I am Xiao Chen, a mother who loves food and life. This is Xiao Chen’s small kitchen, where food and company are the only things he can’t live up to. A person should also eat well. Food is as important as happiness. Remember to eat well.
Everyone is familiar with Fujian, and they will certainly be able to recall the “meme” of Cantonese people that is particularly popular on the Internet. Fuzhou is the provincial capital of Fujian. It is a place with beautiful mountains and rivers and outstanding people. It is called the "Rong City" and is also known as the "Beachside".
Fuzhou, Fujian is an ancient city with a long history. There are many century-old restaurants of various delicacies in the streets and alleys. After several generations of cleaning, they are still standing today. This is Fuzhou The deep love one has for the world.
Fuzhou’s 5 traditional breakfasts are light and nutritious yet delicious. The traditional taste is the favorite of local people and the taste of local people’s childhood.
The first type: Guobian paste (Dingbian paste)
Fuzhou people are not very intolerant of spicy food and have a relatively light diet. Breakfast is mostly light hot pot paste, soy milk, fried dough sticks and other delicacies.
Guobian paste has a history of more than 400 years and is the first choice for Fuzhou people’s breakfast. Guobian is the abbreviation of tripod edge pattern, tripod is the pot, and the pattern means "wiping a circle" in Fuzhou dialect. From the name, you can see the process of making the rim of the pot, "wiping a circle around the rim of the pot."
Preparation of pot rim paste: Grind rice milk first, add shrimp skin to warm soup at 70 degrees Celsius, dip pickle heads in oil to slick the pot, spread rice milk around the edge of the pot, cover the pot, steam for 10 seconds, and condense. Spoon the rice milk into the pot and sprinkle with seaweed and green onion for freshness.
Guobianbao is a snack that Fuzhou people have grown up with. It is paired with shrimp cakes and taro cakes. It is delicious and filling. It is high quality and cheap. It is the taste of childhood for many Fuzhou people and the taste of home. .
Second type: Duck with secret sauce
Fuzhou’s commercial center and shipping terminal have flourished since the Tang and Song Dynasties, making Taijiang, Fuzhou one of the important birthplaces of “Fujian merchants”.
The old shop of Zhonghui Sauce Duck Laohua has been passed down since the Republic of China and has been the memory of Fuzhou people for decades. The most popular dishes at Zhonghui Sauce Duck Laohua Old Shop are the sauce duck, "braised meat" and dried noodles.
The name is simplified, but Laohua’s ingredients range from meat, seafood, to vegetarian dishes. The ingredients are rich and diverse, lively and casual.
The secret sauce duck is dipped in rich sweet sauce, which brings out the ultimate taste of meat and sauce, reminding people of the taste of childhood.
The third type: Xinghua rice noodles
The "Xinghua rice noodles" from Putian are as thin as hair and cooked as soon as they are scooped out. They are called "Xinghua rice noodles" and later shortened to For "fishing". After the rice noodles are cooked, scoop them into a bowl, add the duck soup base that has been simmered for five or six hours, and sprinkle with chopped green onion. A bowl of ordinary cabbage rice noodles will have a different flavor with just a few spoons of duck soup.
The fourth type: peanut soup + taro paste
Peanut soup is one of the most famous snacks in Fuzhou. Yabo’s peanut soup has a history of more than 80 years and is deeply loved. Liked by the locals.
Fuzhou people’s breakfast is either salty or sweet. Peanut soup is a small sweet, which is a traditional taste of Fuzhou. After the peanuts are soaked, washed, boiled and other processes, the color of the peanut soup is milky white, the peanut kernels are crispy and not broken, melt in the mouth, soft and waxy, and the fragrance is permeated with time and perseverance.
Choose delicate betel nut taro to make taro paste. Put the betel nut taro into a steamer and steam it for a while, then roll it repeatedly to ensure that there are no lumps before it can be made into soft and glutinous mud-like taro that melts in your mouth. mud. Add lard and sugar to the taro paste, mix well, then quickly put it into a bowl and steam it in a pot.
The fifth type: beef soup + small steamed buns
"There is beef soup in Dadao, three bowls before going down the river." If you ask Fuzhou people, "What does Dadao taste like?" Fuzhou people will blurt out that it tastes like "beef".
A bowl of hot beef soup and steak soup, sprinkled with chives, some shrimp oil, and a basket of steamed dumplings will keep you full of energy all day long.
Dadao Beef Soup is the childhood taste of many Fuzhou people, the taste of hometown!
Fuzhou is fresh, the soup is watery and full of flavor. Fuzhou is sweet, affectionate, righteous, and joyful. Fuzhou is salty, so you can enjoy yourself by relying on the mountains and eating from the sea.
Fuzhou's breakfast is both salty and sweet, but it carries the taste of Fuzhou people's childhood and the taste of their hometown!