Fujian: the great furnace around the west
Minnan people pay special attention to "surrounding the kitchen", which is the New Year's Eve dinner. The food cooked in the stove is the food after offering sacrifices to the ancestors and gods. Put the sacrificial food in a pot and cook it together to form a hodgepodge.
In southern Fujian, when eating New Year's Eve, a special hot pot is placed in the center of the table, and there is a chimney with charcoal in it. This kind of hot pot is still used in some places today. The taste of the old hotpot is irreplaceable.
Minnan people pay special attention to "surrounding the kitchen", which is the New Year's Eve dinner. The food cooked in the stove is the food after offering sacrifices to the ancestors and gods. Put the sacrificial food in a pot and cook it together to form a hodgepodge. Among them, the name and collocation of food are all particular. For example, there must be fish, called fish for more than a year. Eating fish heads indicates "wealth and mercy" in the coming year (Minnan dialect); Some people want mustard on the table, which is called "long-term dish", symbolizing longevity; Some people also hope that there are homophones of "leek", "leek" and "long" on the dining table, symbolizing longevity; Radish is also indispensable, which is called "vegetable head" in Minnan dialect, meaning "good color head" (good omen); There is also chicken, whose homonym is "Ji" and the Minnan language means "home"; Eating fish balls, shrimp balls and meatballs means "three yuan" and "three yuan" ("pill" is homophonic with "yuan", and three yuan means champion, meeting yuan and solving yuan). ...
Fujian cuisine dinner menu 1. Steamed Abalone with Shark’s Fin and Fish Maw in Broth
Eat all the good luck into the stomach of the whole family in the New Year, but the task is arduous. Fortunately, the ancestors of Fujian people invented the "Buddha jumping wall" for future generations as early as 100 years ago to deal with this complicated and exquisite New Year's Eve dinner: shark's fin, abalone, sea cucumber, fish belly, chicken and duck, sheep elbow, pig's trotters, duck gizzard, winter bamboo shoots, ham, ham, mushroom, pork belly and so on. Strangely, there are dozens of raw materials and ingredients simmered in Shaoxing carved wine jar, which not only have a common taste, but also maintain their own characteristics.
There is a Buddha jumping wall on the table of the New Year's Eve, which is meaningful, nutritious, tasty and atmospheric. If you are worried that you can't buy the right materials or you can't grasp the heat well, go directly to the hotel to enjoy this year's big meal. Many hotels in Xiamen are making Buddha jumping walls. The best way to make this dish is Yuehua Hotel, which tastes classic.
Mincai New Year's Eve menu II. Sweet potato celebrates reunion.
Minnan New Year's Eve dinner, the impression of "sweet" rice cake and "salty" is essential, with special significance and handed down: sweet and salty are all together, round and round. Actually, it's similar to the rice cake here. During the Spring Festival, people all over the country have the habit of eating rice cakes, which means it will increase year by year. Minnan people believe that there will be a "rice cake god" to take care of when steaming, and whether it is done well is related to the fortune of the coming year. Therefore, when cooking (rice cake), children at home will be told to leave, and children are forbidden to ask questions around the stove, and it is even more forbidden to say unlucky words, so as not to make the "rice cake god" angry.
On the New Year's Eve table around the stove, sweet taro paste is indispensable, because "taro" is homophonic with "jade" and there are clams. The shell of a clam is similar to ancient silver and is a symbol of gold and silver. It is usually eaten at the end of the stove. This seafood doesn't need to be cooked, just blanch it with boiling water. If cooked, it will lose its umami flavor and taste bad. In the menu of Minnan people's New Year's Eve dinner, there are also all-purpose dishes: fried oysters, fresh hairtail, red sturgeon (crab), prawns, taro fort and so on. Silk, shredded red melon, walnut kernel, melon seed kernel, lotus seed and osmanthus are the famous eight-treasure rice with lard and fine sand in Hangzhou during the Spring Festival.