to show the filling, shaped like a pomegranate in bloom. One shaomai — eight moves, one pair of hands.
8 moves · 24 folds · 1 place
Every shaomai, made this way
By hand, to order, the same eight moves since 1738 — every tray still shaped under the master's own hand. Read the whole shape in three dimensions, or come and turn one over yourself.