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Shi Shi has the taste: it is the fireworks of the world, it is nostalgia

author:Minnan Net

"Dare to come for the world's 'fresh' Shishi good 'taste'" "Shishi Shishi good sip you know"... At the end of 2021, the Publicity Department of Shishi Municipal Party Committee and the Shishi Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports and Tourism jointly held the collection of food city image LOGO and slogan activities, each with its own characteristics interpreted the authentic flavor of Shishi. Looking at the recently held Shishi "Still Good" famous snack selection activity, the endless taste of "lion flavor food" makes people commit "selection difficulties", looking at the pictures of various famous snacks, can't help but make the population teeth raw, unconsciously swallow a mouthful of water ...

About the "eating" of Shishi, not only is the color and fragrance complete, but also the simple and true human fireworks, this taste memory that belongs to "home" has always been part of the nostalgia of Shishi people, which is unforgettable and long-lasting. It can be said that the twelve hours of Shishi, the four seasons of the year, the delicious taste can not stop at all!

Shi Shi has the taste: it is the fireworks of the world, it is nostalgia

The ancient floating food stalls are popular and the marine flavor is unforgettable

Twelve o'clock

Shishi delicious has always been "online"

To experience the early morning of the Shishi people, you may wish to start eating from the time-honored brand of the city. Holding a fritter in hand and drinking a bowl of Wang Chuan peanut kernel soup is the "standard" for many Shishi people's breakfast, and for more than 30 years, the peanut kernel soup of the old Wang family has been very fresh and strong. Bean blossoms, noodle paste... Enough to kick off your energy-filled day.

Near lunchtime, in the traditional format market of Bagua Street, those operators who insist on inheriting the ancient and early taste began to get busy, wushu "brine meat burden", "Fu ji" oyster frying, Majiaoqiao meat dumplings and other stalls gradually more and more guests, the shopkeeper was busy cooking and cooking, steaming in front of the stove here, and eating in front of the table over there, which constituted a vivid picture of the Shishi Shijing canteen.

In addition to the old streets of the city, Shishi townships also have delicious things to find: Atan fried buns in Yongning, ancient floating seaweed in Xiangzhi, Tangtou sweet kway teow in Baogai, and Small dumplings on Cuoshang in Jinshang... The traditional cuisine everywhere is endless, and most of these old shops have been operated from their ancestors and have been passed down for generations, which can be described as "the old Stone Lion people know".

Wander the old streets and want to have a shishi special afternoon tea? Flower and fruit mountain ice water, gypsum, four fruit soup, ice water full of childhood memories of the refreshing spleen, and then look at those steaming potato flour buns, freshly baked garlic branches, floating oily fried kway teow... Every handmade snack makes you stop and taste it.

The night of the stone lion is filled with the smell of the sea. To say that the most marine flavor, not the food stalls, Xiangzhi Gufu Bay Tourist Service Center, Yongning Hongta Bay Tourist Service Center are good places for summer night dinner. Blowing salty and wet sea breeze, feasting on a seafood meal, the authentic seafood flavor always makes people who grow up by the sea always remember.

The Jinxiang Night Market at night is also very lively, and many food stalls make people linger. There are also late-night noodle paste shops, snail stalls, etc., scattered all over the Shishi food dazzling, that cooking smoke, bursts of aroma, is the most Shishi human fireworks.

four seasons

Shishi people's sense of ritual about "eating"

Every qingming, winter solstice, Chinese New Year's Eve and other important festivals of the year, the vegetable markets in Shishi are more lively than usual, people go to the street in advance to buy, prepare festive food, and there are many kinds of food on each stall, salty, sweet and sour, steamed and fried, emitting a strong "we cuo". Regarding "eating", Shishi people have their own set of rituals, every household still retains many traditional customs, when the festival is approaching, the family gathers together to make and taste festive food, in the bits and pieces of life, the ancient and early taste is passed down from generation to generation.

Speaking of the phenomenon of "queuing up to buy a moist cake crust" in the Qingming Dynasty, Shishi people are all impressed. On the eve of the Qingming Dynasty, the business of making the crust on the old street is particularly hot, and the customers who come to buy the crust are endless, and the long line and the figure of the busy rub the crust have become a landscape. Eat "sweet kun" during the Spring Festival, a year sweet to the end; Qingming bao "run cake", the taste of spring fills the heart; the dragon boat festival meat dumplings, full of material and delicious; Tanabata pinch "sugar kun" to pray for the healthy growth of children; the winter solstice rubs the "winter festival round" to send blessings to the family... Throughout the year, Shishi people use food to interpret the awe and perception of natural change, each taste is the hometown flavor that overseas Chinese will never forget, they will also pack delicious bags out of the country, in a foreign country to inherit the ritual sense of festivals, so that Shishi cuisine to the world.

Shishi has always attached great importance to the inheritance and protection of traditional skills, so far there have been Tangtou sweet kway teow, Shihu vegetable preserved vegetables, Qinglian noodles, Shishi oysters fried, Atan water frying buns, mung bean pie, beef soup, Shangyuanyuan, meat and other production techniques have been listed in the Shishi municipal intangible cultural heritage, one by one non-hereditary inheritors adhere to the pure taste bud memory, carefully inherit the operation of the old brand. In this authentic shishi flavor, there is not only craftsmanship and inheritance, but also perseverance and nostalgia stories.

Time settles

The smell of stone lions wafts all over the world

Song and Yuan China look at Quanzhou, Haisi navigation signs to see Shishi, taste food to Shishi! Shishi flavor is rich and diverse and has connotations, not only retaining traditional cooking techniques, but also has the characteristics of overseas Chinese combining Chinese and Western, highlighting the fusion of mountains and seas, and bringing together the ancient charm of sea silk.

The enduring ancient taste of Shishi has been precipitated by time and become more and more fragrant, and under the inheritance and innovation of a new generation of chefs, Shishi's gourmet business card is constantly "new" and colorful. On November 23, 2021, at the Shishi Food Culture Promotion and Tasting Meeting, the first batch of ten famous dishes in Shishi City were announced, namely: Green Island Green Island Green Bun and Shang Mushroom Tofu Stew at Green Island International Hotel in Shishi City; Lion's LaiRun, Ancient Flavor Lion's Head Goose at Shishi City Honor International Hotel; Wuzhou Secret Milk Pigeon and Four Things Maca Lamb Leg Soup of Fujian Wuzhou Jiahao Hotel Management Co., Ltd.; Boiled Foie Gras and Boiled Zhongbao in Flower Carving Wine of Shishi Mingsheng International Hotel; Ancient Morning Marinated Noodle Noodle Line and Dried Steamed Pork Chop at Hongxin Seafood Restaurant in Shishi City. These dishes are further innovated and developed on the basis of the ten famous dishes of the shishi traditional banquet, which fully demonstrates the regional characteristics of shishi mountain and sea.

"Come and go shishi food, there are burning and boiling is interesting. Come and go Shishi food, there are salty and light and blessed..." Humming the local song "Come and Go Shishi Food", eating in Shishi, the steaming human fireworks smell is the most soothing. Eating in the stone lion, the taste buds in the mouth cross the mountains and the sea, and the heart of the "foodie" is instantly healed. Eating in Shishi, no matter where the footsteps of the villagers go, there is always a taste that locks the direction of home. Eating in Shishi, from street food to hotel cuisine, from hometown to overseas, Shishi taste is fragrant all over the world, has always been a "golden business card" of Shishi City Cultural Tourism, welcome to Shishi a full feast!

(Reporter Hu Danyang/Wen Li Rongxin/Photo)

Source: Shishi Daily

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