Wenzhou Snacks：Wenzhou Fish Balls (Wenzhou Yu Wan)

2026/08/17 Source: 66wz.com

Ou Cuisine is built on seafood, light oil, delicate thickening, and meticulous knife work. These ten signature dishes showcase its culinary mastery — pounded fish consommé, scallion-oil croaker, mud crab with egg white — and ten more snacks embody its vibrant street culture, from fish balls that are decidedly not round to the bowl of glutinous rice the city wakes up to.

Wenzhou Fish Balls (Wenzhou Yu Wan). The city's most recognizable snack — and deliberately not round. Fresh croaker meat is scraped, seasoned, and whipped into a paste, then hand-shaped into irregular strips. Boiled until they float, they are served in a clear broth spiked with rice vinegar and white pepper. The pursuit of extreme freshness, hand-beating, and made-to-order execution are the strict "rules" of authentic Wenzhou fish balls. Served at: breakfast, soup course, late night.