Leicha is a special flavor food of Hakkas, which is also widely circulated in Tingzhou and passed down from generation to generation, and is still preserved in many villages. Tea smashing is made by adding appropriate amount of rice to sesame, soybean, peanut, tea and orange peel and boiling. Because the Hakka people in Changting like to add rice to the tea, it is also called Miller tea.
Leicha is unique in flavor, fragrant, slightly bitter, grayish green and turbid. It is their custom for Hakkas to drink tea, regardless of children and adults.
2. Triangle Tofu jiaozi
Jiaozi with triangle bean curd is a delicious dish at Changting banquet since Ming and Qing Dynasties. This dish is exquisite. It is made with tofu as the skin and lean meat, mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots and onions as the stuffing. The triangle bean curd jiaozi made by Tingzhou chef is fragrant, tender and sweet, and unique among bean curd dishes.
3. Baihe River
There are many ways to roast chicken in Changting, among which Hehe is the most famous. It is highly praised for its fragrance, crispness, tenderness, smoothness and easy detachment. It has been a famous dish in Tingzhou since ancient times and has been listed as the first dish of Hakka in western Fujian.
Its chicken head, chicken feet and chicken wings are all good materials to drink. There is a saying that "a chicken head has seven glasses of wine, and a pair of chicken feet drinks a pot". In the 1986 Fujian Cuisine Appraisal, "Baiduo Hejiang" won the title of famous local cuisine.
Kirin was born.
Kirin, also known as "Kirin drilling elephant belly", is a superior treasure in the official seat of Changting in Qing Dynasty. According to legend, a long time ago, there was a rich family named Zheng in Changting Street. In order to have more children, their women often stuffed puppies, Wuji Yuan, white pigeons, sparrows and wild ginseng. Steamed in their pig bellies. Since then, it has spread among the rich as a diet therapy.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Xiao Zhimei, the general of Tingjun Town, held a birthday banquet, he once listed "Kirin was born" as the first course. 1985, Kirin was born and won the title of "quality food" in Fujian Province. Fujian Daily reported on May 2, 1986.
5. Litchi meat
Litchi meat is a dish. It is said that it comes from "sweet and sour fried pine pills" and "red bayberry meat". As early as the Qing Dynasty, there was already a dish of "Fried Pine Pills with Sweet and Sour" at banquets. By the early years of the Republic of China, almost every banquet would have it.
Later, after the chef constantly improved his cooking skills such as knife work, this dish, like Lingnan litchi, was beautiful in appearance, crisp, sweet and sour, and unique in flavor.