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.
Recommended dining place
Seafood: If you want to eat authentic seafood, food stalls are the most economical and delicious. Most of the seafood there is alive, fresh and hot. In Chaozhou dialect, Feng Chun food stall, Liyumen food stall, Xinxing restaurant and Xiwan restaurant are all famous for cooking seafood. Typical seafood dishes are: Chaozhou cuttlefish balls, Yuanyang cream crabs, open-hearth conch, oil-soaked squid and so on.
Kung fu tea: After dinner, you can stop to drink Kung fu tea. When you come to Chaozhou, you must try kung fu tea. There are many places to drink tea at night, such as Xiaoyao Teahouse at the northern end of Chaozhou Avenue and Teahouse at the top of Jinshan Mountain. Xiaoyao Teahouse is built on a large-scale lotus pond with winding cloisters, all made of bamboo. People drink tea by the pond, surrounded by fragrant lotus flowers. Jinshan is located on the edge of Hanjiang River, and there is a famous scenic spot in Chaozhou, "Beige Buddha Lantern". As night falls, I sit on the side of the mountain, with the calm flowing water of the Han River and occasional fish lights at my feet. The scenery is infinitely good.
Snacks: To eat authentic snacks, you can only go to some stalls in the old city, represented by Hu Rongquan in the north of the city, where there are spring cakes, duck mother rice cakes and white cakes, and there are salt water and grass on the flowing stalls. Wherever you go at night, you can see food stalls, beef balls, Deng Tang fried dough sticks, phoenix fried tofu, raw fish, fried oysters and so on. Chaozhou is the economic center connecting western Fujian, southern Jiangxi and eastern Guangdong. Chaozhou orange and Fenghuang tea have a history of hundreds of years. Chaozhou embroidery, embroidery and ceramics are famous handicrafts with a long history.
Driven by the four pillar industries of electronics, clothing, ceramics and food, Chaozhou has developed a large number of famous and excellent new products, and "trendy goods" enjoy a high reputation in domestic and foreign markets.