1, Haikou eats sweet potato milk
In Qiongbei, Hainan, especially in Haikou, there is a folk custom of eating sweet potato milk from winter to Sunday. Sweet potato milk is made of crude potato, with Chinese cabbage and medlar added. Taste sweet and salty, a steaming bowl of sweet potato milk, rice balls smooth and delicious, soup thick and white, fragrant.
2, Ding' an eats vegetables for dinner
Eating vegetables and rice is a folk custom in Ding 'an. On the solstice of winter, people will mix meat, vegetables and rice, wrap them in leaves and eat them together with their hands. Family reunion, food and meals, that is, family wealth is not lost. When a year's wealth is gathered here, the whole family will be happy and healthy.
3. Wenchang Qionghai Catering Group
In cities and counties in eastern Hainan, especially Wenchang, there is a custom of sweeping graves from winter to Sunday. When sweeping the grave to worship the ancestors, put white meat, rice balls and other foods in front of the grave. "Rice balls" are unique foods in Wenchang and Qionghai. In Hainan dialect, they are called "cups", which are cooked rice wrapped in a round rice ball by hand. A round rice ball with boiled eggs in peanut oil can be eaten as a meal. Eating a ball in Hainan means round.
4. Tunchang and Qiongzhong eat glutinous rice cakes.
Coix seed cake, whose scientific name is coconut glutinous rice cake, is called "Yi Bu A" in Hainan dialect. On the day of winter solstice, Tunchang and Qiongzhong have the custom of eating barley cakes. You will always see it at various traditional festivals or banquets.
5. Miao people eat Shan Lan glutinous rice cakes.
In Hainan Miao families, every household should make a cake with Shan Lan glutinous rice and eat it every winter until the sun to celebrate the joy of a bumper harvest. This kind of cake is eaten with homemade sucrose syrup and can be kept for several days. When it is cold in winter, it can be roasted on charcoal fire, which will be more sweet and delicious after it expands and softens.