Quanzhou cuisine: mother ginger duck, Run Bak Choy, bone soup noodles, salty bamboo shoots buns, oyster omelette, garlic sticks, soil bamboo shoots jelly, noodle thread paste, four fruit soup, Lantern Festival round and so on.
1, ginger duck
Quanzhou is the origin of ginger duck. Ginger duck all stewed in a casserole, ginger (ginger slices) on the bottom, stewed fragrant soup, duck is not fat and not greasy, once eaten on the addiction. A duck, a gizzard, a green vegetable, a bowl of duck soup, eat to great satisfaction!
2, Run Cake dishes
Run Cake dishes in southern Fujian, Quanzhou is the bearer. Cake is as thin as a cicada's wing, more tender than the Beijing duck cake, the rolled dishes are mainly shredded asparagus, cabbage, bean sprouts, mushrooms, pork, shrimp and so on. The way of eating is very simple, is to use the cake rolled vegetables and then dipping, similar to Guizhou silk doll, Vietnamese spring rolls eating.
3, bone soup noodles
Bone soup rice noodles is a big stick bone mixed with spices simmering soup base, rice noodles hot, with a variety of small spices, and then the bone soup poured on the rice noodles, full of a big bowl, refreshing, not greasy, to meet your tongue and stomach.
4, salted bamboo shoots package
Salted bamboo shoots package, glutinous rice skin mixed with purple chrysanthemums and brown sugar, inside the filling is salted bamboo shoots and pork. Steamed over a gentle flame, the buns are then glistened with green onion oil on the surface of the glutinous rice skin. The combination of the sweetness of the sticky rice skin and the savory taste of the filling is fantastic!
5. Oyster Omelet
Oyster omelet originated in Quanzhou and later flourished in Taiwan. Fresh oysters are wrapped in potato flour and eggs, flavored with cilantro and garlic, rolled in a skillet, and then fished out hot and soft!
6, garlic branch
Garlic branch is the Quanzhou version of the twist, fried fresh twist crispy delicious, put in a pot, rolled on the garlic and sugar, biting crunchy crumbs.
7, soil bamboo shoots jelly
The soil bamboo shoots jelly is originated in Quanzhou Minnan snacks. Folk legend has it that Qi Jiguang or Zheng Chenggong invented it. The so-called "soil bamboo shoots" is a kind of small insects on the beach, containing gelatin. The "soil bamboo shoots jelly" is a frozen product processed by this small insect, which is a very refreshing cold food in the hot summer of southern Fujian.
8. Noodle Thread Paste
Noodle Thread Paste originated in Quanzhou and later spread to Taiwan, where it has also become a well-known snack. Noodle threads are mainly fine noodles and potato flour, and the ultra-fine threads are cooked into a paste.
Locals eat the noodle paste for breakfast, with toppings such as large intestines, small intestines, oysters, razor clams, squid, and so on, according to their personal tastes, and many people also dip it in fritters. A bowl of noodles, an omelette and a doughnut start a day in Quanzhou.
9, four fruits soup
Four fruits soup, as the name suggests, four kinds of fruits are put in the sugar water, but not a fixed four, but by the customers to pick according to their own taste. In the hot summer of southern Fujian, sugar water to dispel heat and relieve summer heat is prevalent, and when people are walking on the street and their throats are smoking and their heads are on fire, a bowl of Four Fruit Soup can cure everything!
10, Lantern Round
Lantern Round is actually a combination of two kinds of round. Big Lantern with filling and small rounds without filling. Large Lantern filling is a mixture of black sesame and peanuts, the filling is solid, similar to the northern Lantern. The small rounds are small, like the common southern wine dumplings, and are usually eaten with small taro.