Fujian: the great furnace around the west
Minnan people pay special attention to "surrounding the kitchen", which is the New Year's Eve dinner. The food cooked in the stove is the food after offering sacrifices to the ancestors and gods. Put the sacrificial food into the pot and cook it together to form a hodgepodge.
In southern Fujian, when eating New Year's Eve, a special hot pot is placed in the center of the table, and there is a chimney with charcoal in it. This kind of hot pot is still used in some places today. The taste of the old hotpot is irreplaceable.
Minnan people pay special attention to "surrounding the kitchen", which is the New Year's Eve dinner. The food cooked in the stove is the food after offering sacrifices to the ancestors and gods. Put the sacrificial food into the pot and cook it together to form a hodgepodge. Among them, the name and collocation of food are particular. For example, there must be fish, called fish for more than a year. Eating fish heads indicates "wealth and mercy" in the coming year (Minnan dialect); Some people hope that there is mustard on the dining table, which is called "long-term dish" to symbolize longevity; Some people also hope that there will be "leek" on the dining table, which is homophonic with "long" to symbolize longevity; Radish is also indispensable, which is called "vegetable head" in Minnan dialect, meaning "good color head" (good omen); There is also chicken, whose homonym is "Ji" and Minnan dialect means "home"; Eating fish balls, shrimp balls and meatballs means "three yuan" and "three yuan" ("pill" is homophonic with "yuan", and three yuan means champion, meeting yuan and solving yuan). ...
Mincai New Year's Eve menu 1. Steamed Abalone with Shark’s Fin and Fish Maw in Broth
Eat all the good luck into the whole family's stomach on New Year's Day, but the task is arduous. Fortunately, the ancestors of Fujian people invented the "jumping Buddha wall" for future generations as early as 65,438+000 years ago to handle this complicated and exquisite New Year's Eve dinner: shark's fin, abalone, sea cucumber, fish belly, chicken, duck, sheep elbow, pig's trotters, duck gizzard, winter bamboo shoots, ham, painted mushrooms, pork belly and so on. Strangely, there are dozens of raw materials and ingredients simmered in Shaoxing Huadiao wine jar, which not only have a common taste, but also maintain their own characteristics.
There is a Buddha jumping wall on the table of the New Year's Eve, which has meaning, nutrition, taste and atmosphere. If you are worried that you can't buy the right materials or control the calories well, please go directly to the hotel to enjoy this year's big meal. Many hotels in Xiamen are making Buddha jumping walls, and the best way to make this dish superb is Yuehua Hotel, which tastes classic.
Mincai New Year's Eve menu II. Sweet potato celebrates reunion.
In Minnan New Year's Eve dinner, the impressions of "sweet" rice cake and "salty" are essential, and their meanings are special and have been handed down: sweetness and salty are both together, and it is round. Actually, it's similar to the rice cake here. During the Spring Festival, people all over the country have the habit of eating rice cakes, which means that it will increase year by year. Minnan people believe that there will be a "rice cake god" when steaming, and whether it is done well is related to the fortune of the coming year. Therefore, when cooking (rice cake), the children at home will be told to leave, and children are forbidden to ask questions around the stove, and it is even more forbidden to say unlucky words, so as not to make the "rice cake god" angry.
On the dinner table around the stove, fragrant taro paste is essential, because "taro" has the same sound as the rich "taro" and there are clams. Clam shells are similar to ancient silver. They are symbols of gold and silver. It is usually eaten at the end of the stove. This kind of seafood doesn't need to be cooked, just scalded with boiling water. If it is cooked, it will lose its fresh taste and taste bad. In the menu of Minnan people's New Year's Eve dinner, there are also universal dishes: fried oysters, fresh hairtail, red sturgeon (crab), prawns, taro fort and so on. Silk, shredded red melon, walnut kernel, melon kernel, lotus seed and osmanthus are the famous eight-treasure rice with lard and fine sand in Hangzhou during the Spring Festival.