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Southern Fujian Specialty Snacks--Sea Oyster Fry

Talking about the snacks in Southern Fujian, the most characteristic one is Sea Oyster Fry. I am in the small village of Banmei, a small village by the sea, by the mountains, by the sea, by the sea. The sea has a lot of delicious: stone flower, sea oyster, sea snail, sea pig ...... but my favorite is the sea oyster, let me slowly tell you about it.

The oyster is not good-looking, but inside the calcium can be a lot of it. Oysters outside a layer of thick shells, to use a very pointed head of a kind of thing called "ears", towards the oyster's "mouth" inserted down, the shell will be separated. Inside the exposed meat, after the seawater moisturizing, white, tender, soft to the touch, there is a kind of sea flavor, seducing you, you can not wait to swallow. It takes dozens, no, even hundreds to get a pot of oyster meat, which can take hours to dig out.

After the oysters, let's talk about the delicious oyster omelette!

The oyster omelette is made from several common ingredients: leeks, garlic, groundnut flour, carrots, and eggs. Among them, groundnut flour is especially important, without it, this oyster omelette would not be the same.

First leeks, garlic, carrots chopped, and then oysters and groundnut flour into a larger pot, and then cut the ingredients into this pot, and then put the egg into the inside, began to stir the ingredients, stir, stir, stir, stir into a watery paste, almost can not see the ingredients, only a little vermilion. Stirred to this extent, you can move to the next step.

Use chopsticks to put a little bit of oyster stirred into the "paste" into the frying pan, it is best not to stick together, if it is stuck together, use chopsticks to the two "naughty" to separate. Golden oil, the white clothes of these "brats" all changed clothes, to give them a gorgeous golden yellow coat. This is the point at which you can serve it!

Finally, in the fried oyster fried on the sweet chili sauce, the flavor, it is really beautiful, like heaven!

Gently smell the oyster fry with your nose, the taste of the sea and the taste of vegetables into one together, floating into your heart taste is a strange flavor; with the eyes looking at the oyster fry, this food is a kind of irregular shape, which shape is different, no two pieces are the same, the oyster fry gently peeled, presented in front of you, is the essence of the land and sea; gently bite, the crisp feeling must make you feel like you're in heaven, you're in love. The crunchy feeling must make you "love your mouth", ordinary oysters, radish, have become the classic oyster omelette!

Not only is the oyster fry delicious, but it also contains the flavor of southern Fujian.

South Fujian snacks at a glance

South Fujian snacks have retained the legacy of the Tang and Song dynasties, but also innovation and reform. Snacks focus on taste, nutrition, variety, generally like sweet and sour not like spicy, like light not like greasy. Its many varieties, novel styles, beautiful shape, delicious; and the material is exquisite, fine workmanship, unique flavor.

Weddings and funerals, honoring the gods and ancestors, as well as gifts to friends and relatives of the flavor of the snacks are: Pungshe turtle, big flower package, full moon kuey teow, sugar kuey teow, glutinous rice balls, snail meat bowl cake, bowl cake of sugar, rice cake, muffin cake, Tangtou sweet kuey teow, wheat kuey teow, and so on. One of the more distinctive Pungsak Turtle is made of glutinous rice flour as the skin and bean paste as the filling, which is steamed into a turtle-like shape with an orange-colored surface and covered with a large red doughnut and longevity pattern to pray for longevity. Dahua Bao is made of flour as the skin and sugar, peanut kernel and winter melon sugar as the filling. Steamed into a sweet package as big as a sea bowl, covered with a red festive pattern, specifically for the wedding Na Cai, the male gift to the female side of the food. Full moon kuey teow, is born when a small child full moon to do snacks, while cooking red skin eggs and threaded noodles gifts to friends and neighbors, praying for the healthy growth of children. On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet at the Magpie Bridge, every family steams sugar kuey teow and burns the Magpie Bridge to remember the occasion. Glutinous rice balls is the winter solstice day to do snacks, and "red balls" is a happy feast to celebrate the sweet, successful, pray for peace and a better life snacks.

Local flavor snacks include: oyster omelette, oyster skewers, fish congee, oyster congee, horseshoe crab soup, wrapped heart fish balls, fresh meat fish balls, water ball soup, horse mackerel Japonica, netting fish rolls, crispy deep-fried fish strips, bundled hooves, noodles paste, flatbreads, meat swallows, roasted taro fruit, taro buns, noodles in chicken broth, noodles in dry sauce, marinated noodles, dried beans in Lianmei, glutinous rice dunked large intestines, pig's blood tailed mouth Japonica, bitter vegetables and large intestines in soup, shrimp skin sweet potato flour balls, bean stick, beef jelly, bean flower, stone flower, and so on, and so on. soup, bean curd, stone flower cake, and so on. Oysters are not only nutritious, and the food is delicious. People in southern Fujian have the habit of eating congee, and they will choose seasonal food according to the different seasons and mix glutinous rice to make congee. The jelly of earth bamboo shoots, a gelatinous body boiled with a kind of earthworm-like mollusks growing in the shallow sea mudflats, is not only delicious, but also reduces fire and inflammation, and cools down and relieves heat. Horseshoe crab soup is a unique seafood in southern Fujian, horseshoe crab can be eaten all over the body, the flavor is special.

Folk traditional snacks are: meat dumplings, japonica dumplings, bean dumplings, five-spice rolls, chicken rolls, fried meatballs, tender cake dishes, osmanthus crabs, taro duck, meat sandwich package, fried rice noodles, burning taro fruit, taro package, sweet taro cake, vegetable fruit, crystal vegetable cake, cashew cake, meat cake, mustard rice. Among them, the meat dumplings are well known at home and abroad for their elaborate selection of materials, diverse ingredients, fine production, and long history. Meat dumplings, japonica dumplings, bean dumplings are essential offerings for the Dragon Boat Festival.