There are allusions to the origin of Light Cake: According to legend, in the forty-first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese made an insurrection and Qi Jiguang was ordered to clear up and stay in Fuzhou. In order to supply military food, he invented a small cake made of flour, kneaded it into a diameter of about inches, and punched a small hole in it for carrying around. Later, in order to commemorate General Qi's achievements in destroying the Japanese people, the people used the name General as a memorial.
Oyster cake
When it was just fried, it was crisp and fragrant, golden in color and very attractive. It was a famous street snack in Fuzhou.
Fixed edge stickers, also called pot edge stickers,
In Fuzhou, it is a common breakfast for citizens.
Dry layer (leaf) cake
To make a thousand-layer cake, you should first "fat", that is, knead flour and water into dough, scald it with boiling water, and then add flour and sugar to knead it evenly. Add egg powder, milk powder and so on. Stir well, roll into thin slices, spread pieces of fat pork, red dates and wax gourd strips, fold in half and sprinkle with ingredients. So folded up and scattered into layers or pages, hence the name; It's steamed and ready to be cut into pieces.
Juanjian
Method: After steamed glutinous rice, rinse with clear water to remove viscosity, add lard and sugar, stir well, spread it into sheets with bean skin, spread a layer of black bean sauce, roll it into a simple shape, steam it, and fry it when eating.
Gift cake
It is a special traditional gift for overseas Chinese and folk Fujian men and women in Fuzhou, Southeast Asia and Taiwan Province Province to celebrate their marriage, visit relatives and friends and honor their elders. The practice is to make a "sweet cake" with flour, sugar, lard, longan, red dates, peanuts, walnuts and white sesame seeds, while a "salty cake" is to add fresh shrimp, wine and seasonings to the stuffing of the sweet cake.
Yuanxiao Pill/Decoction/Time Pill
The method is to mix glutinous rice flour with water, knead into balls, knead into pancakes, put stuffing in them, and then wrap them up. The stuffing is semi-fat lean meat with fresh shrimp and black soy sauce. The skin of the soup pill is the same as that of the Yuanxiao pill, except that the stuffing is peanuts, red dates, black sesame seeds and brown sugar, and jujube paste or red bean paste can also be used alone. Another kind of time pill is a mixture of glutinous rice balls, peanut powder, soybean powder and sesame, without stuffing. The line plane Fuzhou line plane began in the Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of more than 800 years.
Ultrathin noodles
Cooking is very simple, just put the noodles in boiling water and cook them again, and you can pick them up. Add cooked mutton to make mutton noodles, and add chicken to make chicken noodles.
Fuzhou rice cake (meatballs)
Mix 60% brown sugar and 40% mashed sweet potatoes evenly, spread bean skin on the bottom and steam. Add shredded taro, shredded pork, peanuts, black soy sauce and red sauce before steaming, or spread it on the bean skin and decorate it with red dates to enhance the atmosphere of "Nian".
Olive (spiced fruit)
Olive is also the main specialty of Fuzhou, and it has many nicknames. Overseas Chinese call it "Guo Fu" to express their nostalgia for their homeland. Some people say that Fuzhou has the largest output, so it is called "Guo Fu".
Abandoned vegetables
The dehydrated vegetables are soaked in the container by the action of red distiller's grains (distiller's grains) to make them delicious, and at the same time, the food will not change in a short time; There are many ways to eat, such as steaming, frying and boiling.
Boil nine porridge (filial piety porridge)-[I think this pronunciation seems to be translated from Fuzhou dialect]
Usually on the 29th day of the first lunar month, every household should prepare this kind of sweet porridge, which is called "lotus root wine porridge" (or filial son porridge, which is cooked by children to honor their parents).
Taichi taro
Tai Chi taro paste is one of the sweets in Fuzhou cuisine and is often served at festivals and banquets. Older people especially like it. Legend has it that when Lin Zexu went to Guangzhou as an imperial envoy to ban smoking, consular officials from Britain, Germany, the United States, Russia and other countries specially prepared western-style cold dishes for Lin Zexu in an attempt to fool him when he was eating ice cream, but he saw through the plot and gave them to Lin Zexu. After the incident, Lin Zexu also prepared a rich banquet to "reward" the leaders. After several cold dishes, a bright gray and dark red dish came up, like two fish lying on a plate without steaming, just like a cold dish. A foreign consul picked up a spoon and put it in his mouth. His eyes are too hot to spit water. Another consul groaned, and his lips were burned with a red "lace", which shocked all the other guests. At this time, Lin Zexu casually stood up and introduced: "This is a famous dish in Fuzhou, China, called Taiji Taro."
spring roll
Spring rolls, also known as spring cakes, are popular traditional snacks. It is said that there was a scholar in the Song Dynasty who spent all day in his study, burying himself in reading and often forgetting to eat and sleep. It was useless for the wife to persuade again and again, so she thought of a way to grind rice into skin, wrap the stuffing of serving meat, roll it together, and eat it as both a meal and a dish. The scholar has been eating and drinking every day since then. Since then, spring rolls have gradually become popular in urban and rural areas, and people eat more.
Fuzhou Fish ball
Fish balls are a famous snack in Fuzhou and can also be used to make soup at banquets.
Buddha Leaping Wall has a history of more than 100 years since the last years of Tongzhi (1876), formerly known as "Fushouquan".