1. Dongguan cuisine is mainly salty and a little sweet, but in hot weather, light Dongguan cuisine appears on the summer dinner table and becomes people's favorite. General Dongguan cuisine can be found in the streets and alleys of Dongguan. It is popular among the public for its simple appearance and salty and delicious taste. The mid-to-high-end Dongguan cuisine attracts people's attention for its exquisiteness, exquisiteness, specialness, lightness and deliciousness.
2. Dongguan cuisine belongs to Lingnan cuisine, with strong local characteristics. It is divided into mountain-style cuisine and water-town flavor cuisine. Each has its representative dishes, such as fried rice with Dalang olive sauce and Qingxi Maogen soybean pit. Snail soup, etc., the waterside flavor includes Shatian lotus root soup with dragon bone, Hongmei taro and dried clam meat, Humen honey grilled eel, and the mountainside flavor includes Zhangmutou Hakka salted chicken, etc.
3. Dongguan is adjacent to the river and the sea, and is rich in aquatic products. Seafood is also one of its specialties. In addition to the famous cream crabs, heavy-shell crabs, mantis shrimps, groupers, etc., it is also famous for the production of Jiwei shrimps. The most famous place to eat seafood is Xinwan Town in Humen. There are more than a dozen food stalls lined up on the beach. It is wonderful to be among them and enjoy the seafood while listening to the waves.
4. The most famous snacks in Dongguan are "Sanhe Banquet" and Houjie Roast Goose. "Three Grains" refers to grass insects, grass sparrows (predating is now prohibited), and grass carps. They are rich in nutrients and have excellent taste. Daojiao Water Village is a good place to taste grass insects and grass carp; Houjie Shao Goose paste is made from a whole goose, large pieces of meat, large bones, and many special medicinal materials and spices. It is delicious and tempting. Many tourists from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and even Hong Kong come to Dongguan to enjoy it. gourmet food. Other snacks include Houjie sausage and Dongguan rice noodles, Daojiao steamed rice dumplings and meatball porridge, Shilong’s maltose and sugar pomelo peel, Shatin’s lotus root, Shijie’s hibiscus meat and taro sticks, and Gaobu’s Xiansha fish balls. , Chang'an's blackhead fish, etc.