Chaozhou cuisine is called "chilling" in Hong Kong. It is an important part of the traditional diet culture of the Han nationality, and Chaozhou cuisine can be traced back to the Han dynasty. After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, influenced by the cooking skills of the Central Plains, Chaozhou cuisine has developed rapidly. Today, Chaozhou cuisine has developed into one of the famous dishes in China with unique Lingnan cultural characteristics and is well-known at home and abroad. Cantonese cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. In 21, Chaozhou cuisine represented Cantonese cuisine at the Shanghai World Expo, and in 212, Chaozhou cuisine represented Chinese cuisine at the Yeosu World Expo in South Korea. In August, 214, Chaozhou was successfully selected as the "214 China City List-the most China food city recommended by global netizens" sponsored by China Radio International Online [3]. Chaozhou cuisine is famous for its high price, exquisite selection of materials, meticulous knife work, diverse cooking methods, and deliberate pursuit of color, flavor and taste. It is known as the highest-end cuisine in China. The biggest feature of Chaozhou cuisine is to rely on seafood. The main cooking methods are: stewing, stewing, frying, cooking (steaming), frying, baking, exploding, cooking, soaking, deducting, marinating, smoking, pouring and burning.

ten characteristics

Chaozhou cuisine has a wide variety and unique flavor.

1. Be good at cooking seafood;

2, depressed but not greasy;

3, vegetarian dishes;

4. The soup is delicious and keeps its original flavor;

5, a wide range of materials;

6, the knife is exquisite;

7. Pay attention to modeling;

8, pure taste;

9. Pay attention to eating

delicious Chaozhou casserole porridge

for treatment and health preservation;

1, supplemented by various condiments (sauces).

It pays attention to color, taste, fragrance, shape, utensils and sauce, and has the characteristics of clear, light, fresh, tender, skillful and elegant.

In addition, the Chaozhou banquet is also unique. For example, there are 12 dishes for a big banquet, including one salty and one dessert. There are two beets at a wedding banquet, one is sweet at the head, the other is sweet at the end, and the first one is sweet, and the last one is thick and sweet, which means a happy life. From the beginning to the end, the sweeter it is. There are two soup (soup) dishes, and Kung Fu tea is interspersed between them to relieve boredom and increase appetite. And so on, which is quite different from Guangzhou cuisine and Dongjiang cuisine.

Chaozhou cuisine pays special attention to seasoning with sauce. Different dishes, with different sauces and sauces, are salty, sweet and sour, and each pays attention to it. Among the sauces, Nanjiang, Plum Paste, Fish Sauce, Red Soy Sauce and Sanzang Sauce are especially Chaozhou specialties. There are many sauces and saucers of Chaozhou cuisine, which are a great sight.

Chaozhou cuisine not only pays attention to color, taste and fragrance, but also aims at pleasing to the eye in shape. Chefs use bamboo shoots, radishes, potatoes, etc. to carve various flower-and-bird shapes as decorations or food mats, forming a unique "color plate" art. Chaozhou cuisine has its own banquet, with 12 dishes, including salty and dessert. There must be two beets at the wedding banquet, which is called "sweet at the head and tail" In order to carry forward Chaozhou food culture, make Chaozhou cuisine face the whole country and go to the world, and make people really appreciate the elegance of the southern food capital. Friends far away, at this moment, you may feel the faint scent, this burst of fragrance! It will take your thoughts to the picturesque Chaozhou, and the delicious Chaozhou cuisine and the hospitality of chaozhou people will surely make you feel relaxed and forget to return.

Chaozhou cuisine is characterized by being good at cooking vegetarian dishes with fruits and vegetables as raw materials. For vegetables and fruits, coarse ingredients and fine cooking, they are light and delicious, and rich in nutrition, such as national protection dishes, horseshoe mud, thick mustard greens, sweet potatoes baked with sugar, etc., all of which are praised by gourmets. Chaozhou cuisine is famous not only for its rich materials, but also for its exquisite production. The processing methods are diversified according to the characteristics of raw materials, such as frying, frying, cooking, frying, stewing, roasting, baking, marinating, smoking, soaking, rolling and mixing, and the knives are exquisite. Diversified production methods have formed the flavor characteristics of Chaozhou cuisine.