On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, many people will eat Yuanxiao, but the older generation of Fuzhou people don't eat Yuanxiao on Yuanxiao night, but eat "three cakes", namely sugar cakes, taro cakes (meatballs) and vegetable cakes. This is the traditional food that old Fuzhou people used to eat at the Lantern Festival.

1, sugar cake

The transliteration words in Fuzhou dialect are named after their tastes, that is, traditional rice cakes and traditional Chinese New Year rice food. In Fuzhou, every New Year's Eve, or twenty-seven or twenty-eight days in advance, people have already started to measure, grind and steam rice cakes.

2. taro

Taro is a famous Han snack variety in Fuzhou, Minnan and Chaoshan areas of Guangdong Province. It is a kind of food made by rubbing taro into silk, adding seasoning and rice slurry, steaming and cutting into pieces, and then frying. It is an indispensable snack for breakfast and snacks in Fuzhou.

3. Caitouxiang

Radish cake is radish cake. Caitou is the common name of radish, and Caitou pot is a local Han rice cake in Fujian, which is steamed by every household during the New Year. The head of the vegetable is crisp outside and tender inside, and the taste is fragrant but not sweet. If you slice the vegetable head pot, put oil in the pot, add oil to the vegetable head pot, fry it until it is slightly yellow, turn it over and fry it until it is slightly yellow. It is better to dip in Chili sauce at this time.