At the end of the Ming Dynasty (early 17th century) in Fuzhou, there was a man named Meng Bo, living in a small village. Bo Bo was very devoted to his mother.Meng Bo made meatballs for his mother who loves to eat meat but because her mother already old and his teeth were gone, his mother could not eat meat. Bo found the idea of making meatballs to his neighbors that made Mochi cookies. Bo made me meatballs like making Mochi cake
Meatballs are also very familiar in Indonesia, because Indonesia is the majority of islam meatballs made with halal meat such as: cattle, fish, and chicken
Various types of meatballs
- Meatballs veins: meatballs filled with sliced tendons and tendon and rough beef.
- Meatball tennis ball or egg meatballs: ball-sized meatball balls containing boiled chicken eggs.
- Meatball flattened: flat-shaped meatballs
- Meatball fish: meatballs made from fish meat.
- Meatballs shrimp: meatballs made from shrimp.
- Meatballs Malang: meatball dishes from the city of Malang, East Java; complete with yellow noodles, tofu, dumplings, and fried dumplings.
- Meatball Karimunjawa or better known Meatball Yellow Fish tail is a meatballs material derived from Yellow tail fish.
- Meatballs Solo and Bakso Wonogiri: meatballs dishes from Solo and Wonogiri, the shape is smaller than Malang meatballs and not complete as Malang meatballs. But the meatballs Solo and Wonogiri have a strong cow strong taste.
- Meatballs Solo and Wonogiri there is a mixture of beef or tetelan slices.
- Meatball cheese: new recipe meatballs containing cheese.
- Fried meatballs: fried meatballs.
- Grilled meatballs: meatballs smeared with special spices and baked directly (without charcoal) and provided with pieces of ketupat and warm broth and peanut seasoning.
- Usually spice before smearing is one that determines whether or not tasty grilled meatballs.
- Meatballs gravel: meat is relatively the same as meatballs in general, but the size of this meatball is smaller until it is called gravel meatballs.
- Meatball Balungan: bone base material
- Meatballs Unyil: the ground material is ground beef but the size of the sphere is the size of a marble.
- Bakso tahu goreng (abbreviated Batagor): basic ingredients of beef; presentation combined / mixed with fried tofu.
- This type of meatballs are commonly found in the city of Bandung, West Java.