1. Coconut Cake: Coconut Cake is a special snack in Hainan, which is as soft as New Year Cake. But the difference is that the biggest feature of Haikou coconut cake is its stuffing, which generally includes coconut shredded peanut stuffing and coconut grove sesame stuffing. The coconut milk cake is wrapped with the fragrance of coconut leaves, which can stimulate people's appetite. Open the banana banana leaves at the bottom of the cake, and the coconut cake will give off a kind of fragrance. Take a bite, and the sticky feeling and tenacity of glutinous rice will be unforgettable.
2. Coconut rice: Coconut has high nutritional value. Traditional Chinese medicine in China believes that coconut meat is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, killing insects and eliminating malnutrition; Coconut juice is sweet and warm, and has the functions of promoting fluid production and benefiting water. Modern medical research shows that coconut meat contains protein and carbohydrates; Coconut oil contains sugar, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, etc. Coconut juice contains more nutrients, such as sugar, glucose, sucrose, protein, fat, vitamin B, vitamin C and trace elements and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. It can be seen that coconut is a good product for both medicine and food.
3. Crotalaria japonica Thunb.: Because of its functions of clearing away heat, detoxicating, removing dampness and enriching blood, Crotalaria japonica Thunb. is called "Radix Ginseng" by the people. As a Chinese herbal medicine, it can dispel wind, promote diuresis, promote digestion, relieve cough and pain, and can also be used for rheumatism, bone pain, traumatic injury and so on. According to folklore, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, women can eat chicken dung _ seed soup and replenish blood. According to the customs of some places in Hainan, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, every household must eat "chicken excrement and rattan".
4. Hainan Zongzi: Hainan Zongzi is different from Zongzi in the north. It is made of banana leaves wrapped into a square cone and weighs about half a kilogram. There are salted egg yolk, barbecued pork, bacon, braised chicken wings, etc. in glutinous rice. When the hot Zongzi is peeled off, it has the fragrance of banana and glutinous rice first, and then the aroma of meat and eggs. The fragrance is both strong and weak, and the taste and meat are all ready, which makes the eater's appetite open. Hainan Zongzi is the most famous in Ding 'an Zongzi, Danzhou Loki Zongzi and Chengmai Ruixi Zongzi.
5. Lingshui acid powder: Lingshui acid powder is a special snack in Hainan Province, which is sour, hot and sweet, rich in seasoning, extremely delicious and memorable. Lingshui acid powder is sometimes called Hainan powder. Because Lingshui is a county in Hainan Province, the full name is Lingshui Li Autonomous Region. Because the acid powder made by Lingshui is the most authentic and delicious, the name of Lingshui acid powder comes from this. With the spread of Lingshui acid powder in Hainan province, some people in other cities and counties also made acid powder, and gradually they got the name of Hainan powder for mainlanders.
6. Houan powder: Houan powder is named after Houan Town, which is produced in Wanning. Houan Town is a small town with few people, but the whole town is almost full of powder shops, and the fragrance of Houan rice noodles is flying everywhere. People seem to have regarded Houan powder as an indispensable part of their lives. Breakfast is it, a bowl of thick soup, which knocks on the busy day. You can completely indulge yourself in the thick soup, forget the harassment of everything, and be as quiet and uncontested as Hou 'an Town.
7. Bamboo-tube rice: Bamboo-tube rice, which is made of "fragrant rice" made from Shanlan rice (a kind of upland rice) and mixed with meat, is put into a bamboo tube sawn by fresh pink bamboo or mangosteen, and appropriate amount of water is added, then the mouth of the bamboo tube is tightly blocked with banana leaves, and the green bamboo is burnt in charcoal fire. The cooking method of bamboo tube rice is quite characteristic of picnic, that is, cut off a bamboo tube, put in a proper amount of Shanlan rice and water, and bake it in the fire. When the surface of the bamboo tube is burnt, the rice is cooked. Split the bamboo tube, and the rice is wrapped in bamboo film, which is soft and delicious, with the fragrance of bamboo and rice. When eating, break the bamboo tube and take out the rice, which is the famous "bamboo tube fragrant rice". If pork lean meat is mixed with fragrant glutinous rice and proper amount of salt and put into a bamboo tube to bake into fragrant glutinous rice, it is a precious and beautiful food for entertaining distinguished guests.
8. Fish tea: In Wuzhishan, Hainan, local people generally make a kind of "fish tea". Fish tea is the main dish for Li and Miao people to entertain guests, and it is also the flavor food of Li and Miao people. Fish and tea will be sold in markets in Hainan minority areas. Although it is called "tea", it has nothing to do with the black tea, green tea and so on we drink on weekdays.
9. glutinous rice cake: glutinous rice cake is a Chinese cake snack made of glutinous rice and flour mixed with various ingredients. Blood glutinous rice, which is more tough, should be cooked to the right benefit, not hard and not sticky. It's just steamed, and it's still steaming. Black glutinous rice is known as "black pearl" because of its rich nutritional value and medicinal value. In the theory of Chinese medicine, there is a saying that "black enters the kidney, and the kidney is strong, so it is youthful and energetic"; Folk people regard it as nourishing, fitness and medicinal effects.
11. Morning tea in Hainan: Because of the slow pace of life in Hainan, many people have the habit of drinking morning tea. A pot of tea can be drunk from morning to afternoon. So there are many morning tea shops in Hainan, including big hotels, small hotels and tea houses. At 7 o'clock or 8 o'clock in the morning, the morning tea shops are already crowded with people. Some popular morning tea shops, if you go late, may have no seats and have to wait for an hour or two, which shows that Hainan people like to drink morning tea very much.