I want to go to Xiamen, but I don’t know how to arrange the route, and I don’t know which attractions are worth visiting. I hope someone can help me. I would be very grateful!

D1, Gulangyu Island, no need to say more, there is a lot to see there, it will take at least one day. It is recommended to take the yacht that goes around Gulangyu Island. It costs 15 yuan per person. You can go around Gulangyu Island and get close to Little Kinmen to see the Taiwan side. You can take the ferry back for free.

The delicacies on Gulangyu Island include: fish balls, fried oysters, mochi, poria cakes, etc. The prices are not expensive. These snacks are enough for you. Don’t eat seafood on it, it’s too Expensive. There are many famous snacks in the small alley opposite the ferry to Gulangyu Island.

You can also stay overnight on Gulangyu Island. There are many chic hotels and the prices are not very expensive.

D2, Nanputuo, is a very popular and unique temple. When you go to the top of the mountain, you can overlook Xiamen University and Gulangyu Island. The scenery is very good. Across the mountain is the botanical garden, which is also very interesting, even for tourism. There are not many tourists in the peak season, so it is very comfortable. If you don't go to the Botanical Garden, Xiamen University is on the left side of the Nanputuo Gate when you go down the mountain.

D3, Xiamen University, the campus scenery is beautiful, it has the aroma of books, the architecture is also very unique, green trees and mountains, it is a good place for lovers to be romantic. Across the campus is the Hulishan Fort. After viewing the fort, you can take a bus to the Convention and Exhibition Center. This section is the most beautiful part of Huandao Road.

D4, Jimei, the former residence of Tan Kah Kee, Jimei Middle School, and Jimei University. The architecture is very distinctive and the aroma of books is strong. If you can drive, you can rent a car for a day, go to Jimei to see it, and go to Quanzhou to visit Laojun Rock, Kaiyuan Temple, Quanzhou Museum, and Fujian-Taiwan Yuan Museum. You can come back in the same day.

You can go see earth buildings and mangroves at other times, but I haven’t been there. I've been to the mangroves in Hainan, that's all.

Xiamen’s food:

Fried noodles

Most people may have never heard of it, but this is indeed the most signature Xiamen dish, definitely Xiamen Very few outsiders have ever tasted it. This is because the difficulty of making it is not comparable to that of ordinary fried noodles. The key lies in the skill of frying the noodles and frying. If you are not careful, the frying will be too hard or too bad. Fried noodles were (and still are) a must-have at wedding banquets. Shuangquan Restaurant, underneath the KFC in the Cultural Palace, used to have a very large store. Unfortunately, there is only one store on the first floor now. They sell barbecue juice and the like at the door. The other stores on the first floor are rented to people selling clothes. It’s really a bit heroic. It feels like one of the declining time-honored brands in Xiamen. The main store is on the 2nd floor. Go try it before it closes down.

Fried noodles are a unique and famous dish in Xiamen, created by the original "Quanfulou" and "Shuangquan Restaurant". The cooking method is: select the best noodles (also called noodles in some places) and fry them in a 70% hot oil pan until they are reddish-yellow. Remove them to a plate and blanch them with boiling water to remove the greasiness. Set aside. Use lean meat and winter bamboo shoots. , shiitake mushrooms, and garlic sprouts are used as ingredients, cut into shreds and fried, drain flat fish and shrimps, add Shaoxing wine as appropriate, and then mix the fried noodles with the ingredients before frying. When eating, use Shacha sauce and red chili sauce as condiments.

Tu Bamboo Bamboo Jelly

Ximen Bamboo Shoot Jelly is said to be the only authentic one in Xiamen now. It is located next to the west gate of Zhongshan Park. If you don’t know, you can get it from there by bus Enter the south gate of the station and walk west, but it is best to ask passers-by, because the west gate of Zhongshan Park is indeed remote enough, and those who have never been there may not be able to find it.

"Currently it is run by a couple surnamed Liao. This local bamboo shoot jelly business was started by the Liao family's father carrying a burden on his shoulders and has a history of more than 70 years. It is said that in the early days, the Liao family's father often rested at Ximen. Many people who are addicted to eating often find him there, and they habitually call his local bamboo shoot jelly Ximen local bamboo shoot jelly. When he got old and opened a shop, he naturally used this title as the name of the shop.

Now. It is run by a husband and wife, and they work in shifts. One makes the local bamboo shoot jelly by hand at home, and the other sells it in the store. This is a local bamboo shoot jelly that retains the original flavor and uses cucumbers and other ingredients. Ginger, peanut butter, good soy sauce, pungent mustard and local sweet and spicy sauce. The bamboo shoot jelly is not stored in the refrigerator, but is made in a box with ice. It tastes cold, spicy, and spicy, and costs 5 yuan. One plate. The price is extremely reasonable.”

In addition, there used to be a stall selling authentic local bamboo shoot jelly on the roadside outside Lujiang Cinema, but it has disappeared since the city was renovated.

Soil bamboo shoot jelly is a frozen product made from unique products.

It contains colloid and is an annelid. Its scientific name is sandworm. It is two to three inches long. The bamboo shoots are caught from the sand. They are left for a day to spit out the debris and then boiled in a pot because they look like pig skins. It also has a high degree of collagen, so it will make a pot sticky. After it is poured out and allowed to cool naturally, it solidifies into a bowl of bamboo shoots and is frozen. After boiling, the colloid contained in it dissolves into the water, and after cooling, it condenses into , its meat is clear and delicious. Paired with good soy sauce, northern vinegar, sweet sauce, chili sauce, mustard, minced garlic, jellyfish and coriander, shredded white radish, shredded chili peppers, and tomato slices, it is a delicious snack with great color, flavor, and flavor.

Prawn noodles

The shrimp noodles at Wu Zaitian Snack Shop have a very special taste. They are Xiamen’s signature snacks. Wu Zaitian is the only one in Xiamen that can make it to this extent, so I know Not many people eat. What's special about the soup is that it is "an opera tune and a chef's soup". It uses a kind of small shrimp called "dog shrimp". The shells are removed and the meat is cooked. The soup for the noodles is made from chopped shrimp shells and heads. Boil it with pork bones and filter out the residue with gauze. The ingredients are quite simple: small shrimps and lean pork slices. The whole bowl of noodles must be added with minced garlic and leek segments. This is the absolute finishing touch, which enhances the aroma and removes the fishy smell. It ensures that you will have a feeling of "sweetness flowing through your teeth and cheeks" every time you eat it. You will feel that Master Kong/Uni-President’s shrimp noodles, which are the best in instant noodles, are simply incomparable to Wu Zaitian’s shrimp noodles. “The cowhide is not blown, and the train is not pushed.” Wu Zaitian’s shrimp noodles were famous in China in 1999 and 1998. It is a famous snack in Fujian, but few outsiders know about it. But be warned, inland students may not be used to the overly fresh shrimp smell, and not everyone can accept the smoky smell of garlic.

Duck porridge

Have you tried the duck porridge opposite Datong Primary School? It's on Datong Road near the ferry end. If you don't know, you can get there by taking the ferry station to Datong Primary School Station. It's only one stop. The store is not big. No matter whether you go there at noon or at night, you can see many customers inside, and there are people of all ages. The duck porridge is light and cheap, suitable for old ladies and children. The salty porridge and ingredients are sold separately. If you can chew it, you can add duck meat and duck neck. If you can't chew it, add oysters and fish meat. In addition, there are many miscellaneous ingredients that can be matched. There is a "Park Sha Cha Noodles" next to it. Its business is always not as good as that of the porridge shop. The number of customers is usually only one-fifth of the porridge shop. The owner of the noodle shop often looks at the porridge shop with envy. He may be sighing about the sand tea noodle shop. Driving to the wrong place.

Shacha Kebabs

Shacha Kebabs can be found everywhere on Zhongshan Road, but the most famous one is Yapo’s Shacha Kebabs. Yapo Coffee Shop is the oldest place to drink coffee in Xiamen. It is said to have a history of several decades. The store is small and the decoration is very ordinary. It looks a little old. There is a mezzanine inside and it feels very low. The old back-to-back tables and chairs from the 1980s feel like they have never been replaced with new styles since I was a kid. You may not believe that such a somewhat antique place can always attract people ranging from old guys in their sixties to high school students in their fifteenth or sixteenth year.

Location: Walk from Siming Cinema towards Lakeside, pass by a Wumingzi fast food restaurant, and then pass by a sports shoe store. After that, you will see a small shop with a not bright facade. The signboard reads " "Yapo Cafe", OK, here we are, go in and experience the local cafe in old Xiamen in the 1980s.

Shacha Noodles

Almost everyone who has been to Xiamen has tried Shacha Noodles. Some people say it tastes good, but others say it is not so good. Some people think it is too sweet. , some think it’s not spicy enough. However, for Xiamen people, the three most commonly added ingredients are large intestine, lean meat, and dried tofu. Of course, there are also some other special ingredients. I remember that when I went out to eat Sha Cha Noodles with others, in order to show that I was still a Xiamen "foodie", I would always order some weird ingredients, such as rice blood, large intestines, kidneys, duck intestines, and another The meat slices called "Pork Liver Yuan" and so on. I feel that choosing the ingredients is something that can show your personality. However, after eating it, I still feel that the original three items are more palatable. After all, no one has eaten them regularly since childhood. Growing up with kidney flowers or "pig liver edge".

There are several good sand tea noodle shops near Zhongshan Road:

The one in the Ninth Market (next to Ding'an Square) is good, but unfortunately there are too many people, and occasionally the sand tea soup is sold out If it's too fast, add water to dilute it, and the taste will be slightly lighter.

The one after 100 is better, but unfortunately the store is too small, and you often have to set up a table with strangers, which makes you feel uncomfortable eating.

There is a restaurant selling roasted pork rice dumplings near the Cultural Palace Station on Zhongshan Road. The business is very good, but the store is too small, and it can be said to be extremely small. It may not be much bigger than your kitchen (I suspect it may be in The smallest sand tea noodle shop in Xiamen) has only 3 tables. It is inevitable to share the table with strangers, and you often can’t eat. There are several people waiting at the door in front of you. Who calls it this Feng Shui? A store opened by Baodi. Perhaps because the store on Zhongshan Road is too expensive (usually 6,000 yuan per month), the boss has never expanded the store in more than ten years. Maybe it will set a new world record. In this crowded market, The place to eat can also be considered a must.

The one opposite Siming Cinema should be the best. The store is medium-sized (actually it is small) and the customers are also medium-sized. There is also a cold enough air conditioner on the mezzanine, but sometimes it adds more and you don’t have it. Of course you will have to pay more for the ingredients you ordered.

Yuehuasha Tea Noodles (very few people can look up and look up the name of the noodle shop after eating the noodles. This one is an exception because it has been in the newspaper). The location is probably at Siming West Road and Near Shengping Road, you can walk along the road beside Baibai and look for it slowly. You can also go straight from the ferry station along Shengping Road between Hualian Commercial Building and Customs Building for about 200 meters. You will see a "Mingli Primary School" on the right, and an alley on the left. There is a barber shop at the entrance of the alley, 10 meters inside the alley. The place is "Yuehuasha Tea Noodles", as the saying goes, "authentic food in deep streets and alleys". Excerpted from Xiamen Evening News: "No. 78, Zhenbang Road. People originally called it Shacha Noodles on Zhenbang Road. More than ten years ago, it was named after the owner, Chen Yuehua. This shop is now mainly run by daughters and wives. But Mrs. Yuehua would come over early every morning to make the ingredients. It is said that her 80-year-old brain is very flexible, and she calculates the ingredients very accurately, and she doesn't go home even on hot days. Sitting leisurely by the shop.

This Shacha noodle soup is thick and not overly sweet to outsiders. For locals, the soup is just right. Made with rock sugar, peanut butter, etc., this store has a lot of good stuff, including the meat tendon added to the noodles, which is the thin film behind the pork loin strips, which we usually treat without mercy. They sliced ​​off the discarded part, with strands of lean meat, and blanched it slightly, making it tender and delicious. There is also a ingredient they call pork liver edge, which is the side of the pork liver. A small piece of lean meat with the membrane tastes particularly delicious. The meat sellers in the nearby market all know to save these scraps for them. In the hands of these women, they become delicious. "

Neither Xin Nan Xuan nor Huang Zehe's Sha Cha Noodles are good, the ingredients are few and inferior, especially the taste of the soup is not good enough.

Wu Zaitian’s Sha Cha Noodles is the most famous Chinese snack.

Pork Rice Dumplings

Wu Zaitian Snack Bar is quite famous, located near the ferry station.

Xiamen meat rice dumplings have a sweet taste, are oily but not greasy, and are shiny red and yellow in color. They are mostly made of mushrooms, dried shrimps, chestnuts, pork, and glutinous rice. The wrapped rice dumplings are fresh only when the water is boiled. Grill it in a pot and eat it with sand tea sauce, minced garlic, red chili sauce, seasoned soy sauce, and coriander. It's really delicious. One thing to remind you is that the meat dumplings should be eaten while they are hot, otherwise the taste will be greatly reduced, so the roasted meat rice dumplings are worthy of their name.

Taro buns

Wu Zaitian’s is better, but Xinnanxuan’s is good-looking but not delicious. After Xinnanxuan’s recent facelift, many snacks have changed their taste, and the sand tea noodles are terrible. To describe it in two words, the heat of the meat dumplings was a little too tough and it felt a bit tough. Xinnanxuan's marketization is the best among the time-honored brands in Xiamen. More and more branches are opened, but the taste of the food is becoming less and less authentic. , I feel like the stall inside has been contracted by someone else.

Taro buns, a summer and autumn snack. Peel and wash the taro and mash it into raw taro puree. Add a small amount of starch and refined salt and mix well. Apply a layer of oil on the inner wall of the bowl and add the prepared pork, shrimp, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and water chestnuts. Wait for shredded fillings, then cover with a layer of taro paste. Gently invert and take it out and place it in a steamer to steam. When eaten with chili, mustard, sand tea sauce, etc., it tastes better.

Peanut Soup

Huang Zehe’s Peanut Soup Shop is opposite KFC on the ferry.

Xiamen peanut soup uses simple ingredients but the cooking method is exquisite.

First remove the defective kernels from the peanuts, soak them in boiling water and then remove the membrane. Add water, place in a casserole and simmer over low heat. Add sugar when the peanuts are cooked. Add water and simmer until the peanuts are rotten. Then eat it with sweet and salty snacks, such as fried dough sticks, fried dates, leek boxes, meat buns, sweet buns, fried glutinous rice, etc., which are all top-quality.

Onion fruit

Wu Zaitian’s is pretty good.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is commonly known as "July 15th"; there is an old folk custom of using salted fruits to worship ancestors. The method is: make shredded pork, diced water chestnuts, fried and crushed flat fish or shrimp skin, rice paste, sugar, sweet potato powder, scallions, five-spice powder, and salt into a ball shape, put it into a bowl and steam it with rice milk. . When eating, cut it open and add some sand tea sauce, orange juice, mashed garlic, radish sour, and coriander. It will taste soft, fragrant, and delicious.

Oyster Omelette

According to research, Taiwan's Oyster Omelette was spread from Xiamen. Shuangquan Restaurant's oyster omelette has won awards, and Xin Nanxuan's is also okay. Most food stalls have them, but it’s best to check if the oysters are fresh before ordering. I once had fried oysters that were not fresh. The smell was simply scary, and the taste was particularly fishy. The oysters were a bit black, like this. Never want to plant it.

Oyster pan-fried uses the top-grade "pearl oyster" (a smaller oyster) as the main raw material. Mix eggs, sweet potato powder and chopped garlic thoroughly, and then add an appropriate amount of pork. Fry the oil in the pan until both sides are brown. When eating, use mashed garlic, coriander, sand tea sauce, etc. as seasonings to achieve the effect of being crispy, fine, and delicious.

Noodle paste

You can taste it in Huang Zehe’s peanut soup shop. In addition, I remember that 10 years ago, there were two companies in the old Xiaxi market that did very well. After the old Xiaxi market was demolished, they disappeared. If anyone knows where the old two companies moved, please tell me.

Noodle paste is made from shrimps, oysters, razor clams, mussels and other delicious and fresh seafood soup, and cooked with noodles to form a paste. When cooking, the heat should be controlled well so that it is mushy but not messy and mushy clearly. In addition to seafood as ingredients, you can also add duck blood or pig blood or a large bunch of pig intestines into the noodle batter to make the fat blend into it and the intestines are well cooked. Then add fried dough sticks, fried green onion and pepper. Used as seasoning, the smell is more intense and delicious.

Fried Five-Spice

There are several time-honored brands, and the taste is similar. In fact, it is not difficult to make. You can try it yourself. There is one in the Beauty Palace Market that is said to be the best. , but no matter how I eat it, I don’t think it’s as delicious as what my mother makes.

Fried five-spice is made of lean meat with green onions, flat fish, water chestnuts, duck eggs, MSG, fine soy sauce, sugar, and five-spice powder. Stir evenly, wrap it in bean skin and fry it in oil. Cut into small pieces and serve with sand tea sauce. Red chili sauce, mustard, radish sour, radish, sweet sauce and other condiments make the dish taste even more delicious.

In addition, Wu Zaitian’s meat soup and braised noodles, Xinnanxuan’s salty barley and fish ball soup, Huang Zehe’s oyster noodle paste, and Shuangquan Restaurant’s fish stewed with cabbage are also all here. Xiamen’s famous spot. "Xiagang Braised Duck" (you can buy it at Walmart, it is said that because of the special fragrance, some people doubt whether poppy shells are added to it), "Youli Salted Duck" (there is a branch next to the Taishengli Railway Station) are also local to Xiamen A must-buy braised condiment for drinking wine (braised duck is best eaten hot, salted duck must be eaten cold).

Transportation: You can take a train or a plane from Shanghai. The air ticket may be more expensive and the train time is slightly longer.

Accommodation: It is best to live in Nanputuo or near the ferry. Transportation is convenient, and eating and shopping are also very convenient. I stayed in a hotel called Silver Hotel next to the Overseas Chinese Museum in Nanputuo. The standard room was only 400, and there was free hot spring bath for 2 people every day. There was also a kitchen in the room. Xiamen Island is not that big. As long as you don’t live in Jimei, it’s not that far and it’s very convenient to take a taxi.