Quanzhou has a long history and a long history, and has a history of 1233 years and has an extremely rich traditional cultural heritage. Local culture (also known as Minyue culture), Central Plains culture, Haisi culture and other diverse languages are integrated here and carried forward.
Minnan cuisine should be the crystallization of the combination of multiculturalism, derived from the major influence of Minyue culture, Central Plains culture and Haisi culture. On the basis of inheriting traditional skills, Minnan cuisine collects the essence of various dishes and adjusts and changes rough and greasy customs
Quanzhou's meat soup, insect haozai soup and powder soup retain the most primitive cooking method. The origin of the Hai Silk Road culture was the opening of the Maritime Silk Road, and the Ming Dynasty Zheng He's voyage to the West was a continuation of the Hai Silk Road.
Minnan cuisine is fresh and crisp, pay attention to the soup estimation, the taste is light, sweet and sour, Chinese and Western, endless changes, its cooking techniques are diverse, there are fried, fried, boiled, stewed, stewed, fried, halogenated, fire, pyrotechnic, pouring, steaming and so on
Famous dishes with local characteristics include: osmanthus clam meat, red braised tongxin river eel, Dongbi dragon ball, steamed bamboo shoot river perch, oil-baked red sturgeon, orange juice after-strength fish, etc. Famous local flavor snacks include: meat brown, noodle paste, deep Shanghai fish balls, flat food, Shishi sweet fruit, fried dates, field snail meat bowl cake, soil shoot jelly, taro balls, triad noodles and so on
The daily food customs of Quanzhou people, like most parts of China, are based on the three-day breakfast, lunch and evening meal system. There are also refreshments as a complement to the meal. Restricted by the local natural environment, economic conditions and production methods, since ancient times, Quanzhou people have "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea" as the feeding principle, the diet structure has its own color, the staple food raw materials are rice, sweet potatoes, barley,the main methods of staple food are dry rice, porridge two. Dim sum is mainly snacks, such as "triple noodles", "soy milk", "peanut milk", etc., or gifts of ceremonial food from relatives and friends. There is also a unique way of eating, which is to eat the main and secondary foods "two in one", that is, to cook vegetables, seafood, meat and other foods directly with the staple foods into salty rice, salty porridge, such as cabbage rice, mustard rice, red paste sturgeon rice, peanut kernel porridge, oyster boy Zhao, duck porridge, sweet potato porridge, both save cooking, cooking time, delicious and time-saving, these are the unique styles of Southern Fujian cuisine.