Fuqing fish balls

Fuqing fish balls are a specialty of Fuqing City, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. The shell of Fuqing fish ball is delicate and elastic, and it is smooth and rich, and it is more delicious with stuffing. Fish balls, also called "water balls", are one of the traditional snacks in Fuqing. It, together with light cake, oyster cake and taro, is called the four major snacks in Fuqing. Fish balls are delicious, so you can't get tired of eating more. In the past, Dog Dim Fish Pill was praised by Fuqing people. After 1978, the fish balls in Longtian area were exported to Hong Kong and other places, and they were very popular. Fish balls are mainly made of fresh yellow croaker, mackerel, eel and small sea cucumber shark. Chop the fish, add proper amount of ginger juice, salt and monosodium glutamate, mash it into fish paste, add sweet potato powder, stir well, squeeze it into small balls, and cook it in boiling soup. Fish balls are porcelain-colored, elastic, crisp and non-sticky, and are common dishes at banquets. In Fuqing, there is a saying that "no fish balls, no seats". Overseas Chinese who go back to their hometown to visit relatives take it as a pleasure to taste fish balls as soon as they set foot on their homeland. Fish balls are made by peeling and deboning fish, chopping into paste, adding sweet potato powder, stirring to make fish ball slurry, putting pork stuffing in the middle of fish ball slurry, and extruding spherical balls with index finger and thumb. After the soup is cooked, the meatballs are floating and swaying, like stars in the air, so the fish balls are nicknamed "Seven Star Fish Pills". Nowadays, most fish balls are processed by machines, which saves time and effort. Now all kinds of meatballs that are common in supermarkets are also called fish balls, but they have no unique flavor of Fuqing fish balls.
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