Pingtan salty dumplings

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    Top Ten Famous Snacks in China (Fujian)

When Pingtan is a salty rice, it also has an auspicious alias "Time to Run". For the children of Yeouido, this is a kind of food with strong flavor, young and old, and at least five festivals in a year to eat this kind of snack, which can be described as folk ace.

“Time to Run”, commonly known as salty rice, is a Pingtan specialty snack that combines sweet potato with seafood. Every time the New Year is reunited, the Pingtan people’s dinner table will not lose its shadow. The appearance is like a steamed buns, which can also be called dumplings or meatballs. Pingtan's special sandy soil makes many vegetables unable to grow, but the sweet potato grows well and is particularly sweet to eat. Every household in Pingtan loves to eat sweet potatoes. The skin of “time to work” is to use sweet potatoes as raw materials. When making the outer skin, first of all, the steamed sweet potato and the potato powder should be re-injected into a flexible powder mass. When making the stuffing, each household has its own merits, but it is necessary to put some seafood products in Pingtan. Therefore, the mixture of seaweed, carrot, cabbage, pork, shrimp, fish and other materials constitutes a "time to run" rich trap. There is a moving legend behind this food. According to legend, there was a fisherman in Pingtan in ancient times, and he was convicted of imprisonment. The son is distressed by his father, and every time he goes to the cell to visit his father, he always picks up delicious and delicious meals. Every meal can be eaten clean by the jailer, and the father is not eating it at all. Looking at the growing father, his son is sad and angry. Later, he thought of a way to make sugar, jujube, dried persimmon, etc. into a mud to make a stuffing, outside the bread made of sweet potato powder, and then stick some rice residue, so that the appearance of the ugly inside but hidden delicious food finally passed the jailer , sent to the father's hands. When the sly father relied on the salty rice sent by his son, his temperament rose every day. Finally arrived on the 29th day of the first month of the month, the patrol case to find out the case, the father was able to sink into the snow. The son's filial piety was also relished by the neighbors. On the 29th of the first month, it was recognized by Pingtan as "the filial piety festival", and "time to work" was also spread. It is believed that it was because his father had eaten his son's salty rice with filial piety and moved the gods, so good luck was transferred, so the salty rice was called "time to work."