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Fujian food fantasies

Updated: 2012-09-03 13:53
( China Daily)

Fujian food fantasies

At a recent lunchtime visit to Five Senses, the elegant Cantonese restaurant at the brand-new Westin Xiamen, we found Huang Xinwen or Chef Owen hovering over a double-boiler of traditional soup. It's fragrant with Chinese herbs, chicken, duck and pork knuckle - they've all been simmering together for eight hours.

Satisfied with its progress, the Guangzhou native adds a carrot puree for a little thickness and a pleasing golden color, and leaves the pot to simmer another four hours.

"On the street, it's just soup," he says. "But here in a five-star hotel, the presentation and the quality is very important."

Huang, the hotel's executive Chinese chef, likes to pair the thick soup with a fresh catch of the day. Today, he'll be cutting a fillet of star grouper into an intricate rosette at the bottom of a tureen - and pouring the finished hot soup on top.

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"That will cook the fish in about two minutes," he promises, but warns that this dish is not takeaway food. "It has to be eaten within three hours." (Our noses are twitching in anticipation: This dish won't be in front of us longer than about three minutes.)

That's not a Xiamen mama's way. Chef Owen says his goal is to include a few authentic tastes of Fujian province cuisine on the seasonally changing menu, but present it in a Western way.

Later, we took to the streets again, seeking the foods that have been the inspiration for such dishes.

Zhongshan Lu is the most famous lane of street food, with snacks including Shanghai dumplings (xiaolongbao), pork kebabs (zhurou chuan) and fried garlic (zhasuan), and a tiny street-side tea shop where you'll be served with clay teapots and cups that are decades old and impart a rich, unique flavor.

A hotspot is Huang Zehe Peanut Soup Shop, where the namesake specialty is worth standing in line for, which you may have to do.

We confess passing by the worm jelly, not wanting to risk losing tummy room when there were so many lovely oysters singing from the stalls. They came in a multitude of sizes, shell shapes and sauces, and we happy slurped our way toward the harbor without hitting a loser.

At dusk, we arrived at "Taiwan Food Street", just across from the ferry landing that takes you to Gulangyu, full of carnival-style, and brilliantly lit to invite casual strolling.

Farther afield are two excellent vegetarian restaurants, one at Nanputuo Temple, where you can take nourishment with resident monks, and Gongde Sucaiguan, not far away near Xiamen University.

On Gulangyu, there's a gaggle of small restaurants and stalls. We loved the dried goods - sweet and spicy beef, pork, and chicken jerky - at New World, where we lamented leaving behind a beautiful dried eel the size of a small surfboard.

New World is huge, and like smaller shops nearby, there are samples offered to help you decide which local goodies to take home as gifts. The island also has many teashops, particularly along Longtu Lu, where the Babycat Cafe and Mrs Zhang's Milktea Cafe offer the famous local Amoy handmade pie as well as teas.

After a day afoot pursuing seafood nibbles, it's a civilized way to wind down and enjoy the evening breeze.

Contact the writer at michaelpeters@chinadaily.com.cn.

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