Ningdu meatball is a famous dish in Ningdu County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. Pork balls and fish balls are two top brands. Ningdu meatballs are expensive in one word, and the entrance strength is admirable. Meatballs are delicious because you pay attention to step by step when making meatballs, and the amount of meat and sweet potato powder must be strictly controlled, otherwise the elasticity of meatballs is not just right.
Ganzhou small fried fish is the representative of Hakka cuisine in Gannan. The special feature of small fried fish is that it has a vinegar smell, which is unique compared with fried fish in other places. Small fried fish tastes crisp outside and tender inside. The raw material is fresh grass carp, chopped into pieces and fried with ginger, onion and red pepper. Fat friends who have been to Ganzhou should have heard of "Three Fish in Ganzhou", and this small fried fish is one of them.
The four-star full moon is a famous local dish. Chairman Mao specially ordered this dish when he led the Red Fourth Front Army to move to Gannan. The four-star full moon, commonly known as "Xingguo powder cage bed" in the local area, is a Hakka dish originating in Xingguo County. It looks like a small cage. In fact, this dish can be made of pink fish, pink meat, pink chickens and ducks, pink sweet potatoes, pink potatoes and so on. There are four small dishes around the cage, which has a feeling of "looking at the moon with four stars".
Have you ever eaten pork breast, beef breast and fish breast? This is also a famous dish in Gannan. After the fish belly is washed, it is cut into pieces and marinated, and soy sauce, vinegar and sugar are mixed into marinade. The marinated fish pieces are fried to golden brown in the oil pan, and then put into the pan with the marinade. After collecting juice, sprinkle with chopped green onion and garlic.
Stuffed vegetables are the most common Hakka dishes. The more famous ones are bitter gourd, eggplant and tofu, also called "fried three treasures".
In fact, in Jiangxi, I know there is a kind of food, crock soup, which is not local to Jiangxi. This is the best food Bian Xiao has ever eaten!
Gannan, which belongs to Ganzhou City in the south of Jiangxi Province, was an important Hakka distribution center in history and the largest Hakka settlement today.
Other delicious Hakka dishes in Gannan are