Zhangzhou special snacks

Zhangzhou noodles with noodles

Zhangzhou noodles with noodles with noodles with noodles with noodles are also known as Lu noodles, enjoying a long reputation. Stir-fry shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, shredded eggs, mushrooms, squid, dried shrimps, daylily and other ingredients in a hot pot, add pork bone soup to boil, and then add proper amount of monosodium glutamate, sugar, refined salt and sweet potato powder to make a marinade. When eating, put some leeks, bean sprouts and marinade on the noodles, and then add seasonings such as pepper, fried diced garlic, fried flat fish shreds and coriander. Its characteristics: bright color, tender and smooth quality, dizzy and mellow, sweet and delicious.

In addition to noodles, there are various kinds of noodles, such as beef noodles, Satay Noodles noodles, duck noodles and so on.

Hand-grabbed noodles

commonly known as "dried bean noodles" or "spiced noodles" are composed of three parts: fabric, ingredients and condiments. The fabric is made of alkali noodles, which are cooked and spread on a bamboo screen to make round slices with the size of the palm of your hand, which is called "noodles". When eating, put "fried dried bean curd" or "spiced roll" on the noodles, add sweet noodle sauce, peanut butter, mustard hot sauce, garlic vinegar sauce and other condiments, then roll up the noodles and eat them with your hands, so it is called "hand-grabbed noodles". Its characteristics: fragrant, sweet, sour and spicy, oily but not greasy, refreshing and appetizing.

Dry mixed noodles

It is said that a long time ago, there was a cooked food vendor who dealt in flat food and noodle soup. One summer, after a hard day's hawking, he went home at night with some noodles still not sold out. He was afraid that the noodles would turn sour and go bad, so he put the remaining noodles in a boiling pot, scalded them, fished them out and cooled them on the chopping board. Unexpectedly, he accidentally knocked over the oil tank on the chopping board, and all the sesame oil in the tank spilled on the noodles, so he simply mixed the noodles and sesame oil evenly. Early the next morning, he went out to sell the noodles. He put the noodles dried the night before into a boiling water pot and boiled them, then took them out, and mixed them with vinegar, peanut butter and other condiments. The customer ate them with relish and asked him what noodles they were. He blurted out, "This is called dry mixed noodles." Nowadays, the dry mixed noodles are cooked in a pot with strong tree-alkali noodles and fresh braised trotters. You can also choose various ingredients freely, such as trotters, sour bamboo shoots, chestnuts, braised large intestine, sausages ... plus the secret sauces of the store: peanut butter, sand tea sauce, garlic sauce, etc. Take chopsticks and mix them together. The flavor of the trotters is slightly spicy, and the trotters are soft and greasy.

Zhangzhou snack "chick fetus"

"chick fetus" is a name in Minnan dialect. It is an egg that has been hatched, but failed to hatch a chicken. The embryo in the egg has developed. When the eggshell is peeled off, you can see the embryonic form of the chicken, the soft fluff and even the chicken bones. Choose live chicks hatched naturally. In southern Fujian, after the cool autumn every year, there is a habit of eating chick embryos to nourish the body.

Salted chicken

According to legend, a salt worker was hungry and cold in a salt field along the coast of Zhangzhou long ago, but he stole a chicken. When the owner of the salt field came back to eat it, the salt worker quickly buried the cooked chicken in the salt pile. After that, he took it out and ate it. The chicken was salty and fragrant, so don't. By the development of salt industry in the coastal areas of Qing Dynasty, a large number of mainland merchants flocked to the coastal areas to sell salt for business. In order to collude with the government, saltworks owners often created a special flavor and cooked the whole chicken in high temperature and hot salt, which later evolved into salted chicken.

cat porridge

When I heard that the word cat porridge was not from Zhangzhou people, I must have thought it was porridge made of cat meat, but it wasn't. Cat porridge means porridge eaten by cats. Cat porridge is sweet and delicious, and everyone who has eaten it will fall in love with it. As for why the porridge eaten by cats is given to people? There are at least three "legends" about cat porridge, which also contain touching love intentions:

First, it is said that during the Qing Dynasty, there was an official family in Zhao 'an City, with a strict grandmother and a dozen sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren and grandchildren, all of whom obeyed the family education and dared not overstep the rules, just like a family style. After the eldest grandson got married, the new daughter-in-law went down to the kitchen three days after she passed the door and cooked the whole family's meals by herself, but she could only eat the leftovers from her family's meals under the kitchen.

The eldest grandson couldn't bear to let his beloved wife be wronged for a long time, and ate the leftovers for three meals, so he came up with a clever plan: he bought some kittens to raise. Every day after dinner, I always use the excuse of "cat porridge" to cook fresh and delicious meals for my newly married wife with fish, shrimp, meat and other dishes.

On one occasion, as soon as the eldest grandson cooked fresh and delicious porridge and put it on the table, the old lady came into the kitchen to check it out, and asked her grandson what he was doing in the kitchen with a surprised face. The eldest grandson cleverly replied, "Make cat porridge and mix the leftovers for the cat." Because there are indeed a few cats in the family, the old lady believes it. Because it takes time to make "cat porridge", fresh ingredients and rice are rinsed with boiling soup, and with good ingredients, it is sweet and palatable. The new wife likes to eat it, and the young couple have deeper affection and incomparable love.

Time flies, and after thirty years, my daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law. When the old man died, his granddaughter-in-law also became the master, and there were many children and grandchildren under his knees. On the occasion of his wife's 5th birthday, the husband asked his beloved wife what she wanted to eat. She recalled the scene of that year and pondered for a long time before saying, "I haven't eaten cat porridge for a long time, but it's still delicious." The husband said happily, "it's easy. Now there's no need to cook secretly. I'll go to the kitchen and do it." "Cat porridge" is filled with the love of young couples, which is naturally delicious and memorable. Neighbors heard that "cat porridge" was delicious, and they all came to ask how to do it. In this way, "cat porridge" spread.

Second, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital city, fell to Hangzhou today, and the little emperor Zhao Bing and the left and right prime ministers Lu Xiufu and Chen Yizhong were hunted down by the Yuan Army and fled south to the coastal areas of southern Fujian. One day, the food they brought with them was exhausted, and the monarch and the minister were hungry. The left and right prime ministers took turns carrying the little emperor to a large family in the fishing village to beg for food.

The rich man saw that it was a few beggars with dusty faces, so he made porridge out of the leftovers he was going to feed the cat after dinner and gave them alms. Several people are hungry, so they immediately gulp down the porridge. Later, they fled south to settle down in Yashan, Guangdong Province. When they talked about that unforgettable escape experience, they remembered that delicious porridge. However, the chef around the emperor could not make such porridge. Later, the chef had a brainwave and sailed back to the fishing village where the emperor begged for food and learned how to make this porridge. Soon, Cliff Mountain was also captured by the Yuan Army, and the monarch and his subjects died and fled. The chef also sneaked back to his hometown of Minnan, and from then on he started to run a cat porridge with an exclusive flavor. < P > Third, there is another saying that someone who works as a chef in a wealthy family secretly makes porridge with the scraps of fish left in the kitchen to help the pregnant women at home. He didn't want to be caught by his owner, so he lied that what he was cooking was cat food, and the owner was skeptical. Since then, this porridge has spread.

Cat porridge pays attention to fresh materials and ready-made food, so it is delicious and tastes excellent. Like Zhangzhou Tulou, which was rated as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO, it is a kind of cultural and non-cultural heritage that lives in the hearts of Zhangzhou people forever.

spiced

Mix half-fat and half-lean pork strips, chopped onion, chopped water chestnuts, shrimp skin and other raw materials with appropriate amount of spiced powder, sugar and shrimp oil, add sweet potato powder and water, and stir them evenly into a paste, then roll them into a round strip with a diameter of about one inch with tofu bag, and fry them in an exothermic oil pan. When eaten hot, it is crisp outside and moist inside, with rich flavor and delicious taste.

Runbing

The main raw materials of Runbing are shredded spring bamboo shoots, shredded carrots, shredded cabbage, leek, mung bean sprouts, mushrooms, crisp seaweed, pork legs, shrimps, shredded egg skin, etc. When eating, the stuffing made of various dishes is wrapped into a pillow shape with cooked dough as thin as cicada wings, and then dipped in various sauces according to personal preferences. Its characteristics: tender, crisp, sweet and moist, mellow and flavorful. You can also fry the wrapped moist cake, commonly known as "spring cake", which has a unique flavor.

People in Zhangzhou have the habit of eating moist cakes, especially around Qingming Festival. I always like eating, especially the feeling of wrapping the cake by myself. Wrap the hot dish with a thin piece of cake, and then eat it conveniently. Hold the cake in your hand, it is hot in your palm, and it tastes delicious when you eat it in your mouth. Of course, you have to be careful to prevent the vegetable juice from dripping on your clothes.

Oyster Fried (also called oyster fried)

The Xigan area near Shima Town in Longhai County is rich in "pearl oysters". "Pearl oyster" has a thin shell and little meat, but it is rich in protein and minerals, with a sugar content of 6%. Oyster fried with "Pearl oyster" is delicious. When cooking oyster omelet, first mix the sweet potato powder with clear water in the bowl head, add appropriate amount of duck eggs, chopped garlic sprouts, superior soy sauce and monosodium glutamate, then pour the pearl oysters into the bowl and stir well, then put them in a pan and fry them in oil. They are crispy outside and soft inside, which makes them particularly tender and crispy.

Pan-side paste

Pan-side paste seems to be pressed with rice, with a thin layer, which is a bit like rice rolls in Guangdong. Add it to the light but delicious soup, add fried dough sticks cut into small pieces, add some chopped leeks, and preferably add some braised pork intestines, stewed pork lungs and stewed bamboo shoots, which are even more delicious. Nest-side paste is a good choice for breakfast. It is light, refreshing and cheap.

bean vermicelli

The smooth bean curd (known as bean curd in the north) is served with thick vermicelli, with various condiments such as dried radish, shrimp skin and soy sauce, some with coriander, and finally with some marinades such as braised pork intestines. It's delicious. Flat food

What is flat food? It's wonton The flat food made by that old shop near Zhongshan Park in Zhangzhou. That's really a thin skin and a lot of stuffing. The skin looks transparent after cooking, and the stuffing is fragrant. I don't know what seasoning is put in it. The soup is simple and light, but it does not lose an attractive aroma. Buy flat food and cook it at home. A careful boss will send a packet of scallion oil with a little coriander. When he gets home, he will boil the water, add this packet of seasoning, and add some salt and monosodium glutamate. It is simple, but just as delicious.

meat dumplings

the rice is fried and covered with all kinds of equally delicious stuffing. The old-fashioned stuffing is fried meat with onion and shrimp skin, plus mushrooms, plus a quail egg or a quarter of a braised duck egg. Now there are many kinds of stuffing, such as braised pork, salted egg yolk, chestnut, etc ... Anyway, you will never miss the stuffing.

vermicelli

Delicious vermicelli is added to make a paste, and a little pepper is added, so it has a special taste.

four fruit soup

Today, there are more than four fruits in four fruit soup, and some have more than a dozen fruits, such as mung beans, red beans, lotus seeds, white fungus, various fruits, such as pineapples and watermelons, some have candied fruit, fairy grass, and one seems to be made of sweet potato powder. A transparent cube is particularly chewy when put in your mouth. Put these good things together, add sugar water and shaved ice, and eat such a bowl of four fruit soup in summer, which is really beautiful. Besides, four fruit soup is very cheap. Such a good thing is only two yuan for a bowl.

the flavor characteristics of fried noodles

: crispy skin, sweet and tender inside, which is popular among the elderly and children.

triangle cake

When I think of that triangle cake, it should be considered as a delicious food, because it is economical and affordable, and I can afford it myself when I was a primary school student. I remember when I was a child, on my way home, passing through the middle section of Minzhu Road, I often saw a roadside stall selling triangle cakes. At that time, my friends and I would always get close to the faint fragrance floating in the air, call two, wrap them in plastic bags, one for each person, and then fight for money from my trouser pocket to pay the bill, because we can all afford this cheap and delicious food.

Finger cakes

Flavor characteristics: they look like pillows. Bamboo shoots are rich in nutrition. When cooking, add a little, and the soup is delicious and sweet. But the most praised is "frozen bamboo shoots". "Frozen bamboo shoots" is made by placing fresh bamboo shoots on a stone slab, pressing out the internal organs and impurities of the bamboo shoots, washing them, adding water into a pot, burning them fiercely with strong fire until the soup becomes gelatinous, then putting them in a container and freezing. If the frozen bamboo shoots are mixed with salted sauerkraut, garlic white, crisp seaweed or hot and sour sauce, the taste is better.

pockmarked

strings of

glutinous rice

raw and hot

caitouguo, which is also called "smelly touguo" according to the transliteration of Zhangzhou dialect.

xiancao

Xiancao

Xiancao is also called Mesona blume, Xiancao, Xiancao jelly, and Fucao, and it is also called Tiancao (commonly known in southern Fujian and Taiwan Province), Caocao, Xiancao jelly, an annual plant belonging to the genus Xiancao in Labiatae. It is an important oriental plant resource with dual functions of medicine and food. The dry sample of the whole grass contains about 7% carbohydrates, a small amount of protein, fat, pigment, etc., and also contains more mineral elements. The name of "Xiancao" first appeared in the modern "Illustration of Medicinal Plants in China" and was called "Xiancao" in the "Professional Prescription".

in addition to being eaten, Xiancao also has health-care effects in various herbal medicines. Zhao Qiguang wrote "Seeking the Original Materia Medica" in Qing Dynasty, saying that it can "clear away the summer heat and relieve the viscera from heat toxin. Cure the wine wind. " According to the modern "Illustration of Medicinal Plants in China", it says: "To cool and quench thirst and remove summer heat, the whole herb is decocted to treat diabetes." The Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine published by Shanghai People's Publishing House says: "Xiancao has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and toxic heat, and treating heatstroke, quenching thirst, hypertension, muscle and joint pain." In the new century, the planning textbook "Medicinal Botany" of the national colleges and universities of traditional Chinese medicine says: "Immortal jelly, a bean jelly, the whole grass cures the willow to the bone." The Medical Records of Fujian published by Fujian Science and Technology Publishing House contains: "3 grams of Xiancao and Patrinia each, decocted in water to treat dysentery".

as early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, people working in rural areas such as Fujian and Taiwan used the stems of Xiancao to boil with water, and added rice soup to make Xiancao (commonly known as Tian Cao in Fujian and Taiwan) or made Xiancao tea from stems and leaves as a cool drink to relieve summer heat in midsummer.

It is a custom of Minnan people in Zhangzhou and Taiwan Province to eat "Tian Cao" (Immortal Frozen) in the lunar calendar. It is said that eating "Tian Cao" on this day will not lead to prickly heat all summer. "Tian Cao" has the function of cooling down and relieving summer heat, and has no disadvantages of suffering from cold. Adding honey to "Tian Cao" makes the food sweet and refreshing. "Tian Cao" is made of immortal grass. According to China Medical Dictionary, Xianrencao has the functions of "beautifying face and curing hunger" because of its beautiful stems and leaves, fragrant and fragrant sandalwood, and taking juice in summer to solidify ice. The Qing Guangxu's "Zhangzhou Fuzhi Grass Genus" recorded the function of Xiancao.

Shihua

The origin of the name "Shihua" has a touching legend in the coastal area of southern Fujian, my hometown: once upon a time, in a fishing village on the southeast coast, there was a loving couple whose wife's name was Shihua, who was virtuous and intelligent. Every time my husband comes home late from fishing, Shihua always comes to the high place on the reef in the harbor and stands on tiptoe waiting for him. One day, the sea was windy and dark clouds were like ink, and the stone flower came to the old place "Wangfu Stone" and looked forward to sailing, but after waiting for a long time, my husband's sail shadow was still not seen. Shihua was in a very anxious mood. Suddenly, a sharp wave called. She saw a fisherman who fell into the water because of a shipwreck waving and calling for help. In this do or die, Shihua broke through the secular shackles, gritted his teeth and pulled the dying male fisherman up, but he fell into the rough sea because of the slippery reef and never came up again. The late Shihua's husband heard the bad news when he got home, and rushed to the reef where Shihua often stood and cried. Strange to say, after the weather was clear and calm, a simple but elegant and lovely unknown flower grew on the stone. In order to mourn this courageous fisherman's daughter, the villagers named this strange sea creature "Shihua".

stone flower is sweet, salty and cold, and has the functions of moistening lung, resolving phlegm, clearing heat and softening hard mass. Li Shizhen, the "sage of medicine" in Ming Dynasty, recorded in his Compendium of Materia Medica: "The function of (cauliflower) is to clear away heat, moisten the lungs, soften and harden diseases, and is used for lung heat, enteritis and dysentery." ancestor