Human's choice of lifestyle is a cultural behavior, and diet is no exception. Lingnan food culture is an emerging cultural form. The long history, unique geographical environment and climatic conditions in Lingnan area have bred splendid food culture, unique Cantonese cuisine, unique Lingnan food style and popular tea drinking customs, which constitute an important part of Lingnan food culture. Cantonese cuisine is characterized by rich selection of materials and rich dishes, which can not only be unique, but also coordinate with the public, and receive both elegant and popular dietary effects. In addition, it is beautifully made, and there are strict requirements on ingredients, knife work, utensils, temperature, oil temperature, order of raw materials entering the pot, cooking time, taking out the pot, wrapping the tail and serving methods. Cantonese cuisine is salty and suitable, full of seasonal changes, crisp but not greasy. It is good at absorbing the essence of other domestic cuisines and western food on the basis of local food culture, forming a unique southern flavor. Guangdong people's diet is omnivorous, frugal, practical, nutritious and scientific, and changes to the value concept of enjoyment.

Cantonese cuisine is mainly composed of twigs such as Guangzhou cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine, Dongjiang cuisine (Hakka cuisine), including western Guangdong cuisine (Leizhou cuisine) and Shaoguan cuisine. Gaozhou cuisine seems to be inferior in Cantonese cuisine, but with the development of economy, Gaozhou people are everywhere, forming a unique Gaozhou cuisine. Of course, in various places, people still refer to western Guangdong cuisine in general, which should be inappropriate.

In Maoming area, due to the different geographical environment and cultural customs, different cuisines have actually formed, mainly including electric cabbage, Huazhou cuisine, Xinyi cuisine and Gaozhou cuisine. Maoming is a master of all kinds of cuisines, and the food style of Maoming people is unparalleled in Guangzhou. As night falls, restaurants and restaurants in Maoming city are crowded, and food stalls on the roadside are row upon row. In this small town, there is no fatigue of making money in big cities, and people can't seem to find a better way to relax except enjoying delicious food.

Electric cabbage is mainly seafood, with light taste, mainly clear, fragrant, fresh and tender. Cooking is mostly boiled, boiled, fried and boiled, with little seasoning. However, most Maoming people pursue fragrant taste, so the practice of seafood will be changed to stew, fry, burn, stir-fry and roast. Huazhou cuisine has few characteristics, and it is mainly famous for boiled chicken and steamed chicken. It pursues the simplicity of the original flavor and tastes fragrant but not greasy. Xinyi cuisine is somewhat similar to Gaozhou cuisine, probably influenced by Hakka cuisine. Mainly peasant flavor, with strong Shan Ye flavor and distinctive rural characteristics, highlighting the main ingredients, original flavor, emphasizing softness and fragrance, paying attention to the temperature, and being good at frying, stewing, stewing and brewing. The dishes in Gaozhou cuisine, such as baked chicken with salt, stuffed tofu, stuffed bitter gourd and braised pork with plum, are similar to Hakka dishes in eastern Guangdong, probably because of the food culture brought by more than 300,000 descendants of Hakka immigrants in eastern Gaozhou. The geographical environment of Gaozhou and Meixian Hakka ancestral houses is similar, but it still reflects the characteristics of Gaozhou local culture. The main feature of Gaozhou cuisine is fragrance, so a very simple raw material, such as tofu, chicken, fish and pork, can be made fragrant, salty and heavy, so people who are used to Gaozhou cuisine or Maoming cuisine may not adapt to the lightness and deliciousness of Guangzhou cuisine.

"Maoming area is the base of ancient slang people. Slang hostages believe it, from ruin. Maoming people speak very hard, with a strong voice and a higher tone, and there is a metallic smell of swords colliding with shadows. People's character also has a kind of greenwood generosity, which is not rigid, unconventional, loyal and intentional. Therefore, the life in Maoming is simple, full and inspirational. Every day seems to be a holiday, gathering with friends, on the way from one end of the city to the other. " This paragraph is the most appropriate description of Maoming people. It can be said that Maoming's food culture is the culture that can best reflect the personality of Maoming people.