The most famous food street in Chaozhou is Paifang Street.

Visitors who come to Chaozhou for the first time will definitely come to Paifang Street in the center of the ancient city. Paifang Street is a unique cultural landscape in China, but it is not only for sightseeing. In the alley extending from Paifang Street, there are many delicious shops frequented by surrounding residents.

Chaoshan oysters are delicious, fat and tender, and the full pearl oysters are embedded in the deep-fried flour paste, and the fish sauce dipped in them adds to the umami flavor of the oysters. With a bowl of fried cake, crisp bean sprouts and dense collision cake, enjoy a rich taste.

In this Chaozhou time-honored pastry shop, you can not only taste traditional cakes and teas such as fermented bean cake, mung bean cake and chicken cake, but also preserves such as Chaozhou Sanbao as accompanying gifts. The real price and authentic taste are the thoughts that chaozhou people, who lives in a foreign country, often remembers.

Cultural value

According to engineer Qiu Chuangping, the main designer of this memorial archway, among the 22 restored archways, 18 were built from 1517 to 1637 in Ming Dynasty and 4 from 1736 to 1785 in Qing Dynasty, with a calendar of 268 years. The contents of the archway include Zhuangyuan Square, No.2 Square, Shangshu Square, Zhushi Square, Dazong Square, Sijinshi Square, Qijun Square, Mu Tianren Ruifang, an 88-year-old scholar, Kejia Jimei Square, and Jinbang Lianfang Square, where both father and son are scholars.

The archway has 12 columns, 8 columns and 4 columns, which can resist an earthquake of magnitude 8, so as to achieve the goal of "no damage in a big earthquake, no collapse in a small earthquake". At the same time, on the basis of extensive collection of the original components of the archway, * * * used 42 original components, mainly including the plaques of three workshops, namely, "Seven Joys", "Giving brocade and emphasizing light" and "Wood and Heaven", as well as imperial edicts, bluestone carvings, reliefs and other components.