Every time I tell my friends that I'm from Wenzhou, Wen Shang is awesome! Wenzhou people can do business, Wenzhou people are Jews in China, Wenzhou people are bold but cautious and hardworking, and so on. Adjective, haha … In fact, besides business, food is the second biggest hobby of Wenzhou people.
The four seasons in Wenzhou are very pleasant, neither too cold nor too hot. Wenzhou, known as Dongou in ancient times, is located in the lower reaches of the Oujiang River, which leads directly to the East China Sea. Fresh seafood abounds here, not to mention rice. This is a well-known land of fish and rice.
Our Ou cuisine is characterized by fine cooking, delicate taste, fresh, light and not thin. Ou cuisine is one of the four schools of Zhejiang cuisine among the eight major Chinese cuisines. This is the embodiment that Wenzhou people love to eat delicious food.
There is a dish that is particularly heavy in the hearts of Wenzhou wanderers doing business. It's called Wenzhou fish balls and fish cakes. Everyone loves to eat, and every family can cook.
Listen to the name, fish cake, fish cake, you must think, isn't cake just like pancake? Isn't the fish circle as round as grapes? Haha, no, fish cake is not the pancake you think. The fish circle is not round at all. Let's see how it is done.
What should I choose to make fish cakes and fish balls? ? Take fish or eel as raw materials, remove bones and spines, cut fish into strips, cut a small amount of lard into strips or granules, chop onion and ginger, knead sweet potato powder or white starch into dough, add salt and monosodium glutamate, and fully knead all the materials into dough. Grasp the kneading strength, not too tough, not too loose, soft and moderate.
The fish cake was pinched into a cuboid, about 10 cm long and 35 cm wide. Steam thoroughly in a steamer. When eating, cut it into thin slices, arrange it neatly on a plate, serve it with sauce vinegar mixed with soy sauce and vinegar, pick up a piece and put it in your mouth. It is smooth and powerful, and your mouth is full of faint fish.
The dough for making fish balls is the same as fish cake, except that there is no pig fat in it. Steps are the same as above. When making fish ball (meatball) soup, you can directly choose one or a ball from the dough by hand, squeeze it as you want, and throw the dough with fish into the water. After boiling, take it out with the soup, add salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, cooking wine and rice vinegar, sprinkle with pepper and chopped green onion, and drop a few drops of sesame oil.
Wow, it's delicious. Take a bite of fish balls with soup, and you can eat fresh and tender fish when you chew. The slightly spicy pepper in the soup is mixed with sour rice vinegar and overflows your nose, which is delicious. I couldn't help taking a bite. Isn't it interesting? Is it tempting to eat right away?
There are rivers and seas in Wenzhou, so seafood is rich. Our diet is mainly light, and we like to pursue the original flavor of food. So we have the habit of eating raw seafood: drunken shrimp, China wood frog and raw crab. River crabs are also my favorite. It tastes very delicious. Take a sip with your mouth, and you can eat the white and tender crab meat. The white and tender crab meat is sweet and smooth, the yellow crab yellow is delicious, and the orange crab paste sticks to your teeth, which really makes you lose your chin.
How to eat crabs raw? We Wenzhou people have our own unique formula. Choose fresh and plump Portunus trituberculatus, wash it, uncover its back shell, remove its stomach, and then remove its cheeks. Then chop the crab leg, crab body and back shell into small pieces and put them on a plate. Sprinkle minced ginger and garlic on it, so that the spicy taste of ginger and garlic can fully penetrate into the crab meat, and then add the sauce. The focus of this dish is this seasoning juice, monosodium glutamate, sugar, pepper, vinegar and soy sauce. Then marinate for ten or twenty minutes and you can eat it.
In addition to these cuisines, there are Yongjia wheat cakes, which are also the top ten cuisines in Wenzhou people's minds. Yueqing wheat cake has even been included in the world intangible cultural heritage. To borrow a friend's words, it is Hermes in a frozen wheat.
There are duck tongues in Wenzhou. I think only Wenzhou people will think that duck tongue can also be made into delicious snacks. Do you agree with the spirit of bold innovation of Wenzhou people?
There are three fresh fish, anchovies, yellow croaker, dried shrimp, Wenzhou glutinous rice, long-lasting wonton, short muffins, light cakes … and many more. In my mind, Wenzhou and my hometown have no favorite food, only more love.