Dragon Boat Rice means a year of good weather and good harvest.

Dragon Boat Rice is a traditional folk custom in Guangdong Province. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, after paddling the dragon boat, they will organize to eat dragon boat rice together. The dishes of the Dragon Boat Rice usually include roast pork, white cut chicken, goose, duck, shrimp, fish and other Cantonese flavors, and all of them have auspicious meanings. In the minds of people in the water towns, eating dragon boat rice has a good meaning and signifies a year of good weather and good harvests.

Dragon boat rice, in the beginning, is to participate in the dragon boat race rowers to provide a full stomach food, to replenish their physical strength. And then, gradually evolved into the whole village in the Dragon Boat Festival to organize the whole village **** get together, enjoy the "Dragon Boat Rice", drink and eat delicious food, celebrate the festival, lively and lively, but also to send people's wishes for a better life.

Dragon Boat Rice specialties:

1, Crispy Roast Pork

Crispy Roast Pork, is a kind of Cantonese barbecue, generally use the pig's five-flower brisket for the barbecue, the skin is crunchy, fat and thin, full of flavor, is one of the old Canton's very favorite dishes. Crispy roast pork can be cut and eaten directly, or add some celery, scallions, leeks, fried, the taste is also very good.

2, white cut chicken

"No chicken no feast" is the Cantonese in large banquets, therefore, the menu of the Dragon Boat Rice, there must be a white cut chicken. Chicken has chicken flavor is the highest appreciation of the Cantonese for chicken, a smooth skin and meat of the white cut chicken, dipped in some ginger paste bite, teeth and cheeks.

3, steamed river fish

When it comes to fish, everyone will think of the good intentions of the year, and a fresh and delicious steamed fish, but also an indispensable dish in the dragon boat rice. In the Pearl River Delta waterfront region, steamed fish is usually river fish, such as Anhui fish, crucian carp, river perch, etc. It has a delicious flavor and smooth skin.