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Food & Drink

Minnan snacks, seafood, night markets, and where to try them.

10 guides

Thin wheat noodles in savory paste, topped your way — the breakfast bowl that wakes old Quanzhou.

Hot pan, sweet-potato starch, plump oysters — night-market sizzle from Xunpu to the old town.

A cool, bouncy seafood jelly from coastal mudflats — love it or leave it, unmistakably Quanzhou.

Three-year ginger and muscovy duck in sesame oil — a pot worth sharing, summer or winter.

Not a sweet zongzi — peel it hot, add sauce, and taste the port city’s land-and-sea filling.

Sea-moss jelly, beans, fruit, and ice — the easiest cool-down after temples and West Street.

Springy Spanish-mackerel rolls from Hui’an’s stone city — eat in soup, fry at home, take as gifts.

Milky peanut soup with egg and youtiao — a gentle Quanzhou morning that settles the stomach.

Crisp outside, tender inside, mild vinegar perfume — order it with mianxianhu or as a night snack.

Fermented batter, peanut-sesame fold, honeycomb crumb — Quanzhou’s soft-sweet breakfast with soy milk.