Zhangzhou was the main port of Fujian in the Ming Dynasty, where local businessmen from Fujian and Southeast Asia gathered. Long-term business trips, different religious beliefs and different eating habits have brought new changes to local eating habits. Zhangzhou cuisine is not only influenced by Southeast Asia and Hakka flavor, but also absorbs some characteristics of Chaoshan flavor because Zhangzhou is adjacent to Chaozhou and its products are similar.

Zhangzhou cuisine is an important branch of Fujian cuisine. Zhangzhou cuisine is not only influenced by Southeast Asia and Hakka flavor, but also absorbs some characteristics of Chaoshan flavor because Zhangzhou is adjacent to Chaozhou and its products are similar. Zhangzhou cuisine is light in taste, mainly sweet and sour, paying attention to the freshness of raw materials, pure in taste, and paying special attention to nourishing. Zhangzhou's flavor snacks also include: hand-grabbed noodles, dried noodles, cat porridge, moist cakes, fried oysters, frozen bamboo shoots and so on.