If it is a wedding reception, it is a big dish. You can't eat it when it's served. The people who waited for the new couple to come to this table to worship the swallow could not help laughing. After all, this kind of food does have a similar appearance to wonton. When foreigners come to Fuzhou, they will naturally confuse these two kinds of food. In fact, speaking of meat swallow, it is hard to imagine its popularity in Fujian. Half-cutting the skin of Fuzhou time-honored Tongli meat swallow is not only the most popular choice in local customs. As for the stuffing and practice, the swallow skin is made of fine materials, fresh lean meat is selected, mashed with a wooden hammer, sprinkled with potato powder to synthesize a hard blank, repeatedly pressed with a round wooden stick and rolled into thin slices, then folded and dried, and cut into filaments, which is called "swallow skin".
In ancient times, the poor had no meat to eat, no oil and no water in their bellies. Some poor people went to the cliff to look for the fattest pregnant swallow. Generally, swallows eat the most and have the thickest fat in March and April, so people use them to make soup and braise in soy sauce. Later, the authentic Fuzhou Rouyan was called Rouyan because its skin was made of meat, unlike ordinary wonton made of noodles. Authentic and excellent swallow skin must be made of lean pork hind legs, with the above-mentioned good potato powder, and there is an accurate ratio of meat powder. In contrast, it is obvious that wonton doesn't have so much meat, so it looks less full and looks like a pocket. Fuzhou Meat Swallows are directly crushed in size, no matter how the stuffing is made.