Ask a QuestionXiamen is a coastal city situated in south of Fujian province, in the southeast of China. Facing the Taiwan Strait, this scenic city is reportedly one of the best places to live in China due to its mild weather and attractive view all year around. As a famous city surrounded by sea, seaport farmlands, mountains and fishing, Xiamen has a time-honored history of producing some of these special snacks, which also contain rich historical and Minnan cultural connotations.
Here TCT would like to introduce top 10 most popular street food in Xiamen for your reference. Hope it is helpful for your gourmet trip plan to this city. In The most popular place to find the city’s local street food is the main commercial street: Zhongshan Pedestrian Street (中山路).
Peanut Soup is among the top 10 sought-after foods in the city. Although it is a very common snack all over the world, the Xiamen locals still love this food and prefer to choose it as their morning breakfast. Peanut soup (huasheng tang) is by no means easy to make despite the fact that it is made of only one ingredient-peanut, which have to be peeled, soaked, and stewed. This has to occur before any sugar is added. The peanuts in the sweetened broth then have to be simmered until they are completely soft. Seasoned peanut soup drinkers never drink their soup without adding one or all of the following as a side dish: fried doughnuts, deep fried dough sticks, meat buns, vegetable pastries, sweet buns, or fried glutinous rice. Local people always have this soup with Youtiao (deep-fried twist dough sticks), fried dates or buns as breakfast.
Recommended places to eat:
→ Huang Zehe Peanut Soup Restaurant: No.22, Zhongshan Road, Siming District, Xiamen
Spring Roll, known as Chun Juan or Bo Bin in Xiamen, contain many food stuffs likpeas, dried tofu, bean sprouts, fish, e bamboo shoots, oyster and carrot, shrimp diced meat, etc., mainly vegetables and additionally seafood. And all these food ingredients are wrapped with a piece of thin flour skin. Cook filling well, add salt and soy sauce, wrap in the spring roll wrappers, serve with chili sauce, mustard, plum sauce, leeks, scrambled eggs, and Chinese parsley as you like. With one bite, it strikes your fancy or wanders in off the street.
Recommended places to eat:
→ A Qin Chun Juan: 8 Ju Kou Street (near to Zhongshan Lu), Siming District, Xiamen
Sha Cha Mian or Sand Tea Noodles is quite popular in Xiamen and is sold in almost every noodle shop. The soup has a clay color due to the addition of pulverised peanuts, which make the dish aromatic. The specialty of Sha Cha noodle is that its soup is made by Shacha sauce and pork or chicken bones soup, you can add any food materials you like in the noodle like stewed pig's liver, duck's tendon, pig's kidney, and dried tofu etc.
Recommended places to eat:
→ Almost any noodle shop, i.e. along ZhongShan Lu (Zhongshan road)
Main material of Sandworm Jelly is a kind of worm found in muddy seabed. Sea worm is cooked. As it contains gelatin, after being cooked, the gelatin is mixed with the water, and then poured into moulds before it forms to jelly when it gets cold. The worm jelly is served with garlic sauce, vinegar, radishes, mustard, and other pungent spices. It’s really good to taste and very rich in protein.
Recommended places to eat:
→ Xi Men Tu Sun Dong: No.33, Douxi Rd, Siming District Xiamen
Fish Balls is one of the most famous snack on Gulangyu Island. They are made from finely ground fish meat (fish paste) and are served with soup and pepper. Real traditional fish balls are rather soft, refined and delicious with a smooth texture. On Gulangyu Island there are three stores which serve authentic fish balls: Longtou Fish Ball, Yuan Xiang Kou Fish Ball and Linji Fish Ball. You will enjoy a flavor you will never forget while you eat Fish Balls in these small stores.
Recommended places to eat:
→ Longtou Fish Ball: No.183 Longtou Road, Gulangyu Island, Xiamen
→ Linji Fish Ball Soup: No.54, Quanzhou Road, Gulangyu Island, Xiamen
Glutinous Rice Wrap is mainly made by glutinous rice, shrimp, mushrooms, pork and chestnuts; all these ingredients are wrapped in bamboo leaves, and cooked in the boiling water for a few hours before it is served. Before you get one bite, unwrap and dip it in Shacha sauce, pepper sauce garlic sauce, etc.. The glutinous rice and the season together are really delicious.
Recommended places to eat:
→ Many stores along Zhongshan Road
Fried Oyster Omelet is a popular snack in Xiamen that is often sold in night markets. The dish consists of an omelet with a filling primarily composed of small oysters. Starch is mixed into the egg batter, giving the egg wrap a thicker consistency. Pork lard is often used to fry the omelet.
You can find this snack at many street in Xiamen, especially along Zhongshan Road.
Recommended places to eat:
→ Lianhuan Oyster: Jukou Street, Zhongshan Road, ( Near Siming Nan Rd) Xianmen
Mian Xian Hu or Gluey Noodles is quite well-known in South Fujian area. The stock is prepared by boiling razor clams oysters, and shrimps other seafood together, and finally add thread-like noodles to the soup, and boil the mixture again until it becomes thicken. It is served hot with fry chopped green onion, pepper as a seasoning and tastes very delicious, especially when you are hungry. Usually local people eat it for breakfast withFried dough sticks.
Wen Feng Snack Store, A Ling Mian Xian Hu or Wu Jia Yuan Store are highly recommended places to taste authentic Mian Xian Hu.
The skin of Chinese Chives Bun is made by flour and pig fat, and the stuffing are pork, Chinese chives, chufa, shrimp meat, dried tofu and carrot etc. All the ingredients are wrapped in the wrapper and being fried in the hot oil. It tastes very crisp and delicious.
If you happen to be in Xiamen, the stuffed biscuit should not to be missed. Also known as ‘Xian Bing’ in Chinese, this biscuit is made from sugar and pork lard and has a flaky pastry exterior. The fillings include peanut, green bean, red bean and strawberry. There is a vegetarian Stuffed Biscuits in Nanputuo Temple, whose fillings are not only white sugar and pea, but also xanthic flowers and agarics.
The above are top 10 most popular street food/snacks in Xiamen, you can also explore more while touring there. You can find most of them at Zhongshan Pedestrian Street, which is the most famous commercial street in Xiamen city.
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