The National Day is coming, and many friends choose to travel to Xiamen. I personally recommend you to visit Xiamen. October is the fine weather in Xiamen, so eating and drinking are indispensable for traveling. Here I would like to introduce some special products of Xiamen to you.
1. pineapple cake. When it comes to Xiamen's specialties, pineapple cake definitely ranks first. When you go to Gulangyu, you can see small shops selling pineapple cake everywhere. Handmade pineapple cake in Xiamen is a product suitable for all ages, with soft skin and sour and sweet insides. It is a good choice whether you eat it yourself or take it back to your family and friends as a gift.
2. Nanputuo vegetarian pie. As a famous scenic spot in Xiamen, the pies in Nanputuo Temple are also very famous, usually filled with mung beans. Now there are other fillings such as red beans and taro. Because they are vegetarian cakes, the price is also very cheap, and they will not be too sweet.
3. Riguangyan Pie. It's sweeter than the vegetarian cake in Nanputuo Temple, and it's delicious. In fact, there are still many refreshments in Xiamen. Interested friends can buy combination clothes and try new flavors.
4. tribute sugar. Tribute sugar in southern Fujian is very famous and belongs to the specialty of southern Fujian flavor. There are many styles. I don't eat much myself, but it's too sweet, but because peanuts are added, it tastes delicious, so it's quite suitable with tea.
5. Fried oyster. Fried oysters are a specialty in southern Fujian, and there are certainly many in Xiamen. I'm not used to it myself, because it's fishy, but friends who haven't eaten it can try it when they go to cities in southern Fujian, such as Xiamen or Quanzhou.
There are many specialties in Xiamen, and amphioxus is also worth trying.
The above contents are only personal opinions. Please correct me if there are any deficiencies.
Ke Jinding, Minnan Net
Thank you for inviting me: Xiamen is a coastal city, and seafood is Xiamen's characteristic (similar to Quanzhou and Zhangzhou). The oysters produced along the coast are a major specialty of Xiamen, and the most famous food' Fried oyster' is the favorite food of people in Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou (southern Fujian). Fresh oysters are not easy to preserve and transport, so they can only be tasted locally. Don't miss the opportunity to go to Xiamen.
As a foreign tourist, fresh oysters are not easy to take home, but dried oysters are still available for sale, which is easy to carry and is a good choice for giving to relatives and friends. Especially in families with children, it is the best choice to feed young children with dried oysters. The truth that' food tonic is better than medicine tonic' needs no further explanation. Spending little money to keep healthy, every parent wants his children to grow healthily and vigorously, and bringing back a little dried oysters will make children and adults happy.
Thank you: There are many specialties in Xiamen, including duck with sauce, tea with big red envelopes in Wuyishan, and many kinds of dried mushrooms, with excellent spore powder, knives and pots. Xiamen's specialties are similar to those in Taiwan Province, and its diet is very similar, because it faces Taiwan Province across the sea, and its fruits include pineapple, lotus spray and mangguo, and its ornamental houses and ancient houses are quite good. I'll explain it in detail by region.
Gulangyu, 1. Huang Shengji Golden Fragrant Pork floss shop, an old-fashioned brand that both tourists and Xiamen people love to buy, is famous for its "tight and sweet meat but not greasy" dried pork and "fragrant and tender pork floss suitable for rice".
2. When you go to Gulangyu, you must buy a box of pies for your family. The taste of the old Gulangyu pie has changed. This Wangji Pie, located at No.168 Longtou Road, Gulangyu Island, is recommended as an old shop with a history of 2 3 years. Handmade pies, including meat stuffing and mung bean stuffing. The skin is soft, the stuffing is soft and glutinous, and the materials are sufficient.
Siming District, 1. Nanputuo Temple, located next to Xiamen University, is a place where not only Xiamen people but also tourists come back to burn incense and worship Buddha. Nanputuo Temple vegetarian cake has the reputation of "the first vegetarian cake in Xiamen", which is fragrant, sweet and lingering. The pie is golden in color, small and exquisite, with no oil stains on the surface, fresh and clean.
2. Ajizai Pie, located at No.116 Kaiyuan Road, is also a very old-fashioned cake shop. Don't be surprised when you come to buy it. The long queue is basically composed of old customers in Xiamen and tourists who come here. It is famous for its horseshoe crisp mung bean cake, which has been sold from 8: in the morning until 17: in the afternoon, and basically the recommended horseshoe crisp mung bean cake will be sold out around 15: in the afternoon.
jimei district, 1. Suntory Ginger Duck, located in Guannan Community of Guankou Town (near Weiyou Hotel), is one of the most famous ginger duck shops in Xiamen. It is famous for its outstanding salt aroma and tender meat, and it is not recommended to buy it because of its location.
1. Gulangyu Pie
Gulangyu Pie, a century-old Chinese specialty, is one of the most famous specialties in Xiamen, Fujian, and a traditional food with a history of more than 1 years. Fortunately, it is made of high-quality white flour, the first-class mung beans, and the mung beans that make the cake stuffing are steamed and shelled, and the research is fine. The cake crust and cake crisp are fully oiled and kneaded just right. When baking, pay attention to the heat, so that the oil does not go away when it is cooked inside and red outside. The pie made in this way is fragrant, crisp and moist, and the pie filling is cold and sweet. Gulangyu pie is wrapped in various fillings, which is sweet and crisp, moist and cold, and has many flavors! There are Gulangyu pie, husband cake, old woman cake, fragrant meat pie, coconut cake, green tea pie, seaweed pie, vegetarian cake, mung bean cake, peach, litchi, grape, longan, strawberry, pineapple, coconut and other fruit-flavored pies, and there are many varieties!
The Riguangyan Pie series is a time-honored product in China, and it is an authentic Gulangyu specialty and a famous food in Xiamen. It has a long history and is famous overseas. Its secret lies in its unique manufacturing technology, diverse eating methods and appropriate shades. Such as: 1. Light breakfast type: take 2 pieces of this product and pour it into boiling water to make a delicious and nutritious breakfast. 2, ready-to-eat snack type: make a cup of tea, you can enjoy the real Gulangyu specialty pie, chew slowly, so that you can have an endless aftertaste.
fragrance-returning type: soak this product in a microwave oven, adjust the microwave to 25-3 seconds or barbecue for 2 minutes, and enjoy the fresh-baked taste after cooling. It is crispy and delicious, and its lips and teeth are fragrant. Sunlight rock pie, with exquisite materials, fine workmanship and delicate stuffing. Its nutritional and health care value is well-known, and it has won many awards and is deeply loved by friends at home and abroad. Whether it's a gift for relatives and friends, a festive festival or a snack, Sunlight Rock Pie is the first choice. Therefore, it adds a delicious special food to the beautiful Xiamen.
Nanputuo vegetarian cake originated from vegetarian banquet snacks, which is loved by consumers because of its health, fashion, hygiene and delicious taste. Since the early 199s, its independent packaging has been widely welcomed in the market, and it has become a good gift for relatives and friends, and it is even loved by guests at home and abroad as a special product of Xiamen. Nanputuo vegetarian cake adheres to the advantages of pure vegetarian dishes in Nanputuo, fine workmanship and exquisite materials, adheres to traditional techniques and is hand-made. The vegetarian cake tastes crisp and fragrant, sweet but not greasy. In 23, Nanputuo vegetarian cake was awarded the title of "China Famous Point" at the 4th China Food Festival.
Jinmen tribute sugar is a famous traditional specialty in Xiamen. It "beats" the superior peanut kernels, white sugar and maltose with wooden sticks through traditional folk techniques. "Da" is called "Gong" in Minnan language, which is called tribute sugar.
a complete collection of local products in Xiamen According to legend, during the emperor's period, local officials in Jiahe Island (Xiamen Island) often presented vegetarian snacks with southern Fujian characteristics to the emperor. After tasting the tea, the emperor admired it and praised it again and again. Later, it was called "tribute sugar" by the people and spread overseas. Golden Gate tribute sugar, with delicate taste, crisp and fragrant quality and authentic purity, has become one of the specialties of Golden Gate and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. According to legend, the name "tribute sugar" comes from two sources: one is that it was once a royal food tribute used by the people for pilgrimage, so it was crowned with the word "tribute"; On the other hand, in the process of making tribute sugar, it is necessary to rely on manpower to make the sugar dense and meticulous, which is called "tribute" in southern Fujian.
Huang Zehe Pie, an authentic Chinese time-honored brand, is a well-known traditional pastry in Xiamen and one of the traditional foods in southern Fujian. The color is golden and oily, and the oversized pie looks delicious. Take a bite, the skin is soft and fragrant, and the filling is round and delicate, cold and sweet. The mouth is sweet and crisp, with endless aftertaste. Mung beans in pies are cool and detoxifying, and they contain nutrients such as sugar, fiber, protein, inorganic salts, vegetable fats, and are rich in essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by human body itself. Therefore, using mung beans as stuffing not only preserves the nutrients, but also has the attractive characteristics of fragrant licking and refreshing.
Top Ten Specialties in Xiamen
1. Mung bean cake:
The production of local mung bean cake in Gulangyu began in 1922, and was first run by Xiaorui Ginger Cake Shop in Datong Road, Xiamen, and moved to Gulangyu during the Anti-Japanese War. After that, the production technology of mung bean cake was inherited. Now, Gulangyu mung bean cake has become a good product for refreshments and gifts to relatives and friends.
2. Pie: Pie is a traditional food with a history of more than 1 years in Xiamen. It is made of high-quality flour, lard and fine mung beans. When making, the mung bean is steamed and crispy, shelled, and finely ground. The crust and pastry are fully oiled and kneaded properly. When baking, pay attention to the heat, so that it is cooked inside and not oily outside. The pie crust made in this way is fragrant, crisp and moist, and the filling is cold and sweet. The famous pies include Qinglanzhai, Nanputuo Temple Plain Cake, Wangji Cake and Sunlight Rock Cake.
3. Wood-burning Tieguanyin: In Xiamen, we can see that every household has the habit of drinking Tieguanyin, and the wood-burning Tieguanyin in Shangke tea industry is the best. The local acacia trees are selected for firewood burning Tieguanyin. Acacia trees have large heads and high density, and the temperature lasts for a long time when burning, which can reach seven or eight days. Because the ignition point of acacia is warm fire (slow fire), that is, the skin will not burn when it is close to the ashes, it can adapt to the control of the fire by the tea maker, make the tea stir-fry just right and dry enough without burning, and effectively reserve the space for continuous fermentation of tea. Moreover, because of its low ignition point, the stir-frying time can be longer, and the aroma of firewood can be better transmitted to the tea leaves, so that the prepared firewood-burned Tieguanyin can retain the faint aroma of firewood
4. Olive: olive, which has the effects of moistening throat, protecting throat and detoxifying, and can prevent diphtheria for children. In 193s, Huaideju, a pharmacy in Xiamen, sold olive base made of olive fruit and precious Chinese medicine as a patent medicine. Because of its strong flavor, ordinary people were anorexic and didn't buy it unless they were ill. A few years later, Yan Jiachun's candied fruit shop changed this olivine into licorice candied fruit, which is both food and medicine. It was named Qingjinguo, and Xiamen people called it "Qingguogu". At present, the fruit of Qingjin, which is in the market, is made of olive, licorice and sugar water. It is moderately sweet and sour, salty and delicious, and fragrant. After eating, Jin Xiang soothes the throat, eliminates stagnation, relieves boredom, stops dizziness and vomiting, refreshes the body and mind, nourishes the spleen and stomach, and increases appetite. It can really be said that "the green fruit touches the lips and the mouth is new, and the rest is sweet and forgives the throat, spleen and stomach."
5. Crocodile Island Oyster Sauce: The raw materials of Xiamen Crocodile Island Oyster Sauce "Yangjiang" brand and Crocodile Island Oyster Juice "Yangjiang" brand come from 16 beaches and five sea islands in Tongan Bay. Its geographical position is located in the east and west coasts of Fujian. As early as more than 1 years ago, it was famous for its rich pearl oysters. The oyster sauce and oyster juice products produced by Xiamen "Yangjiang" Oyster Oil Import and Export Co., Ltd. are exported to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other places, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad.
6. bead embroidery: Xiamen bead embroidery is a decorative handicraft with a unique artistic style. It has a history of more than 1 years and is famous for its novelty, grandeur and brilliance. Xiamen bead embroidery is famous for its novelty, splendor and dazzling, with more than 1 varieties such as bead slippers, bead wall charts and bead embroidery bags. These products are made of sparkling and colorful glass beads and electro-optical films, and the traditional techniques such as convex embroidery, Ping Xiu embroidery, string embroidery, grain embroidery, random needle embroidery, vertical needle embroidery and laminated embroidery are used to embroider the bas-relief patterns. The whole bead pattern is rigorous and impenetrable, and the half bead pattern is elegant and beautiful, fresh and pleasing to the eye.
7. Huang Shengji Dried Meat: Huang Shengji is the most famous Chinese time-honored brand in Xiamen, with a history of 166 years. Huang Zhijiang and Huang Shengji, the founders of "Golden Fragrance" in the 16th year of Qing Daoguang (1842), all created their own dried meat floss, with excellent materials and unique ingredients. In addition, they were carefully crafted, and the dried meat floss produced was golden in color, golden in color, delicious and unparalleled.
8. Fish skin peanuts originated in Japan. Because its skin cake powder blank is mixed with fish skin glue, it is called fish skin peanut. In the 192s, people in Taiwan Province province who lived in Xiamen copied and sold them by hand. It is refined with peanut kernel, cake powder, sugar and starch as the main raw materials. It tastes salty and sweet, fragrant and crisp, and is very popular with the masses.
Now it is also exported to Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asian countries.
9. Peanut crisp in Xiamen: Peanut crisp is a famous Chinese pastry in Xiamen, also known as "tribute sugar". The main raw materials are peanut kernel and sugar. When making, the peanut kernel is fried and peeled, boiled with sugar, then pounded into crisp, rolled and shaped, and cut into small pieces. When eating, you should carefully peel off the wrapping paper, gently put it in your mouth, and it will melt in your mouth. It is sweet < P > but not greasy, and the fragrance can be sprayed on your cheeks. Besides sipping tea, it can also be used as a sandwich for salty cakes and other pastries. The products are exported to home and abroad.
1. Lacquer line carving:
It is a unique folk handicraft with a long history in Xiamen. Lacquer line carving has been applied to the decoration of Buddha statues since the prosperity of colored sculptures in the Tang Dynasty. As early as hundreds of years ago, lacquer line sculptures were well-known at home and abroad and exported to Southeast Asian countries. Lacquer-line carving is a kind of splendid figures and animals
images wrapped with fine lacquer lines through special production methods, especially with traditional folk themes, such as dragons and phoenixes, unicorns, clouds and water, and lotus flowers.
Xiamen is a graceful sea garden. The gods of islands, reefs, rocks, temples, flowers and trees reflect each other, and the customs of overseas Chinese, customs of Fujian and Taiwan, seaside cuisine and exotic buildings are integrated. "The city is in the sea, and the sea is in the city" aptly sums up the beautiful city of Xiamen.
The tourism industry in Xiamen is very developed, and heavy industries are almost moved to outlying islands, so blue sky, white clouds and clear Wan Li are very common in Xiamen. Comfortable life, slow pace of life, coupled with a beautiful human environment, makes it attract a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists to visit.
When you travel to Xiamen, you have eaten and played. What should you bring back?
Next, I will tell you what special products are worth taking when I travel to Xiamen.
1. Ginger duck, one of the traditional famous foods in Xiamen, is popular in Xiamen and Quanzhou in southern Fujian. Ginger duck was originally a royal dish, which was reportedly created by Wu Zhong, a famous doctor in Shang Dynasty, and later spread to the people, so it became a famous dish. It can not only tonify qi and blood, but also match duck meat to nourish yin and reduce fire. The medicated diet in delicious food is nourishing but not greasy, warm but not dry, and is suitable for autumn and winter. Attractive food color, fragrant smell, delicious taste and rich nutrition, among which ginger slices have a unique taste; The stewed ginger duck has a charming fragrance, the soup inside is very fresh, and the duck meat is tender and strong, which is really a must. 2, Miss Zhao's pie, Miss Zhao is the daughter of a big family in Gulangyu in her early years. In the middle of last century, she moved to Nanyang with her family. With the passage of time, being in a foreign land, she misses the life of Gulangyu as a child and the delicious pies on Gulangyu Island. Time flies, nearly half a century apart, and her descendants opened "Miss Zhao's Shop" in Gulangyu, which bears the memory of her grandmother. 3. kinmen kaoliang liquor and kinmen kaoliang liquor are Taiwan Province of China.