Where are the special snacks in Fuzhou?

Fuzhou's famous dishes include Buddha jumping wall, litchi meat, drunken spareribs, eight-treasure bag fish, minced chicken fish lips, mussel shrimp, boiled shark's fin and so on. You have to go to Juchun Garden to eat traditional dishes such as Buddha jumping over the wall.

Traditional snacks include: fish balls, taro paste, fried dumpling, taro fruit, nine-layer fruit, light cake, minced pork, scallion cake, swallow skin, noodles and spring rolls. In the "Taste in Taste" snack bar, you can taste all kinds of traditional famous spots in Fuzhou. However, the most snack bar on the streets of Fuzhou is Shaxian snack, which is a place name in Fujian. Shaxian snacks were brought by people there, mainly engaged in mixing noodles, stewing cans, fish balls, wonton and various pot-stewed dishes. This snack bar is small in appearance, but traveling in Fuzhou is a good place to taste.

Fuzhou's vegetarian dishes are also very famous. They are made of plant foods such as gluten, tofu skin, tofu tendons, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms and fungus. They are skillfully processed, well cooked and delicious. Many temples and visitors in Fuzhou operate vegetarian dishes, among which the vegetarian dishes in Gushan Yongquan Temple are the most famous. There are more than 30 kinds of famous vegetarian dishes, such as "South China Sea Trollius", "Half Moon Sinking into the River", "Stone Drum Three Fresh" and "Yongquan Three Silk".

Onion meat pie

Onion meat pie, a traditional snack in Fuzhou. An oven shortcake is made of flour as the main material and pork fat, chopped green onion and raw sesame as the auxiliary materials. The method is: knead the flour into cake crust, marinate the diced fat meat with white soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, refined salt, spiced powder or salt and pepper to make stuffing, when stuffing, plug a lot of chopped green onion, sprinkle raw sesame seeds on the cake surface, and bake in the oven.

There is also a shrimp meat pie in Fuzhou traditional snacks, which is similar to scallion cake and has the same shape and size as light cake. It is made by adding shrimp, diced meat, salt and pepper as stuffing and baking in the oven. Crispy and delicious, it has a history of 300 to 400 years.

A light cake

Light cake is a kind of cake food baked with flour and a little salt. It is about 6 cm in diameter and has a hole in the middle. Crispy and delicious, it is one of the traditional snacks that Fuzhou people like.

There is also a kind of light cake, that is, salt is replaced by sugar, which is twice as big as salty cake and is called "Zhengdong cake". However, the names of both "Guangbing" and "Zhengdong" cakes are related to the legend that Qi Jiguang entered Fujian to resist Japan.

Light cakes are deeply loved by Fuzhou people. Ancient literati liked to eat light cakes. When people who went to Beijing to take the exam passed through Fuzhou, they all bought a lot of light cakes to make dry food on the road. Over time, how many light cakes they ate became synonymous with measuring the efforts of weightlifters. Nowadays, people in Fuzhou eat light cakes, and there are many patterns. There are dried seaweed cakes with hot and sour seasoning, spicy vegetable cakes with mustard in them, and patties with rice noodles in them. In the past, light cakes were street snacks, not elegant. Now, Fuzhou people also put light cakes on the banquet. Fuzhou people should proudly introduce the legend of moon cakes to guests when they invite them from afar to taste them.

Oyster cake

Fuzhou's traditional snacks are wrapped in rice and soybean flour and fried with oyster meat, lean pork and celery stuffing. The finished product is round, golden in color, crispy in shell, fragrant in stuffing and delicious. Most people in Fuzhou make oyster cakes into porridge dishes, which will be better if they are served with fixed-edge paste.

These snacks can be found in food stalls on the street.

Jujube mouth spicy chicken

Spicy chicken with red distiller's grains is a traditional dish in Fuzhou. The production method is to put the selected white frog in a pot and cook it thoroughly with low fire (don't boil the water), take it out, let it cool, and cut it into pieces for pickling. The drunken juice is made by mixing monosodium glutamate, refined salt, distiller's grains, spiced powder, Shaoxing wine, white sugar and chicken soup. This dish is ruddy and white, soft and mellow, sweet and sour.

Steamed shark fin, fish maw and abalone

Fuzhou traditional dishes, with a history of 100 years, were developed by Zheng Chun, the owner of Juchunyuan Hotel. This dish brings together all kinds of delicious food. It is made of more than 20 kinds of raw materials such as shark's fin, sea cucumber, chicken, beef tendon, scallop, mushroom and abalone. Strict cooking procedures, high nutritional value, mellow and not greasy.

Juchunyuan Restaurant has the most famous Buddha jumping wall, but the price of this dish is relatively high. Generally, 300 yuan is required for a single serving per cup.

Attachment: the origin of Buddha jumping wall

It is said that several literati came to Juchun Garden to write poems, and the boss Zheng Chun gave him an altar to cook. When the lid of the altar was opened, it was full of meat and incense. All the philosophers clapped their hands and said that "the jar of meat is full of fragrance, and the Buddha hears that he abandons Zen and jumps over the wall", hence the name of this dish.

Fish lips with minced chicken

Fish lips with minced chicken is a traditional dish in Fuzhou. It is made by removing the fishy smell from the precious fish lips in seafood, pickling with Shaoxing wine and getting drunk, chopping the chicken breast into a velvet shape with the back of a knife, burning it into chicken soup, adding the fish lips to stew, and sprinkling the minced ham. This dish is white in color, soft and waxy in fish lips, rich in gum, mellow in chicken and fresh in taste. It is a must-have dish in a high-class banquet.

Litchi meat

The traditional famous dishes in Fuzhou have a history of two or three hundred years. It is made of lean pork imitating the shape of litchi. Cut lean pork into oblique pieces with a cross knife. Because of the uniform depth, width and width, it is fried into litchi shape, with ketchup, balsamic vinegar, sugar, soy sauce and other seasonings.

This dish can be eaten in ordinary restaurants.

spring roll

Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes and pancakes, are popular traditional snacks in Fuzhou with a long history. It is said that there was a scholar in Fuzhou during the Song Dynasty. In order to prepare for the exam, he buried himself in his studies all day and often forgot to eat and sleep. It was useless for the wife to persuade again and again, so she thought of a way: grind the rice into pancakes, put the meat in them, wrap them into rolls, and eat them as both rice and vegetables. This snack was later named spring rolls and gradually became popular in urban and rural areas. Fuzhou people often eat it during the Spring Festival. It is as common as jiaozi in the north. Cai Xiang once wrote a poem praising: "Thinking about 39 things in spring".

Now the skin of spring rolls has been replaced by flour, and the fillings are generally bean sprouts, leeks, dried tofu, and some have shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots and chopped green onion. The more advanced spring rolls are made of shredded chicken or oysters, shrimps, mushrooms and leeks. Spring rolls are fried to golden brown with a small fire, which is crispy outside and internal combustion, also known as "fried spring rolls".

Seven-star fish balls

Qixing fish pill is a kind of heart-wrapped pill, which originated in the early Qing Dynasty. Because it floats on the noodle soup after cooking, it fluctuates like a swaying star in space, so it is named "Seven-Star Fish Pill". Chop eel, shark or freshwater fish, add sweet potato powder (starch) and stir well, then wrap it with stuffing such as lean meat or shrimp. The skin is thin and even, the color is white and bright, the food is smooth and crisp, and the soup is not greasy.

This kind of food can be eaten in ordinary snack bars.

Swallow the skin

Swallow skin is a thin slice made of minced meat and sweet potato powder, also known as meat swallow skin, which was created in Guangxu period in the late Qing Dynasty. White, fragrant, smooth, tender and refreshing, and can be cut into filaments for cooking. It is a unique flavor snack in Fuzhou. The dried swallow skin can be preserved for a long time and is a good gift for relatives and friends. Swallow skins can be bought in food stores. In addition, it can also be made into many famous dishes and flavor snacks such as Taiping Yan.

Attachment: Taiping Yan

Chop fresh fish, pork belly, shrimp skin and celery stalk into stuffing, cut into two-inch square dried swallow bag stuffing, and fold the middle waist of the swallow skin tightly, so that the edge naturally bends and grows into a spring flower shape, also known as "Xiaochangchun". After steaming, blanch it in boiling water, scoop it up, add seaweed, celery, shrimp oil and other condiments and cook it with duck eggs, and it becomes a necessary dish in Fuzhou every festival or festive day-Taiping banquet. Taiping Yan is favored by Fuzhou people because of its auspicious meaning.

taro paste

The traditional dessert in Fujian is to steam betel nut taro, press it into a paste with a knife, add white sugar, eggs, cooked lard and water, stir it evenly, put it in a bowl, steam it in a cage for one hour, take it out, pour in cooked oil, and sprinkle with chopped red dates, melon seeds, cherries, wax gourd sugar, etc. This dish is fragrant and sweet, delicate and delicious. Taro paste is a common dish in Fuzhou people's banquets. Whenever the banquet draws to a close, the last "finale" dish is usually taro. This kind of dessert is also available in restaurants.

Attachment: the origin of taro paste

It is said that in 1839, Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou to ban smoking, and the consuls of Britain, Germany, the United States and China prepared a western-style mat for Lin Zexu, making a fool of himself while eating ice cream. Afterwards, Lin Zexu also prepared a banquet in return. After several cold dishes, he served taro. Taro paste looks like a cold dish at first glance, but it is actually very spicy.