Must-eat food in Quanzhou

When arriving at a new area, the first thing that comes to mind is what good food is available. The second thing to do is to find places to play. It would be best if the two places are close together so that you can eat when you’re tired of playing, and continue playing when you’re tired of eating. Today’s article introduces the must-eat snacks in Quanzhou, such as Shenhu Water Balls, Halal Beef, Shishi Sweet Fruit, etc. Quanzhou is home to a large number of Hui people, so you need to be careful before entering a store. Here are some other delicacies, check them out.

Shen Hu Shui Wan

Shenhu water pills come in round, block or fish shapes. It has the characteristics of snow-white color, strong expansion ability when cooked, tough texture, and delicious and delicate taste. It is made by chopping and mashing high-quality fish meat such as eel and "jia la" fish and mixing it with sweet potato flour. All tourists who come to Quanzhou praise it.

Halal beef hotpot

Halal beef hotpot is a favorite snack of Hui people in Quanzhou. The dough is made by mixing refined flour, and beef and ginger are chopped into minced meat as the stuffing. When the dumplings are wrapped and put in a pan, they are golden in color, with a crispy bottom, and the meat stuffing is delicious and smooth in the mouth. It is a famous halal delicacy.

Shishi sweet fruit

Shishi sweet fruit is the best quality rice cake. According to legend, this kind of rice cake was produced in Shishi during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Its main ingredients include glutinous rice, white sugar, candied winter melon, kumquats, spices, etc. It can be stored for fifteen days without getting moldy. Put it in sugar in winter and in cooking oil in summer and it can stay fresh for four or five months.

Yuanxiao Pills

Yuanxiao balls are a Lantern Festival food in Quanzhou. The main ingredients are peanuts, sesame seeds, white sugar, winter melon candy, onions and fruit flavors. The fillings are rolled into glutinous rice flour and cooked in boiling water.

Salty Rice

Quanzhou's specialty staple food is a way of cooking rice. There are many varieties, including pumpkin salty rice, radish salty rice, mustard greens salty rice, taro salty rice, and diced pork belly salty rice. Unlike fried rice, salty rice is cool in nature and is suitable for eating in the summer when the body is hot. It is particularly noteworthy that salty rice is a type of rice rather than porridge. It is amazing that a small bowl of rice can be refreshing. It is worthy of being a place with a strong seaside style.

Noodle Soup

A snack from Quanzhou City, Fujian Province and even the wider Fujian region. It is in paste form and is made from thin noodles and sweet potato flour. First boil the water, then add the sweet potato flour, seasoning and rice noodles. It is usually eaten for breakfast, accompanied by another local snack - fried dough sticks. Noodle soup usually contains a variety of ingredients such as large intestine, small intestine, shrimp, pork liver, braised eggs, fried eggs, fried meat slices, sausages and so on.

Chongwu Fish Roll

Chongwu Fish Roll is a famous dish in southern Fujian and one of the top ten famous snacks in Quanzhou. It has won many awards in competitions held in southern Fujian and is deeply appreciated by the people of southern Fujian and tourists who come to Hui'an for sightseeing.

Four Fruit Soup

Four-fruit soup is an important drink for people in Quanzhou, Fujian to cool off in summer. Every summer there will be many vendors selling four-fruit soup on the streets. Some more formal ones will open a store, selling four-fruit soup in summer and roasted grass jelly in winter. It is very pleasant to go to a small shop, order a bowl of four-fruit soup and enjoy the air conditioning.

Shishi Beef Soup

Shishi beef soup is a popular Quanzhou snack. Recently, the reporter went to a nearly 70-year-old beef soup restaurant in Shishi to explore the traditional production process of beef soup. Unlike some businesses that use machines instead of manual mixing of beef, this store has been manually beating and mixing the beef for decades, allowing diners to taste the most original and delicious taste of the beef soup.