Scallion Meat Pie

Scallion Meat Pie

　　Scallion Meat Pie is a traditional snack from Fuzhou. Made primarily with flour and filled with diced pork belly, chopped scallions, and raw sesame seeds, it is a type of baked crisp pastry. The preparation involves kneading the flour into a dough for the crust, marinating diced pork belly with white soy sauce, MSG, salt, five-spice powder or salt and pepper, and other seasonings to make the filling. When wrapping the filling, a generous handful of chopped scallions is stuffed inside, and raw sesame seeds are sprinkled on the surface before baking it in the oven. Among Fuzhou’s traditional snacks, there is also a dish called Dried Shrimp Meat Pie, which is made similarly to the Scallion Meat Pie. It is the same size and shape as the Guang Bing (plain biscuit), but its filling includes minced dried shrimp, diced pork, salt and pepper, and is baked in the oven. It is crispy, fragrant, and delicious, with a history of three to four hundred years.