What are the local products worth taking home when traveling to Xiamen?

Xiamen is rich in peanuts and fruits; There are many fish, shrimps, crabs, squid and amphioxus along the coast. It is one of the hometown of amphioxus in China.

Xiamen is rich in sugarcane, which is an important raw material for light industry and sugar industry. Tongan is known as the "hometown of sugarcane", with an annual output of more than 60,000 tons of sugarcane. As for pearl embroidery, lacquer line carving, clay sculpture, colored ties, sculptures and other handicrafts, they are colorful, sell well at home and abroad and are deeply loved by people.

The main specialties are all kinds of subtropical melons and fruits, fish skin peanuts, peanut crisp, bodhi pills, olives, pies, medicinal liquor, amphioxus, mushroom meat sauce, dried seafood and so on.

Longan: Tongan specialty longan, Tongan is one of the six major longan producing areas in China, and was once a tribute of feudal emperors. There are hundreds of varieties, sold at home and abroad.

Mushroom meat sauce: It is a traditional brand-new product developed by Xiamen Cannery to explore the formula and technology of meat sauce that sold well in southern Fujian before liberation, and it is deeply loved by people.

Lacquer line carving: Lacquer line carving is the longest handicraft in Xiamen. It originated in the Tang Dynasty, and was well-known at home and abroad hundreds of years ago, and sold well in Southeast Asian countries.

Pearl Embroidery: Xiamen Pearl Embroidery has a unique decorative technique and artistic style, and has a history of 100 years.

Xiamen medicinal liquor: Xiamen medicinal liquor has a long history, among which Wanquantang, Chunshengtang and Songyuntang have a history of more than 200 years.

Fish skin peanuts: made of super flour, sugar and other high-quality ingredients, rolled and baked in the skin, inner bag and other flowers. Strict selection of materials, exquisite craftsmanship, is a first-class dish with a fragrant, crisp, salty and sweet flavor.

Flower crisp: The main raw materials are peanuts and sugar. When eating, gently put it in your mouth, it melts in your mouth, sweet but not greasy, and the fragrance remains on your teeth and cheeks.

Bodhi Pill: made of olive, Amomum villosum, cardamom, cinnamon, agarwood and sugar water. It tastes sweet and delicious, and has the effects of appetizing, stopping vomiting and eliminating abdominal pain.

Golden Green Fruit: It is made of olives, licorice and sugar water. Moderate sweet and sour, salty and delicious, fragrant. Has the effects of promoting digestion, resolving food stagnation, relieving bloating, relieving hangover, stopping dizziness and vomiting, refreshing and invigorating spleen.

Stuffing cake: made of high-quality flour, lard and first-class mung beans. Its production focuses on the heat, so that the whole cake is cooked inside and red outside, the crust tastes fragrant, crisp and moist, and the fresh stuffing is cool and sweet. Gulangpai and Nanputuo Supai are the best in the market.

Medicinal liquor: it is the fusion of medicinal materials and wine, which has both the curative effect of medicine and the function of wine. There are Wanquantang, Chunshengtang, Songjuntang, Guben medicinal liquor, Weiyuan medicinal liquor, laurel tonic liquor, Wuji Baifeng liquor and other varieties.

Amphioxus: a rare specialty of Xiamen, commonly known as crocodile insect, also known as slug fish, mainly produced in Liuwu Store, Tongan, Xiamen. Amphioxus is small, up to five or six centimeters long, with as many as four or five thousand fish per catty. The whole body is translucent and the head and tail are pointed. It is a high-grade fish product. Its meat is fresh and tender, and its taste is pure and sweet. Made into dry products, the shelf life is one or two years, which is an ideal tourist shopping product.

Frozen bamboo shoots in Xiamen: bamboo shoots are coelenterates that grow on the sand by the sea! The dusty face is like a bug. Bamboo shoots were caught out of the sand. They were stocked for a day, spit out the sundries, and then cooked in a pot. Because this thing is as high in collagen as pigskin and sticky. Naturally cooling after taking out and solidifying into a bowl of bamboo shoots. Buckle it on a plate and turn it into four pieces with a knife. It's best to drink it with mustard, and you can chew it with your mouth empty. Frozen bamboo shoots may not be fragrant, but their refreshing taste is absolutely first-class.

Stir-fried oysters in Xiamen: stir the eggs, add a lot of fresh oysters, fry them in oil, spread them into a plate of cakes and serve them, then dip them in the sweet and spicy sauce special in Xiamen. The delicious taste of oysters, the richness of eggs, and most importantly, Chili sauce is a perfect combination. The Chili sauce in Xiamen is a little different from other places. First of all, its color is brilliant red, unlike most of its homes which are dark red. Secondly, it tastes sweet and spicy, and sweetness seems to prevail. Hot sauce is poured into the dish, chopsticks reach to the mouth, and saliva has touched the edge of the table.

Xiamen Pie: This pie is not a pie, and there is no leek and egg stuffing, pork and cabbage stuffing. There are two kinds of Xiamen school. Cookies are baked with mung bean paste, lard and sugar. Salted cakes are made of diced meat, lard and sugar. It is no exaggeration to describe Xiamen school with its crispy skin and filling beauty. In Nanputuo Temple, there is a kind of plain oil cake filled with mung bean sugar and auricularia auricula.