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Fuzhou Guangbing Flatbread (光饼): Small thin golden round wheat breads with tiny central holes, two slit and filled with cooked red-lees pork belly. AI dish illustration; not a restaurant photograph.
Fujian

Fuzhou Guangbing Flatbread 光饼

Fuzhou guangbing is a small round baked wheat bread with a central hole; the illustrated version is slit and filled with cooked red-rice-lees pork.

AI dish illustration / AI 菜品示意图 — not a restaurant photograph

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马蹄糕 · Water Chestnut Cake
Fujian

Water Chestnut Cake 马蹄糕

Water Chestnut Cake (马蹄糕) is a sweet, springy cake made from water chestnut, and a Fuzhou News Net (福州新闻网) food feature counts it among the traditional snacks of Fuzhou (福州).

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AI illustration: A ceramic plate of small golden fried dough pastries with visible airy crisp texture.
Fujian

Fried Sesame Rice Balls 炸枣

Fried Sesame Rice Balls (炸枣) are deep-fried balls of glutinous rice dough around a sesame or bean filling, a New Year food of Tong'an (同安), a district of Xiamen (厦门).

AI illustration · AI 示意图(仅供参考,非实拍)

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芋包 · Steamed Taro Dumplings
Fujian

Steamed Taro Dumplings 芋包

Steamed Taro Dumplings (芋包) are parcels of seasoned filling enclosed in a wrapper of mashed taro, a common traditional food of northern and southern Fujian (闽北, 闽南) that is made in Xiamen (厦门).

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