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How Many of These "Legendary" Wenzhou Darkness Cuisine Have You Tasted?
Source:Wenzhou Tourism | Author:Wenzhoudaily | Publish time:2018-09-10 | 5511 Views: | Share:
I read through cookery books and tried to find darkness food at different places. Whether it is the British "Stargazy pie", or the Nordic "Kivilak" (Legend of the pickled sea Swallow), or the Surstromming that has been popular in recent years. However, for those darkness foods...

This is a very common dish in the eyes of Wenzhou people. However, it's definitely a darkness cuisine for people from other areas.


When the flower clam get peeled off the shell, you can see its blood-like secretions. Probably, it's not easy for you to stop eating once you taste them by dipping in soy sauce. Finally, it will ends up with a foodie opening his fierce-looking mouth and burping to you with satisfaction and two bleeding hands, which is just like a crime scene.


江蟹生River Raw Crab

It's not rare to eat seafood in coastal cities, but it's not every city has such a diet custom of eating raw food and it's probably worth counting- Wenzhou people has the habit of eating pickled-raw crab.

River raw crab is a traditional cold dish in Wenzhou. Generally, we use the best swimming crab. After finely decomposing, it is slightly marinated and then topped with vinegar, soy sauce, yellow wine, white sugar and pepper. Gently suck in your mouth and the crab meat will slide out of the crab shell. It’s extremely wonderful and tastes without any nasty smell!

虾虮Shrimp Sauce

Shrimp sauce, is commonly called by Wenzhou people as shrimp paste, or shrimp. The scientific name is Cyclops, a small animal belonging to the crustacean net in the "animal plankton" in the sea, which is living in the shallow sea along the coast. In addition to fresh food, the most common is the shrimp dipping sauce, which is made by salt and a little red dough for more than five months.

Shrimp sauce is not only delicious but also full of aroma. Shrimp steamed three-layered meat, dried shrimp and dried sweet potato powder, dried shrimp and oyster sauce, sea bream, shrimp dipping sauce, steamed dish, shrimp dipping sauce and mustard greens are all very classical way to eat for Wenzhou people.  

Stinky vegetable 

My friends, now is the highlight! Next, I will introduce you as a speical darkness food: Stinky vegetable. It smells really bad and it can be on par with Shaoxing stinky tofu and Ningbo stinky melon.

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