Many people are obsessed with the pure taste of Chaoshan beef balls, which are fresh, sweet, smooth and tough. What many people don't know is that this famous Chaoshan Niuwan is actually from Hakka cuisine. Most Hakkas living in mountainous areas raise cattle. When the commodity economy was not very developed, the surplus raw beef could not be preserved for a long time, so they chopped up the beef, added salt, squeezed it into balls and cooked it, and gradually became a local snack. Most of the hawkers selling beef balls in the early days were Hakkas. They carried their little shoulders and peddled along the street. Especially at night, they often shuttle between small boats with a small light hanging from the bow, selling beef ball soup for Hakka cargo ships parked there.

After a long time, hipsters began to make this delicious snack. The production method of hipsters is to choose fresh beef legs wrapped in meat as seasoning, remove tendons and cut into pieces, put them on the main board, and hammer beef and ham into meat paste with two special square hammer knives (weighing about 3kg), add a small amount of snow powder, refined salt, refined fish sauce and monosodium glutamate, and continue hammering 15min.

Then put it into a big bowl, add chopped square fish, white meat and monosodium glutamate, mix well, stir with your hands until the meat paste sticks to your hands, then grab the meat paste with your hands, knead it into balls with your fists, spoon it into a warm water basin, cook it with slow fire for about 8 minutes, and then pick up the beef balls.

It is said that the best beef balls can jump when thrown on the ground. This kind of crispy and delicious (beef tendon balls), fragrant and tender thing is the famous Chaoshan snacks. When eating, it is the most authentic and the best in the world if it is mixed with Chaoshan characteristic sand tea sauce.

Shantou beef balls, as a famous Chaoshan snack, have a history of nearly a hundred years. Generally, it can be divided into beef balls and beef tendon balls: beef balls are made of pure fresh meat, with tender meat and crisp taste; Beef tendon pills are made by adding tender tendons to beef to make it more fragrant, elastic, crisp and tender. There is soup in the pills and the juice is delicious.

After the improvement of Chaoshan people, Hakka Niuwan became a famous snack in Chaoshan, which made Niuwan shine on you and became famous at home and abroad until it was named "Chinese famous snack", but it still belonged to Chaoshan people.