Are there any delicious specialties in Meizhou Island?

When traveling to Meizhou Island in Putian, what special foods are worth a try? Most of the specialties of Meizhou Island in Putian are dried seafood, as well as special Mazu Ping 'an cakes and various delicious local fruits. Please see below for more featured products!

Specialty 1: Pickled Yun Ni Yun Ni is also called Enteromorpha. The fiber of Enteromorpha has the function of detoxifying nicotine, which is good for smokers. Enteromorpha contains more iodine. Enteromorpha Enteromorpha can be used as medicine. "Compendium of Materia Medica" describes Enteromorpha prolifera: "Blow your nose at the end of burning to stop bleeding; Soak the soup and apply it on the back of your hand. " A paper published by a scientist in Osaka, Japan 1999 also believes that the use of Enteromorpha extract in mice can significantly inhibit the deterioration of skin cancer.

Specialty 2: Dried small fish, as the name implies, refers to dried small fish. Usually, dried small fish are made of male fish, cloves, white fish, etc., with male fish being the most. Dried fish is often used as a material for soup and porridge because of its small size and little meat. If you eat it directly, it is usually fried into a crispy taste, or fried with dried beans and peanuts to make a side dish with wine.

Specialty 3: Shrimp shrimp skin, also known as shrimp or shrimp skin, is a product made by blanching, drying, bagging, kneading, winnowing, peeling and removing impurities from seafood white shrimp, red shrimp and green shrimp, that is, boiling in salt, drying in the sun, drying in the air and shelling. Because it looks like a kind of rice, it is called dried rice. White shrimp is the top grade, with good color and taste and delicious fresh food. White shrimp must be long, and its body and flesh are all white, so there is a saying that "a young man with a bent waist is two inches silver and one inch muscle". Dried seaweed is soaked in water before eating, with tender meat, fresh and mellow taste, suitable for frying, frying, steaming and boiling, and delicious taste, which is one of the "three fresh".

Specialty 4: Salty hairtail is tender and delicious, with only a big bone in the middle and no other fine spines. It is a kind of marine fish that people prefer to eat. It has high nutritional value and is good for physical weakness and post-illness traumatic bleeding. Chinese medicine believes that it can stimulate appetite, warm the stomach and tonify deficiency, as well as moisturize and beautify.

Specialty 5: Eel glue Eel glue is a kind of fish glue. Fish glue, also known as fish belly. It is the swim bladder of fish and is made by cutting and drying. There are generally sturgeon bellies and giant fish bellies, which belong to one of the four major seafood and are listed as one of the "eight treasures" in modern times. Fish belly is also a classic food.

Specialty 6: Dried Eel Dried Eel is a kind of dried meat product made from fresh eels through cleaning, cutting and drying. High-quality dried eels are compact in texture, clean and shiny, convenient to eat, low in water content, and suitable for long-term preservation.

Specialty 7: dried small yellow croaker is suitable for anemia, insomnia, dizziness, loss of appetite and postpartum weakness of women. Asthmatics and people with allergies should be careful to eat.

Specialty 8: Porphyra toushuiensis grows for the first time. The first harvest is called Toushui Porphyra, and the latter is called Ershui, Sanshui and Surabaya. Porphyra capitata is rich in many bioactive substances, such as polysaccharides, highly unsaturated fatty acids, taurine, carotenoids and steroids. Laver concentrates all kinds of B vitamins in laver, and it is harvested every year11~ 65438+February, and the first batch is harvested at the tail of 10.

Specialty 9: Mazu Ping 'an Cake "Mazu Cake" is a traditional cake for farmers in Meizhou Island. It is made of glutinous rice and winter rice through a proper formula. It tastes soft but not sticky, tough but not hard. Even in winter, it is still soft and delicious, and is deeply loved by pilgrims and tourists.

Specialty 10: Pippi shrimp, scientific name squid. The cooked Pippi shrimp tastes like crab roe, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. Foreigners prefer to eat raw and pickled, dipped in garlic paste and Chili vinegar, which has sticky gutta-percha texture, Q-feeling at the entrance and endless aftertaste.

Specialty 1 1: Pickled jellyfish skin is the finished product of jellyfish. Jellyfish is a large edible jellyfish, which has been eaten since 1600 years ago in the Jin Dynasty. China is distributed from Liaodong Peninsula to the coast of Guangdong, and jellyfish is an important fishing object in China's coastal fisheries.

Specialty 12: Canned salt mud snail, also known as yellow mud snail, is a small beach snail. After cleaning, nourishing and spitting mud, it is used for pickling and canning, which is extremely delicious.

Specialty 13: Sea melon seeds are very thin, with mucus on the body surface, and are rich in nutrients such as protein, iron and calcium. It is a popular seafood with high nutritional value.

Specialty 14: Pickled and peeled fish liver is large, which can be used to make cod liver oil, fish bones can be used to make canned fish chops, scalp viscera can be used to make fish meal, and fish skin can be used to make soluble edible fish protein, which is a nutritious food rich in protein.

Specialty 15: jellyfish are divided into two types: jellyfish head and jellyfish skin, but they are all processed and brewed from marine jellyfish. Jellyfish head refers to the tentacles of jellyfish, which are thick and nutritious, and are usually eaten cold. Jellyfish head is a fine product in jellyfish, which has high taste and nutritional value.

Specialty 16: Dried cuttlefish is the top grade, with complete and smooth shape, persimmon red or brownish red color, translucent shape, flat and generous meat, strong dryness, fresh and fragrant taste and no salt; The body shape is basically complete, with black spots in some areas, with a powdery white surface and a dark red back. Everything with bad flavor is inferior.

Specialty 17: dried clams are not only delicious in meat and rich in nutrition, but also have the effects of moistening five internal organs, quenching thirst, softening and swelling, and diuresis.

Specialty 18: The cooked squid larvae are convenient to eat, low in calories and rich in nutrition. Its umami flavor can make people jump, and its chewy and tough taste will also make you active from the muscles of your mouth.

Specialty 19: Shrimp skin is mainly concentrated in the southeast coastal areas of China, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Beihai and other coastal areas, among which the shrimp skin in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian is famous for its delicious and sweet taste.

Specialty 20: scallops, that is, scallops. The ancients said, "After eating for three days, I still find chicken and shrimp boring." It can be seen that scallops are delicious. It is made by air-drying the adductor muscle of scallop.

Specialty 2 1: dried oysters, also known as oysters. Oysters are not only fresh and delicious, but also nutritious. Known as "milk in the sea", it contains vitamins, taurine, liver sugar and other minerals and other nutrients. Its iodine content is higher than milk and egg yolk.

200 times, its zinc content is high, which can be the highest among other foods.

Specialty 22: Dried kelp and kelp are very common seafood. Everyone knows that eating kelp can supplement iodine and prevent diseases such as hyperthyroidism. In fact, kelp can not only supplement iodine, but also contain a variety of nutrients.

Specialty 23: Bulk dry goods "dry goods" are dry goods of bamboo razors. The meat is delicious, high in protein and rich in nutrition. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Squid is born in sea mud. Two or three inches long, the size of a finger, with both ends open.

Specialty 24: Putian honey pomelo Meizhou Island honey pomelo, also known as "Wendan pomelo", is a famous rare fruit, which is a delicious fruit suitable for both eating and drinking. It was once listed as a tribute by the Qing Dynasty. The fruit has excellent quality, fragrant smell, tender juice, moderate sweetness and sourness, good taste and unique flavor.

Specialty 25: Putian Litchi Putian Litchi began in the Tang Dynasty, and Cai Xiang's Litchi Book in the Northern Song Dynasty called Xinghua Litchi the most peculiar. Its taste is sweet, hard core rate is high, and it has the effect of quenching thirst and nourishing. When Mr. Guo Moruo visited Putian in the early 1960s, he wrote the poem "Litchi is everywhere in Licheng" and praised Litchi in Putian. Excellent varieties include "Chenzi", "Songjiaxiang" and "Zhuangyuanhong".

Specialty 26: Xinghua longan Xinghua longan, with excellent fruit flavor, sweet and not sour, Bai Rubing's pulp is covered with a thin layer of spun yarn, which falls to the ground without any sediment after peeling. There is also a kind of "white-core longan", also called "seedless longan". Its stone is only the size of rice grain, milky white, translucent, soft, fresh and refreshing, sweet as honey, and its sugar content is as high as 25%. It is a rare fine variety in the world.

Xinghua longan, especially Wulongling, has moderate shell thickness and is most suitable for baking dried longan. Xinghua dried longan is famous at home and abroad, which is closely related to the local soil climate and water quality, but it is also inseparable from the careful baking of fruit farmers. Now, Xinghua longan production area has been listed as one of the six major longan bases in China, and the planting area has been expanding.

Specialty 27: Mature loquat Putian loquat fruits are also hung on trees in bundles, each fruit is 3-5 cm long and is round, oval or long "pipa-shaped". The surface of loquat is covered with fluff. When immature, it is turquoise, hard and fragrant. After maturity, the skin is generally light yellow, and some are dark and close to orange-red. The pulp is soft and juicy, mainly divided into white and orange; It is called "white sand" (white loquat) and "red sand". Among them, white sand tastes sweet and the fruit shape is small; Red sand is relatively acidic or quite acidic and relatively large. Each loquat fruit has five ovaries, one to five of which develop into brown seeds, while the artificially cultivated seedless varieties have no seeds.

Specialty 28: Xinghua Rice Noodle Xinghua Rice Noodle is a traditional Han name in Putian, Fujian. White as snow, delicate as silk, slightly rice-scented, simple and resistant to storage. It is a famous product of Putian (formerly known as Xinghua Army and Xinghua House) and one of the earliest fast food in China. Good quality and low price, renowned at home and abroad, especially loved by overseas Chinese. People call it Xinghua rice noodles. The producing areas of rice noodles are mainly Xihong and Qingjiang villages in Huangshi town, Putian county, followed by Xia Di, Xili, Shang Hui, Xiahui, Zhang Lin and Yangcheng village in Quqiao township. Yellow-headed rice above rice flour is the best, and it has to go through 9 processes. Xinghua rice noodles are characterized by thin and even strips, white color, refreshing and crystal clear, easy to cook and fry, dry soup, convenient diet and unique flavor.

Specialty 29: Lacquered Wood Bowl Putian City selects high-quality wood, using traditional wooden lacquerware such as bowls, plates, cups, bowls, pots and flowerpot covers 150 varieties. , elegant and exquisite shape, smooth and bright color, not only daily necessities, but also handicrafts. The lacquered wooden bowl is exquisite in materials and fine in production. There are traditional "red light" and "black fading" in lacquer art, which are as bright as a mirror and gather light and shadow; There is a "faded decal"

, "painting", touching it without trace, depending on it; There are "raw lacquer mill" and "transparent mill", and the wood grain is naturally clear and beautiful. There are more than 20 kinds of lacquered wooden bowls, such as "Qingshi Julie Bowl", "Transparent Dark Flower Yuanyang Bowl" and "Golden Bead Covered Bowl". Painted wooden bowls are an excellent choice for furniture, travel and tableware. They are not only elegant in shape, excellent in texture, bright in color, simple and beautiful, but also tasteless, nontoxic, durable and non-peeling. Boiling water is not hot, acid and alkali are not corrosive, and it is a world-famous excellent tableware. Displayed in the hall, it looks like a full moon on the front and half a pearl on the side. It is a handicraft for appreciation. At the same time, the lacquer wood bowl is no more than three inches high and only three points thin, so it is very light to carry around.

Specialty 30: Auricularia auricula, also known as Auricularia auricula, Auricularia auricula, also known as Auricularia auricula, Auricularia auricula, China South called Auricularia auricula, Auricularia auricula. Born in tropical and subtropical areas, in warm and humid seasons, born on dead branches and stems. Compared with auricularia auricula, auricularia auricula is big, thick, thick and tough, hard and brittle, chewy, pressure-resistant and easy to cultivate.

The fruiting body of Auricularia auricula is gelatinous, shallow disc-shaped, with irregular ear, 2- 15μ m wide, obvious base, sessile, slightly wrinkled, soft when fresh and shrinking after drying. The seed layer is born inside, smooth or slightly wrinkled, purple-gray, and then turns black. There is long hair outside, colorless, and only brown at the base, which often grows in bundles. Auricularia auricula is slightly harder than Auricularia auricula, suitable for cold salad, and has the reputation of "prickly skin on the tree" and a jellyfish-like flavor.