Five Dishes in Haikou Town, Fuqing Make People’s Mouths Watering

Fuqing is a hidden paradise with countless special foods. What is your favorite food in Fuqing? As one of the "Five Ancient Towns" in Fuqing, Haikou Town has a long history, a rich cultural heritage and a large number of talented people.

There are famous historical figures, Zheng Xia and Lin Zexu, the "first person who opened eyes to see the world" in modern China.

Mr. Lin Shaoliang, a famous overseas Chinese leader and chairman of the Fuqing Fellowship Association of the World.

And Mr. Lin Guomin, a famous overseas Chinese leader and vice chairman of the Association

There are ancient buildings such as Ruifeng Temple, Dongyue Temple, Ruiyan Temple and Tongjiang Gate.

There are also national key cultural relic protection units.

Longjiang Ancient Bridge, which was built in the Song Dynasty and has been well preserved so far.

Ruiyan Maitreya statue, carved in Yuan Dynasty and known as "the first Buddha in Jiangnan"

Let's take a look at the food recommended by Haikou Town~

Beef paste

Fresh beef is cut in reverse grain, mixed with a little MSG and soy sauce, wrapped with local sweet potato powder in Haikou, and then served with fresh beef cylinder bone, plus soup carefully cooked for six hours with Chinese angelica and radix angelicae, which becomes the signature of Abing Beef Restaurant-Beef Paste.

A bowl of beef paste on the table

The soup is garnished with reddish-brown beef and luscious green vegetables, making your mouth water.

Pan-fried scylla serrata in halves

Wash the scylla serrata, cut it in half, add the eggs liquid, put the ginger slices in hot oil for later use, dip the fish in the egg liquid, put it in an oil pan, fry until the surface is slightly burnt, add the juice prepared in advance, cover the pot, stew for a few minutes for absorbing.

The egg liquid wraps the delicious fish in crab meat; have a bite

You can taste the scorched smell of eggs and the fresh smell of the fish, which makes your mouth water.

Fish ball

精选鳗鱼、淡水鱼鱼肉剁蓉，加甘薯粉（淀粉）搅拌均匀再包以猪瘦肉馅制成的丸状食物

Select eel and freshwater fish, chop them into minced meat, add sweet potato powder (starch), stir well, and then wrap some lean pork in it.

Cooked fish balls taste delicious; you can never get tired of it.

Add some vinegar and chopped green onion to the soup.

You will have another taste.

It is an indispensable seafood delicacy for coastal people.

Oyster pancake

Oyster pancake is made of rice pulp and soybean flour.

The stuffing is onion, cabbage, meat, laver, etc.

Put into a special flat round pan.

Add some oyster, then wrap it with rice paste and soybean paste and fried.

Sometimes few peanuts are embedded in the surface to distinguish different stuffing.

The just-cooked oyster pancake is golden in color, delicious in taste, crisp on the outside and fresh in stuffing.

Steamed fish dumplings

Choose local eel, clean it, scrape out the fish meat with a knife, put it on the chopping block, remove the fishbone and fine ribs, add refined salt and mix it into minced fish.

Chop fat and lean pork into minced meat with refined salt, add chopped green onion, chopped shrimp (soaked shrimp), and chopped water chestnut to make stuffing.

Roll the stuffing in the dumpling skin and steam it. It tastes fresh, tender and delicious.