Things that must be mentioned when traveling to Chaoshan

The trip to Chaoshan written in the previous four days seemed very short, but in fact it had been planned for a long time. It was due to various instigations from friends in Shantou that we were "By the way" I brought her home (4 people traveling with me: Datou, a girl from Chaoshan and Shantou, a girl from Nanning, Guangxi + a girl from Guangzhou + a girl from Anshun, Guizhou). Also because this trip to Chaoshan was with a friend as a guest at her home, so we had to pick up or take a taxi everywhere we went to eat and drink, so I won’t give a detailed guide.

Our itinerary is the high-speed rail "Guangzhou South-Kwaitang; Kwaitang-Puning" (I bought the ticket late, so I can only transfer at the intermediate transfer station. If you can't buy a ticket, you can consider this method). We live in Chaonan District, Shantou, which is relatively close to Puning Station, so we landed in Puning.

Although I didn’t stay here for a long time and my main goal was to eat, there are still some impressive things I can talk about. I hope to share with you my view of Chaoshan.

1. Chaoshan people will take you flying~

This time when I was wandering in Chaoshan, I was lucky to have local people taking me with me. Otherwise, I would have been really afraid of being cheated due to the language barrier (after all, I was out of town). The language barrier is real. The grandmothers and grandfathers we met at some roadside food stalls really didn’t speak Mandarin. Not all the elderly at my friends’ homes could fully communicate in Mandarin. We had to rely on the boss who showed us around. Act as a translator. When buying things or asking about prices, she takes the lead. The boss feels cordial after hearing this, and naturally the conversation becomes easy~

2. Didi? It's better to take a taxi or take a bus.

Shantou and Chaozhou are not big. A common problem in small cities is that transportation is not convenient. There are no subways, few Didi taxis, and a lot of motorcycles. I tried Didi, and either I have one or I don’t have one. It’s better to drive yourself.

3. The traffic light you can never find

Crossing the road in Shantou feels like you are risking your life to cross the road (especially the area outside the road), motorcycles and cars drive very fast. There were no street lights to be found, and the lights I occasionally saw were only yellow lights... The ever-changing yellow lights kept flashing and flashing, and I was blinded.

4. Stay in Chaoshan for a few days, eat slowly, and don’t burst~

Chaoshan is not just a city, Chaozhou, Shantou, Jieyang, and Puning all have snacks from all over the place. And the flavors are different in different places. I guess you have to try them all and maybe live here~

5. Be sure to have a meal of home-cooked food from friends in Shantou (or make beef hot pot at home) < /p>

The food at home is great. Not only does it taste good, but Chaoshan people are very welcoming. I would like to thank Xiaoting and her whole family for their hospitality~

6. Drink Kung Fu Tea once

I don’t know if what we drank counts as Kung Fu Tea, but we watched it when we first visited a friend’s house When we saw her family making tea, the owner built a teapot for us and warmly welcomed us to drink tea.

When I asked a friend what "Kung Fu Tea" is, she said that Kung Fu Tea is not the name of a type of tea or tea, but a technique for making tea. The reason why it is called Kung Fu tea is because this method of brewing tea is very particular and requires a certain amount of effort to operate it. Kung Fu is the knowledge of brewing and the effort of drinking. Therefore, she believes that the tea that ordinary people make at home for guests is considered Kung Fu tea.

7. Going out for a walk at night? Don't

I was really scared that day. Lao Chaoshan's advice was "it's not safe at night, don't walk around". You can tell by looking at someone from out of town that you are from out of town (either you don't understand or you can't speak, and you are still carrying a bag), well, it's the Chinese New Year... it's not very safe, and a friend's dad used it for a short stretch of the road. The car passed by.

8. The menu does not have a price tag, and the food will be served just by shouting

It seems that I have never seen Chaoshan roadside stalls or food stalls with menus and prices. Sit down and say to the boss directly: I want one. If you order xxx (for example, 4 bowls of kway teow), the boss will go straight to it. The price won’t be much different anyway, and everyone knows it. However, if you go to a food stall, it’s better to ask about the price before ordering. .

9. Take a walk in the park and enjoy a moment of tranquility

I went to Zhongshan Park to hang out. Going to the park was accidental. I just walked around the park casually, basking in the sun and feeding the fish. There wasn’t really much to do, I just wanted to relax for a while ^_^

Well, I was tired from walking around the city at night. I went back to the hotel and lay down, turned on the TV, and something like the news from Shantou was broadcasting. I couldn't understand it at all. I looked at the subtitles to identify the Chaoshan dialect, which made me understand it.

11. Please prepare cash

Since you are here for the Chaoshan delicacies, please prepare cash. It doesn’t take much. Prices in Chaoshan are not high and you can eat well at a reasonable price. However, many snack bars and roadside stalls only accept cash. Alipay is generally only used in large stores or downtown areas.

12. Taste Chaoshan’s authentic snacks in a “street sweeping style”

(1) A large amount of rice rolls with sufficient ingredients

A plate of Chaoshan rice rolls is every You can eat a lot of ingredients in one bite, so you don’t have to worry about not being full.

1) Shantou rice rolls

The photo is eaten in Shantou. The rice rolls are steamed in a steaming cabinet. The rice milk is very fresh, but the soy sauce tastes a little salty (it should be Individual stores), and its characteristics are thin and tender skin.

Rice roll restaurants basically follow the route of choosing your own ingredients. The standard ingredients are eggs, vegetables, seafood (mainly oysters) and pork. Most stores have free tea, so you can have a cup of tea after eating to relieve your tiredness! satisfy!

(Positioning: near No. 12 Middle School, Jinping District, Shantou)

2) Chaozhou rice rolls

Standard rice rolls with egg, pork and cabbage, and separate oyster rolls are also available Rice rolls, a spoonful of oyster sauce and a spoonful of peanut butter, a sweet rice roll.

(2) I was eating bean curd in People’s Square.

I know that the way to eat bean curd varies from place to place, and it is basically sweet in the south and salty in the north, but I have never tried such strong tofu curd! The picture shows the tofu curds from the "Square Old Brand Sweet Bean Curd Soup" near People's Square in Jinping District, Shantou. They look hard, like cakes, and you can see holes when you cut them open, but they taste very soft and have a super strong bean flavor. . A large spoonful of tofu curd and a large spoonful of powdered sugar at the end go well together. 5 yuan a bowl. Then at this time, the girls from Guizhou who were traveling with me started to say that the tofu puddings over there are salty with chili peppers (Jiayan, please don’t...squeeze me when you see this)

(3) Kueh is everywhere ( guǒ)

Chaoshan people’s “kueh” is made from rice flour, which is very similar to “cake”, but cakes such as kuey tiao and kueh juice are not kueh. Kueh is actually used for sacrifices. of offerings.

(Positioning: near Shantou No. 12 Middle School and Chaozhou Paifang Street)

1) The picture below is a leek cake (a type without rice cake), fried with sweet potato flour, crystal clear . It tastes delicious, crispy and fresh!

2) Horseshoe crab? How do you pronounce "粿"?

In Mandarin it is: 鎲(hòu)粿(guǒ). In Chaoshan dialect, I really don't know how to spell it (hao? gui?). There are shrimps and meat inside, and because it is fried, it is a little crispy on the outside and tender and sweet on the inside, but it will make you tired if you eat too much. It is said that the most orthodox method is to mix horseshoe crab meat with rice milk, add minced pork, mushrooms, partridge eggs and other ingredients, and finally cook it in oil at high temperature. However, it must be difficult to find horseshoe crabs now, so most people use sweet potato flour or rice milk to make it into a kway shape, and then add other ingredients. You can still try it when you go to Chaoshan.

3) Potato cakes, rice-free cakes, bamboo shoots cakes, taro cakes, and carrot cakes

They are all fried things, very oily, and make you tired after eating too much. I don’t like them very much. .

4) Red Cake

Ah, the irrepressible girlish heart. This is Hong Kueh, also known as Shou Tao Kueh, Hong Kueh Tao and Hong Tao Kueh in Chaoshan. Wrapped with rice or vegetables, salty. It’s unknown how the pink color was obtained. Maybe some coloring was added to make it festive?

(4) Beef hot pot, you must try it!

Chaoshan hot pot looks beefy at first glance!

The first day’s dinner was at a friend’s house, and the first choice was beef hot pot! I was entertained at a friend's house, and my parents bought a lot of things: beef, hand-made beef balls, tripe, beef dumplings, beef... parts of beef that I can't pronounce the name of.

The soup base of the beef hot pot is a quiet white color. Compared with the spicy hot pot in Sichuan, the soup base is less tempting of red, orange, yellow and green. The star of hot pot is naturally beef and beef balls, which are definitely indispensable. The meat is all freshly bought from beef shops outside. It tastes particularly refreshing and chewy, full of meaty and buttery flavor, and the juice splashes out when you bite into it. Served with the special sand tea sauce, it has a strong aroma in your mouth.

(If you don’t eat hot pot at home, you can check out “Haiji” on Dianping.com)

(5) Have a bowl of authentic Kway Teow

Let the locals bring it I'm going to eat the local authentic Kway Teow (in fact, they should be quite authentic).

Boss, would you like a bowl of "Beef Ball Kuey Teow or Beef Kuey Teow"? No No No, just say "Wan Kuey Teow", the meatballs and beef are mixed together.

When ordering, say "one, two, two two"? (When ordering noodles in Guangxi, one ounce of noodles is a little less, and two ounces of noodles is a little more) No No No, there is no such thing, it is a big bowl.

The kuey teow is very different from what I ate in Guangzhou. It is very thin, smooth, soft and delicious!

My friend also brought pork rice noodles to try early the next morning

(6) Fried sweet potatoes? Pig trotters? One meaning

Many small stalls on the streets of Shantou sell this kind of fried food. I don’t know how to say it in Chaoshan dialect, but there are all kinds of fried food: fried potatoes, fried taro, fried sweet potatoes... Posted a question in the voting circle What is this everyone? All kinds of answers came to me: sweet potato pancakes, pig's trotters, fried ham cakes... I don't know how to spell it in Chaoshan dialect.

(7) There is always a queue for strawberry ice if you want to eat it

After much searching, I found Shantou No. 12 Middle School Strawberry Ice, a legendary Internet celebrity milk tea shop. There is a queue and there are many people. But worth it. Strawberry ice is a fine strawberry ice made directly from fresh strawberries, fresh milk and ice cubes, topped with fruit pulp and matcha ice cream - this is the winter for strawberry lovers and matcha lovers.

(Location: near No. 12 Middle School, Jinping District, Shantou)

(8) Candied scallion cake? What about onions?

I saw an old lady selling it on the roadside. For 10 yuan a portion, 1 pack of candied scallions + about 8 cake bases + a small pack of ingredient powder. When eating, the bottom of a piece of cake is wrapped with onion-shaped sugar, sprinkled with peanuts, sesame powder and other ingredients, making it sweet.

Candied scallions are all made of sugar. I guess it’s because the holes in the middle look like onions, so they’re called candied scallions, right? It’s best not to eat candied scallions directly. It’s very sweet and greasy. It’s better to eat it in a wrapper. It’s recommended to eat at most two pieces. It’s really enough.

(9) Oyster baked VS cucumber baked

Oyster baked feels like a pancake made of oysters (oysters), potato starch, and eggs. Because I ate it at a food stall, the oysters were very fresh and had no fishy smell. They tasted soft and had a crispy skin. It goes well with sweet potato porridge.

(Positioning: Lao Ziniang Night Porridge in Jinping District, Shantou)

Roasted cucumber is 10 yuan a portion. It contains shredded cucumber, shrimp, and crab sticks. It’s a big portion. Look. It tastes so fragrant but not as salty as oyster pan. It is rather waxy, maybe there is too much potato starch.

(10) Green vegetables that have never been eaten before.

Motherwort and hemp leaves are green vegetables that have never been eaten before. They can be fried or made into soup. Motherwort is very common in Chaoshan Kueh Teow. The "hemp leaves" of fried sesame leaves are not sure if they are wild vegetables, they are a little rough.

(11) I fried, I fried, I fried, fried, fried

I met an old woman selling fried dumplings (I think they were fried dumplings) at the snack street next to Shantou No. 12 Middle School. Dumplings with so many fillings! Leeks, taro, corn, carrots, meat dumplings... There are also potato dumplings and mangguang dumplings that I have never seen before. The potato dumplings are delicious. You must make them yourself when you get home. Mangguang, what is Mangguang? Baidu looked up and said it was jicama, also called jelly beans. Anyway, it tasted crunchy and sweet.

(Location: near Shantou No. 12 Middle School)

(12) Is barley soup barley water?

Before I tasted it, I thought it was ordinary barley syrup, but I didn’t expect that it was eaten for breakfast in Chaoshan. It was salty! Salty! It contains pork offal, fish breast, fungus, and barley (that is, all the pork rice noodles are replaced with barley).

(13) Spring rolls wrapped with mung beans

The skin is crispy and the filling is salty. There are salty mung beans, dried shrimps and shiitake mushrooms inside. The boss was very enthusiastic. When he saw me holding the camera, he lifted up the bag to take pictures for me.

(Positioning: Chaozhou Paifang Street area-Hu Rongquan)

(14) Rice dumplings - half and half

The magical Yin and Yang rice dumplings - because it is half Salty and half sweet, the sweet ones are filled with mung beans and taste like mung bean cakes; the salty ones include shrimp, mushrooms, bacon, etc.

(Positioning: Chaozhou Paifang Street area)

(15) What a big plate of fried cakes!

Wow, a big plate full. Ku Kueh is a rice cake steamed with white rice milk, then cut into small pieces and stir-fried with eggs, shredded ginger and green onions. This is the first restaurant I visited in Chaozhou Paifang Street. The eggs are slightly salty, so don’t eat too much, just satisfy your cravings.

(Positioning: Chaozhou Paifang Street area)

(16) Duck Mother Nian

You can’t even guess that this is sugar water just by looking at the name. A super sweet dessert. The Chaozhou Huhaiquan restaurant I went to cost 8 yuan a bowl. There were two dumpling-like balls in the bowl, one sesame and one peanut. It was served with sweet potato, taro, and white fungus boiled sugar water. There was really too much sugar.

(Positioning: Chaozhou Paifang Street area)

(17) The glutinous rice pig intestines are not delicious

It is glutinous rice and peanuts stuffed into the casings, with sauce Sweet. But the taste is very ordinary, sticky to the teeth, not recommended.

(Positioning: Chaozhou Paifang Street area)

(18) Goose rice - no feast without goose

It was already evening when we returned to Shantou by car on the third day At seven o'clock, we went directly to Shantou Qishan Lao'e Hotel. As soon as you sit down, the food starts to be served without ordering, it's super fast. Goose head, goose intestines, and goose kidneys are the most expensive. Goose intestines are fragrant and crispy; goose meat is relatively ordinary, but fresh and sweet; goose blood is my favorite, fresh and not fishy, ??and it is delicious when dipped in sour plum juice!

The white rice with goose meat rice is poured with a dish of marinade. It seems to be goose juice? It tastes so delicious~ The accompanying soup is bitter melon and pork ribs soup, which is sweet and bitter with a hint of meaty sweetness. Finally, we cleaned up all the food on the table and settled the bill at 180 yuan.

(19) Yam soy milk? Egg and soy milk?

This is also eaten for breakfast in Shantou, it is sweet. When Qijuqi cooks soy milk, he adds yam or eggs and cooks them together to get a strong bean flavor. The yam is cut into thin slices and cooked until it is soft, smooth and tender, which is a good combination. The fritters are crispy and not much flour.

(20) Chaoshan Tea Pairings Suitable as Souvenirs

The so-called tea pairings include tea snacks, sugar cakes, candied fruits, etc. Passing by a specialty shop, there are various kinds of pastries, which are very appetizing. After consulting with Chaoshan students, they all recommended mung bean cakes and black bean cakes, and I immediately bought five bags... so many snacks, I was envious.

Sadness is so great, every time I travel I have regrets, and it’s a pity that I left without having time to eat a lot of snacks:

Chaoshan rice, Puning dried beans, Puning quicksha sausage Noodles, Chaoshan fried taro, fish dumplings, sugar paintings, sesame tea, Phoenix floating tofu, casserole porridge...

13. Pick up your pen and mobile phone

Like to record People can jot down what they see, hear, and feel in Chaoshan while wandering around. I have not been in Chaoshan for a short time, and I have not been to all the recommendations and tried all the delicacies, so I cannot cover everything. If there are any errors or omissions in this article or if you need to add anything, please leave me a message and I will reply in time.

Finally, I still want to talk about my personal views on Chaoshan tourism.

This article is based on the route I traveled. It is not considered professional, and the route is not necessarily the best. I apologize if it is not well written. The following is purely personal taste and opinion. If you don’t like it, I reject personal attacks...

1. Eat in Chaoshan

They all say "eat in Chaoshan". Yes, there are many snacks in Chaoshan, but It feels like a food paradise has everything, because the taste of various snacks varies from place to place, so whether it tastes good or not depends on personal taste.

2. The most recommended tour:

(1) Shantou: Eat, eat, eat

After getting off the car, I found a place to eat (it is recommended to go to a place where you can get together for snacks) , after finishing the snacks, go to another restaurant and continue eating the same snacks, and then you can go back after eating. There is really nothing to see.

Recommended places to eat: Jinyuan Snack Street in Xiashan Town, Chaonan District, Shantou, near No. 12 Middle School in Jinping District, Shantou (but the snack bars here are very scattered)

(2) Chaozhou : A combination of eating and shopping

Guangji Bridge, one of the eight most famous sights in Chaozhou, is worth visiting. You can walk along the riverside and enjoy the river breeze. Plus, it happened to be cloudy when we went there, so it felt cool and misty. This scenery is comparable to the Sanjiang Fengyu Bridge of the Dong people in Guangxi.

There are also Chaozhou snacks around Guangji Bridge that you can try~

Recommended food: Chaozhou Paifang Street area

3. The most recommended snacks: bean curd, yam soy milk, rice noodles, and oysters

4. What I want to say the most: Thank you Xiaoting and Oppa’s family for their warm hospitality. Welcome to my hometown. I will definitely fly with you~