Meat swallow / drum tower delicacies on the tip of the tongue
The skin Q bomb, the meat filling is fragrant, and the production technique is only available in Fuzhou in the country, which is a must.
Since ancient times, Fuzhou has had the folk custom of "eating Taiping Yan and enjoying family portraits". Every New Year's Festival, weddings and funerals, relatives and friends gathering, folk family banquets, "Taiping Yan" is a must-have dish, but also the only one of all dishes in the country, the only dish needs to be fired firecrackers.
According to legend, as early as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a royal historian in Pucheng County, Fujian Province, who returned to his hometown, lived in the mountains, and after eating too many mountain treasures, he felt flat. Therefore, his cook took the lean meat of the pork leg, beat it into a meat paste with a wooden stick, mixed with an appropriate amount of sweet potato flour, rolled it into pieces as thin as paper, cut it into small pieces of three inches square, wrapped in meat filling, made into flat food, and cooked with soup. Lord Yushi ate in his mouth only to feel smooth and crisp, pure and fragrant, even called "Da Miao", busy asking what kind of dim sum, the chef because of its shape like a flying swallow and said "flat meat swallow". After the flat meat swallow and duck eggs are cooked together, because the duck eggs in the Fuzhou dialect are harmonious with "pressing chaos" and "pressing waves", which means "Taiping", and there is also the saying of "Taiping Yan".
Meat swallow is Fuzhou people from snacks to large delicacies, Drum Tower Tongli meat swallow is very famous, continuing the tongue tip memory of generations of Fuzhou people. "Tongli Meat Swallow Old Shop" was founded in the second year of The Qing Dynasty (1876) in the "Three Lanes and Seven Alleys" where humanities gather, and has been more than 100 years old, and is a famous old shop in Fuzhou that makes meat swallow skin and cooks "Taiping Yan".
Tongli meat swallow production technology is very exquisite, is the live fresh pork to remove the greasy part and bones, a single selection of pure lean meat for processing; the use of Fujian special lychee wood made of about two pounds of wooden mallets on the lychee wood chopping board with hard hammering, until the hammer into a stretchy and tough pork puree, and then evenly sprinkled with Fujian special Luoyuan sweet potato powder, after multiple processes, made of thin paper, color like jade flesh swallow skin, wrapped with various fillings to become different flavors of flat meat swallow.
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Source: Drum Tower Tourism
The round head and tail of the meat swallow wrapped in tongli swallow skin and meat filling are shaped like flying swallows, and the eyes are like run jade jade, and the entrance is smooth and crisp. It has been identified as "Fujian Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project", "China's Top Ten Cultural Catering Brands", "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance Demonstration Unit".
A bowl of steaming meat swallow, looks crystal clear, thin as white paper, eat to the mouth skin thin filling juicy, full of tenacity, far away from the emitted a seductive meat aroma, very refreshing!
After years of precipitation, The Meat Swallow has unconsciously become famous all over the world, and it is also the most direct and deepest memory of Fuzhou people for the streets and alleys of Gulou. What you eat is delicious, but what you taste is feelings.