What does the old Fuzhou Lantern Festival eat? Traditional food of Fuzhou Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. When it comes to what to eat during the Lantern Festival, many people will say, "The Lantern Festival is naturally something to eat!" But it's not that simple. The motherland has a vast territory, and the traditional food of the New Year Festival varies greatly from place to place. Then let Lao Huangli introduce to you what the old Fuzhou Lantern Festival eats and the traditional food of Fuzhou Lantern Festival.

On the occasion of the Lantern Festival, many people will eat Yuanxiao, but the older generation of Fuzhou people don't eat Yuanxiao on Yuanxiao night, but eat "three cakes", namely sugar cakes, taro cakes (meatballs) and vegetable cakes. This is the traditional food that old Fuzhou people used to eat at the Lantern Festival.

Tang Guo

Tang Guo is a transliteration of Fuzhou dialect, named after its taste, that is, the traditional rice cake, which is eaten during the traditional Lunar New Year and Spring Festival in China. In Fuzhou, every New Year's Eve, or twenty-seven or twenty-eight days in advance, people have already started to measure, grind and steam rice cakes.

Classification of sugar peels:

White sugar cake: white rice cake with white sugar and pulp. Unlike white bread, white bread is another kind of food.

Brown sugar cake: usually referred to as sugar cake for short, it is a deep red rice cake with brown sugar and pulp, which symbolizes high harmony and red year after year.

Steamed sugar cake: steamed rice cake.

Fried sugar cake: fried rice cake slices.

On weekdays, every household generally does not steam candied buns until the Spring Festival. In Fuzhou customs, like white steamed buns and pineapple steamed buns, they are usually used to worship ancestors and gods.

Taro taro

Taro is a famous Han snack variety in Fuzhou, Minnan and Chaoshan areas of Guangdong Province. It is a kind of food made by rubbing taro into silk, adding seasoning and rice slurry, steaming and cutting into pieces, and then frying. It is an indispensable snack for breakfast and snacks in Fuzhou.

To make taro, first dry it with glutinous rice paste, then peel it and shred it, stir it with oil onion spices, subdivide it into palm-sized pieces and flatten it, then put it on banana leaves, then put it in a cage bed and cook it in a big pot on the stove with hot water.

Caitouguo

Radish cake is radish cake. Caitou is the common name of radish, and Caitou pot is a local Han rice cake in Fujian, which is steamed by every household during the New Year. The head of the vegetable is crisp outside and tender inside, and the taste is fragrant but not sweet. If you slice the vegetable head pot, put oil in the pot, add oil to the vegetable head pot, fry it until it is slightly yellow, turn it over and fry it until it is slightly yellow. It is better to dip in Chili sauce at this time.