Delicacies

Jiangmu Duck

Stir fry the muscovy duck with sesame oil and then add mature ginger and rice wine to have it cooked. It smells appetizing and tastes sweet and spicy. It clears the liver and nourishes the lungs, tonifies the stomach and spleen, accelerate circulation of blood, and dispels the cold. 

Oyster Omelet

Choose small oysters which would be tasty. Next, mix and blend oyster, garlic sprouts, Chinese chives and sweet potato flour, spread out the mixture onto the fryer when the oil is hot, and then have both sides of the cake well fried. For better taste, also spread egg liquid and get all ingredients well fried. Before serving, spread some pepper and put some coriander. When eating, dip into mustard and chilli sauce.

Dried Longan

Tong'an of Xiamen is one of top six places of production of longyan in China. Now it has over one hundred kinds with the plant area of 30,000,000 square meters, and the produced longyan is sold at home and abroad. The longyan produced in Tong'an has large granule, thin peel, thick flesh, juicy, sweet and refreshing. It is used to be the tribute for the emperor in the past and now is the fruit popular among tourists from home and abroad who are eager to purchase.

Dried Meat Floss

The dried meat floss, dried meat slice, diced meat and dried meat of Gulangyu are well- known souvenirs. The dried meat floss melts in the mouth, the dried meat slice becomes paste in the mouth with fragrance and sweet; the diced meat and dried meat are bite- resistant, chew- resistant and taste- resistant, go well with wine and well match the tea when getting together with relatives and friends. 

Shrimp Noodle

Firstly, wash the shrimp thoroughly and peel the shell and head from the shrimp. Then, place the crushed shrimp head and shell in a cookware with some water to make the shrimp soup. After that, remove the dregs from the soup by filtering, and you will see a surface layer of crimson shrimp oil with a fragrance overflowing. Secondly, put the peeled shrimp to the soup for cooking and take it out to the bowl ready for use. Mix the shrimp soup and pork soup, served with salt and monosodium glutamate as seasoning. Thirdly, place the noodle together with bean sprouts, leek, crown daisy (or coriander) to the boiled water. Then take those cooked ingredients out and put them into the bowl. Finally, add the cooked pork slices, peeled shrimp and pork oil to the noodle, drizzled with the hot shrimp soup and seasoned with the garlic, a shrimp noodle is come to completion.

Tusun Jelly

Tusun Jelly is a well-known Chinese style cookie of Xiamen. Sea worm, literary called “sipunculid”, is a kind of worm found in muddy seabed. Before the cooking, the sea worm should be washed to remove the guts and sands thoroughly. When the worm is cooked tenderly, the pectin of it mixes with water and finally become a kind of jelly. It is extremely refreshing and tasty.