I want to talk about the fireworks in Quanzhou.
People take food as the sky, so let's start with local specialties.
I'm not a foodie, and I rarely travel specifically to restaurants. However, this time in Quanzhou, because I live near the west street of the most lively street in the ancient city, there are too many kinds of exquisite food. I also easily ate a lot of local specialties in Quanzhou.
I believe that the stomach and mouth are deeply rooted in the hometown plot. So I'm not recommending food, just talking about the traditional food in Quanzhou that I've eaten, and suggesting that you can try it. Travel outside, taste more local food, like to earn, do not like and do not lose.
Batter (20 rmb)
It is said that the most classic breakfast and supper in Quanzhou is noodle paste.
The noodles, you can see one by one in the bowl, but you can't clip it, and you don't feel anything in your mouth when you eat it, and it melts all at once.
It seems that there is nothing, but in fact, the kung fu is outside the poem. It is necessary to use fresh fish, shrimp, rice, dried squid and scallops as a base to slowly boil the soup. It's the low-key pride of the seaside. The noodles need to be pulled by hand, as thin as a strand of hair, and then dried in the sun.
It is threaded in the seafood soup, after which it needs to be pasted with sweet potato powder, which is a local specialty of Quanzhou.
Quanzhou Hui'an is rich in sweet potatoes, so many foods use Hui'an sweet potato powder.
The batter is boiled in a large pot and customers can serve a variety of cooked food ingredients: sea oysters, marinated intestines, vinegar meat, pork liver, beef and so on.
The shop recommended pork intestines and vinegar meat, only to see her pick up a few sections of pork intestines and vinegar meat from the pot next to her, cut them and spread them at the bottom of the bowl, and then scoop a large spoonful of noodle paste and pour them on. I also learned that the locals asked for a fritter.
The dough batter is fresh and not fishy, slightly salty. Vinegar meat, I eat a little weird. This kind of meat is a little sour, and I am not used to it for a while. The fritters were blanched in the batter and were delicious. The waiter told me to "just burn it, don't soak it soft~"
Lantern (10 rmb 5 capsules)
The one I went to was the "Sea Silk Golden Phoenix" in Goldfish Lane, and the name was very good. I didn't do the raiders because it was next to the Nanyin Pavilion, and I wanted to wait for the Nanyin Pavilion to open the door, so I went to buy a bowl. Later, I learned that this store has been passed down for four generations.
The Lantern is not the same as the Tangyuan. As the saying goes: roll the Lantern in the north, wrap the tangyuan in the south.
The Lantern Festival in Quanzhou was brought by the northerners who moved south away from the Central Plains in the past generations, and the customs of the Northern Middle Ages were inherited on the shores of the distant sea.
"Rolling Lantern" needs to make the filling first. Mix the filling, divide into small balls and let dry. When rolling, put the filling in the basket and keep shaking the basket to wrap the glutinous rice flour on the outside layer by layer. But now it's time to "roll" with a machine.
Because it is "rolled", it is not as smooth and uniform as the tangyuan, and it is a bit "bumpy" to eat.
The filling is peanut sesame seeds, sweet. I looked at it, and there was only this kind of stuffing, and there was no other choice. I don't know if there is a meat lantern?
Oyster fried (20 rmb per serving)
Sea oysters are fried all over the coast. It is said that the sea oyster fry in Quanzhou is blessed with sweet potato powder from Hoi An, so it is particularly delicious.
But because I rarely eat sea oyster fried, there is no contrast, I can't say if it is particularly delicious. All I can say is that I like to eat it myself.
Gypsum (10 yuan, in addition to gypsum, you can also choose 5 kinds of food)
The main raw material of gypsum is the stone flower grass, a type of edible seaweed that grows on the reefs of the mid-tide or low tide zone in the Taiwan Strait, and is shaped like coral. (Online Information)
The gypsum is made by hand, first boiled in a large pot and then cooled by gauze filter, naturally solidifying, like jelly transparent and clear.
Naturally, I didn't see this series of processes, I just understood what plaster was. We ate at Bingzheng Hall next to the Tianhou Temple, a very tasty dessert. It's hot in winter, it's just so sweet.
There are many ingredients to choose from, such as turtle paste, taro paste, kidney beans, sweet potato balls, various fruits and so on.
I chose this one.
This one is my friend's.
Egg peanut soup (8 rmb 1 serving)
I thought it was easy to cook peanut soup, but don't you just peel the peanuts and throw them in a pot and boil them with water?
The aunt in the shop said solemnly that it was not so easy. After the peanuts are peeled, the defects are removed first, then the red film is removed by soaking in boiling water, and then add water to simmer over low heat, and it must be a casserole. Wait until the peanuts are ripe before putting in the sugar.
Auntie also highly recommends that peanut soup is best added with eggs to nourish the stomach!
Auntie is so enthusiastic, what else can she say! Bring a bowl of egg peanut soup.
The peanut kernels are very soft and crisp, which is very different from the crispness of peanuts that are usually eaten. The first bite was inexperienced, and I thought I was going to bite it hard, but the result was a strong hit on the cotton - it did not fall.
Only then did I know that the peanuts in the original peanut soup had been transformed from "Vajra angry eyes" to "bodhisattva low eyebrows".
Salty rice + fish ball soup (10 yuan)
Salty rice is a staple food of Quanzhou fast food, soaked in rice drained and then fried with shiitake mushrooms, radish, cabbage and other stir-fried and then cooked.
A lot of locals eat this at noon. I casually entered a small restaurant, the owner is very realistic, see I do not understand, said "you alone, a salty rice a soup, ten dollars, enough." ”
It was really good, although it was simple, but it was very comfortable to eat.
Soup bun + assorted vegetable soup (15 yuan)
Soup buns are common in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but as a Sichuanese, I am not accustomed to the sweetness of jiangsu and Zhejiang soup buns. The soup bun eaten in this shop in Quanzhou is fine, slightly sweet.
By the way, the soups at this and the salty rice are delicious, they should be boiled with seafood, and pepper is added, which is a bit spicy.
Don't underestimate this little peppery taste. Pepper's ancestral home is India, known as "black gold" in ancient times. As the world's largest port, Quanzhou has an important cargo of pepper among the many merchant ships.
To a large extent, this little peppery taste, but the aftertaste of the "traffic exotic" of that year!
Roasted pork dumplings (9 yuan)
Quanzhou's roasted meat dumplings are mainly made of shiitake mushroom shrimp and pork glutinous rice, and the ingredients will be lotus chestnut squid and abalone, which really contain mountain treasures and seafood. The taste is slightly sweeter and the oil is not greasy.
For me, what is special is that Quanzhou's roast meat dumplings are also accompanied by sauce. When eating, separate the meat dumplings and mix the sauce to have a different flavor
Because it was delicious and full, we ate it twice.
Shacha noodles (14 yuan or 12 yuan)
The taste of sand tea is very characteristic of southern Fujian Chaoshan province, with shrimp, garlic, onions, peanuts and other compound fresh aroma, slightly sweet, slightly spicy.
I was curious about what this taste had to do with "sand" and "tea", and when I looked it up, I learned that it was a Chaoshan transliteration of a Southeast Asian foreign word.
Skin Cake (8 rmb)
I feel like spring rolls are not fried. The pancakes were rolled with some vegetables and drizzled with sauce.
Personally, I don't feel very tasty, it's all soft sticky carrot shreds, some coriander, dried.
My friend bought one first and she didn't think it tasted good. So I changed to one that had been on the "Tip of the Tongue of China", and I didn't think it was delicious when I bought it. How to say it, maybe we can't eat it.
Handmade mochi (2 yuan 1 piece)
Knead the glutinous rice into small balls, let it cool, wrap in the prepared filling and roll it into a rugby ball.
Auntie said that the filling inside was peanut sesame seeds, but I didn't feel like peanuts, but like the thin crisp texture in northern pancakes.
The skin is crispy and sticky, the filling inside is sweet and fragrant, and it is a delicious snack~
In addition, I also ate Quanzhou brine noodles, which I didn't like very much. A friend suggested that I eat another one, and she said that Quanzhou brine noodles were delicious. But I didn't have time to try it again, so I'll save it for the next time.
There are also the bamboo shoot jelly in the streets and alleys, which I did not dare to eat.
There is also the famous ginger hen duck, the first two days because there are too many things to eat, we did not have time to eat. The next few days were because my friend went back and I couldn't eat alone.
There are also full of pancakes, fist mother, rats and straw, bowl cakes, beef balls, taro cakes and so on.
(Full of pancakes Picture from the Internet)
Finally, I have to talk about drinking.
Unlike the richness and variety of special foods in Quanzhou, according to my limited understanding, the most drunk in Quanzhou is tea.
And it has to be oolong tea!
Narrowing down the scope, it can only be quanzhou local anxi tieguanyin!
Every time I saw the owner of the inn, he sat at the tea table and drank tea, and invited me to drink a few cups of Tieguanyin.
He said that everyone in Quanzhou had a tea table and drank tea. He also said that he only drank Tieguanyin.
I thought it was delicious, so I went to Hachima to buy Tieguanyin. The tea shop sister popularized another round of knowledge for me.
Oolong tea is geographically divided into four types: Northern Fujian Oolong, Southern Fujian Oolong, Guangdong Oolong, and Taiwan Oolong.
The representative of Minnan Oolong is Quanzhou Anxi Tieguanyin.
In Quanzhou, it is best to go to a brewing tea house. This time we didn't get what we wanted, but I think it should be a very interesting experience.