9 delicious Xiamen dishes

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9 delicious Xiamen dishes & best locations to dineXiamen's unique climate and geographic environment provides favorable conditions for the development of its catering culture. Its cuisine has a long history and mainly represents the Fujian cuisine, one of the eight main cuisines of China. Through exchanges with other cuisines and great efforts of chefs, Xiamen's cuisine has absorbed the strong points of other cuisines and developed its own flavors. In addition to the south Fujian flavor, Xiamen dishes also demonstrate flavors of Taiwan, Chaozhou and Shantou.Xiamen's dishes have gained reputation for its seafood and made in such main ways of steaming, frying, stirring-frying, quick-frying and deep-frying. Xiamen's dishes are clear, delicious, light, crisp and slightly hot, especially seafood, medicated dishes, Southern Putuo vegetarian dishes and Fotiaoqiang (Monk Jumps over the Wall) cooked with seafood, pork and seasonings. In addition, the snacks are delicious and known far and wide.Special Delicacies佛跳墙- shark fin soupIt is a shark fin soup with various high-quality ingredients. Often including quail eggs, bamboo shoots, scallops, sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, chicken, Jinhua ham, pork tendon,ginseng, mushrooms, and taro.Shuyou Seafood RestaurantAverage costs: very expensive, very depending on qualityLocation: North Hubin Road花生汤- Peanut SoupSweet soup with peeled, soaked, and stewed peanuts and sugar.Huang Zehe Peanut Soup RestaurantChinese name: 黄则和花生汤店Location: No.22, Zhongshan Road, Siming DistrictAverage costs: RMB 4-10海蛎煎- Oyster omeletOmelet with fresh oysters and usually prawns or shrimps, mixed into a potato starch batter and fried into a pancake.Huang Zehe Peanut Soup RestaurantChinese name: 黄则和花生汤店Location: No.22, Zhongshan Road, Siming DistrictAverage costs: CNY 4-10沙茶面- Sand Tea NoodlesSha Cha Mian is a noodle soup with pulverized peanuts. It can be added with various ingredients, i.e. pork belly, shrimps, squid rings….Average costs: RMB 5Location: Almost any noodle shop, i.e. along ZhongShan Lu (Zhongshan road)春卷- Xiamen Spring RollA thin wheat pancake (baobing) used as a Wrapper, filled with mainly vegetables and additionally seafood. Xiamen Spring Rolls are not fried and bigger than “usual” Spring Rolls.Average price: RMB 2 eachLocation: Street food (i.e. Lontou Road, Zhongshan Road…)土笋冻- Sandworm jellySea worm is cooked and then poured into moulds. The resulting worm jelly is served with garlic, vinegar, radishes, and other pungent spices.Xi Men Tu Sun DongChinese name: 西门土笋冻Average price: randomLocation: No.33, Douxi Rd, Siming District Xiamen鱼浆 - Gulangyu Fish BallsThey are made from finely ground fish meat (fish paste) and are served with soup and pepper. Real traditional fish balls are rather soft.Longtou Fish BallChinese name: 龙头鱼丸Average Price: RMB 30Location: No.183 Longtou Road, Gulangyu Island, Xiamen南普陀- Vegetarian DishesTraditional vegetarian food in Xiamen’s most famous Buddhist temple. Soy- and protein-rich ingredients like tofu, mushrooms, and tubers substitute for meat.Nanputuo Vegetarian RestaurantChinese name: 南普陀素菜馆Average price: affordableLocation: Nanputuo Temple. 515 Siming South Road厦门的海鲜- Xiamen‘s SeafoodXiamen is famous for its seafood. Lobster, abalone, crab, shrimp, snail and shellfishes are just a few examples. Whether in high-class restaurants or at little street shops on Xiamen’s streets, seafood is all over the place in Xiamen.Shuyou Seafood Grand RestaurantChinese name: 舒友海鲜大酒楼Average costs: RMB 150Location: 97 Hubin North Road, Siming DistrictSOURCE:www.hs-furtwangen.deFor many who come to Xiamen for the first time and for those who never venture into Xiamen’s corner streets, it is unlikely that they will be familiar with the folksy good things that are happening in Xiamen alleyways.These visitors or expats may be missing part of Xiamen action and food culture. These snacks are commonly found at the food courts, snack bars, little restaurants and hawkers’ centres tucked away in the corner streets.In fact, Xiamen Xiaochi, South Fujian snacks or Mannan Xiaochi can be found in many parts of the world. Thanks to the Southern Fujianese migrants who have brought these cooking skills to many parts of the world. Though the snacks may vary from place to place as they morphosize under different local conditions, the essence of this uniquely Minnan cooking is still the key factor in making it so popular where ever they are.From Sydney to Perth, from Penang to Singapore, from Manila to Bangkok,from Taiwan to Xiamen and from Quanzhou to Zhangzhou, you can locate and enjoy some of these snacks.However, where e ver you enjoy some of these snacks, you can’t beat the one you get in the heart land, South Fujian itself. This is because the most original ingredients of this folksy cuisine can only be found none other thanXiamen and its adjacent areas.As a famous city surrounded by mountains, farmlands, fishing, seaport andculture, Xiamen has a time-honoured history of producing some of these special snacks, which also contain rich historical and Minnan cultural connotations. There are many stories and celebration about the creation of this "snack" culture and snacks.Minnan has many cultural events in creating this food for festivals, births and birthday, wedding or funeral ceremonies, offering sacrifices to fairies, Gods or ancestors, specialgive-away for friends and relatives on some special occasions.South Fujian food, popular in Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and the golden triangle of South Fujian, are sweet and hot. They use hot sauces, chilies and citrus juices as flavorings.As Fujian people emigrate overseas, their cuisine become popular in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and some western countries. Generally speaking, Minnan dishes are slightly sweet and sour, less salty, and often use the red distiller's grain for flavoring. When a dish is less salty, it tastes more delicious. Sweetness makes a dish tastier, while sourness helps remove the fishy smell.。