1. Chaozhou cuisine includes: preserved pork, baked oyster, glutinous rice pork intestines, hand-pounded beef balls, spring cakes, pig's feet rings, etc.

2. Pork jerky

Chaozhou jerky has a history of more than 111 years. According to research, the first producer of preserved meat in Chaozhou was Huang Honghai, a businessman from Fucheng. Huang Honghai was born in the late 1971s, and he went to Guangzhou Xiangxing Lawei Store as an apprentice when he was over 11. With his intelligence and eagerness to learn, he learned the production technology of preserved meat and preserved meat from his master within two years. In the 24th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1898), Huang Honghai resigned as an apprentice in Xiangxing and returned to his hometown of Chaozhou. He started a family workshop of preserved bacon at home, making sausages and preserved meat by hand.

3. Baked Oyster

Baked Oyster is a well-known traditional folk snack in Chaozhou. Oyster roasting is actually oyster frying, because Chaozhou's "roasting" is actually the "frying" in Chaozhou cuisine. Baked Oyster, a traditional Chaozhou snack, has a long history. At the end of Qing Dynasty, food stalls making baked Oyster were very common in all parts of Chaozhou.

4. Glutinous rice pig intestines

Glutinous rice pig intestines are traditional folk snacks in Chaozhou with a long history. The selection of glutinous rice pig intestines is exquisite and the method of making it is unique. The pig intestines to be used should be the middle part of the pig intestines with a diameter of about 3-4 cm, which should not be too thick or too thin, and should be repeatedly rubbed with salt and edible soda ash until it is clean and odorless. The stuffing inside should be soaked in raw glutinous rice for 3 hours. Pork belly, water-soaked mushrooms, shrimp and lotus seeds are all cut into small grains, mixed well with glutinous rice, and added with soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and pepper. Cut the cooked glutinous rice pork intestines into small pieces horizontally, and you can spell out a very beautiful platter. When eating, adding red drum oil can make people more memorable.

5. Hand-pounded beef balls

Hand-pounded beef balls are the most common and popular folk snacks in Chaozhou. They can be used as snacks or as a soup. Historically, Chaozhou hand-hammering beef balls should have originated from Hakka. Because there are many mountainous areas in Hakka area of Guangdong province, it is very common to raise cattle and buffalo, so Hakka people often eat beef as their daily meat. In the long-term development process, Hakka people gradually explored the way of making beef into beef balls to eat.

6. Spring pancake

As a famous traditional snack in Chaozhou, spring pancake evolved from ancient folk snacks in Chaozhou. Before the Qing Dynasty, there was a popular snack in Chaozhou streets-fried shrimp with pancakes, that is, fried shrimp wrapped in pancake skin and eaten with sweet sauce. This snack was mainly sold to children at roadside stalls.

7. Pig's trotters

Pig's trotters are actually a kind of fried snacks, which is a distinctive snack in Chaozhou. Generally, pig's feet are stall owners who sell snacks. They set up a stove rack on the roadside, put a pot on it, fry it and sell it.

To make pig's feet, you need a special tool, an iron handle, and a round iron lamp with a diameter of 8 cm and a height of 1.5 cm welded on one end. The materials used in the pig's feet circle are diced taro (raw diced taro is also acceptable, but steamed diced taro is more fragrant), cooked red beans, raw onion beads, spiced powder, refined salt, and the powder slurry made by adding water to the main ingredients of japonica rice flour and cassava flour. When it is soaked in the oil pan until golden brown, pour it out. Pig's trotters are crispy and delicious, and they are a favorite snack for Chaozhou children. Because it is in a circle, it is cut off from pig's trotters, so people call it pig's trotters.