If you want to know one side's soil and water, it is better to know one side's diet first and feel the local culture and customs through taste buds.

Wu's sweet dregs

Boiling sweet dregs has a long history and is very popular in Zhanjiang. Mother confinement, there must be sweet and bad, full moon and birthday. When guests come in, they will serve a bowl of sweet and bad before cooking. Historically, the sweet grain produced by Wushi in Leizhou City is the most famous. The production method of sweet glutinous rice: cook the first-grade glutinous rice into rice, then add wine cake and mix well, and put it in a relatively sealed container for fermentation. If it is at a certain temperature in winter, it is fermented for 36 to 48 hours.

potato flour

In hot summer, Zhanjiang people always want that bowl of "potato powder rope". Potato vermicelli in Zhanjiang is the same food as potato vermicelli in other places. It is called "Suo" because Zhanjiang people are particularly good at cooking, making it slippery and eating it with a "Suo", so people call it potato vermicelli vividly. Boil sugar water, ice it, and add refreshing potato flour rope, which is an essential taste of Zhanjiang in summer.

Fried mackerel

As I told you just now, the fishery resources in Wushi are very rich, and the mackerel introduced to you here is just one of them. Mackerel is low in cholesterol and rich in trace elements such as DHA, protein, amino acids, calcium, iron and sodium. It also has dietotherapy effects such as refreshing and anti-aging. Regular consumption has a certain auxiliary effect on anemia, premature aging, malnutrition, postpartum weakness and neurasthenia. Cut mackerel into pieces, marinate it and fry it in oil, which makes people drool!

Pumpkin rice

Pumpkin can tonify the middle energizer and replenish qi. It is a good healthy food to cast pumpkin into strips and add some seasonings to cook with rice.

Taro rice

Cut taro into strips, fry it in oil, and then cook it with rice. It's especially delicious. Taro has certain medicinal and bond-keeping functions. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", taro "can expand the stomach and treat upset heat".

Radish rice

Cast radish into strips, add some ingredients, cook with rice, and eat it to moisten throat, smooth mouth and sweet mouth. People who go out have a greasy taste. Eating a bowl of radish rice can clear the stomach.

"clam leaf" rice

It is said that clam leaves have nourishing, cold-resistant and dampness-removing effects. In the difficult times of the past, only women who were confined to confinement could eat them. Now everyone can eat it, and the simple and popular name also proves that this is the local characteristic of Leizhou.

Sweet potato porridge

Locals especially like to eat sweet potato porridge on hot days. This kind of porridge can relieve summer heat and moisten the stomach, which can be said to be a local special diet. Sweet potato is a healthy coarse grain, which complements rice porridge.

Shuye cake

"Leaf cake", also known as "leaf cake", has green leaves and soft cake body, and the rich fragrance of peanuts, sesame seeds and shredded coconut blends together, making people want to eat more and more.

Water cake

The making of water cake is relatively simple, and it is a folk snack with a long history in Leizhou. Because water cakes are easy to make people full, the locals call them "water cakes".

Tian Ai _

Knead glutinous rice, glutinous rice, syrup, fresh Artemisia argyi and clear water into soft dough, make salty or sweet cakes with peanuts, sesame seeds, Rachel or shredded coconut as stuffing, and then cook them in a pot. In the past, it was poor people's food, but now it has become local food.

Wushi Port is used to ebb and flow. Simple and industrious townspeople and simple and honest fishermen's life have injected human warmth into this harbor. Over time, the old harbor has lost its former beauty, but it is still in the rising sun, keeping a low-key guardian for people and things on this land.