Represented by Fuzhou cuisine, it has long been well known for its delicate making, beautiful color and clear and fresh seasoning. Fujian cuisine gives prority to seafood. In taste, it is complete with saltiness, sweetness, sourness and spiciness. The salty seasonings include shrimp sauce, shrimp oil and soy sauce; the sour ones include white vinegar and Qiaotou (a vegetable similar to green onion and garlic); the sweet ones include brown sugar and cystal sugar; the spicy ones include pepper and mustard; the sweet-smelling ones include brown sugar, spiced powder, aniseed and cassia bark. Min cuisine is especially particular about the flavoring of clear soup and generally takes oil chicken, ham, hoof and upper arm as ingredients.

The cooking method is as follows: first use oil chicken, ham, hoof and upper arm to make soup over a slow fire and filter it; chop the bones of raw chicken into pieces and add water and salt before putting them into the soup, and then continue to cook it over a slow fire while stirring it evenly (also called making soup) and filter it once again. It will finally become lustrous, clean and tasty soup and is very helpful for color, fragrance and flavor when using it to flavor the dishes. The cooking methods of Fujian cuisine also have pan-frying, deep-frying, boiling, baking, stewing, mixing, sautéing with wine, stewing in gravy, grilling, sautéing with red rice wine, simmering, stir-frying, smoking, braising and salting, of which the most characteristic is sautéing with red rice wine, including stir-frying with red rice wine, and baking with red rice wine, quick-frying with red rice wine and deep-frying with red rice wine.

Representative Dishes:Braised weever with chrysanthemum, sautéed phoenix-tailed shrimp, simmer top grade pomfret, Buddha’s delight (made of selected seafood), stir-fried azure jade pea, finding pleasure amid suffering (made of tomato, balsam pear, prune, crumb, red seaweed, lobster sauce, Frech caraway and lettuce), stewed frog with garlic, stir-fried meat with celery and bamboo shoots and Chinese cabbage soup with dried shrimps, etc.