Since the fish flesh content is high, the fish noodles taste like fish ball in strip shape which contain fresh taste very much.
Since the fish flesh content is high, the fish noodles taste like fish ball in strip shape which contain fresh taste very much. In Tang Ji village, Bei Gan, the old lady Li Huochin has manufactured fish noodle more than 20 years, she is the first to make Matsu fish noodle. She says only her husband and she make fish noodle, they can make about 200 packs of fish noodle a day, yet the fish noodle is not that popular anymore in Matsu, selling 100 packs a day is the upmost.
Mrs. Li also makes fish ball. The Matsu fish ball’s uniqueness is that is contains high quantity of fish flesh, the fish ball is in light gray color, full of elasticity, not like Taiwanese fish ball which mixes with powder. In past, the fish ball was hand made, Matsu people used to say, if a fish ball- making couple had a quarrel, the fish ball they make the next day would be delicious since they vent their anger into the fish liquid.
Now the fish ball is made by machine, but Mrs. Li insists, making delicious fish ball, the fish flesh content cannot be cut. She has run this business for decades, from the moment we visit her, she insists that we must try her fish ball, although we decline over and over, she goes into her kitchen and comes out with two bowls of fish ball soup, which inside the bowl the fish balls are much more than soup itself.
While looking at the guests to enjoy the fish ball, Mrs. Li says in Fuzhou language, she says all her children have now their own lives, nobody inherits the skill. “Young people now don’t take this toilsome work, and I don’t how long I can keep on working”, she says. Mrs. Li asks the reporter to mention her decision, if there is anyone who is willing to learn the skill, she is willing to pass her skill for free.
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