Sha Xian snacks
South Fujian, this place, the mention of the Shaxian snacks, can be said that no one knows, no one knows, it is like a spring sprung up all over the southern region of Minnan, and even the south to Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, north, all have their footprints.
As an authentic Shaxian people, not only for the hometown characteristics can go to the country and proud, more hometown people's hard-working and simple entrepreneurial spirit infected.
To say Sha Xian snacks, let's talk about the county first. From the map, Sha County is located in the central region of Fujian Province. It is a beautiful county on the banks of the Shaxi River, which is surrounded by mountains and water. The river that runs through the county has an overbearing name, Qiujiang, which is why Shaxian is shortened to "Qiu". In addition to the river, there is also well-developed transportation here. National Highway 205 runs through the county, and Shaxian also serves as an intermediate station on the Trans-Fujian Railway line. Therefore, this provides an objective condition for Shaxian people to go out and make snacks.
I was born in a small town on the border of Shaxian, but had a wonderful three years of high school life was spent in the county. Alma mater Shaxian first high school on the side of the Qiujiang River, the campus is not large, but looks particularly simple, elegant. There is a temple without monks on the side of the campus called "Xingguo Temple", when General Peng Dehuai once stopped here, so it was later opened as a patriotic education base. The environment here is elegant, suitable for morning reading, I often like to hold a few books, plus a hot glutinous rice dumplings, sitting in front of the temple on the stone chairs, while enjoying the food, while letting the soul feel full. This glutinous rice ball is actually very simple to do, pad a square of clean plastic film, and then from the wooden rice cooker to scoop out a few spoons overflowing with fragrance, white steam of glutinous rice spread on top of the plastic film, and then sprinkle some chopped, and mixed with diced meat fried crispy bamboo shoots, and then pull down half of the fritter on the pressure, and then finally along with the trend of them wrapped in the rice between the ellipse-shaped ball. Tear off the thin plastic film, the aroma of the nose is mouth-watering. This snack is soft with crunchy, both hunger and not tired, especially good taste, the most suitable for those who overslept, too late to eat breakfast students. This snack is simple and affordable, but only the diligent farmers in Shaxian County and this heart. Therefore, in the university campus is not to find this kind of breakfast, there are all those mass-produced milk tea, meat buns, people get tired.
Shaxian is a county that emphasizes eating. The streets and alleys, as long as you walk up to three or five steps you can see a snack stalls. Here are many varieties, complete ingredients, as long as you bring three to five dollars, find a stall, find a low stool to sit down, you can slowly enjoy your mouth, and do not have to care about it mocking all kinds of car horn sound. When it comes to the ingredients of Shaxian snacks, it is also a masterpiece, perhaps friends from southern Fujian will think that there is only a peanut butter. In fact, not, the authentic ingredients are also very careful, first of all, the chili sauce, that is not the kind sold in the supermarket, but to choose the crops of their own species of small red peppers, slowly pounded in the mortar, and then put into the garlic cloves pounded in a piece, until uniform, delicate, bubbling with spicy flavor until the end. Putting some of this hot sauce in a small dish of soy sauce will make whatever you dip into your snacks taste great. There is another ingredient that may be more unfamiliar to you, as far as I know, only in Shaxian County, this is similar to soy sauce ingredients, but it is not as dark as soy sauce, so salty, it is a light ink color, the taste of the moderate and refreshing, mainly to take it dipped in siu mai to eat. Shao mai in Shaxian is different from the kind with yellow skin and meat stuffing wrapped inside, but it is made of translucent trap skin with finely chopped vermicelli and a small piece of diced meat wrapped inside, which is smooth and delicious after dipping into the topping, and is loved by the people of Shaxian.
In the days when I went to school in Shaxian No. 1 High School, I couldn't get away from these delicious snacks either. The diligent Sha Xian people just push a three-wheeled bicycle, where you can make a few snacks, and do not have to shout, will naturally be patronized. The back door of the school is the place with the most of these three-wheeled bicycles, but the door is locked when classes are in session, leaving only a two-finger wide slit. We can really make use of the space, it is the use of this gap, between classes when the mouth can not be idle, a few people put together three or five dollars from the gap to the granny outside, the granny will pass the sandwich cake one by one in. This kind of sandwich cake, as the name suggests, is a baked small round cake peeled, into the inside of the sandwich some trap, there are bamboo shoots trap, sliced meat trap, fried carrots trap, etc., and then dipped in some toppings, spicy or not spicy, flavors of your choice. The so-called fried carrots means scraping the carrots into shreds, then mixed with wet flour, poured into a round spoon and put into a frying pan, red and crispy, crispy and delicious. There are also some fried snacks such as groundnut cake, fried spring rolls, fried sesame balls and so on are the best snacks for students.
In fact, Shaxian snacks are most concentrated in an old street. All the tourists who come to Shaxian to taste the snacks must come to sit in this old street. It's an alley on the edge of the Qiujiang River, and across the alley is the busy street that runs across the county. Here, you don't have to use your ears to listen to the noise of the street, but just use your eyes to select various kinds of snacks; use your nose to smell the tantalizing aroma from the food; use your tongue to savor the taste of various snacks. In addition to the above mentioned snacks, the variety here is even more abundant, there are oil fragrant pot stickers, crispy taro mud cake, smooth rice jelly skin, sticky taro dumplings, smooth tofu soup, soft and creamy tofu blocks and so on. Here there is no box seat, only the square table and short stools; here there is no master chef, only clever people under the pot. All customers are treated equally here, whether you eat on the spot or pack up and go home, you will be warmly received. People who come here not only feel the delicious food, but also a kind of casual and natural warmth of home.
In recent years, more and more people are going out to do snacks in Shaxian, the county government is paying more and more attention to the snack industry, and gradually formed a snack culture, Shaxian snacks have become the same as the Shaxian cold, board duck, a brand. Although the people of Shaxian who go out to make snacks do not bring so many varieties out, but they diligently do snacks, honest money-making attitude also reflects the kind of Shaxian people's generosity and goodness.
Now, every year on December 8 to become Shaxian snack culture festival, interested friends may wish to go to the old streets of Shaxian walk, feel the atmosphere of snacks there.