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Chaoshan snacks review
There have always been two attitudes towards eating. The first is "eat well". "Eat well" means to be full and nutritious to meet people's physiological needs. "Delicious" means paying attention to the taste of food, which is a kind of enjoyment and belongs to the spiritual level. Snacks are delicious food. What is a snack? Snacks are snacks other than meals, that is, "snacks". They only touch their hearts, not their stomachs. In the face of snacks other than dinner, you can choose to eat or not. You don't have to care about quantity and quality, as long as it's delicious. From this point of view, pure food should be snacks and the like.

In the past, Chaoshan people used to greet people with "eat well", which showed that eating was a problem at that time. Nowadays, not many people greet others like this. With the progress of the times, we have basically solved the problem of food and clothing. People are not satisfied with filling their stomachs, but want to eat more tastefully and emotionally. Therefore, it is a fashionable topic to talk about consumption after food and clothing, snacks and food.

Chaoshan is one of the famous snack areas. Many snacks are not only loved by local people, but also popular in other places. Eight Chaoshan snacks were awarded the title of "Chinese Famous and Excellent Snacks" at the National Famous and Excellent Snacks Variety Appraisal Meeting-"Chinese Famous and Excellent Snacks Commendation Meeting". Why are Chaoshan snacks so attractive? What are its characteristics? Born in poverty, naturally, naturally, countless local snacks or dim sum in our country were either born in the court or in the folk. Chaoshan snacks are almost all folk original and have been circulated among the people. This is determined by the fact that Chaoshan is located in the "corner of the country at the end of the province" in history, far from the national political center, the commercial society formed late and the social wealth was not high. Several Chaoshan snacks are hand-made: baked oyster in Xitianxiang, goose, pig's foot rice with big sister and rice dumplings with mother's palace. Which name is not simple and straightforward, and the local flavor is tangy.

Chaoshan snacks are rooted in the people. They are not attached to official culture and scholar-bureaucrat culture. Since their birth, they have spread among the people with a natural attitude, which conforms to the natural law of natural selection. Therefore, we can taste so much local snacks now. Simple materials and unique taste. Cantonese dim sum in this paragraph is famous for its foreign flavor, such as cream buns, egg tarts and barbecued pork buns. Shanghai snacks are famous for seafood, such as crab roe soup packets and minced fish spring rolls. Northern snacks are mainly pasta. Chaoshan snacks are nothing without rice. A word "Guo" in Chaoshan dialect summarizes the main raw materials of Chaoshan snacks. In the Chaoshan dictionary, "fruit" is explained like this, a kind of fruit with rice flour as the skin and stuffing. Leek steamed bun is called "rice-free steamed bun" because its skin is sweet potato powder and its stuffing is vegetables, which shows the position of rice in snacks. Earlier, the ancestors of Chaoshan moved south from the Central Plains to Chaoshan. According to the custom of ancestral home, pasta is the fruit of ancestor worship, and wheat is not produced in the south, so rice can only be used as fruit. This is the origin of "Guo". Later, the raw materials and practices of sacrificial food continued to innovate and develop, and people called all sacrificial packages "pots". Hipsters are really good at using rice as a snack. It can be a kind of raw material that is both skin and stuffing-"Bao Fan". If there is a snack called "Guo Tao" with glutinous rice flour as the skin and glutinous rice as the stuffing, glutinous rice can also be used as the material (glutinous rice is not greasy to eat). This snack is not boring, and it is very fragrant and delicious.

Chaoshan is rich in sweet potatoes, which are flat and cheap, and are also widely used in snacks. Sweet potato powder can be used as the skin of snacks, such as "crystal ball" and "leek cake" with sweet and salty stuffing. It can also be mixed with fruit and steamed into "potato", "taro" and "horseshoe". It can also be made into "cake baked sweet potato" and "sweet potato soup". Although sweet potato comes from humble origins, it is a big family in Chaoshan snacks.

Different from Shanghai and other coastal areas, Chaoshan snacks use less seafood, such as lobster, shark's fin and crab. One of the reasons is that the Chaoshan climate is hot and seafood is difficult to store. In addition, this is also caused by its civilian characteristics. All coastal areas are rich in oysters, but only Chaoshan is the place where oysters are made into delicious snacks-"roasted oysters". Its practice is also very simple, that is, sweet potato powder and oysters are mixed and fried into cakes, and duck eggs are poured on them, but the taste is extremely unique, crisp outside and soft inside, fragrant and tender, and it has become a famous snack.

Throughout Chaoshan snacks, vegetarian food is the main food, but there are few fish. Its material selection is simple, and most of them are common crops-rice, sweet potatoes and vegetables, but they have won people's favor with their unique pastoral flavor and are deeply loved by people from all walks of life because of their low price. The Chaoshan snacks in this paragraph are not "delicious" but "delicious" food. People should pay attention to their formal beauty while paying attention to their delicious food. Jiaozi balls are tied into sachets, peaches like jasper and crystal balls are also very elegant and interesting in appearance.

Form can't be eaten, but form can stimulate people's appetite, and hipsters have long understood the truth of "food". Pay attention to health and pursue fashion. The Chaoshan snacks in this paragraph advocate nature and pay attention to health. People don't have to worry about eating too much fat and calories while satisfying food addiction. As mentioned above, Chaoshan snacks are mainly vegetarian, and fish are rarely seen. Some snacks are also added with Chinese herbal medicines and become medicinal diets. Such as mousetraps, shops, etc. They are all snacks made of herbs, which is very in line with today's diet fashion. Not only that, the cooking method of Chaoshan snacks is also very scientific, more light and less spicy, more cooking and less frying. Hipsters also invented a way of cooking with oil, which is the most special cooking method I have ever seen. The method is to boil peanut oil with warm fire, then put the steamed snacks into it and cook it with slow fire until it is hot inside and outside. The snacks served on the plate taste like peanut oil, but they don't have the dry feeling of frying. It's really a must.

As the Chaoshan proverb says, "eat seasonal fruits" means that you should eat seasonal food. Seasonal food is not only delicious, but also can achieve the purpose of health preservation. For example, eating rats' shells and vegetable heads in the Spring Festival, eating gardenia in the Dragon Boat Festival and eating lotus seeds in Tomb-Sweeping Day are not only delicious, but also can clear away heat and fire, so as to achieve the purpose of "preventing seasonal diseases".

In recent years, Chaoshan snacks have been reformed and innovated in raw materials and shapes to meet the fashion demand. Add more kinds of fruits and vegetables to the raw materials, such as spinach, Euryale ferox, pumpkin pie, etc. The shape is getting smaller and smaller, so that people can taste more diverse foods without changing their food intake. Editor's Note on the Status Quo and Development of Chaoshan Snacks: At present, the status quo of Shantou Snack Market is diversified in business forms and complete in variety, with scattered outlets and appropriate concentration, which can basically meet the consumption demand of the local market. As far as business forms are concerned, one is a simple takeaway shop. It is operated by set meal stalls, snack bars, food stalls in vegetable markets and grocery stores. They provide customers with finished or semi-finished products, such as zongzi balls, steamed dumplings, crystal balls and so on. Now you can buy it home to eat. Meatballs, casserole, taro casserole, etc. To provide more semi-finished products for customers to take home for processing; The second is the form of take-away food. It is run by snack bars and time-honored snack bars. For example, beef ball snack bars all over the city are shops that make beef ball soup, beef ball kway teow and take-away beef balls. Time-honored "fragrance" snack bar and "Aixi" dry noodle shop are also this kind of business form; The other is a snack bar, which is mainly characterized by selling and eating now. For example, the Chaoshan snack buffet in the restaurant of China Travel Agency is free to choose 25 yuan for each person. On the other hand, Chaoxiangcheng is a snack supermarket. Nowadays, it is not difficult for local people to get together at home or outside and entertain foreign guests to taste Chaoshan snacks.

Although Chaoshan snacks are booming in Shantou, it is difficult for foreigners who have never been to Chaoshan to find Chaoshan snacks. After tasting Chaoshan snacks, many guests in Shantou praised the delicacy of Chaoshan snacks. However, when they want to buy some to take away, they often regret that the store can't provide convenient packaging. Cantonese cuisine, seaweed and northern snacks can often be seen in major supermarkets in Shantou, but local snacks are rare. However, Chaoshan snacks in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities are often not authentic enough. This shows that the product level of Chaoshan snacks is low, and many operators are still stuck in the traditional business model of small vendors and vendors, lacking modern marketing concepts, and the publicity, packaging and circulation channels are lagging behind, making it difficult to get out of Chaoshan, enter foreign markets, broaden business channels and form scale effects.

Secondly, the business philosophy of most time-honored Chaoshan snacks is outdated, and they are unwilling or afraid to add gold and silver to the old brands. For example, the time-honored snacks such as Laoma Meng Zongqiu, Aixi Dry Noodles and Xiangxiang (White Peach Blossom), which once won the title of "Chinese Famous Snacks", have simple faces, single varieties and outdated management methods. As a result, the sales area is getting narrower and narrower, and some of them are even unsustainable. How to correctly handle the relationship between inheriting tradition and reform and innovation is an urgent problem for these time-honored brands. "Fuhecheng Beef Restaurant" was a famous snack bar in 1990s. It mainly sells beef series snacks, such as beef hot pot, beef balls and beef ball kway teow. In order to expand its business and occupy the market, 1998, the store took the lead in registering its name in the State Trademark Office and created a famous brand. At the same time, it changed its business model and expanded its storefront, with hot pot in winter and air conditioning in summer. Adopt flexible and diverse management methods such as selling and eating now, and delivering food to your door. Due to market demand, business is booming. In just a few years, six chain stores have been opened one after another, and one has become a leader in Shantou snack bar. Its business model is worth learning.

Chaoshan snacks were only developed as a food category in recent years. Through the continuous excavation, promotion, publicity and promotion of catering industry, tourism industry and media, the commercial market has developed steadily and its popularity has been improved. Chaoshan snacks have won this honor in the national famous snack competition for two consecutive years, and so far, eight Chaoshan snacks have won the golden signboard of "Chinese famous snacks". It is reported that in June 5438+February this year, the third Chinese Famous Snacks Commendation Conference and Chinese Famous Snacks Culture Festival will be held in Shantou, and the ninth Chaoshan Food Festival will be held this year, including our forum "Eating in Shantou Chaoshan Food and the World". These activities will promote the innovative development of Chaoshan snacks and open up broader prospects for promoting Chaoshan cuisine. As a famous Chaoshan snack, this beef ball has a history of nearly a hundred years in Shantou. Beef balls can be divided into beef balls and beef tendon balls. Beef balls taste tender and smooth. Beef tendon pills add some tender tendons to beef, which is a bit chewy.

The traditional production method is to use fresh beef legs wrapped in meat as materials, remove tendons and cut into pieces, put them on a big case board, hammer beef and ham into paste with two special square hammer knives (weighing about 3kg), add a small amount of snow powder, refined salt, fine fish sauce and monosodium glutamate, hammer for 65,438+05min, then put them in a big bowl and add chopped square fish, white meat and monosodium glutamate.

It is said that good beef balls can jump when thrown on the ground. In the past, beef balls were all made by hand, so this kind of performance may be held. Because they are all manual operations, the cost is higher than the mechanism. After the appearance of pill machine in the early 1980s, the traditional way of making pills by hand became more and more rare.

With the increasing demand of foreigners and old Shantou people who come to Shantou to taste the hand-made beef balls that can still play high, this makes the delicious hand-made beef balls reappear in the rivers and lakes.

When eating, cook the original soup and beef balls to the initial boiling point (don't boil the water too much when cooking, otherwise the beef balls will not be smooth), add proper amount of monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, pepper and celery, and serve with sand tea sauce or Chili sauce. Many people eat beef balls dipped in Chili sauce, but the local specialty sand tea sauce is the most authentic.

Beef balls can also be baked. When barbecuing, cut the beef balls in half, coat them with sauce and honey, and bake them until they are done.

Taro pill

Because the crust is cooked layer by layer, its skin and flesh are distinct, and because curry and eggs are added, its color is bright yellow, delicious and beautiful.

Mom said there should be a bowl for grass.

There are many ways to eat Chaoshan kway teow. There is a dry fishing method. Because oil and sauce need to be added after fishing, it is called "stuffing" in Chaoshan dialect, and fishing kway teow is called "stuffing kway teow" in Chaoshan. How to eat it is to put the kway teow in a boiling soup pot and cook it, scoop it up and drain it, pour it into a bowl and mix it with peanut butter, sand tea sauce, lard, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce and Zhejiang vinegar. , with cooked pork slices and lettuce. The kway teow is smooth and soft, with a strong smell of peanut butter and sand tea sauce.