Fujian cuisine has four distinctive features, that is, fine cutting techniques, alternative soups, unique seasonings,
and exquisite cooking. Chefs can always cut the thin jellyfish into three pieces and into very thin thread.
Thanks to the abundant resources of marine products, the soup of this cuisine genre has its freshness and keeps
its own savor with ease.
In the Fujian cuisine, an important flavoring and coloring material is red distiller's grain. It is glutinous rice fermented with red yeast. After being kept in a sealed vessel for one year, the grain acquires a sweet and sour flavor and a rose-red color. Chicken, duck, fish, and pork can be flavored with the red grain as well as spiral shells, clams, mussels, bamboo shoots, and even vegetables. When the red distiller's grain is used for flavoring, the fishes can be cooked in many ways, including quick-frying, frying, quick-boiling, and pickling.