With a diameter of 82.5 cm and a weight of 278.8 kg, it is the largest in the world ... Do you know what this is? To give a hint, this is one of the favorites of Fuzhou people.
Guess what? The mystery is revealed - this is the world's largest heart-wrapped fish ball!
Photo: Fuzhou Daily
The lively "Fish Ball Festival" and the "birth" of world-class and heavyweight fish balls have to start from the delicious small fish balls. After reading it, you will know how much Fuzhou people love it.
Fish wrapped meat?
What exactly are fish balls?
Wang Zengqi wrote in "One Food, One Taste": "Fujian people are not tired of eating, especially in Fuzhou. Fish balls, meatballs, and beef balls are as large as small guiyuan, not chopped with a knife, but made of sticks pounded like mud. The entrance is not perceived to be fibers, extremely fine, and elastic. ”
It seems that the "foodie" essence of Fuzhou people, as well as the delicious taste of fish balls, has long been famous.
Fish balls, wrapped in fish paste pork filling, fish fresh meat aroma, a round rolling, white and tender small balls, is one of the traditional Fuzhou family banquet must snacks, so there is also "no fish balls can not be seated" saying.
Fuzhou people love to eat fish balls, which is completely from the heart. Fish balls used to be called "fish balls", presumably because of the pleasing shape, which symbolized the food of reunion and peace, and had to be arranged during the New Year's Festival.
And Fuzhou people love to drink soup when they eat, and fish ball soup is the simplest and most daily delicacy. The hot clear fish balls are seasoned with pepper and balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with tender green onions before they are baked.
The freshness of the fish, the beauty of the meat, in the final analysis, Fuzhou people can not do without the taste of this mouth of mountains and seas.
Fish balls
How it is "refined"
The people of Fuzhou, who eat the sea by the sea, have been cultivated into "picky" gourmets by this plump side of the water and soil. The land is beautiful, the aquatic products are abundant, and nature has derived many ways to cook delicious food, and fish balls have also been born.
Fuzhou is near the sea, and the production of fish balls mostly uses marine fish as raw materials. Fuzhou fish balls, a selection of thick and tender flesh, white and less thorny marine fish or freshwater fish, more use of eels, mackerel, small sharks, bone chopping, so bother only to get the Q bullet food sense of fish ball skin.
Traditional fish balls with handmade ingenuity. Making fish balls is a very complicated process, first chop the fish into a white and shiny fish velvet, add sweet potato flour (sweet potato powder) and stir evenly, this process Fuzhou people say is "fish balls".
The priorities of "hitting" are exquisite, which directly affects the taste of fish balls, reflects the level of kung fu of fish ball masters, and has knowledge. Balls made with pork and other fillings are then wrapped in elaborate preparation.
Swinging the hammer and twisting the fingers, the small fish balls of Q bullets are formed. The cooked fish balls are white and shiny in color, the food is smooth and crisp, and the soup is not greasy, moisturizing the small days of Fuzhou people.
Intangible cultural heritage on the tip of the tongue
Fuzhou people love to eat and know how to eat better. This precious taste of Fujian, this hundred years of food making technology, naturally has to be well protected.
One of the intangible cultural heritages on the tip of Fuzhou's tongue is the Fuzhou Yonghe fish ball making technology, which has to be mentioned.
Founded in 1934, Yonghe Fish Ball Shop is the oldest existing fish ball brand in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, and won the title of "China Time-honored Brand" in 2001. In 2008, the "Yonghe Fish Ball Making Technique" was included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage protection project. This long-established brand, the gold content and strength can be seen.
The dafuxing fish ball making technique is the third batch of district-level intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Taijiang District. Its production process follows the ancient method, and the fish balls made are white in color, good in toughness, and delicious and fragrant in taste.
A bite of fish balls
A mouthful of Fuzhou love
Many old Fuzhou people will remember such a scene: one morning or evening, from the depths of the streets and alleys came the crisp sound of "clanging", a vendor slowly led a bicycle containing food burdens, holding the porcelain bowl with one hand, holding the rim of the bowl with one hand, holding a porcelain spoon with the middle finger and index finger, and constantly shaking the fingers and palms, so that the porcelain spoon collided with the porcelain bowl and made a pleasant sound.
Steaming fish balls are loaded on the food carriers, which is a unique way for Fuzhou vendors to sell fish balls. They don't need to shout, people just hear the knocking of the bowl and know that the fish ball seller is coming.
This kind of street sales has gradually become a memory that the old Fuzhou people occasionally miss. Fortunately, Fuzhou people's love for fish balls is not reduced, there are fish ball stores everywhere in the streets and alleys of Fuzhou, and the old brands with loud names are full of tourists and diners.
Yonghe fish balls
Yonghe fish balls were originally just stalls for sale, but later fish balls retained the fish aroma and did not have a fishy taste, and became very popular, and slowly developed to open shops in South Back Street.
The handmade fish balls here vary in size and are white and shiny in color. The skin of the fish balls is very thick and chewy, and when you bite it, it is refreshing. First slowly chew the tender and delicate skin of the fish balls, and then take advantage of the bite to suck the fresh sweet filling inside, which is particularly satisfying.
Friends who have a lot of time, remember that there are also dine-in seats on the second floor, and the seats by the window are still eating while enjoying the scenery of Fang Alley. There are also chilled fish balls and fish noodles for sale, so you can buy them and eat them slowly at home.
Address: 89 South Back Street
Fuzhou Dafuxing fish balls
As a long-established brand of Fuzhou fish balls, Dafuxing Fish Balls is famous for its "big" fish balls and "delicious soup".
Pictured: The official website of Dafuxing
address
(1) Taijiang District Hexia Street Beixing Road No. 17 Dafuxing Fish Ball Co., Ltd
(2) Taijiang District Industrial Road, Fuzhou City, 358-9 Hongqi Hotel, 1st Floor, Dafuxing Fish Ball Shop
Fukushin fish balls
Fuxin Fish Ball, located on the corner of Provincial Capital Road. The fish balls that have just come out of the pot are coated with refreshing teeth, and a little bit of meat aroma spills out, lingering between the teeth.
Figure: Pingyu WeChat public account
Address: No. 76 Provincial Capital Road
Victory Fish Ball Old Shop
Handmade is the best! When you take a bite, the meat filling is full and salty, as if you are swimming in the sea.
Address: Gulou District Xihong Road No. 89
Lee Kee Green Eel Ball Shop
Li Ji Green Eel Ball Shop, with many stores. The boss and his wife are related to fish balls, and they make a living from fish balls, which are genuine and delicious.
The fish balls here, made from fresh eels, are sold on the same day as the main feature, and are hand-kneaded, which is very popular with guests.
Above picture: Eat all over Fuzhou WeChat public account
Address: Gulou District Suwei Road and Guxi Road intersection
Three meals in all seasons, one meal and one taste. A fish ball hides the flavor of mountains and seas and the human touch of Fuzhou. Why talk more, eat it!