The specialties of Quanzhou are as follows: Shishi sweet fruit Shishi sweet fruit is the top grade among rice cakes.

According to legend, Shishi began to produce this kind of rice cake during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

Its main ingredients include winter glutinous rice, white sugar, honeyed winter melon, kumquats, spices, etc. It can be stored for fifteen days without becoming moldy.

Put it in sugar in winter and cooking oil in summer, and it can keep for four or five months without deterioration.

Overseas Chinese returning home always take some Shishi sweet fruits with them overseas as gifts to their relatives and friends.

Yuanxiao Pills Yuanxiao Pills are Quanzhou Lantern Festival food.

The main ingredients are peanuts, sesame seeds, white sugar, winter melon sugar, green onions and fruity fillings. The dough is rolled into glutinous rice flour and cooked in boiling water.

Yuanxiao balls have tender skin and sweet filling. They are a delicious winter snack and are very popular among tourists.

Salted rice is a specialty staple food of Quanzhou. It is a way of cooking rice. There are many kinds, including pumpkin salted rice, radish salted rice, mustard salted rice, taro salted rice, pork belly salted rice, etc.

Contrary to fried rice, salted rice is cool in nature and is suitable for eating in summer when the heat is high.

What is particularly worth noting is that salty rice is a type of rice rather than a type of porridge. It is amazing how refreshing a small bowl of rice can be. It is indeed a place with a strong seaside style.

Braised noodles (Zhangzhou braised noodles are the most famous) are made from various ingredients and mixed with braised soup and dough.

The taste is sweet, smooth and rich. It is a gift food for the urban and rural people in Xiangcheng to treat guests during festivals or birthdays.

Now in the catering industry, braised noodles have been included as a specialty.

Noodle paste is a snack in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province and even in the pan-Southern Fujian region.

It is in paste form and is made from thin noodles and sweet potato flour.

First boil the water, add sweet potato flour, seasonings and noodles.

It is usually eaten for breakfast, along with another local snack - fried dough sticks.

Noodle batter can generally be added with a variety of ingredients such as large intestine, small intestine, shrimp, pork liver, braised eggs, fried eggs (the eggs are cut into pieces and then added), vinegared pork (fried pork slices), sausages, etc.

Fish larvae porridge, the Quanzhou snack "fish larvae porridge" is cheap, good quality and easy to cook. It is deeply loved by the people of Quanzhou and is known as the "bright stove on the sea".

It is said that when Ouyang Zhan of the Tang Dynasty was young, he built a straw hut under the rocks of Jiuri Mountain in Nan'an to study. He often went to Jinji Creek to burn a bonfire to borrow light to read at night.

Once, the food brought by the family had been eaten up, so he had to wait for his brother Ouyang Mo to send him food. Unexpectedly, his elderly grandmother passed away, and the family paid tribute and had no time to send him food.

Hungry and cold...Chongwu fish roll Chongwu fish roll is a famous dish in southern Fujian and one of the top ten famous snacks in Quanzhou. It has won many awards in competitions held in southern Fujian and is deeply loved by people in southern Fujian and those who come to Hui'an.

Sightseeing is appreciated by tourists.

Frozen bamboo shoots Frozen bamboo shoots are a specialty food originated from Tong'an County in ancient times. It is a frozen product processed from unique products.

It contains colloid, and its main raw material is a kind of worm, which belongs to the phylum Asterozoa. Its scientific name is Phascolosoma esculenta, which is two to three inches in length.

After boiling, the colloid contained in the insect body dissolves into the water and condenses after cooling. The meat is clear and sweet.

Served with good soy sauce, Beef soup is the most popular and common snack in Quanzhou.

It is said that the emergence of beef soup is related to Lu Xiufu, a famous minister of the Southern Sect.

Legend has it that in the third year of Jingyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1278), Quanzhou City's Bosi promoted Pu Shougeng to demote him to the Yuan Dynasty, and together with the Yuan soldiers, he hunted down Wen Tianxiang and others.

After Song Ruizong died in April, Lu Xiufu and others supported Zhao, who was only eight years old, as emperor.

In order to escape the pursuit of Yuan soldiers, they sometimes lived on boats and sometimes went ashore to forage... Siguo Soup Siguo Soup is an important summer drink for people in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, Fujian Province to cool down. Every summer, there will be a drink on the street.

There are many vendors who sell four-fruit soup, and some of them are more formal and open a store. They sell four-fruit soup in summer and roasted grass jelly in winter.

It is also very pleasant to order a bowl of four-fruit soup in a small shop and enjoy the air conditioning.

Honglai chicken feet, Chongwu fish rolls, West Street snails, Xiamen Jimei mouth-watering ginger duck, stewed pork trotters with dried eels, braised pork knuckles, steak (different from Western steaks), stewed lamb in Shuimen Lane, pig blood intestines,

Oysters (pearl oysters) (stone oysters), steamed tuna, steamed clam eggs, soy sauce clams, steamed oil clams, fried mud clams, steamed bitter snails, fried razor clams, fried big head snails, shark jelly, stir-fried dried shrimps with mustard greens, ten spices

Whole duck, braised duck with taro and five spices.