What's delicious in Wenzhou?

Wenzhou used to be Ou Di, also known as Dongou. Yongjia County was founded in 323 AD. It has a history of more than 2000 years. Since ancient times, eating raw seafood has been an important feature of Wenzhou people's diet, and there are many distinctive foods.

The first one is Friedvermicelli. Friedvermicelli is the most common snack in Wenzhou, and Friedvermicelli can be seen in street snacks, food stalls, restaurants or hotels.

Secondly, lamp cakes. It is said that during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, two brothers surnamed Chen in Wenzhou made and sold a dim sum shaped like a lamp at Doumentou Road Pavilion at the east gate of the city. Like a lamp, it has a unique taste, which makes it famous for a period of time, so it is called "lamp cake".

The third one is Dragon Wonton. Around 1930, Chen Libiao, a native of Yueqing, managed wonton, paying attention to quality, with thin skin, moderate alkali, fresh stuffing and exquisite covering. There are laver, shredded egg, pork floss, shrimp soaked in wine and so on. Cooked wonton looks like a flower and tastes delicious. Because Chen Libiao is very tall, he is called the Dragon Wonton.

The fourth kind is short muffin, a famous specialty in Wenzhou, named after short founder Gu Jinfang. This kind of cake is made of pure glutinous rice, ground into fine powder with water, mixed with diced pork buttocks marinated for several days, then mixed with the above osmanthus fragrans and white sugar, cooked, put on a plate and diced.

Wenzhou has a long history and a wide variety of special foods. Others, such as lard cake, double sesame cake, nanxi river wheat cake, fish balls, beef offal, Qingming cake, duck tongue, pig dirty powder and glutinous rice, also have local characteristics.