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Putian Cuisine
Mazu Blessed Cake
Mazu Blessed Cake is a trade mark cake product of Putian. This is popular cuisine among Putian visitors, and they often buy it as a gift for other. In order to memorize the kindness of Mazu - The Sea Goddess,�people have made various offerings to worship Mazu, while numerous overseas merchants also carry various offerings for worshipping. As time goes by, such kind of pastry is now produced and sold in shops, known as Mazu Blessed Cake.
Xinghua Rice Noodle
Xinghua Rice Noodle is a special product of Putian, which has white color and slender as silk, and delicious taste. Putian Rice Noodle considered as one of earliest cuisine in China, and well known abroad, especially Europe and Southeast Asia. When cooked or fried, it can serve as a tasty food with distinctive flavor.
Putian Lychee
Putian Lychee has been famed since the Tang Dynasty era, thus Putian is known as "Lychee City". Putian Lcyhee is fresh, sweet and has great nutritious value. It is grown mainly along the lower reaches of Mulan River, and Putian has 20 varieties of lychee.
Putian Longan
Famous since ancient time, Putian is one of major national production base of longan, and its dried longans has good reputation both domestic and abroad. Putian longan are quite big in size, yellow orange color, sweet and fragrant. Beside that, the longan of Putian also suitable to be proccesed into longan wine, canned longan, longan drink, longan cream and many other variant.
Putian Honey Pomelo
Putian Honey Pomelo, pomelo is a kind of tasty fruit which was once listed as a tribute in Qing Dynasty. The fruit is high quality with fragrant smell. Its flesh is tender and juice mellow, tasting sweet but a little sour and delicious.
Putian Loquat
Producing 40% of total China output, Putian has more that 100 varieties of loquats, which are famed for their tasty and fragrant smell. Putian Loquat also can be turn into canned Loquat, Loquat cream, loquat wine or fruit juice. Loquat also have medicine values, it can be used to relieving the cough, quenching thirst and normalizing the function of the stomach.