Top Ten Specialties of Xiamen

Xiamen, abbreviated as "Xiamen" or "Heron", also known as Heron Island, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, sub-provincial city, listed city, the State Council approved the determination of China's Special Economic Zone, the southeast coast of the important center of the city, port and scenic tourist city. Xiamen is an important center of the southeastern coast, a harbor and a scenic tourist city. Xiamen is full of food. If you are sure that you are a foodie, then you must come to Xiamen in this life to have a great taste. Here is my compilation of the top ten specialties of Xiamen City, I hope you like it.

One: Huang Shengji Pork Jerky

"Huang Shengji", probably no one knows no one knows. Its sweet and fresh flavor is enough to make people want to stop. The owner's generosity in handing out large slices of dried meat in front of a crowded entrance is also a classic. anyway, it's definitely a heavyweight business card of Xiamen's cuisine, and has survived more than a hundred years of history.

Two: Nanputuo vegetarian cake

In Xiamen, all brands of pies, Nanputuo is definitely the most popular. The last time the little donkey on the Putuo Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha to seek peace it. Purely handmade, limited number, often sold out Oh ~ buy pie, how can less Nanputuo? If you want to eat, you can go to Nanputuo Temple to buy it.

Three: Huang Zaihe Mochi

If you've been to Xiamen, you must have eaten Huang Zaihe Peanut Soup on Zhongshan Road. Is not the popularity of the scene was shocked le ~ However, do not think that the Huang Zhehe only peanut soup Oh, Huang Zhehe and mochi, orange red cake is also good ah. Whether you are an old Xiamenite or a tourist, Huang Zehe mochi, orange red cake is a must-buy.

Four: Beluga fish skin peanuts

Take out a grain, "pop" thrown into the mouth, sucking a little bit of the unique flour sweetness and light salty flavor, and then "cluck" sound. The bite is a strong peanut flavor.

That's right, it's Beluga fish skin peanuts, my childhood favorite! If you're from Xiamen, you'll understand the fun that lies between the "snap" and the "click". Are you and I super miss its flavor le? Is not like me once on a whim, walking down the street, to find a packet of Beluga fish skin peanuts?

V: Sunrise Pie

Have you ever had a freshly baked Sunrise Pie? Do you occasionally think of Gulangyu Island? It's so crunchy and flavorful, your teeth will be left smelling good!

Six: Yinxiang ginger mother duck

It is said to be the most nostalgic of the traveler's favorite flavor, tourists want to taste the "Xiamen first duck". A kind of sweet and spicy into the flavor, strong aroma, deep into the taste buds of the feeling. A period of time in the ancient streets and alleys, feel the unique rich ginger aroma wafted throughout the street moving memories. The ginger duck is the second "flying duck" after the roast duck in Quanjude, which is famous near and far.

Seven: Tazo Nougat

Does it remind you of the time years ago when you chewed on Tazo Nougat on the balcony in the afternoon while flipping through a book and sipping a cup of coffee? When the milky and peanutty aroma of Tazo Nougat wraps around your tongue, it's like you can find that cozy tranquility that you haven't seen in a long time.

Eight: Shacha Noodles

What do you usually serve with your shacha noodles? My favorites squid, tofu, and fall-off-the-bone pork. And, I often feel like a vacation isn't complete without sand tea noodles! The essence of Shacha Mien is in the soup not the noodles, the ingredients are kind of complicated, and everyone who loves Shacha Mien has their own unique pairings~ I've been told that Oolong Shacha Mien is very much in the hearts of tourists!

Nine: Dudanjie

Do you know what Dudanjie is before coming to Xiamen? It should be considered the most amazing, unique and creative snack in Xiamen. If you like it, you will be able to taste the sweetness and freshness of it. If you've never had it, how can you not try it in Xiamen?

Ten: Xiamen instant noodles

What's so great about a pack of instant noodles? I'm telling you, it's really pretty amazing! If you, like me, grew up eating Xiamen instant noodles, then you must be able to understand the complex embedded in Xiamen instant noodles.

Expanding Xiamen's specialties

One of the five Xiamen snacks

1. The original alleyway fishball store, which originated in 1821, has a history of nearly two hundred years of centuries-old store, which grows up along with the Gulangyu Island, witnessed the glory of the rise and fall of the Gulangyu Island. It is a representative of Xiamen's snack food culture and an inseparable part of Xiamen's tourism culture, and is famous for its excellent taste at home and abroad. The store has a nearly 3,000 square meters of tourism tourism workshop, every customer can see how the original alleyway fishballs shark into a small fish ball, to ensure the freshness of the ingredients. In addition, "25 yuan seafood stir-fry", coffee, desserts and hundreds of local specialties, including Xiamen's famous snacks are sold. The main store is located at 12 Zhenbang Road, Lutou, Zhongshan Street.

2. Sea oyster omelette: Sea oyster omelette use oysters in the best "pearl oyster" as the main raw material, the egg, groundnut flour and chopped garlic, and then use the right amount of lard in the pan fried until both sides crispy. Sprinkle some pepper after frying, and eat it with garlic paste, salsa, coriander, hot sauce and other ingredients to achieve the effect of crispy, delicate and delicious, and with fish ball soup, you will simply swallow your tongue together. In Minnan speak is oyster omelette, is Xiamen's local unique snacks, there are differences and characteristics around.

3. Five spices: fried five spices is also Xiamen's popular traditional snacks, with tender and crispy, fine fillings, sweet and refreshing, and is known for its aftertaste, not only is a good drink, but also a meal. As early as more than 60 years ago, Xiamen's fried five spices on the debut, showing its unique flavor, as a good wine, welcomed by the majority of diners. At that time, in Xiamen's "four holes well" and "two She Temple" and so on there are set up stalls of marinade, which has a popular fried five spices. The practice is to wrap the five spices into a strip such as spring pancakes, and then put down the frying pan fried into a charred, cut into several sections, dipped in condiments, made of five spices after the crispy fresh, wonderful.

4. Shacha Noodles: Minnan more overseas Chinese, Minnan ancestors across the ocean, settled in the South China Sea, but always maintain blood ties with the homeland, overseas transportation, boat traffic, has not been cut off. Many overseas food and drink have been transferred to southern Fujian, sand tea is from the Malay Chinese (said Indonesia) introduced to Xiamen. The South Seas have "sand tea cake", "sand tea shrimp" and other delicacies. This "sand tea" to Xiamen, but a head jumped into the soup pot, made a strong taste of noodle soup - sand tea noodles, its flavor is fresh and mellow, sweet and spicy, delicious, tasted most of the people will be for this color red and yellow, fresh and spicy delicacy overwhelmed. The noodles are made with oil noodles from southern Fujian, and are served in a thick sacha tea broth while still hot. The final toppings are the finishing touches, including bean products, rice blood, large intestine, cashew flower, duck intestines and so on.

5. Peanut soup: Xiamen's peanut soup is the most famous peanut soup store located at the head of Zhongshan Road, many years ago. Xiamen peanut soup, not only local reputation, in foreign travelers, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan compatriots and overseas compatriots, has long been known. And the flavor is delicious and unforgettable. Peanut soup is a unique flavor of the coastal areas of Fujian sweet soup, sweet and refreshing, nourishing and moisturizing the lungs. There is a saying in Quanzhou dialect: "The top blossoms, the bottom bears seeds, adults and children love to eat a death." It enigmatically reveals that peanuts are loved by everyone. Taiwan writer Xu Dishan's "Peanuts",

natural, funny strokes lyrical peanuts of a variety of cooking and eating methods.

Second, the food must go must eat

1. Ye's mochi is Gulangyu Island old, but also the only one on Gulangyu Island can occupy the street business. Ye's Mochi has been around for a hundred years and is now in its third generation. The owner first uses a metal knife to open up the glutinous rice ball into a pocket, then stuffs it with a lot of granulated sugar and crushed peanuts, casually pinches it into a ball, and finally rolls it in sesame seeds, dazzling people with his skillful technique. The handmade flavor is really worth the name, the aroma, sticky, awesome! Address, Longtou Road, Gulangyu Island.

2. Fish ball soup: grass carp as the main ingredient, grass carp chopped into a paste, open the pot and add fish meatballs and salt and other seasonings, to be pills into the white when adding pepper, drizzled with sesame oil can be, because of its tenderness, crispness, aroma, freshness is known far away, is the southern Fujian snacks are essential to the 'a gourmet meal. In Xiamen, many of the fishballs, and the "original alleyway fishball store" of the most authentic fishballs, the use of wild sharks carefully made, its skin Q strength, fresh and crispy, juicy filling, soup thick overflowing, tasty, delicious, and famous at home and abroad for its excellent taste, known as one of the four famous snacks in Xiamen Gulangyu Island.

3. Golden meat pine: meat pine has many advantages: golden yellow, fragrant, strips of shredded meat, clusters of clusters, sent to the mouth, no need to chew, immediately soft scattered, full of sweetness. The dried meat is a encounter saliva, it is too late to chew a little, has long been turned into paste.

4. Noodle paste: Xiamen people often eat breakfast, soaking doughnuts is the most classic way to eat. Pork bone soup will be cooked until the noodle line soft, sprinkle ginger and celery minced, plus sausage, shrimp, marinated eggs and other ingredients, smooth, comfortable.

5. Roasted meat dumplings: Fujian Minnan unique Han Chinese traditional food, holiday food custom. Roasted meat dumplings in Quanzhou Xiamen and other areas of Fujian are made. Roasted meat dumplings have a long history, with sweet and tender, oily and not greasy, fine craftsmanship and other characteristics. Meat dumplings with mushrooms, shrimp, taro, chestnuts, pork (or chicken), glutinous rice and other raw materials. Eat while hot, eat with salsa, garlic, red hot sauce and other seasonings, it is delicious.

6. Spring rolls: also known as spring pancakes, pancakes. It is a traditional food for Han Chinese folk festivals. Currently popular in all parts of China, especially prevalent in Jiangnan and other places. Folk in addition to their own family to eat, commonly used in hospitality. It has a long history and evolved from the ancient spring cake. According to the ancient book Chen Yuanliang's "Years and Seasons Guangji", "In the spring, eat spring cake, lettuce, the number of spring plate." The Qing Dynasty's "Yenching times" also has: "Spring, is the day of the rich family to eat more spring cakes." Visible spring do spring cake, eating spring cake folk customs and styles from a long time ago. Now there are many proverbs about spring rolls, such as "a roll is not spring", "Longsheng Hall spring rolls - inside and outside is not a person," and so on, the meaning of spring here is spring, spring is a good omen to welcome the celebration.

7. Ginger duck: Fujian a traditional Han snacks. It can be both qi and blood complement, while with the duck has nourishing yin and reduce the effect of fire. Cuisine in the medicinal diet nourishing but not greasy, warm but not dry, suitable for fall and winter consumption. According to the Chinese Herbal Record and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, ginger duck was originally a royal court dish created by Wu Zhong, a famous doctor in the Shang Dynasty, and then spread to the public and became a famous dish. Ginger in addition to the fishy warm body of the medicinal effect is also the main reason why people generally love.

8. Taro Buns: When it comes to Xiamen taro buns, its deliciousness is unstoppable, especially just steamed up taro buns skin thin, it seems that the inside of the filling are going to break through the skin out of the like. Although the freshly steamed taro buns are very hot, you can't help but take a bite, and it's a big bite. Department of the betel taro peeled and washed pounded into raw taro puree, and a small amount of starch, salt, mix well, in the inner wall of the bowl coated with a layer of oil, put into the pre-prepared pork, shrimp, mushrooms, asparagus, water chestnuts and other pieces of shredded filling, and then covered with a layer of taro puree. Gently inverted out in a steamer basket to steam and cook. Served with Xiamen sweet chili sauce, Xiamen salsa, etc., the flavor is better.

9. Tong'an sealed meat: Tong'an, Xiamen, the traditional Han Chinese dishes, belonging to the Min cuisine. This dish will be a whole piece of meat in a pot, cover steamed in a cage, on the table before lifting the lid, so it is called "sealing meat". It is said that the authentic Tong'an sealed meat is very tender, insert the chopsticks in the sealed meat, chopsticks in the process of pouring down the sealed meat can be cut.

10. Fei Vegetable Box: a traditional Han Chinese snack. First use flour mixed with the right amount of lard to crisp up the skin, another pork leg meat, shrimp, flatfish, water chestnuts, Phoebe cut into grains for

filling, and then wrapped in pastry to make a small box shaped cake, the edge of the pinch into a wave shape, put into a frying pan fried to a golden brown, out of the oil to drain the plate on the table. The flavor is delicious and melts in your mouth. Generally as a seat on the end of the road snacks.

Third, the characteristics of - - soil bamboo shoots jelly

The soil bamboo shoots is a kind of mollusks shaped like earthworms, full of gelatinous. Boiled into molds and frozen, shaped and cut into small pieces, served with soy sauce, Yongchun vinegar, sweet chili sauce, mustard chili, garlic, jellyfish and cilantro, shredded white radish, shredded chili pepper and sliced tomato.