A long time ago, a group of fishermen in the Daijiang River went out to sea to fish, but unexpectedly encountered a typhoon, so they had to drive their boats to a small island to avoid the wind. But the wind did not stop for several days, and the food on the ship was eaten. There are only fish on the boat, but they are tired of eating fish every day, and they do not eat starchy food, and people feel uncomfortable.
One day, a man on the ship said that there was a bag of sweet potato powder in the back cabin, or did you bring the sweet potato powder and cook it with fish? Everyone thought it made sense, so the chef started to wash the fish bones and chop them up, then put some cooking oil on the sweet potato powder, and kneaded them into rounds and put them into a pot to cook. After cooking, everyone ate it and thought it was very good! So the fishermen ate the fish balls made from this fish and sweet potato flour and survived the difficult days of sheltering from the wind on the island.
After returning to the shore, everyone remembered the fish balls made on the isolated island and thought it was very good, so every household made fish balls. Later, this kind of fish balls slowly spread throughout other townships and became very popular with everyone. In the dialect of Fuzhou, "circle" is harmonized with "pill", and later everyone called the fish ball "fish ball". This is the origin of Fuzhou's famous flavor snack "fish balls", of course, not necessarily true, the origin of fish balls, so far there are different theories. And this story was told by Mr. Xie Wenming, a descendant of the Lianjiang Daijiang Fish Ball, which is a more convincing statement.
In the early years of Fuzhou fish balls, the outer skin is made of moray eel and fine sweet potato flour, selected pork leg fine meat and fine soy sauce, shrimp oil, etc. to make a filling, soup is generally made of meat bone broth or fish bone boiling soup, sprinkled with some green onions when eating, and then add some vinegar, delicious, after eating endlessly evocative. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous dish in the Fuzhou area called "Seven Star Pills", which is a kind of high-quality fish balls.
In the old days, fish ball shops in Fuzhou City were all over the streets and alleys, fish balls were sold in a bowl of four grains, and the singing sound of "fish balls Shu SI" (one bowl of four grains) was heard from time to time in the fish ball shop. It is said that eating four fish balls is just five or six points full, so that you can eat a hundred without getting tired, anyway, I have not eaten tired. Fuzhou folk songs have the saying that "fish balls flat meat swallow, eating every day" is not tired". Now there is a large kind of fish ball, after cooking, it is as big as a small meat bun, and it is full to eat one grain, and four grains are impossible to eat.
In the past, the streets of Fuzhou were full of people who crossed the streets and alleys to pick up and sell fish balls, and those who picked and sold fish balls put the spoon in a small bowl and shook it up and down, making a crisp sound, and everyone knew that the fish ball sellers were coming as soon as they heard this sound. Now Fuzhou still has such a street to sell fish balls, but now there is no burden, instead of using bicycles or electric vehicles to push and sell.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > fish balls are not only a famous snack in Fuzhou, but also an indispensable dish in Fuzhou banquets, with the saying that "no fish balls are not a table". </h1>
Because of the harmonic sound of "pill" and "circle" in Fuzhou dialect, fish balls mean that the circle is complete and the reunion is round. Fuzhou people often cook fish balls together with another specialty of Fuzhou, meat swallow and duck eggs. "Duck egg" is in harmony with the Fuzhou dialect "suppressing chaos" and "pressing waves", so this dish is called "Taiping Yan", which means that the peace and peace are full of perfection. Therefore, this is a dish that means auspiciousness, and fuzhou people are indispensable to this dish every New Year's Festival or banquet. At the feast in Fuzhou, firecrackers are set off when the dish is served, and the host must come out to toast; if it is a wedding feast, the bride and groom must come out to toast and salute table by table. This dish is the most important and ritualistic dish in the Fuzhou banquet.
Nowadays, fish balls are not only a special snack loved by Fuzhou people, but also an indispensable dish in the banquet, but also an important member of Fuzhou's food culture.
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