Ningdu meatball is a traditional dish in Ningdu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, which belongs to Hakka cuisine. The production materials are pork, fish, bitter gourd and so on. In Chinese New Year, wedding, being a guest, moving, traveling and other occasions, it is often used as a dish to receive guests.
Ningdu County is a place where Hakkas migrate. In order to escape the war in the Central Plains, the Hakkas in Ningdu suffered from migration, yearned for peace and prosperity, longed for family reunion and enjoyed peace and harmony forever, and specially made a kind of food with outstanding local characteristics and strong festive colors, that is, round Hakka meatballs. Ningdu meatballs, pork meatballs and fish meatballs are a dish that Ningdu Hakkas must order for the New Year or every happy event, which means reunion and happiness.