In modern times, due to the contacts of overseas Chinese with Chaozhou nationality, Chaozhou cuisine has absorbed the essence of famous food at home and abroad, and the dishes are more colorful and the quality is improving. Today, Chaozhou cuisine has developed into one of the famous dishes with unique Lingnan cultural characteristics, well-known at home and abroad and in China. The biggest feature of Chaozhou cuisine is that it relies heavily on seafood and pays attention to freshness. Its main cooking methods are: simmering, stewing, frying, frying, burning, cooking (steaming), frying, soaking, deducting, cleaning and pouring. Chaozhou cuisine has a wide range of materials and has the characteristics of "three more":

First, there are many aquatic products. Most of them are from the Hai nationality, and fish, shrimp, clams and clams have always been the main ingredients of Chaozhou cuisine, which can be cooked into many famous dishes.

2. Vegetarian dishes are diverse and unique. It is cooked with meat. When you eat, you can see the dishes but not the meat. It is made of vegetarian dishes and meat, which makes it achieve the situation of "taste makes three out, tasteless makes three in", making the green vegetables soft and rotten, full of meat, delicious and vegetarian. There are dozens of famous products such as thick mushroom mustard, glass cabbage and national protection cuisine, which are the representatives of vegetarian dishes in Guangdong cuisine.

Third, there are many varieties of sugar beet and special materials are used. Sweet potato, taro, pumpkin, ginkgo, water chestnut, lotus seeds, oranges, pineapples and beans are commonly used, while meat such as fat pork and pork belly can also be made into first-class famous dishes. The sweet and greasy plants are suitable, and the representative works include sweet melon and taro paste, sweet lotus seeds, lamb-roasted ginkgo, sweet wrinkled fried meat and so on.

Recommended dining places

Seafood: If you want to eat authentic seafood, food stalls are the most economical and delicious. Most of the seafood there is alive, fresh and hot. In Chaozhou, Fengchun Food Stall, Liyumen Food Stall, Xinxing Restaurant and Xiwan Restaurant are all famous for cooking seafood. Typical seafood dishes are: Chaozhou cuttlefish balls, Yuanyang cream crabs, large conch cooked in open hearth, squid soaked in oil and so on.

congou: after dinner, you can drop in for congou. When you come to Chaozhou, you must taste Chaozhou congou. There are many places to have tea in the evening, including Xiaoyao Teahouse at the northern end of Chaozhou Avenue and the teahouse on the top of Jinshan Mountain. Xiaoyao Teahouse is built on a large-scale lotus pond, with winding cloisters, all made of bamboo. People are drinking tea on the pond, surrounded by fragrant lotus. Jinshan is located on the edge of Hanjiang River, and there is a famous scenic spot in Chaozhou, "Beige Buddha Lantern". When night falls, I sit by the mountain, with the calm flowing water of Hanjiang River and occasional fishing lights at my feet. The scenery is infinitely good.

Snacks: To eat authentic snacks, you can only go to some small stalls in the old city, such as Hu Rongquan in the north of the city, where there are spring cakes, rice cakes with duck mothers, white cakes, and salt water and grass on the mobile stalls. At night, no matter where you go, you can see food stalls, beef balls, fried bread sticks in Dengtang, phoenix fried tofu, raw fish, fried oysters and so on. Chaozhou is an economic center connecting western Fujian, southern Jiangxi and eastern Guangdong. Chaozhou orange and Fenghuang tea have been famous for hundreds of years. Chaozhou embroidery, embroidery and ceramics are famous handicrafts with a long history.

driven by the four pillar industries of electronics, clothing, ceramics and food, Chaozhou has developed a large number of famous and special new products, and "trendy goods" enjoy a high reputation in the domestic and foreign markets.