Xiamen has long hours of sunshine and abundant sunlight, so flowers and trees flourish all year round. Except for the typhoon season in August, when all the boats on the beach stop running and you can't enjoy the beautiful seascape, it's a great time to visit Xiamen.
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September,Xiamen in autumn colors
If Xiamen's four seasons leave you with no way to choose the best time to visit.
Then, in September, Xiamen's autumn colors are available for your reference.
In September in Xiamen, you can wander along the long road around the island, breaking into this picture compiled by the coastline, banyan trees and old buildings, letting the past and the clutter dissipate, and the mind become spotless.
You can also choose to lie alone on the sloping grassy slopes of the botanical gardens and count the names of familiar and unfamiliar plants: daffodils, cottonwoods, sequoias ...... and, in the words of Shouting, "the trillium of my emotions".
You can also climb the Nam Phu To Temple in the early morning of September, see the cliff carvings, listen to the humble words of the Bodhi, and be sure to spend your dinner in the snack street.
Specialty Dining
Peanut soup, oyster fry, noodle thread paste, sand tea noodles ...... If you travel to Xiamen, experienced friends will always remind you: these snacks must not be eaten. But if you can not find the pure technique of the restaurant, that is not to taste the real characteristics of Xiamen snacks. Xiamen's oldest flavor restaurant to be counted "good fragrance" and "Wu Zaitian", but all day long customers, it is difficult to get a seat.
In fact, Xiamen as the representative of the southern Fujian cuisine, belonging to the eight dishes in the Fujian cuisine, dishes fresh and crispy, focusing on soup, light flavor, sweet and sour suitable. Xiamen is the development of the port in the last hundred years, the cuisine flavor in the history of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou cuisine as the main body, but also a collection of Cantonese cuisine and Western-style food. From the early 1970s, a large number of young Xiamen chefs traveled abroad, a large number of Western cuisine to absorb the essence of the Xiamen cuisine in the original southern Fujian cuisine, "fresh and crispy" on the main theme, there are more pioneering and innovative, jumped to become a representative of southern Fujian cuisine.
For example, the traditional dish "Gali fish (a kind of seafood produced in southern Fujian in winter) firework cabbage", in the past, it is to Gali fish head and cabbage first big fire, after slow fire to simmer, now it is to cabbage will be wrapped up in Gali fish, put into the pre-mixed fish bone broth, and then loaded into a small ceramic cup, big fire steam through the table, more obvious! The flavor of the dish is even more pronounced.
Southern Fujian cuisine is known for its good mountain delicacies and sea food, and its taste is light, so some people say that it is quite different from Cantonese cuisine. In fact, Minnan cuisine has its own characteristics in soup and flavor estimation, and it is often seasoned with sugar, vinegar, sauce, etc. Almost every dish will be accompanied by two or three sauces, so that diners can taste different flavors at a time. It focuses on the cooking of soup, characterized by freshness, mellowness and meat flavor, and has the reputation of "one soup with ten changes".
Spring rolls are a must-have dish for Xiamenites during the Spring Festival, originating from Quanzhou's traditional cuisine, "Tender Cake Vegetables," a dish in which everyone sits down together and wraps their own food, symbolizing a happy reunion for the whole family. The filling alone is not simple, containing more than ten ingredients such as carrots, cabbage, fresh shrimp, shredded meat, oysters, and shredded Dutch beans. To eat the first spring roll skin, spread the sweet chili sauce, sprinkled with fried crispy seaweed, "tribute sugar" (ancient tribute to the emperor's peanut brittle), meat floss, coriander and other ingredients, and then sandwiched between a dozen kinds of raw materials shredded cooked boiled vegetables, wrapped up into a roll, the flavor of more than five kinds of? Sour, sweet, spicy, salty, fresh five flavors of the roll, eat only one word: fragrant.
Ginger duck is a popular flavorful dish in Xiamen and Taiwan. It is made with red-headed duck, local ginger and more than 10 kinds of Chinese herbs. Due to the red head of the duck skin thin meat red, no subcutaneous fat, flavorful, refreshing, it is said that there are fat to remove the therapeutic effect. The master said, do this dish time-consuming very long, the duck breast meat is very thick, but fortunately not much stink, with sorghum wine specially adjusted soup marinade, at least a whole day to taste.
The bitter snail is a seafood unique to southern Fujian, small, not expensive, and tastes like a melon, but still can't suppress people's interest in tasting it. This "sea of cold melon" has cold melon does not have the seafood flavor, white burn when refreshing, boiled into soup when sweet, peculiar taste.
Razor clams are quite common, and their finger-sized flesh is good in hot pots and stir-fries. But when its shell is covered with flowery threads and doubled in size, we couldn't recognize it. After learning that in Xiamen to eat razor clams in two seasons: "January to eat small razor clams, July to eat old razor clams", small razor clams and our common difference is not very big, while the old razor clams have to be raised for two years and then eat, the "pattern" on the shells is like their yearly cycle, marking their The "pattern" on the shells is like a wheel of years, indicating their seniority. Because the meat is so fatty, it can be steamed with ginger and green onion to get its fresh flavor, and the locals will also use the leftover broth to steam eggs in order not to waste it, which is similar to the effect of laying noodle threads underneath the lobster. The old razor clams are cold, and the chef suggests that people with cold stomachs shouldn't eat too many of them.
Earth bamboo shoots jelly is Xiamen quite a characteristic small dishes, bamboo shoots how can also be frozen? This "bamboo shoots" is not his "bamboo shoots", soil bamboo shoots is growing in the beach sediment in a small soft-bodied animals, because the shape of the "small bamboo shoots" and so named. It is rich in gelatine, after boiling the gelatine contained in the water dissolved, after cooling that is frozen, the appearance of crystal moist, like white jade, crisp taste, taste sweet, if accompanied by radish sour, coriander mustard sauce or Meiji fresh flavor sauce, eat more tender and refreshing.
The chef said the dish is effective in reducing fire and inflammation and is a must-have snack for local banquets.
The core of Xiamen's cuisine is the four treasures of seafood: crab, shrimp, fish, shellfish, Minnan flavor as the main body, and Taiwan, Chaoshan flavor, based on the heritage of the Min cuisine, the long of the various cuisines, discard the rough and greasy, to capture the freshness and mellow, with steaming, stir-frying, frying, deep-frying, simmering, stewing, simmering,
Twenty years ago, the four treasures of seafood has been a great development, won the National Gold Medal on the: "dry fried 鑚 cover", "green belt 鑚 package", "jade Emperor", "Xishi Coon Sa", "Colorful Butterfly and Dragon", "Dragon Boat Racing", "Stewed Cabbage with Garoupa Fish", "Yellow Flowers and Mandarin Ducks", "Goose in Antarctic Water", "Stir-fried Whelk", "Fresh Scallops with Sesame Tea", "Fresh Shark's Fin with Dragon's Heart", "Fresh Shark's Fin with Dirty Shark's Fin", "Fresh Shark's Fish with Sesame Tea", "Fresh Shark's Fruit with Sesame Tea The reputation of Xiamen is very high.
The Xiamen vegetarian cuisine, the original traditional practice, made of soybean products such as chicken, fish, tripe, feet and other elephantine food. In the early sixties, Nanputuo vegetarian masters abandoned the concept of hieroglyphics, creative vegetarian material vegetarian do, vegetarian vegetarian name, both color and flavor, but also with the God-shaped instrument, the vegetarian dishes into a beautiful and elegant meal, tasting vegetarian food is not only to regulate the appetite, but also an elegant artistic enjoyment. Today, Nanputuo vegetarian cuisine after nearly 40 years of history, especially the development of nearly twenty, has become renowned in the country's reputation in Southeast Asia's high-level dishes, it has been able to produce hundreds of dishes, can be 10 days without repeating, is Xiamen's cuisine is a splendid business card.
Medicinal food is also with the process of the construction of the Special Administrative Region and produced, it is no longer the street stalls, "Angelica beef", and not just winter dietary supplement "four things are duck", but a full set of recipes for medicinal food. Heron River Hotel's antique medicinal meals color and flavor, and dishes, jars and other utensils all system of alabaster special, special dishes, elegant and generous, a seat is undoubtedly a meal of art, memorable.
Shopping
Xiamen's main commercial streets are Zhongshan Road, Gulangyu Island Longtou Road, Xiamen Harvest Road, Egret Island shopping and amusement city and Hubin Road and other traditional shopping locations. Sibei to Datong Road, Woxiang West Road has some small specialty stores, more suitable for young people, it is worth taking the time to go poking around.
Be sure to buy some Gulangyu Island pies, which is made of fine white flour, wrapped in a variety of fillings, sweet and crispy taste, moist and cold, a variety of flavors, red beans, green beans, and strawberries, pineapples, coconuts, and other fruit flavors, and the price is not too expensive, the big one is 8 yuan / box, the small one is 6 yuan / box, is the best choice for their own tastes and gifts to friends and relatives, which is a better kind of Wang Ji pies! In addition, Nanputuo's vegetarian cakes are also very famous. To buy dried seafood and tea, go to Xi Xi Road and cut the price, usually at 40% off the original price.
Tips: buy dried seafood in the local tourists to beware, especially in Gulangyu Island, large dried scallops will be the highest price to 980 yuan per catty, but after the efforts of bargaining, only need to spend 200 or so can be taken down; buy shrimp to buy the best golden hooks, a lot of stores with a big head of shrimp shrimp to pretend to be golden hooks, so buy before the best taste, golden hooks are very fresh, not fresh is not real.
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