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Fish Balls 鱼丸
Fish Balls (鱼丸) in Fuzhou (福州) are balls of pounded fish paste wrapped around a pork filling, served in a clear soup.
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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.
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Fine Wheat Vermicelli 线面
Fine Wheat Vermicelli (线面) is the very thin, long, hand-pulled wheat noodle of Fuzhou (福州), dried and tied in bundles.
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Fuzhou Wok-Edge Rice-Sheet Soup 锅边糊
Thin rice-batter sheets cooked against a wok and scraped into a clam-based Fuzhou soup.
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Fuzhou Oyster Fritters 海蛎饼
Golden filled fritters with a rice-and-soy batter shell enclosing oysters, pork and vegetables.
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Pork in Red Rice-Wine Lees 红糟肉
Tender pork belly coated in the rust-red fermented rice lees used in Changle cooking.
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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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Southern Fujian Pork Rice Dumplings 烧肉粽
Southern Fujian pork zongzi wrap pre-seasoned glutinous rice around braised pork and savoury additions before boiling in leaves.
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Xiamen Five-Spice Pork Rolls 五香条
Crisp Xiamen tofu-skin rolls filled with pork, water chestnut and alliums, sliced after frying.
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Xiamen Fresh Spring Rolls 薄饼
Soft Xiamen wheat wrappers rolled around finely cut vegetables, pork and savoury-sweet condiments.
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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).
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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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