Xiamen local specialties: Gulangyu pie, Sunlight Rock pie, Kinmen tribute candy, Nanputuo plain cake, Huangzehe pie.
Xiamen's top ten specialties: mung bean cake, wood-fired Tieguanyin, green fruits, bead embroidery, pie, Crocodile Island oyster sauce, Huang Shengji dried meat, fish skin peanuts, Xiamen peanut crisps, lacquer thread carvings.
Gulangyu Pie: Gulangyu Pie is a century-old Chinese brand and a specialty of Xiamen. It is one of the most famous specialties of Xiamen, Fujian and a traditional food with a history of more than 100 years.
The good thing about it is that the ingredients are finely crafted, made from high-quality white flour, and top-quality mung beans. The mung beans for the filling are steamed, shelled, and ground finely. There is enough oil in the crust and pastry to knead it just right.
When baking, pay attention to controlling the heat so that the inside is cooked and the outside is red without losing oil.
The pie made in this way has a crispy and moist crust and a cold and sweet filling.
Gulangyu pie is filled with various fillings. It tastes sweet and crispy, moist and cold, and has a variety of flavors!
There are Gulangyu pie, husband cake, wife cake, fragrant meat pie, coconut cake, green tea pie, seaweed pie, vegetarian cake, mung bean cake, as well as peach, lychee, grape, longan, strawberry, pineapple, coconut and other fruit flavors.
Pies, lots of variety!
Sunlight Rock Pie: The Sunlight Rock Pie series is a time-honored Chinese product, an authentic specialty of Gulangyu Island and a famous food in Xiamen. It has a long history and is famous overseas. Its secret lies in the unique manufacturing technology, which can be eaten in various ways and with suitable shades.
For example: 1. Light breakfast: Take 2 pieces of this product and pour it into boiling water to make a fragrant and delicious nutritious breakfast.
2. Ready-to-eat snack type: Make a cup of tea and enjoy the real Gulangyu specialty pie. Chew slowly and leave you with endless aftertaste.
Flavor recovery type: Place this product in a microwave oven, microwave for 25-30 seconds or grill for 2 minutes. After cooling, you can enjoy the fresh-from-the-oven taste, which is crispy and delicious, leaving a fragrant aroma on your lips and teeth.
Sunlight Rock Pie uses exquisite ingredients, fine workmanship, and delicate and delicious fillings.
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 is a gift for relatives and friends, a festive occasion or a casual snack, Sunlight Rock Pie is always the first choice.
Therefore, a delicious special food is added to the beautiful Xiamen.
Nanputuo vegetarian cake: Nanputuo vegetarian cake originated from vegetarian banquet snacks. It is loved by consumers because of its health, fashion, hygiene and deliciousness. Since the early 1990s, its independent packaging has been put on the market and has become very popular. It has become a gift to the Buddha.
A great product for relatives and friends, guests at home and abroad even love it as a specialty of Xiamen.
Nanputuo Vegetarian Cake adheres to the advantages of Nanputuo Vegetarian Cuisine, including its pure vegetarian cuisine, fine workmanship, and exquisite materials. It adheres to traditional techniques and is hand-made.
The texture of the vegetarian cake is crispy, sweet but not greasy.
In 2003, Nanputuo vegetarian cake was awarded the title of "Chinese Famous Dish" at the 4th China Food Festival.
Kinmen tribute candy: Kinmen tribute candy is a famous traditional specialty of Xiamen.
It is made of high-quality peanut kernels, white sugar and maltose through traditional folk craftsmanship and is "beaten" with wooden sticks.
"Da" is called "Gong" in Hokkien, which is called tribute candy.
According to legend, during the imperial period, local officials from Jiahe Island (Xiamen Island) often presented vegetarian snacks with southern Fujian characteristics as tribute to the emperor.
The emperor was very impressed after tasting the tea and praised it repeatedly. Later, it was called "tribute sugar" among the people and spread overseas.
Kinmen tribute candy has a delicate taste, crisp texture and fragrant taste, and is authentic and pure. It has become one of Kinmen’s specialties and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.
According to legend, the name "tribute candy" comes from two sources: one is that it was once used as an imperial meal tribute by the people for pilgrimage, so it was named "tribute"; the other is that the production process of tribute candy requires manual beating.
In order to make the sugar dense and fine, the people in southern Fujian call it "Gong".
Huang Zehe Pie: Huang Zehe Pie is an authentic Chinese time-honored brand. It is a traditional pastry in Xiamen that is well-known both at home and abroad. It is one of the traditional foods in southern Fujian.
The color is golden and buttery, and the oversized pie looks delicious.
Take a bite, the outer skin is soft and fragrant, the filling is round and delicate, cold and sweet.
The mouthful is sweet and crispy, with endless aftertaste.
The mung beans in the pie are refreshing and detoxifying, and contain nutrients such as sugar, fiber, protein, inorganic salts, and vegetable fats, as well as essential amino acids that the human body cannot synthesize by itself.
Therefore, using mung beans as filling not only retains the nutritional value, but also has the attractive characteristics of being fragrant and refreshing.
Xiamen's top ten specialties, mung bean cake: The production of local mung bean cake in Gulangyu began in 1922. It was first operated by "Xiao Rui Gingerbread House" on Datong Road, Xiamen. It was moved to Gulangyu during the Anti-Japanese War. After that, the production process of mung bean cake was inherited.
Nowadays, Gulangyu mung bean cake has become a good snack and gift for relatives and friends.
Pie: Pie is a traditional food with a history of more than a hundred years in Xiamen. It is made of fine flour, lard and top-quality mung beans.
When making, steam the mung beans into crispy cakes, remove the shells, grind them finely, add enough oil to the cake skin and cake cakes, and knead them just right.
When baking, pay attention to controlling the heat so that it is cooked inside but not oily outside.
The pie crust made in this way is crispy and moist, and the filling is cool and sweet.
Famous pies include Qinglanzhai, Nanputuo Temple vegetarian cake, Wangji pie, Sunlight Rock pie, etc.
Wood-burnt Tieguanyin: In Xiamen, you can see that every household has the habit of drinking Tieguanyin. The wood-fired Tieguanyin from Shangke Tea is the best.
The wood-burning Tieguanyin uses local acacia trees. The acacia trees have large tree heads and high density. When burned, the temperature lasts for a long time, up to seven or eight days.