As early as ancient times, chaozhou people had the custom of eating spring rolls. In ancient times, spring cakes were also called "spring plates". It is said that in the Eastern Jin Dynasty 1600 years ago, there were spring plates. Spring Festival, that is, at the beginning of spring, gathers vegetables, cake bait, fruits, candy and so on into a dish and presents it to relatives and friends, symbolizing the auspiciousness of the recovery of all things.

Spring cakes spread to modern times, and then evolved into spring rolls, parallel to spring cakes, which are famous folk snacks in Chaozhou. However, the skin is thinned, sealed in the stuffing, and fried into golden brown in the oil pan, which is especially crispy and delicious. It can be eaten not only in early spring, but also all year round.

2. Chaoshan beef balls

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, many rural farmers carried small burdens and walked in the streets of Chaozhou Fucheng, selling beef ball soup. Smart Chaoshan people saw that Hakka beef balls were very distinctive and transplanted them. However, Chaoshan people do not simply copy Hakka beef balls, but absorb their advantages and improve their shortcomings.

For example, the traditional way to beat beef balls in rural areas is to use the back of a kitchen knife, which is not effective and not strong enough, affecting the quality of meat stuffing. So chaozhou people changed two special iron bars, each weighing 3 kilograms, with a square or triangular surface, and beat them with both hands in turn until the beef was beaten into a paste.

Because the beef balls made by Chaoshan people are more exquisite than those made by traditional farmers, the beef balls made by Chaoshan people are crisp in taste, rich in beef flavor and especially delicious. Soon after it was made, it quickly swept the whole Chaoshan area and was greatly welcomed by Chaoshan people, becoming the most popular Chaozhou folk snack.

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Features of chaoshan beef meatball: It is said that good beef balls can bounce when thrown on the ground. In the past, beef balls were all made by hand, so this kind of performance may be performed. Because they are all manually operated, the cost is higher than that of the mechanism. After the appearance of pill machine in the early 1980s, the traditional methods of making pills by hand became less and less.

With the increasing demand of foreigners and old Shantou people who come to Shantou for a taste of hand-made beef balls that can be played high on the ground, this makes delicious hand-made beef balls reappear in the rivers and lakes.