Fuzhou's traditional snacks are made of rice and soybean flour wrapped and fried with oyster meat, lean pork and celery stuffing. The finished product is round, golden in color, crisp and fragrant in shell, delicious in stuffing and delicious in taste. Most people in Fuzhou make oyster sauce cakes into porridge dishes. If they are eaten together with fixed-edge paste, the taste will be better.
These snacks can be found in food stalls on the street. Brief introduction of Buddha jumping wall:
Fuzhou traditional famous dishes, with a history of 100 years, were developed by Zheng Chunfa, the owner of Juchunyuan restaurant. This dish brings together all kinds of delicious food. It is made of more than 20 kinds of raw materials such as shark's fin, sea cucumber, chicken, tendon, scallop, mushroom and abalone. Strict cooking procedures, high nutritional value, mellow and not greasy. Juchunyuan Restaurant has the most famous Buddha jumping wall, but the price of this dish is relatively high. Generally speaking, 300 yuan is needed for a single serving of each cup.
Attachment: the origin of Buddha jumping wall
It is said that when several literati came to Juchun Garden to compose poems, the boss Zheng Chun gave him an altar cooked by himself. When the lid of the altar was opened, it was full of meat and incense. All the scholars clapped their hands and said, "The altar is full of meat, and the Buddha gave up Zen and jumped over the wall when he heard it", hence the name of this dish. Introduction of drunken spicy chicken with red distiller's grains:
Braised spicy chicken with red distiller's grains is a traditional dish in Fuzhou. After the white tender frog is cooked, cut into pieces and marinate. Drunk juice is a mixture of monosodium glutamate, refined salt, distiller's grains, spiced powder, Shaoxing wine, white sugar and chicken soup. This dish is ruddy and white, soft and mellow, sweet and sour. Introduction of chicken fish lips:
Fish lips with minced chicken is a traditional dish in Fuzhou. It is made by removing the fishy smell from the rare fish lips in seafood, adding Shaoxing wine for curing, burning into chicken soup, adding fish lips for roasting, and sprinkling minced ham. This dish is white in color, soft and waxy in fish lips, rich in gum, mellow in chicken and fresh and refreshing in taste. It is a must-have dish for a high-class banquet.
Also known as spring cakes and pancakes, they are popular traditional snacks in Fuzhou with a long history. Now the skin of spring rolls has been replaced by flour, and the fillings are generally bean sprouts, leeks, dried tofu, and some have shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots and chopped green onion. More advanced spring rolls are made of shredded chicken or oysters, shrimps, mushrooms and leeks. Spring rolls are fried to golden yellow with low fire, crisp outside and internal combustion, also known as "fried spring". Fuzhou fish balls introduction:
There is no one in Fuzhou who doesn't like fish balls. Its snow-white skin is made of fish. The skin of different fish tastes completely different, among which eels and sharks are the most famous. The stuffing of fish balls is made of pork, but you can't see half a piece of fat when you eat them, and you won't feel the meat stuffing hard. This is the secret. When you eat it, the skin is as delicious as fish, and the filling has a mixed sauce flavor. The soup is refreshing with a little chopped green onion and a little pepper. Introduction of Seven Star Fish Pills:
Seven-star fish ball is a kind of heart-wrapped ball, which originated in the early Qing Dynasty. Because it floats on the noodle soup after cooking, it fluctuates like a swaying star in space, so it is named "Seven Star Fish Pill". Chop eel, shark or freshwater fish, add sweet potato powder (starch) and stir well, then wrap it with stuffing such as lean pork or shrimp. The skin is thin and even, the color is white and bright, the food is smooth and crisp, and the soup is not greasy.
This kind of food can be eaten in ordinary snack bars. Introduction of taro mud:
The traditional dessert in Fujian is to steam betel nut taro and press it into mud with a knife board, and use chopped red dates, melon seeds, cherries and winter melon candy as auxiliary materials. This dish is fragrant, sweet, delicate and delicious. Taro paste is a common dish in Fuzhou people's banquets. Whenever the banquet draws to a close, the last "finale" dish is usually taro. This dessert is also available in general restaurants.
Attachment: the origin of taro paste
It is said that 1839 Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou to ban smoking, and the consuls of Britain, Germany, the United States and China prepared western-style summer sleeping mats to make Lin Zexu make a fool of himself while eating ice cream. Afterwards, Lin Zexu also prepared a banquet in return. After several cold dishes, he served taro. At first glance, taro paste looks like a cold dish, but it is actually very spicy. Foreigners don't know, they eat it when they catch it, and the result is that they are scalded and screaming. Swallow skin introduction:
Swallow skin is a thin slice made of minced meat and sweet potato powder, also known as meat swallow skin, which was created in Guangxu period in the late Qing Dynasty. It is white, fragrant, smooth, tender and refreshing, and can be cut into filaments for cooking. It is a unique flavor snack in Fuzhou. Swallow skins can be bought in food stores. In addition, it can also be made into many famous dishes and flavor snacks such as Taiping Yan. Fuzhou specialty dishes netizens commented on the introduction of light cakes:
Light cake is a cake food baked with flour and a little salt. It has a hole in the middle, which is crispy and delicious. It is one of the traditional snacks that Fuzhou people like.
There is also a kind of light cake, that is, salt is replaced by sugar, which is twice as big as salty cake and is called "Zhengdong cake". However, the names of "Guangbing" and "Zhengdong" cakes are related to the legend that Qi Jiguang entered Fujian to fight against Japan.
Light cakes are deeply loved by Fuzhou people. Nowadays, people in Fuzhou eat light cakes, and there are many patterns. There are dried seaweed cakes with hot and sour seasonings, spicy vegetable cakes with mustard hearts in the cakes, and patties with rice noodles in the cakes.