fish ball

The most famous snacks in Fuzhou should be fish balls and meat swallows. People who come to Fuzhou will hardly miss these two kinds of delicious food. Fuzhou fish ball is a kind of granular food made by chopping eel, mackerel or freshwater fish, adding sweet potato powder (starch) and wrapping it with lean pork or shrimp. It is one of the local snacks in Fuzhou.

There is a saying in Fuzhou that "nothing can be done without fish balls". Fuzhou custom, at the banquet, guests should "sandwich wine bags." There used to be fish balls in the "wine bag", which were as big as children's fists. When you are "sandwiched" home, you have to cut it into small pieces for everyone to eat. Some people also like to eat small fish balls without stuffing, which are specially made by people and are very elastic.

Meat Yan

After fish balls, let's talk about meat swallows. Meat swallow, also known as Taiping swallow, is a famous specialty snack in Fuzhou and a festive dish in Fuzhou customs. Fuzhou people will eat "Taiping Banquet" on holidays, weddings, funerals and celebrations. When friends and relatives get together, they will also use their own "Taiping" and "Taiping", so "nothing can be done without a banquet, and nothing can be done without a banquet." Therefore, the meat swallow has become a gift, which is deeply loved by Fuzhou people, including overseas folks.

What needs to be understood is that the meat swallow is different from the flat meat (flat food) in Fujian. Although it looks similar, the skin of the meat swallow is hammered out with starch and lean meat, so it tastes very elastic and smooth. Flat meat is a filling wrapped in dough. They have different skin and tastes.

Steamed shark fin, fish maw and abalone

There is also a famous dish in Fuzhou called Buddha jumping wall, also called full altar incense and longevity. According to legend, it was created by Zheng Chunfa, the owner of Juchunyuan Restaurant in Fuzhou in Qing Dynasty. Buddha jumping wall is rich in nutrition, which can promote development, beautify, delay aging and enhance immunity. This is a good tonic.

The process of making this delicious food is very complicated. The raw materials of the Buddha jumping wall are abalone, sea cucumber, fish lips, yak hide glue, Pleurotus eryngii, beef tendon, mushrooms, cuttlefish, scallops and quail eggs. To fully reflect the taste and characteristics of each ingredient, it is necessary to make these dozen ingredients into a dish independently, and then gather them together, add broth and Shaoxing wine, and simmer for more than ten hours on low fire, so that the taste can truly achieve mellow characteristics.

Litchi meat

Litchi meat is my favorite food. Because the white water chestnut and pork in the raw materials are cut into cross knives and cooked like litchi, they are named. But now many restaurants have replaced water chestnuts with potatoes. Litchi meat has the unique characteristics of Fujian cuisine, tastes sweet and sour, and is also a very famous Fuzhou cuisine.

Brewed (stewed with old wine)

Fujian is a coastal city with various seafood practices. In my family, one of the dishes I often cook is stuffing. The recipe of this dish is very simple. Put the razor clam vertically in the stew pot until it is full, then put a little ginger in the gap, then pour in Fujian old wine and water and stew it in the steamer. This method can keep the fresh and sweet flavor of razor clam meat. Moreover, because it is tightly inserted in the stew, the moisture of the razor clam will not be lost, and the meat quality will not get old. Boiled pork is also a good way to taste the original flavor, but the heat is not well mastered, and the meat of razor clam is easy to shrink too much and fall off.

Salty time

Salty time, also known as salty rice time, is a famous snack in Pingtan, Fuzhou. Visitors to Pingtan will not miss it. When it is salty, the method is to steam the sweet potato, put it in a stone mortar, sprinkle some sweet potato powder (Ru powder), mash it with a wooden pestle, the more sticky it is, the better, and then knead it by hand or roll it into skin with a short wooden stick. Stir-fry the stuffing at the same time. Shrimp, crab meat, squid (squid), pork and laver are made into seafood stuffing, wrapped into balls and steamed or boiled.

Fixed-edge pot/over-edge pot

Fixed edge paste, also known as pot edge paste, is a famous specialty in Fujian. This is a perfect breakfast, with fried buns and oil cakes. Pan-side paste (diced batter) is made of clam juice as soup, cooked in a pot, and then ground rice paste is poured around the pot. After scalding the rice slurry on the pot, scrape it into the soup with a spatula, and add celery, onion, shrimp skin, mushrooms and other seasonings. The cooked pot is a pot of boiling "pot-side paste".

Laohua

Presbyopia is a famous snack in Fuzhou and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. In fact, fishing should be called fishing rice noodles, which is "Xinghua rice noodles" originated in Putian. It's very fine, and it's cooked as soon as you catch it, so it's commonly known as "fishing Xinghua" and later referred to as "fishing".

Although the fishing method is simple, the taste is really unexpected. Fishing, pay attention to is a word "fishing", a bowl of delicious fishing, but the more you eat, the more delicious it is. Chemistry refers to apricot blossom powder, as white as snow, as fine as silk, and a little rice fragrance. If you want to eat fish, you must have shrimp oil.

taro paste

Taro paste is also one of the favorite desserts in old Fuzhou. The traditional taro paste method pays attention to the selection of betel nut taro produced in Fuding, and the finishing touch is lard. Sweet powder is glutinous, and a small bowl of it makes you feel happy.

Oyster cake

Oyster cake (diā-biàng Fuzhou dialect), also known as sea oyster cake, is a traditional snack with strong Fuzhou flavor, which is unique, well-known and charming. Round, golden in color, crisp in shell and beautiful in stuffing, and can be eaten alone.

Oyster cake is made by wrapping oyster meat, lean pork and celery with rice and soybean powder, and then frying. The finished product is round, golden in color, crispy in shell, fragrant in stuffing and delicious. Most people in Fuzhou make oyster cakes into porridge dishes, which will be better if they are served with fixed-edge paste. There are snacks such as oyster sauce cakes in the food stalls in the streets of Fuzhou.

Shrimp crisp

Shrimp crisp oyster cake court is also a common porridge dish for breakfast in Fuzhou. It is made of shrimp, horseshoe, onion, flour and other materials, and then wrapped with yuba, kneaded into slender strips, cut into small pieces and fried into golden yellow.