The ultimate guide to Quanzhou cuisine: the latest version for 2025, let you fully experience the thousand-year-old flavor!
🍜 Must-eat snacks: Market fireworks, one bite into the soul
1️⃣ Noodle Soup
Recommended shop: Zeng's Laoji Noodle Soup (end of West Street, near the bell tower)
Features: Freshly cooked thick soup base, you can add fried dough sticks, vinegar meat, large intestine, sprinkle with pepper powder to enhance the flavor, a standard breakfast for Quanzhou people!
Address: End of West Street, near the Bell Tower
2️⃣ Earth Bamboo Jelly
Recommended shop: Anhai Tushun Jelly (No. 203-1 West Street)
Features: Made from sandworms, it has a smooth taste and is paired with garlic chili sauce, which is sour and spicy and appetizing!
Address: No. 203-1 West Street
3️⃣ Meat dumplings
Recommended shop: Grandma Hou’s Meat Dumpling (No. 59, East Street)
Features: Soft and sticky glutinous rice, rich fillings (mushrooms, scallops, shrimps), even better with sweet and spicy sauce!
Address: No. 59 East Street
4️⃣ Fried Vinegar Pork
Recommended shop: Qiaozitou Vinegar Pork (No. 309, Wenling South Road)
Features: Pork front leg meat coated with sweet potato flour and fried, sweet and sour and crispy, super satisfying when paired with fried sweet potato!
Address: No. 309, Wenling South Road
5️⃣ Turnip Sour
Recommended shop: Donglai Caitousuan (No. 3, Jinyu Lane)
Features: Radish with salty and sweet peanuts, drizzled with Thai sweet sauce, sour and refreshing!
Address: No. 3 Goldfish Lane
🦆 Special Minnan cuisine: a collision of tradition and innovation
1️⃣ Ginger Duck
Recommended shop: Stan Ginger Duck (No. 100 Tumen Street)
Features: The duck meat is tender and crispy, with a strong ginger aroma, and the soup is perfect with rice!
Address: No. 100 Tumen Street
2️⃣ Chongwu Fish Roll
Recommended shop: Qiaojia 1960 Nanyang Cuisine (No. 497 Xinmen Street)
Features: Made from mackerel, with a chewy texture, it goes best with curry shrimp or satay skewers!
Address: No. 497 Xinmen Street
3️⃣ Aqiu Steak
Recommended shop: Aqiu Steak (No. 500, Huxin Street)
Features: Chinese-style stewed beef ribs, soft and tasty, with a unique curry aroma!
Address: No. 500, Huxin Street
🍦 Desserts and drinks: a must-have to cool down and satisfy your cravings
1️⃣ Stone flower paste
Recommended shop: Aiya Shihuagao (50 meters south of the People's Government in Zhuangfu Lane)
Features: Made from sea anise, chewy and refreshing, great with four-fruit soup or taro balls to relieve the heat!
Address: 50 meters south of the People's Government, Zhuangfu Lane
2️⃣ Cheese milk ice
Recommended shop: Misi Xiaozhuangzhuang (No. 28, Nanjun North Road)
Features: The taro balls are chewy, have a rich milky flavor, and have adjustable sweetness. A must-try in summer!
Address: No. 28, Nanjun North Road
3️⃣ Peanut Soup
Recommended shop: Traditional Peanut Soup (No. 3 Huaxiang)
Features: sweet and thick, smoother with egg drops, full of peanut aroma!
Address: No. 3 Huaxiang
🍜 Food Street: Eat all the food in Quanzhou on one street
1️⃣ West Street
Features: A gathering place for traditional snacks, recommended dishes include rice noodle soup, fried vinegar pork, and vegetable cake
Address: Bell Tower to East Street
2️⃣ Wudian City
Features: Minnan ancient house style, you can try large intestine, pig blood, fist mother, fried dates
Address: Traditional Street District, Wudian City, Jinjiang
3️⃣ Liuguan Road
Features: Locals' private food street, recommended dishes include duck head, Quji duck neck, and Zhaoji rice noodle soup
Address: Yingjin Street