Bamin Small Jucangshan Wanda Store
After a 4-hour train trip, olive pictorial and his party finally arrived in Fuzhou, last weekend was still hot, but when we arrived, it was a cool weather with drizzle and mist, while lamenting the beauty of the sky, the feeling of hunger also urged us to embark on the first day of the foraging journey.
Ma language Well-known foodie in Fujian
After arranging the luggage, we met the leader of the trip, Teacher Ma Yu, at the Bamin Xiaojucangshan Wanda Store. Teacher Ma is a famous food celebrity in Fujian, not only has hundreds of thousands of public number fans, but also spreads nearly 100 large and small Fujian cuisine restaurants, leading 22 500-person WeChat food group, has a deep understanding of the cuisine of Fujian, and the first stop of the journey is arranged in Bamin Xiaoju. "Although you only came to Fuzhou this time, you can taste the food of many cities in Fujian at a time in a small gathering in Bamin."
Chen Shijie
Bamin Xiaoju selects representative dishes or representative ingredients from major cities in Fujian, such as Fuzhou's Buddha jumping wall and Ningde's yellow fish, so that diners can know Fujian for a meal, which is particularly suitable for us newcomers to the outside world, and the restaurant concept of "ju" Minwei is proposed by the chef and one of the shareholders of the restaurant: Chen Shijie.
Chef Chen once led the team to win a Michelin star for the Singapore Min cuisine restaurant Putian, and joining Ba Min is not only a new direction of his personal career, but also condenses his expectations for Fujian cuisine. Fujian is surrounded by mountains and seas, there are many ingredients, locals rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the sea to eat the sea, pay attention to the original taste of the ingredients, the dining environment is somewhat "extreme", there is no shortage of expensive traditional Fujian restaurants on the market, there are also many cheap snacks such as Shaxian snacks, but the middle level is somewhat broken.
In addition, the local small brand incubation in Fujian has been relatively successful, but there are fewer Fujian restaurants going out, with the hope of spreading Fujian cuisine, eight Fujian small gathering came into being, in addition to the traditional dishes in Fujian, Chen Shijie also developed improved dishes such as boiling Buddha jumping off the wall, attracting young people with "heavy taste".
In order to let diners better feel the local culture, the restaurant also integrates Fujian style into the dining environment. Brick walls in southern Fujian, Baker walls by the sea, and dry earth walls in western Fujian, bricks, sand, pebbles, shells and straw are used in them, retaining the style of traditional architecture and moving directly into the restaurant.
Log-colored dining tables, rattan woven dark green seats, brass lamps sprinkle soft light on the beige walls, retro tiles, originated from the history of Fujian overseas Chinese in Nanyang, often appear in Minnan architecture, but also for the Eight Min small gatherings to add more style.
Sit in the private room for a while, the dishes are presented one by one, and a fujian tip of the tongue tour begins.
Fuzhou
Fujian cuisine generally refers to Fuzhou cuisine, and Buddha jumping off the wall is one of the classics. Ba min Xiaoju uses the traditional Cooking Method of Buddha Jumping Wall, using a variety of raw materials such as barrel bones and pigeons to simmer the soup, adding: sea cucumber, abalone, deer tendon, pigeon egg and other precious raw materials, the entrance is sticky lips, and the meat is not greasy.
Ningde
Come to Fujian, of course, to eat the famous Ningde yellow croaker. Bamin Xiaoju selects Yong'an yellow pepper and cooks it together with yellow fish, and the slightest spicy taste is immersed in the fish meat, which makes the fish meat more sweet and tender.
Xiamen
Xiamen Shacha tiger shrimp, Shacha is a special flavor of Malaysia, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, millions of ancestors of southern Fujian drifted across the ocean to the South China Sea, bringing this special seasoning back to Fujian. Good sand tea should be boiled with pork bones, and then accompanied by peanuts fried in river sand, the entrance is particularly mellow, and it is used to cook the strong tiger shrimp produced in Xiamen, fresh and thick harmoniously blended, making people eat fingers.
Zhangzhou
Guiyuan dried fried crab, a Zhangzhou special "confinement meal", many locals believe that the combination of the two can play a role in supplementing the mother's body. Peeling off the shell of the crab, the fat orange-yellow crab paste is revealed, and the aroma and sweetness of dried dried fruit are delicately integrated into the sauce, doubling the sweetness of the crab meat.
Quanzhou
Quanzhou pork ribs stewed rice, casserole open lid, dried seafood and pork oil aroma comes to the nose, grainy rice mixed with millet golden hook, bringing salty taste, shiitake mushroom shreds added to bring mushroom fragrance, coupled with fragrant shallot oil and fresh ribs, fragrant overflowing, a spoonful of a spoon will quickly bottom out in a moment.
Nanping
Ganoderma lucidum mushroom fried smoked goose, using ganoderma lucidum mushrooms and characteristic smoked goose produced in Nanping City, northern Fujian Province, cooked together, Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms have a delicate taste, crisp and sweet in the teeth, like meat not meat; goose meat after passing with paprika smoked, slightly spicy oily, caramelized meat is tight.
Putian
Putian salt brine tofu, looks ordinary a pot, gently sniffing but can evoke good memories of childhood. Choose the salt brine point tofu produced in Putian, the aroma is mellow, and then add putian specialty dried clams, the aroma of dried seafood is concentrated in a simple white soup, the bubble feeling of tofu full of seafood soup, delicious flavor.
During the meal, Master Chen told us that Bamin Xiaoju was exploring the markets in Beijing and Shanghai, hoping that the taste of Bamin could travel all over the country. For the olive team, the eight Min small gathering-like meals have aroused the curiosity of Fujian cuisine, what kind of food will be encountered in the next trip? Let's wait and see.
Eight Min small gathering
Address: Fuzhou City Pushang Avenue Cangshan Wanda Plaza, third floor 3-30, 331AA (near Gate 1
Tel:0591-83785188