Dongguan is a city with a long history and a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. Dongguan is rich in products. What are the specialties in Dongguan? Come and have a look!

Dongguan specialty one: Shijie longan

Longan in Shijie is one of the specialties of Dongguan. Longan has a long history of planting in Dongguan and is widely distributed. Dongguan enjoys superior geographical environment, abundant sunshine, abundant rainfall and fertile soil. The produced longan has large fruit shape, thin skin and thick meat, sweet and crisp, and rich nutrition. Longan can be eaten raw, but it is often dried or roasted with fire to process Jackie Chan's dry eyes.

Dongguan specialty 2: Dongguan sausage

Dongguan sausage is a traditional specialty of Dongguan, Guangdong. In the folk, it is known as "Dongguan sausage, thick and short", "Guangdong sausage is Dongguan, and Dongguan sausage is hemp". Founded in the late Southern Song Dynasty, it has a history of more than 800 years. The casing is made of fresh pig casing processed that day. Chop the casing with 8:2 lean meat and fat meat, mix in white sugar, salt, special soy sauce and monosodium glutamate, and sprinkle authentic Shanxi Fenjiu before entering the intestine. After binding, it is naturally air-dried to moderate, that is, it is put into a fire cabinet and baked with slow fire until it is transparent and dry. Therefore, Dongguan sausage has the characteristics of unique flavor, bright color, crisp, mellow, salty and beautiful, and has become the top grade of Guangdong sausage, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad.

Dongguan specialty 3: Dongguan litchi

There are many varieties of litchi in Dongguan, mainly cinnamon and glutinous rice paste. The fruit color of Guiwei litchi is bright red, nearly spherical, the cracked fruit peel is convex, the cracks are obvious, the suture lines are obvious, and the crack peaks are sharp, less than 60 per kilogram. Small nucleus and much degeneration; The pulp is thick and milky white, crisp, sweet and juicy, with sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. Dongguan litchi production area is located in the southeast of Guangdong province, with complex terrain, mainly distributed in mountainous areas, hills and Putian areas in the east, south and middle. The terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. The landform is mainly hilly platform and alluvial plain, with deep and loose soil layer, good air permeability, strong water and fertilizer conservation ability and rich organic matter and mineral elements.

Dongguan specialty 4: Humen cream crab

Humen gypsum crab is one of the seafood specialties in Dongguan. Humen is rich in blue crabs, which belong to sea crabs. Green shell crabs are divided into plaster crabs and meat crabs. Meat crab refers to male crab, and cream crab is female crab. As the name implies, the meat crab is big and fleshy, which is suitable for ginger frying. Cream crab meat is less, but the cream is crisp, and steamed cream crab tastes best. Humen has produced crabs since ancient times, and the local specialty Humen cream crab has become the best crab because of its large cream. There are many ways to make cream crabs, such as steaming, frying ginger and onion. The most famous Humen crab cake is almost a must for people who come here.

Dongguan specialty five: Baisha oil duck

Duck with white sand oil is a local classic traditional dish in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, and also a special dish in Humen. Oil duck is preserved duck, which is called' salted duck' in northern China. According to legend, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Humen Baisha set up a salt port. Many officers and men are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they are good at raising ducks. They like the pure rivers here, and after leaving the army, they raise ducks by the stream. People who retired from Nan 'an, Jiangxi are good at making preserved ducks. The abundant water and food here provided them with conditions, so they combined the experience of raising ducks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang with the production skills of Nan 'an to create a unique' Baisha Oil Duck'. Baisha oil duck is characterized by fat, white, thick, sweet and mellow, fat but not greasy, fragrant but not vulgar.