Every time they go to a city, angels will want to go to the local market, especially in a small county town like Dongshan Island in Zhangzhou, which is close to the sea and rich in seafood. Dongshan Island is located in the southeast of Fujian Province, is a small county town under Zhangzhou City (officially known as Dongshan County), about two hours drive from Xiamen, the nearest train station is Yunxiao Station.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea. Although Dongshan Island is only a small county, it has a very high reputation in Fujian Province and even in China. The film "Left Ear" directed by Su Youpeng and the Hunan Satellite TV variety show "We Are Coming" were all filmed here. Dongshan Island has a beautiful sea view, Maluan Bay, Jinluan Bay, Nanmen Bay, Wind Moving Stone, Dingjie, Sufeng Mountain, Yanya Village... The blue sky and white clouds have unexpected comforts in this small city.
A while ago, I stayed on Dongshan Island for a few days, and when my friends all said they wanted to go home, I stayed in the local area alone for two days. When we are together, the itinerary naturally follows the big route, and I want to have some time to belong only to myself. For example, go to a roadside stall in the middle of the night to get a bowl of sweet potato porridge and pair it with a small yellow fish with soy sauce and water, and drink a bowl of four-fruit soup in the afternoon, of course... And go to the wet market!
The market gives the impression of being dirty and messy, with a strong fishy smell. But it is also such a place that best reflects the local atmosphere of life. Because of those days on Dongshan Island, I lived in an inn on the top street of Tongling Town, which integrates the Dongshan Oil Painting Institute and the "Dongshan Art Painting Inn" with an artistic atmosphere, so the vegetable market I went to visit is also a people's market that is particularly popular in Tongling Town and is close to the place where I live.
I always feel that the person with the word "people" has a very old age, just like this people's market, walking in and seeing full of seafood. I remember that the initial impression of Dongshan Island was a dish - Dongshan Xiaoguan, in fact, in Xiamen or many cities in Fujian, Dongshan seafood will be used as a major source of seafood.
Dongshan's seafood is very fresh, many of them were just fished from the sea that day, so you can also see them digging scallops, field snails, all kinds of shellfish in the people's market...
However, in addition to this variety of seafood, the Tongling People's Market also has the special snacks of Dongshan Island. For example, this brine shop, looking quite ordinary, always feels that it is an ordinary brine shop. In fact, this stall, which has been in business for more than 20 years, has famous snacks from the Dongshan area, such as roasted tendon spirits, money meat, meat pipes...
Roasted Tendon Spirit is one of the top ten snacks in Dongshan, using fresh meat skewers on iron skewers and smoked on the stove. Burning tendon spirit, so the name "burning" refers to barbecue, and "tendon" refers to the tendon of chicken, duck and goose whose ingredients are generally used, or the pork loin, pork heart, lean meat of the pig's front leg and so on that the fascia is removed. Then add the ingredients (shallots, cooking wine, salt and sugar, etc.), roll them into a round strip, skewer them and put them on a charcoal stove for smoking.
There is also a small shop across the street from the brine shop that specializes in Higashiyama "Sumi rice". Sumi rice is also a delicacy unique to the Higashiyama region, a type of roasted wheat with a seafood flavor.
The focus of the rice is its filling, which is not the same as the common roasted wheat in other places with pure pork filling, and the rice in Higashiyama adds shrimp, dried radish and so on to the pork. It is said that many restaurants in Higashiyama also buy from here!