Chaoshan cuisine, or Chaozhou cuisine for short. Its cooking is characterized by Lingnan culture, and its most important feature is that it lends itself to seafood and focuses on freshness and rawness.

The main cooking methods are: (fire Wen), stewing, frying, deep-frying, burning, burning, cooking (steaming), stir-frying, bubbling, buckling, clearing and dripping and so on more than 10 kinds of methods. Among them, Wen and stew to make flavorful, stir-fry to make crisp and smooth, cooking, clear, soak, drizzle can maintain the original flavor.

Chaosu cuisine with a wide range of materials, with "three more" characteristics:

One is more aquatic products. Most of them are taken from the sea, fish, shrimp, mussels, clams, etc. has been the main ingredients of Chaozhou cuisine, can be cooked into many famous dishes.

The second is a vegetarian dish style and unique. It is cooked through the meat and become, on the table when you see vegetables do not see meat, is a vegetarian meat to do, so that it reaches the "taste to make three out of the flavor, no taste to make three into the" situation, so that the green vegetables are soft and rotten, not rice, full of meat flavor, fresh and tasty, vegetarian and not fasting. There are dozens of famous products such as thick mushroom mustard, glass cabbage and guardian of the country, which are the representatives of vegetarian dishes in Guangdong cuisine.

Third, there are many varieties of beets and special materials. Sweet potato, taro, pumpkin, ginkgo, water chestnut, lotus seed, citrus orange, pineapple and beans and other plants are certainly commonly used, and fat pork, meat and other meat can also be made into a top quality dishes. With plants to do the sweet and greasy appropriate, representative works are golden melon taro puree, sweet lotus seed, lamb roasted white fruit, sweet wrinkles fried meat and so on. Chiu Chow is especially good at cooking seafood, such as water chest, raw cooking lobster, cooking mandarin ducks crab, red stewed shark's fin, red (fire Wen) sea cucumber, etc., are fresh aquatic products as the main raw material, fresh flavor, lush and not greasy. Another example is stewed eel, crab balls in clear soup, etc. The soup dishes are freshly stewed, keeping the original flavor. Chaozhou cuisine has more characteristics of sweet dishes, such as sweet wrinkles fried meat, its skin wrinkles, meat soft and sweet, sweet flavor.

The production of Teochew cuisine focuses on the knife work, neatly and beautifully put together. In pay attention to the color, taste and aroma at the same time, there is an intention to pursue a pleasing to the eye in the shape. Can use a variety of dishes such as bamboo shoots, radish or potatoes, etc., carved into a variety of flowers and birds and so on, as a garnish or vegetable mat, forming a color plate art.

Teochew also pay more attention to seasoning, all kinds of dishes on the table, must be accompanied by a sauce dish, such as raw cooking lobster must be accompanied by orange oil; raw cooking crab must be accompanied by ginger vinegar; dry roasted goose goose must be accompanied by plum paste mustard; stewed eel, stewed water fish must be accompanied by red soy sauce. There are many different sauces on the plate, which is a great sight.

The feast of Chaozhou cuisine has its own style. The feast likes to use 12 types of dishes, there are two soup dishes and salty and sweet snacks each one, the amount of food is small but refined, colorful and colorful. If it is for a happy occasion, such as a birthday, marriage, the birth of a child, the full moon and the opening of a store and other auspicious banquets, there must be two sweet dishes, one for the first course and one for the last. The first course is sweet, and the last course is sweet, commonly known as "head sweet, tail sweet", which means a happy life, and the days are more and more sweet from the beginning to the end. Between banquets, in order to help digestion, fat and alcohol, but also successively followed by several Chaozhou work tea.

This is a unique manifestation of the food culture of Chaoshan, with the distribution of the Teochew people around the world and the general emergence of Teochew cuisine, Teochew cuisine at home and abroad is increasingly favored.

◇ Teochew 20 famous snacks They are Duck Mother Nian, Teochew Murdock Balls, Teochew Beef Balls, Patty Shells, Teochew Spring Cakes, Oyster Roasts (Crispy), Preserved Vegetables in Gaodang, Gusu Fragrant Preserved Vegetables, Five-Spice Olives in Oil, Plum Blossom Dumplings, Beef in Soup, Jindu Brand King of Savory Vegetables, Lotus Scented Pork Nests, Glutinous Rice Peaches, Salted Water, Fairview Bird's Nests, Turnip Crisp, Kaiyuan Shanxue, Baked Crispy Salad Rolls, and Baked Crispy Chicken Wings.

◇ 23 famous dishes of Teochew Braised Shark's Fin, Crystal Lobster, Burnt in the Oven, Han River Flower, Scalding Sea Whelk, Butterfly Platter, Abalone Chrysanthemum, Assorted Winter Melon, Carp Leaping Dragon Gate, Braised Sea Cucumber, Golden Turtle Hatching Eggs, Hibiscus Bird's Nest, Stewed Shark's Fin with Black Cockerel, Autumn Chrysanthemum, Golden Bamboo Shoots with Clams Soup, Whipflower with White Fruit, Eel in Orange Sauce, Swallow with Crab Roe in Jade Marble, Unicorn Fish in Millenium, Bamboo Trees, Roasted Eel of Teochew, Marinated Goose in Xikou, and Eel with Chiuzhou Sauce. Chiu Chow Marinated Goose and Chicken with Tea Scent.