🍽️ Fuding Meat Slice

Taro-starch beaten pork slices, tangy and slippery.

Fuding meat slices are a wildly popular street snack of Fuding, Ningde, Fujian, made in a distinctive way. Fresh lean pork hind leg is pounded into a paste, mixed with sweet-potato starch, then pinched by hand into slices and boiled. The irregular slices turn bouncy and silky-soft, bursting with meaty aroma. The soup is tangy and spicy, seasoned with vinegar, white pepper, chili and scallions, clear, bright and mouthwatering. A bowl works up a warm, sour-spicy sweat. Cheap and fast, it is eaten from morning to night by Fuding locals and is one of the most representative everyday snacks of eastern Fujian.