Shishi sweet fruit

Shishi sweet fruit is the top grade of rice cake. According to legend, Shishi began to produce this kind of rice cake during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Its main components are winter glutinous rice, sugar, honey wax gourd, kumquat, spices, etc., and it can be stored for 15 days without mildew. If you put it in sugar in winter and edible oil in summer, it can last for four or five months.

Returned overseas Chinese always bring some stone lion sweet fruits to overseas relatives and friends.

Yuanxiao pill

Yuanxiao is the food of Quanzhou Lantern Festival. The main ingredients are peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar, winter melon sugar, onion and fruit flavor, wrapped in glutinous rice flour and boiled in boiling water.

Yuanxiao meatballs are tender and sweet, which is a good point in winter and very popular with tourists.

Salted rice

Quanzhou's characteristic staple food, a cooking method of rice, has many kinds, including pumpkin salty rice, radish salty rice, mustard salty rice, taro salty rice, pork belly diced salty rice and so on. Contrary to fried rice, salty rice is cool and suitable for summer. It is particularly noteworthy that salty rice is a kind of rice, not a kind of porridge. A small bowl of rice can cool off the heat, which is amazing and worthy of being a place with a strong seaside style.

Noodles (Zhangzhou noodles are the most famous)

Braised noodles are made of various ingredients and dough. It tastes sweet, smooth and mellow, and it is a gift for people in cities and rural areas to treat or celebrate their birthdays on holidays. Nowadays, the catering industry has included noodles in a famous scenic spot.

Face thread paste

Snacks in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province and even Pan-Minnan area. It is pasty and made of fine noodles and sweet potato powder. Boil the water first, add sweet potato powder, seasoning and noodles. Usually eaten for breakfast, with another local snack-fried dough sticks. Generally, various ingredients such as large intestine, small intestine, shrimp, pork liver, marinated eggs, fried eggs (eggs are cut into pieces), vinegar meat (fried meat slices), sausages and so on can be added to the batter.

Fish porridge

Quanzhou snack "fish porridge" is cheap and easy to make, and is deeply loved by Quanzhou people. It is called "open hearth at sea".

According to legend, when he was young, Ouyang Zhan of Tang Dynasty set up a straw shed to study under the rocks in Jiuri Mountain, Nan 'an, and often went to Jinjixi to light a bonfire at night to study. On one occasion, the food brought by his family had been eaten up, so he had to wait for his brother Ouyang Mo to bring him food. Unexpectedly, his elderly grandmother died, and his family were mourning, so he didn't have time to send him food. suffer hunger and cold ...

Chongwu fish Juan

Chongwu fish roll is a famous dish in southern Fujian and one of the top ten snacks in Quanzhou. It has won many awards in competitions held in southern Fujian, and is highly appreciated by the people of southern Fujian and tourists visiting Hui 'an.

Frozen bamboo shoots

Frozen bamboo shoots are a kind of special food originated from Tongan County in ancient times, and they are frozen products processed from unique products. It contains gum, the main raw material is a worm, belonging to the starfish family, the scientific name is Phascolosoma esculenta, and it is two or three inches long. After boiling, the colloid contained in the insect body is dissolved in water and coagulated after cooling. Its meat is clear and delicious. With soy sauce, North ...

Beef Soup

It is the most popular and common snack in Quanzhou. It is said that the appearance of beef soup is related to Lu Xiufu, a famous minister of the southern imperial clan. According to legend, in the third year of Jingyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1278), Bos in Quanzhou promoted Pu Shougeng to the Yuan Dynasty and pursued Wen Tianxiang and others with Yuan soldiers. After the death of Song Dynasty in April, Lu Xiufu and others made Zhao Emperor at the age of eight. In order to escape the pursuit of the yuan army, they sometimes lived on ships and sometimes went ashore to feed. ...

Four portions of fruit soup

Four fruit soup is an important drink for people in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian to cool off in summer. Every time they go to the streets in summer, there will be many vendors selling four fruit soup, and some will open stores, sell four fruit soup in summer and burn grass in winter. Ordering a bowl of four fruit soup in a small shop with air conditioning is also very pleasant.

Honglai chicken feet, Chongwu fish roll, West Street snail, Xiamen Jimei Guankou ginger duck, eel stewed pig's feet, stewed pig's elbows, steak (different from western-style steak), stewed mutton in Shuimen Lane, small intestine with pig's blood, oyster (pearl oyster) (stone oyster), steamed tuna, steamed eggs of Meretrix meretrix, steamed oil clams in sauce and fried mud clams.