What is the specialty of Funing?

Funing pie, also known as "jade belt cake", is a high-quality brand-name product of the Ministry of Light Industry. Funing, a well-known tourist product in Yancheng, has a long history of making big cakes. As early as the middle of Ming dynasty, Funing salt industry had flourished and its business was prosperous. The folk gourmet chef summed up the local experience in making big cakes, and selected high-quality glutinous rice, fine sugar, refined lard and fine honey money. After soaking, crushing and screening, glutinous rice is mixed, shaped and shaped in proportion. It contains good luck and good luck, and it is deeply loved by people. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River and stayed in Huai 'an Prefecture. Funing county ordered the emperor to pay tribute to cakes. After eating it, Qianlong was full of praise and named it "Jade Belt Cake". Nowadays, Funing cake, as a specialty, sells well all over the country.

"Six Blessings Circle" in Ningfu

Ningfu's "Six Blessings Circle" has exquisite craftsmanship, a long history and a special taste. On May 18, 2002, CCTV's "One Song" column entered Funing and held the "Ningfu Food Culture Festival" with the theme of "Happy Six Birthdays". As early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Funing entered the sea through rivers, with convenient land and water transportation. During the Wanli period, it became an important town in Huaidong. The salt industry is booming and business is booming. Known as "inexhaustible southeast, inexhaustible northwest." Businessmen from all over the world gathered in Funing to do business. In order to adapt to the tastes of people in different regions, the local chefs in Funing made the "Six Blessings Circle" symbolizing good luck and happiness. Chop the lean pork leg, add the egg to taste, add the fine powder and salt of ginger and onion, add a certain proportion of starch and stir, then make it into a ball with a spoon and fry it in an oil pan. Bake the skin with strong fire and cook it with slow fire. The meatballs made in this way are fried but not greasy, fleshy but not greasy, light and mild, salty and sweet, oily but not greasy, light but not thin, fresh and mellow, and unique in taste. It can be braised in brown sauce and boiled in clear water, which is very popular with merchants from south to north. Because meatballs mean complete auspiciousness, local people will eat meatballs on festivals, birthdays, visits by top scholars and friends, wedding celebrations, and building houses and houses. Over time, people call this "six happy circles". When Qing Qianlong visited Jianghuai privately, he tasted Liu Xiyuan. When he returned to the palace, he unconsciously sang a poem "I traveled three thousand miles in Jianghuai, but I still remember meat dumplings". Nowadays, peaceful, light and fresh meatballs have become one of the main brands of Huaiyang cuisine. In recent years, Funing's meatballs have been constantly innovating, from traditional pork balls to beef balls, fish balls, celery balls, lotus root balls and lion heads. The "Liu Xiyuan" products packaged by Funing Ningfu Food Company won the high-quality brand-name products of the Ministry of Light Industry and the excellent characteristic products of Yancheng City.

Soft shell long fish

Soft-skinned long fish is a famous specialty dish in Funing county's history, and now it has become the main traditional brand dish in Huaiyang cuisine. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Yancheng in 2003, the soft-skinned long fish selected by Funing Xinggu Hotel was rated as the first of the 20 famous dishes in Yancheng.

The long fish is Monopterus albus, and its production process is: selecting 1-2 wild Monopterus albus, scalding it with boiling water, then putting the scalded long fish in cold water, and cutting it into long fish shreds with a bamboo knife. Select a proper amount of long fish fillets to make chopsticks-wide long fish shreds, mix them with soy sauce, red koji, sugar and starch to make sticky seasoning, and add adjuvants such as pepper, ginger, onion and garlic. Boil soybean oil in the pot, stir-fry the long fish in the pot for a few shovels, immediately add seasoning and stir-fry for a while, then put the fried long fish on a plate, pour the fried cold sesame oil and sprinkle some pepper. You can eat it. This dish is crisp but not greasy, mellow and delicious, salty and sweet, and mild in taste. In the production, special attention is paid to the collocation of auxiliary materials and the use of heat to keep the original flavor of the main course and reflect the infiltration of seasoning. In the tenth year of Guangxu, the Governor of Liangjiang left to inspect the flood of Yuntiguan Huaihe River and was stationed in Huai 'an Prefecture. Huai 'an government specially invited the chef of Funing to cook a soft hemp fish for Zuo's adult to taste. On Zuo's recommendation, as one of the tributes of Huai 'an Prefecture, the soft-faced fish in Jinjing congratulated Cixi on her seventieth birthday.

Yilin glass art

Yilin glass technology is famous all over the country. Since 1980s, after more than 20 years of development, there have been 37 large enterprises, 4 Sino-foreign joint ventures and 1 wholly foreign-owned enterprises. Among them, five enterprises have the right to export by themselves. With an annual output of more than 30,000 kinds and more than 80 million pieces of glass handicrafts, they are sold to more than 30 countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan and Hong Kong, becoming a characteristic industry in northern Jiangsu. At present, in order to adapt to the market and enhance the competitiveness of products, Yilin Glass Craft Association has established Yilin Glass Craft Research Institute in cooperation with Shanghai Silicate Research Institute. High-tech glass products such as hollow parts, metal fittings and crystal glass fittings have been developed successively, which have been integrated into regional culture and improved product quality. Now it has become a designated tourist souvenir in Yancheng.

Majiadang crab

Majiadang, located in the southwest of Funing, is a vast lake wetland in He Lixia, northern Jiangsu. Alan Lu Hehai, a water town in Zeguo, has a superior environment and is rich in high-quality hairy crabs. Majiadang is rich in fresh water resources and aquatic plants, with 64 species of plants and 75 species of animals. This is a paradise for wild animals. There is no pollution source within a hundred miles around. The green-shelled white-bellied crab produced in Majiadangdang District, with golden hooks and yellow claws after cooking, is fresh and tender in meat, rich in soluble trace elements, and is a seasonal delicacy on the table. Sun Taichu, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, chanted that "Baguizi floated early, and Wei Yang praised the crab as good as possible", which is the crab of Majiadang. Every autumn, the Majiadang aquatic products trading market on the edge of the swing area is crowded, and crab vendors from all over the country gather in Majiadang to buy Majiadang hairy crabs. In 2002, Majiadang Hairy Crab was rated as a pollution-free product in Jiangsu Province, and it was the only crab product in northern Jiangsu Province that was allowed to use the pollution-free mark. Majiadang produces 1000 tons of high-quality hairy crabs every year, which sell well all over the country.