In the memories of many southern Minnesotans

What never dies in the heart is those childhood snacks

The following traditional classic food

Full of old southern Minnesota nostalgia

Which one makes you impressed?

Which one have you never eaten before?

Those fried things we grew up with

Deep-fried five spices

In southern Fujian, many families fry their own five spice rolls on New Year's Day.

Lean pork is mixed with green onions, water chestnuts, and potato flour, wrapped in a roll with soybean skin, and deep-fried in a frying pan.

When eaten, cut into small pieces and serve with condiments such as sacha chili, red chili sauce, mustard chili, radish sour, coriander, sweet sauce, etc. The flavor is delicious.

Fried dates (zǎo)

Fried dates are sweet and salty. Sweet to Xiang'an District, Ma Xiangxiang fried jujube best, sweet and soft; salty to "Huang Zhe and peanut soup store" salted jujube the best, both fried jujube flavor, but also chives box feeling, a different taste.

As the inner filling wrapped in fried jujube is both sweet and salty, some people describe it as a situation of not meeting family members for a long time, with both joy and tears. The golden exterior is a favorite, and the softness of the outside makes you want to eat more.

In many of the old neighborhoods of southern Fujian, you can easily find "fried dates" at the stalls that make fried food.

Choi Kuey Teow

Choi Kuey Teow is made of rice paste and white radish, steamed into cakes and then deep-fried. The cooked cake is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, and the skin is golden yellow and slightly burnt.

One bite, the inner filling is white, soft and flavorful, smooth and sweet.

Shredded Fritters

Shredded fritters are a famous snack in Quanzhou city, Hui'an, Quangang and Nan'an. In the city, it is called "fried jiao" (Minnan pronunciation: ji ko); in Hui'an, it is also known as crispy fried oil, crispy cake; in Quangang, it also has a nice name - mouth crispy.

Inside the golden-colored crust, peanut powder mixed with sugar, garlic and green onion is wrapped.

It is small in size, looks like a crescent moon, and looks like a bright golden treasure from afar when it is fried, so you only need two bites to eat one.

Blessing cakes

Bowl cake

The bowl cake in Minnesota is in fact rice cake, which is made of finely ground indica rice and steamed with sugar. The difference between bowl cake and rice cake is that rice cake is steamed in a whole steamer with rice syrup, while bowl cake is steamed in a small bowl in a steamer with rice syrup, so it is called bowl cake.

Bowls of cake is a kind of food often prepared for worship, but also the New Year's cake. Because of its production process needs to be fermented, meaning "fortune", "fortune", and "home", send a good wish.

Often heard elders say that the bowl cake should be smiled to be good, "smile" refers to the steam fermentation expansion, and cracked into a smile. It is soft and sticky to eat, not greasy, and the aroma overflows to fill the taste buds.

Letter Cup Biscuits

Folk food in the southern region, in the eyes of many people of the younger generation has been a strange thing, but this thing has a history of hundreds of years.

In ancient times, people rushing to the road would carry this stuff with them as dry food, it's not suitable for corruption, inexpensive, sweet flavor, and can eat a lot.

As for the origin of its name, this thing looks like a temple in the appearance of the cup of faith, so we naturally named the cup of faith cake, Xiamen or other places are also called love cake.

Turtle Cake

Turtle Cake is a Han Chinese cake cuisine in Fujian, and there are many cakes used for worship in Southern Fujian - Red Turtle Cake, New Year's Cake, Hair Cake, Inch Jujubes, Red Dumplings, Deep Fried Dumplings, Deep Fried Jujubes.... ...to name but a few, but only the red tortoise cake is associated with handicrafts because of its pressed tortoise pattern. The apparatus for pressing the turtle pattern is called turtle cake seal, and the carving of the turtle cake seal is a specialized craft.

The appearance of "turtle kuey teow" is particularly interesting, rather like a turtle shell. Turtle is the representative of longevity, which means good fortune and health. Many southern Minnesotans also use "turtle kuey teow" as a "good-luck charm" on the New Year's table.

Before steaming, fresh sugarcane leaves are used to hold the "turtle kuey teow", and after steaming, the "turtle kuey teow" will emit the aroma of sugarcane leaves.

Sweet Kuey Teow

In Quanzhou, sweet rice cakes made with sugar are also called sweet kuey teow, and are stamped with a red seal to symbolize the "yearly rise".

Sweet kuey teow is made from high-quality large winter glutinous rice. Shaped like a full moon, it is sweet and delicious. There are yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. White sugar is added to white sweet kuey teow, while brown sugar is added to yellow sweet kuey teow.

While enjoying the taste, it is also a way to pray for the family to have a sweeter and more fulfilling life in the coming year.

The Lantern Festival

Eating Yuanzai, also known as eating Lantern Festival, is also called Tangyuan and Tangtuan in some places. It is said that eating Lantern Festival began at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was only in the Song Dynasty that it was called round, taking the meaning of "reunion".

In the Song Dynasty, there was a writer who said that this food is "Panicum powder wrapped in sugar, fragrant soup bath," and made 16 words of praise for a song: "Panicum powder, a little bit of sugar cane frost; bath in the sinking water, sweet and fragrant."

In the old store where the Yuanxiao rounds are made, the sound of pounding peanuts and sesame seed filling comes from 8 am onwards.

With the rice zip wrapped in peanut sugar filling rolled into dumplings, into the pot of boiling water to cook until floating in the bowl, and then add sugar and eat, sweet and smooth, delicate and soft, filling fragrant soup, very tasty.

The Taste of Home Sweet Home

Gonzo Sugar

Gonzo Sugar is a traditional specialty unique to southern Fujian. It is the top grade peanut kernels, sugar, maltose by the folk traditional craft with a wooden stick "hit" out. "Hit" is called "tribute" in southern Fujian. It is called tribute sugar.

There are also claims that the name "tribute sugar" comes from the fact that it was once used by the folk pilgrimage to the imperial tribute, so the crown "tribute" word.

Tribute sugar is made from peanuts, sugar and maltose, of which Quanzhou Tribute Sugar, Kinmen Tribute Sugar, and Zhangzhou's White Water Tribute Sugar, are all representatives of the Tribute Sugar side of Southern Fujian.

The roasted peanuts are mixed with pure maltose at a high ratio in the strongest state of odor, then manually mashed and entangled, and then warmly kneaded to ooze and flow, and then cut into pieces to form a crispy and delicious flavor.

Golden Orange Sugar

According to the traditional custom of Southern Fujian, if there are guests at home to pay tribute to the New Year during the Spring Festival, the hosts will take out desserts to invite guests to taste, of which the golden orange sugar is the choice of many people.

Yongchun has been making kumquat candy for more than 300 years. The kumquat candy smells refreshing to the lungs, the entrance is fresh and sweet, and the aftertaste is mellow and sweet, with an endless aftertaste.

Tangerine red cake

Tangerine red cake has a history of more than 150 years, is a traditional folk snacks in southern Fujian, the appearance of silver-white semi-transparent, delicate texture, glutinous, toughness, soft texture, sweet, but not greasy, and some also has a kumquat flavor, sweet and refreshing.

In many places, the orange red cake has become an essential wedding for a "sugar king". Tangerine cake ingredients for the four seasons of glutinous rice, sugar, kumquat.

According to traditional custom, the man to the woman's home engagement, peanut dates or jujube plus cakes as engagement sugar, and the woman's family will be red cake, melon bars to the man as a thank you gift, so the red cake is also known as the "bride sugar".

Mochi

Mochi is also a famous snack in southern Fujian, the raw materials for the good glutinous rice, lard, sesame seeds, peanuts, rock sugar and so on. Mochi is white in color, sweet and savory, icy sweet and soft.

Mochi is not only a traditional snack of Fujian people, but also a traditional ritual offering. Nowadays, it is usually eaten with a filling (which varies from region to region) and covered with crushed peanuts or sesame seeds.

Mochi from Yingdu in Nan'an, Laoyou Mochi in Zhangzhou, and Ye's Mochi in Gulangyu are all highly praised.

Salty Cake

Salty Cake is a famous tea ceremony in southern Fujian, which is made of rice flour, lard, green onion, sesame and a little salt and sugar, which is sweet but not greasy and crispy.

Minnesotans like to drink tea, because of the delicate texture of the salty cake, slightly salty and sesame flavor, there are many people called "tea partner".

Garlic sticks

At first sight, many outsiders will think that the "garlic sticks" are Tianjin twist, but the "garlic sticks" in Shishi are much smaller than Tianjin twist. The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid.

"Garlic sticks" is a kind of fried snack in southern Fujian, it is a combination of flour and sugar fried food, because the appearance of a layer of white sugar and garlic, the shape of a tree branch, so it is called "garlic sticks".

In southern Fujian, some people also call it "grass rope" according to its shape, which is one of the most appetizing snacks after dinner.

Ma cheese

Ma cheese is a famous refreshments in southern Fujian, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou are common, but also some places called "Ma date", the raw materials are peanuts, glutinous rice and malt sugar.

Hemp cheese on the market is commonly wrapped in sesame and peanut flavors, and the inside is fluffy and crunchy. The crunchy bite brings back childhood memories.

Most food is eaten in the heart,

Not only by the flavor, but also by the feelings.

Whether you've traveled thousands of miles, eaten all over the world,

Minnesotans are still most concerned about those simple food in their hometowns,

As well as, ready to prepare for the food, waiting for you to return home to the people.

And the people at home waiting for you to come back.

And the people who are waiting for you to come back home.