However, many dishes/snacks with Chaoshan characteristics eventually evolved into fast food mode, such as:
Longjiang pig's foot rice: originated from Huilai and spread all over the country. Rice with salted pig's trotters. The side dishes are usually pickles or shredded sauerkraut/salted tofu/salted eggs, and the soup is mostly meatballs, seaweed/lettuce. As far as I know, Longjiang pork knuckle rice is the best brand chain in Chaoshan at present! It's much more delicious than chaoshan beef meatball, because beef jerky is hard to be authentic, so you should use kway teow as a foil. Pig's trotters are mainly made and distributed, and ingredients can be seen everywhere. If you master the method, you can make authentic Longjiang trotters.
Stir-fried rice cake: Rice cake is a kind of food similar to rice cake, which is made of rice paste, but its viscosity/rice flavor is better than that of rice cake. When frying, add shredded bamboo shoots/bean sprouts/kale and other vegetables, and pour some special marinade.
Rice rolls: rice rolls is an exotic product from Chaoshan. It should have originated from the Pearl River Delta, but it has made its own characteristics. Among them, puning bean is the most distinctive. Whether rice rolls is good or not depends on ingredients and gravy. In other places, Chaozhou rice rolls basically uses ordinary Chaoshan brine, but rice rolls in Puning has a special kind of brine, with many local tyrants, and the starting price that rice rolls can buy is even fiercer.
Dried bean rice: basically only Puning has it, which is Puning dried bean curd, featuring Puning dried bean curd;
Hongyang Kuo Juice/Guolong Kuo Juice: Kuo Juice is similar to kway teow soup, but the skin of the Kuo Juice is spread directly with rice pulp, which is easier to digest and has a stronger flavor than the kway teow, which is cooked by stir-frying. Chaoshan is full of broad juice.