Located in Jinjiang, which is near the sea, many snacks come from the sea, so heavy seafood has become a major feature of Jinjiang's famous food. The recipes with local characteristics listed in the newly compiled Records of Jinjiang City and Customs include: sweet-scented osmanthus crab meat, fried pearl oyster, Tongxin river eel, braised red oyster in oil, eight treasures taro paste, spiced chicken roll, sweet and sour plum meat, boiled fish balls in soup, steamed perch, fried red shrimp, braised black-bone chicken, rice with eight treasures, and tiger. Famous local products include: Shishi sweet preserved fruit, Anhai bound hoof, Shenhu Shuiwan, Dongshi oyster fried, Yakou peanut, Anhai Shizhen cake (also known as Jihong cake), Yuanhetang candied fruit, Shihu red paste preserved fruit, Longhu Phnom Penh soft-shelled turtle, preserved vegetable in Lingshui, Wuxiang rice, and Chendai mud clam. Local snacks has preserved vegetables, oysters, snail meat bowl cakes, rice balls, peanut rolls, meat dumplings, oyster fried, peanut soup, batter, rice paste, fish balls, salted taro balls, fried potato dates, and frozen bamboo shoots. Dishes are fried, boiled, stewed, steamed, braised, fried, marinated and fried in cooking techniques, and the taste is generally light and sweet, which can also be directly seen from the names of Jinjiang famous recipes listed above. Such as fried red shrimp, boiled fish balls, stewed black-bone chicken, steamed bass, baked red clams, fried oysters (the word "fried" is a verb in the former, and it is called a noun with oysters in the latter), fried potato dates, etc., as well as steamed bass, four-fruit soup is pure and sweet, and plum meat is both sweet and sour.
Here are some local products of Jinjiang for readers to taste.
Shenhu Fish Pill
Shenhu Fish Pill is a traditional famous spot in Jinjiang. Its shape is round, block or fish. It has the characteristics of white and bright color, strong swelling power in the pot, soft texture, delicious and delicate entrance, etc. It is made by chopping and mashing the first-class fish such as eel and mackerel and stirring them with sweet potato powder. Visitors to the spring all pay tribute to it.
Frozen bamboo shoots
Bamboo shoots are annelids, and their scientific name is "Starworm". It is mostly found in the relatively solid beaches along the Yangtze River, such as Jinjing, Shihe and Anhai in Jinjiang. Although it is only three or five centimeters long, it is complete. It can be eaten all over the body. After careful processing and boiling, the gum on the body melts into boiling water and becomes frozen after cooling. Its color is gray, crystal clear, fresh and crisp, its texture is flexible and elastic, and it is a good cold dish with many seasonings.
Yakou peanuts
Quanzhou traditional local products. It was named because it was produced in Yakou, Jinjiang. Select the "Little Ryukyu" peanut variety planted in sandy soil, wash it, add a little salt (strictly control the amount of salt), cook it with strong fire for a short time, ripen quickly, and produce less oil. After drying, it is sealed and stored, which becomes "white-dried peanuts". Yakou peanut has a history of more than 2 years, and its sales volume has not decreased. It is an important native product for export.
Anhai Shizhen Cake
Originally produced by "Shizhen Qindian" in Anhai, Jinjiang, it was called Shizhen Cake, commonly known as Jihong Cake. It is one of the famous products in southern Fujian. It is fresh and delicious, and it is the most ideal gift. Jihong cake is commonly known as "bride candy". Ji Hong, as its name implies, wishes lovers will be well, love will last forever and grow old together. The raw materials of Jihong cake are simple, such as glutinous rice, sugar and kumquat. Tender, sweet, fragrant, elastic, with kumquat sweet hiccups after eating, it is a good match for tea. Jihong cake not only expresses loyal love, but also travels across the ocean, becoming a sweet fruit delicacy for tens of millions of overseas Chinese living in southern Fujian.
preserved vegetables in Lingshui
Jinjiang traditional food. It is named because it is produced in Anhai Lingshui. White radish is used as raw material, cut into blocks or strips, dried in the sun, put into a pottery jar, added with appropriate amount of salt and red soil, and sealed for three or four months before eating. According to legend, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-162), Wu Chunfu, a villager, entered the DPRK as an official, took "preserved vegetables in Lingshui" to the DPRK and distributed it to his colleagues, which was well received, then presented to the emperor, and won the emperor's praise. He was appointed as duty-free food and sold all over the country. Over the past 3 years, the output has been increasing day by day, and it has become a delicacy for people to accompany their meals.
Snail Bowl Cake
This is a local snack in Jinjiang. Take the first-class white rice, soak it in water for about 2 hours, clean it up, put it on a stone mill, grind it into rice slurry, add sugar, yeast and essence, stir it evenly and let it stand for 1 hour. Spoon the rice paste into a small teacup (eight cups shall prevail), put it into a steamer and steam it for 25 minutes. Take it out, cool it, insert it along the edge of the cup with a knife, turn around and pick it out. This kind of bowl cake is different from the double-hair bowl cake in other parts of Quanzhou. It has fine pores and a smooth and bright bottom, which is quite like a glass bulb. It is also called "glass bowl cake". It tastes soft, moist, elastic and crisp, and has a unique taste of eating snails, so it is called snail meat bowl cake.