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Minnan specialty

Minnan specialties include: fried oysters, frozen bamboo shoots, Shenhu water pills, fried dates, spiced strips and green onions. Fried oyster is a famous traditional snack in Fujian province, which belongs to Fujian cuisine. Quanzhou is the birthplace of fried oysters. Choose the top-grade "pearl oyster" as the main material, mix duck eggs, sweet potato powder and garlic sprouts evenly, then put them in a pot and fry them in a proper amount of pig until both sides are crisp and yellow. When eaten, it can be delicious.

Frozen bamboo shoots are a kind of frozen products made from unique bamboo shoots. It is crystal clear, fresh and crisp, and originated in Quanzhou, Fujian. It is a traditional snack with good color, fragrance and taste. Black mounds used to make frozen bamboo shoots are produced in Fujian coastal areas and some coastal areas of Zhejiang.

Oil onion is a traditional local snacks in Ma Xiang 'an, Fujian. The main raw material is japonica rice. Grinding the soaked rice into pulp, adding minced meat, quail eggs, oil onions and other seasonings, and steaming. It tastes cool and refreshing, sweet and salty. It is non-sticky, soft and elastic.

Fried jujube is called hemp pill in Jiangnan, which belongs to Fujian cuisine. Crispy outside and tough inside, sweet and delicious. Quanzhou snacks in history, later spread to Xiamen and other places, are also famous snacks in Xiamen. Local glutinous rice and japonica rice flour are kneaded into dough and fried. There is no stuffing in the middle, and sesame seeds are rolled on the skin, so it is called "pockmarked noodles".