Chaozhou cuisine, referred to as Chaozhou cuisine. Its cooking has the characteristics of Lingnan culture, and the biggest feature is that seafood is the mainstay, paying attention to freshness.

The main cooking methods are: stewing, frying, frying, burning, boiling (steaming), frying, soaking, buckling, washing and pouring. Its Chinese style and stew make it fragrant, stir-fry makes it crisp and smooth, and boiling, washing, soaking and pouring can keep its original flavor.

Chaozhou cuisine has a wide range of materials and has the characteristics of "three more":

First, there are many aquatic products. Most of them are sea people. Fish, shrimp, clams and clams have always been the main ingredients of Chaozhou cuisine and can be cooked into many famous dishes.

Second, vegetarian dishes have diverse styles and unique features. It is made of meat. When eating, you can see the food, but not the meat. It is made of vegetarian dishes and meat, which makes it achieve the situation of "three flavors, three flavors", making the vegetables soft and rotten, full of meat and delicious vegetarian. There are dozens of famous products, such as thick mushroom mustard, glass cabbage, national security cuisine and so on, which are the representatives of vegetarian dishes in Cantonese cuisine.

Third, there are many varieties of sugar beet and special materials. Sweet potato, taro, pumpkin, ginkgo, water chestnut, lotus seeds, oranges, pineapples and beans are commonly used, and meat such as fat pig and pork belly can also be made into first-class famous dishes. Sweet and greasy plants are suitable, and representative works include melon and taro paste, sweet lotus seeds, mutton roasted ginkgo, sweet wrinkled fried meat and so on. Chaozhou cuisine is especially good at cooking seafood, such as lobster cooked in open hearth, mandarin duck and crab cooked in cream, braised shark's fin, red (fire) sea cucumber, etc., all of which are mainly fresh aquatic products and have a fresh, gloomy but not greasy taste. Another example is stewed eel with black ears, clear soup with crab balls and so on. The soup is delicious and keeps its original flavor. Beets in Chaozhou cuisine are more distinctive, such as fried meat with sweet wrinkles, wrinkled skin, soft and rotten meat and sweet.

The production of Chaozhou cuisine pays attention to knife work and is neat and beautiful. While paying attention to color, taste and fragrance, it also intends to pursue pleasing to the eye in modeling. All kinds of dishes, such as bamboo shoots, radishes or potatoes, can be carved into all kinds of flowers and birds to be used as decorations or food mats, forming a colorful art of dishes.

Chaozhou cuisine also pays more attention to seasoning. All kinds of dishes must be served with saucers. For example, raw lobster must be served with orange oil. Raw cooking crabs must be accompanied by Jiang Mo vinegar; Dry roasted goose must be served with mustard in plum sauce; Stewed eel and water fish must be accompanied by red soy sauce. There are many sauces and dishes, which are spectacular.

The banquet of Chaozhou cuisine is unique. Banquet 12 style dishes, with two soup dishes and a salty and dessert center. The dishes are exquisite and colorful. If it is a festive occasion, such as birthday, wedding, full moon, opening a shop, there must be two beets, one is the first dish and the other is the end of the table. Sweet head and sweet tail, commonly known as "sweet head and sweet tail", means a happy life, and the sweeter the days are from beginning to end. Between banquets, in order to help digestion, fat removal and hangover, you have to keep up with several cups of kungfu tea.

This is the unique expression of Chaoshan food culture. With the distribution of chaozhou people around the world and the widespread appearance of Chaozhou restaurants, Chaozhou cuisine is increasingly favored at home and abroad.

The 20 famous snacks in Chaozhou are Mother Duck Year, Chaozhou Mo Dou Pill, Chaozhou Hand Hammer Beef Pill, Crispy, Chaozhou Spring Cake, Oyster Roast (Crispy), Gaotang Zhacai, Gusu Xiangfu, Spiced Olive, Plum Blossom Dumplings, Shangtang Beef, Jindu Brand Kimchi King, Lianxiang Pig Nest, Glutinous Rice Peach, Salt Water, Splendid Nestle and so on.

◇ 23 famous dishes in Chaozhou: braised pork ribs, crystal lobster, roasted with open fire, Hanjiang flowers, boiled conch, butterfly platter, abalone in garden, assorted wax gourd cup, carp yue longmen, braised sea cucumber, golden turtle hatching eggs, official swallow of hibiscus, shark's fin stewed with black-bone chicken, autumn chrysanthemum in garden, golden bamboo shoots and frog soup, and ginkgo whip flower.