Haikou food tradition and inheritance, whether it is the humble street of traditional snacks, or decorated elegant high-grade restaurant meals have been experienced. The specialties of Haikou's food are the traditional dishes in the old streets, which are highly sought after by the general public and exude an ancient and simple atmosphere.
As the old Haikou people know, several old streets in the city are the gathering place of traditional authentic snacks and dishes, in the alley corners and nooks of Jiefang Road, Boai Road, Xinhua Road or the old streets around Deshengsha, you will always find the most authentic Hainanese snacks and dishes with a long history, such as pig's blood, pig's assorted, fried snails, chicken poop vine, Hongtang dumplings and all kinds of kimchi are all over the place, and the Hainanese noodles, hold the Luo powder, Hou'an powder, pig's foot rice, beef brisket rice are all over the place. The four famous Hainanese dishes of Dongshan Goat, Huale Crab, Wenchang Chicken and Kaji Duck are also available here.
Although the old street snack dining environment is generally simple and outdated, but because of the famous, authentic, affordable, and therefore did not stop many people and tourists to come to Haikou in the twilight of the name of the search for traditional food, to enjoy the enthusiasm of authentic food. If you have a bad mouth, you may want to take a stroll down the old street, which will make you feel the old flavor of the old street and have a good taste of the food!
Haikou snacks both the local characteristics of Hainan snacks, Hainan snacks have Hainan snacks composed of local snacks, each city and county generally have their own local representative snacks, these local snacks collectively referred to as Hainan snacks; which Haikou, Wenchang, Wanning, Sanya, Wuzhishan, Qionghai, Lingshui local snacks as the main representative, they reflect the main features of Hainan snacks. The local snacks are a part of Hainan snacks, reflecting some of the characteristics of Hainan snacks, and these, as the economic and cultural center of Hainan Haikou, you can taste. This fully reflects the national localization elements of Haikou food is obvious, is a distribution center and convergence of Hainan traditional food.
Haikou is very good to Hainan's local flavor diet intact inherited, which all rely on the food practitioners of Hainan's food love, the most valuable thing is that they will be the regional characteristics of the food and drink continue to push forward, preserved the local food has become a window to show Hainan.
Another feature of Haikou diet is integration, because the early Hainan under the jurisdiction of Guangdong management, Hainan life and Guangdong naturally at the root of the fusion, Hainan's local food culture is also affected by the Guangdong culture is obvious, especially since the withdrawal of the region of Hainan to become a province, along with the development of the economy, the people of Haikou is no longer shy, go out to eat, get together to eat entertainment has become more and more people's The first time I've seen this, I've seen it in my life.
Tea culture in Haikou fully reflects the standard of living and taste of life in Haikou with the economic development and changing times. Most of the tea-drinking citizens come in pairs, some with their young and old, some call their neighbors and friends, come here to chat and sip tea, talk about old times, and have a good time. Some people say that Haikou people are the happiest, you see Haikou's dad tea store is often crowded, the public point on a pot of tea, read a newspaper, chatting about the lottery on the world, so sit on a whole day's life, just like Haikou is both conspicuous and characteristics of a unique landscape. These life norms and Guangdong's teahouse culture have the same point, in fact, pay attention to the taste and leisure, which is extremely far-reaching influence on Haikou, the integration of the two cultures is also reflected here.
Haikou dietary diversity and inclusiveness is also a major highlight of the culture, it is also worth talking about, because Haikou is a relatively concentrated area of foreigners, coupled with the people of Haikou's broad-mindedness of the sea and the enthusiasm of the eclecticism, attracted foreign food culture in this root development, various dining establishments such as the mushrooming of successive emergence of the people's dining options more and more, distant food, but close to home. In Haikou, but close at hand, can be enjoyed everywhere.