Wuyishan has many snacks full of local flavor. These snacks are centuries-old and with variety breeds. The refined making methods and complete tastes are main characteristics of Wuyishan snacks. Besides, Wuyishan snacks are also rich in Northern Fujian Province local styles.

Wuyishan Sesame Glutinous Rice Cake
There are glutinous rice cakes in every counties and cities of Northern Fujian Province. This cake mostly prevails in Wuyishan areas. Making sesame glutinous rice cakes is a kind of happiness for farmhouses. Main material is glutinous rice. The rice is marinated in clean water and then is in a steam box. People will pestle the braised sticky rice in a stone mortar until it become soft and flexible and they will take the advantage of the heat to make the rice into proper pastes. The pastes are edible after it rolled with sesame powder and white granulated sugar. The cooked pastes are sesame glutinous rice cakes. They are fresh and tender, exquisite and some times are stuffed with fillings. Wuyishan glutinous rice cakes are quite famous. There are usually many venders hawking such rice cakes on streets and they have become a view of Wuyishan streets.

Wuyishan Cudweed Herb Cakes (Shuquguo)
This is a sort of snack made of cudweed herd and sticky rice. The cudweed herb has medicinal functions such as relieve a cough and restrain the germ growing. People of Wuyishan would like to have such cakes during the Tomb Sweeping (Ching Ming) Festival. The Shuquguo is a excellent dim sum made by Wuyishan people. They will pick the fresh cudweed herb before the Ching Ming Festival and pound them. Then they mix the cudweed herb juice with sticky rice paste and braise them. Some cakes are stuffed with fillings such as chopped mushrooms, bamboo shoot, meat, preserved vegetables and so on, and the cakes turn into larger green dumplings. Some cakes are without fillings, but they are featuring long time preservation.

Wuyishan Wonton (Bianrou)
Wonton of Wuyishan named Bianrou in Chinese can be divided into over 20 species according to different fillings, cooking methods, ingredients, and eating methods. There are boiled wonton, deep-fried wonton, quick-stirred wonton, shrimp meat wonton and so on. Wuyishan wonton (Bianrou) featuring thin and nearly transparent skin and thick stuffing is a very popular food. Wuyishan wonton soup has faint scent.

Nutrient Soup by Pot
This is quite a toothsome and restorative soup, which is contained in a pot. Varied soups are available according to your tastes such as blacken chicken with ginseng soup, old duck with ginseng soup, and pork meat with Chinese dates and medlar soup, etc. Some persons may think these soups must be stodgy. To be frankly, every pot of soup is the combination of Chinese traditional medicinal materials and invigorants with chicken, beef, duck and pork. The soup is insipid, but tasty.

Other Local Flavors or Snacks in Wuyishan
Baking the bean-pod on ridges of field is a interesting enjoyment for villagers of Wuyishan. The beapods become satiation before or after the Mid-Autumn Festival. They will grilled the beanpods on fire and have them after peeling of the skin. In such a way, the beanpods have a special rurality. The fruit of Hardleaf Oatchestnut is made into bean curd by Wuyishan people. Bean curd made of hardleaf oatchestnut is in light red color. People also use it to make soft cakes. These cakes are a bit saline, but still refresh and savory. They are wonderful snacks in summer time and praised by tourists from home and abroad.

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