Tamsui is located in northern Taiwan, there are too many stories for Tamsui, it is a sea outlet in Taiwan, a narrow plain sandwiched between a thick population, a crowded town, with mountains, seas, fishing ports. More importantly, here combines a lot of humanities and special harbor people's culture, there is a song I think everyone has heard "wandering to fresh water" can also vaguely describe the past glory scene, in fact, the famous Taiwanese singer "Zhang Yusheng" in the "sea" carrying a guitar MTV, most of the filming is also in freshwater.
Freshwater in the early days is a fishing port, the catch is very rich, so that the supply is oversupplied, in the era of underdeveloped refrigeration equipment, freshwater fishermen because of too much fish, afraid of long-term insects, so the catch in addition to selling in the market, the fish that can not be eaten will be marinated into dried fish, and then dried to extend the eating period. Later, because of the monotonous taste, it sought changes in production, so there were fish balls, fish crisps and other product names appeared one after another, and the fish processed products derived from it were even more dazzling, and the most representative was "freshwater fish balls". Many tourists, including consumers around the world to Freshwater, then the first thing must be to eat a bowl of freshwater fish balls, see the long queue of people is already a scenery, in the old streets of Tamsui or ferry heads there are many fish ball shops, as long as the old shops have a history of 4 to 50 years.
Freshwater fish balls have a unique shape and oval appearance, which is different from the round and rolling fish balls in other places. It is made by grinding the above fish meat into a fish slurry material, adding a little white powder and water to mix it to make a fish ball skin, and the middle is wrapped in special dried pork, making it oval and fragrant.
Fish balls are made from fish meat, the fish meat is chopped and stirred continuously until the meat is fine and viscous, and the fish meat will gradually form a pulp, which is also fish pulp. The content can use materials such as tuna, sailfish, and flower sticks, but it must use fresh fish meat to make a resilient and delicious fish syrup. After stirring the fish slurry until viscous, then add a little too white powder, water (or protein) and salt, white pepper and other seasonings to mix well again, and finally made into balls by the machine, cooled and then packaged and put into the freezer for preservation, and then when you want to eat, then de-icing, very convenient, heating the fish balls is completed.