Food Recommendations in Fuzhou

Fuzhou's famous dishes include Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, Lychee Meat, Drunken Chicken with Red Fermented Rice Wine, Eight Treasures Fish in Schoolbags, Chicken and Fish Lips, Shrimp, and Shark's Fin in a Pocket. Juchunyuan is the place to try Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and other traditional dishes. Traditional snacks include fish balls, taro paste, and pot-side porridge. At the "Wei Zhongwei" snack shop, you can enjoy a variety of Fuzhou's traditional snacks. Fuzhou is also famous for its vegetarian cuisine, with many temples and restaurants serving vegetarian dishes. The vegetarian dishes at Yongquan Temple on Gushan Mountain are particularly famous.

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall

This traditional Fuzhou dish boasts over 100 years of history. It combines a variety of local and international delicacies, simmering over 20 ingredients including shark's fin, sea cucumber, chicken, tendon, scallops, mushrooms, and abalone. Crafted with meticulous care, it boasts a high nutritional value, a rich and flavorful flavor, and a meaty yet non-greasy flavor. Juchunyuan Restaurant is famous for its Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, but the price is relatively high, at 300 yuan per bowl.

Drunken Chicken with Red Fermented Rice Wine

The tender white frogs are cooked thoroughly, cut into pieces, and marinated. The drunken sauce is made by blending MSG, refined salt, red fermented rice, five-spice powder, Shaoxing wine, sugar, and chicken broth. This dish is rosy and translucent, tender and mellow, with a sweet and sour flavor and a rich, savory flavor.

Chicken minced fish lips

Fish lips, a prized seafood dish, are deodorized and marinated in Shaoxing wine. A minced chicken soup is then added, stewed, and topped with chopped ham. This dish, with its snow-white color, soft, glutinous fish lips, and fragrant minced chicken, creates a fresh and refreshing flavor, making it a must-have at high-end banquets.

Lychee meat

This dish is made by grilling lean pork in the shape of a lychee. The lean pork is scored crosswise and then cut into diagonal pieces. The cuts are evenly spaced and deep, resulting in the pieces curling up into the shape of a lychee after frying. It is served with tomato sauce, balsamic vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, and other condiments. This dish is available in most restaurants.

Oyster Cake

A traditional Fuzhou snack, oyster cakes are made by wrapping a filling of oyster meat, lean pork, and celery in rice and soybean flour, then deep-frying it. The finished product is round and golden in color, with a crispy shell and a savory filling. Fuzhou residents often serve oyster cakes as a side dish to porridge, and they are particularly delicious when eaten with Dingbianhu (a type of hot pot). These snacks can be found at food stalls throughout the streets and alleys.

Guangbing

Guangbing, a baked pancake made of flour with a little salt and perforated in the middle, is a favorite traditional snack of Fuzhou residents. Today, Fuzhou residents enjoy Guangbing in a variety of ways: there's the seaweed pancake, which is sandwiched between pancakes and served with spicy and sour seasonings; there's the spicy vegetable pancake, which is sandwiched between pancakes containing mustard greens; and there's the meat pancake, which is sandwiched between rice noodles and meat.

Bird's nest skin

Yanpi (royal swallow skin) is a thin sheet made of minced meat and sweet potato starch. It is also known as meat-shaped yanpi. It is white, fragrant, smooth, delicate, crisp and refreshing. It can be cut into strips and cooked. It is a unique snack in Fuzhou. It can also be made into many famous dishes such as Taipingyan.

Seven Star Fish Balls

Made by mincing eel, shark, or freshwater fish, adding sweet potato starch (starch) and mixing it evenly, then wrapping it with lean pork or shrimp. The wrapper is thin and even, with a bright white color. It's smooth and crisp, and the broth is fragrant but not greasy. You can find it at any snack bar.

Fuzhou fish balls

The snow-white skin is made from fish flesh. Different fish produce distinctly different flavors, with eel and shark being the most famous. The filling is pork, yet there's not a single grain of fat to be found, and the filling doesn't feel tough—that's the secret. The skin has the savory flavor of the fish, while the filling has a harmoniously balanced aroma of soy sauce. The broth is refreshing, with hints of chopped green onions and a hint of pepper.

Rongcheng Food Street

With a total length of 300 meters, the food street is decorated with antique buildings with a quaint charm. Yuanhong Food City and Yuanhong Food Restaurant offer over 1,500 kinds of local delicacies and Fujian cuisine from Rongcheng, the province, the country and Southeast Asian countries.

Address: Located on Yingzhou Road, Taijiang, bordering Wuyi South Road to the north and Taijiang Pedestrian Street to the south
Transportation: Take bus No. 727, No. 14 branch bus, No. 14, No. 51, No. 39 school district bus, No. 39, No. 30, No. 959, No. 950 and get off at Taijiang Square Station; or take bus No. K1, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 10, No. 13, No. 25, No. 31, No. 136 and get off at Taijiang Pedestrian Street Station

Three Lanes and Seven Alleys

The Sanfang Qixiang neighborhood is one of China's ten most famous historical and cultural streets. Besides its rich historical atmosphere and folk customs, it also boasts a variety of famous snacks, including many time-honored snack shops like Yonghe Fish Balls and Tongli Meat-filled Ducklings.

Address: 7th Floor, Electronic Building, No. 105, Bayiqi North Road, Gulou District, Fuzhou
Transportation: Take bus No. 5, 18, 22, 27, 55, 61, 66, 80, 118, 128, 301, or 317 and get off at Shuangpaoqiao Station; or take bus No. 1, 2, K1, 8, 11, 20, 66, 76, 77, 80, 101, 117, or 121 and get off at Daoshanlukou Station