Returning sand is a cooking method in Chaozhou cuisine, which melts white sugar into syrup, then puts the fried raw materials into syrup, and when it cools and solidifies, the syrup on the outer layer of raw materials becomes frost. Because chaozhou people called white sugar sand sugar, returning sand sugar is to melt sand sugar into syrup, and then turn it into solid sugar powder after cooling, hence the name "returning sand".

Taro back to sand is the most famous Chaozhou snack, which is often used as a table snack at Chaozhou cuisine banquets. Taro back to sand is made of taro rich in starch and sugar through sand back, so it tastes especially smooth and sweet. Besides taro, sweet potato can also be used as a dish for returning to sand. Chaozhou people used to put taro and sweet potato on the same plate. Because taro is white and sweet potato is golden yellow, it is called "golden pillar and silver pillar", which can also be called "happiness from now on"

Sugar onion cake is a Chaoshan snack. From Futan Village, Chendian Town, Chaonan District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, it is called Yatan, so many people call the sugar onion cake "Yatan sugar onion". It is wrapped in a round pancake bag, wrapped in long strips of sugar onions, and the shape is very consistent with the name. Sugar onion is long, with many through holes in the middle, like several onion holes stuck together side by side, and the color is white, so it is called sugar onion. Pancake skin is baked in the oven, and it is also a white, thin round cake. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the sugar onions and wrap them in pancakes.

Sugar onion (also known as onion sugar): It is made of white sugar and maltose through special processing. A small amount of flour is mixed with sugar. After cooking for a long time, gradually remove water to make it into slurry, then refine it repeatedly to make it tough and brittle, and then make it into a rectangle with onion holes in it. Sugar onions break easily. Sugar onions are crisp and sweet. Compared with other famous tea foods, sugar onion has its special advantages and unique local characteristics.

Spread a pancake, put a piece of sugar onion, sprinkle with peanuts and sesame powder, and wrap the pancake, and you can enjoy a famous Chaoshan delicious specialty with Chaoshan characteristics.

Cake roll with sugar onion, also known as sugar onion tin foil cake, is a kind of Chaoshan food that is about to disappear, a sweet smell that people will even miss in their sleep. Now, with all kinds of modern refined candy flooding the market today, let's revisit this ancient local candy with the wings of folk songs!

Let's talk about sugar onions first. The main raw material for making sugar onions is white sugar, which should be boiled in a pot, cooled to a suitable temperature, and then beaten while it is hot. The action of pulling sugar is very similar to that of Lamian Noodles in the north, except that sugar is tough and needs a fixed end to borrow money. When I was a child, I used nails nailed to wooden poles. Every time I hang a candy bar between my nails, after stretching, the two strands are hung together. Repeatedly flapping like this, the sugar constantly contains air until it becomes a white hollow rectangular candy. Then cut it into sections with your little finger, and it becomes crisp and sweet "white sugar onion". Sugar onion, as its name implies, is a kind of candy with onion holes and white as onion.

Sugar onions taste crisp and loose, melt in the mouth and don't stick to your teeth. It is really delicious. The fly in the ointment is that sugar residue will always fall off when eating, so there are tin foil cakes to roll sugar onions.

When it comes to tin foil cakes, perhaps many people will think of the kind of pancakes used for stuffing when eating Beijing roast duck. However, the tin foil cakes in Chaoshan are relatively thin, about a dozen of which are equivalent to the thickness of a Beijing pancake. Chaoshan foil cake is not rolled with a rolling pin, but made in a special way. The tin foil cake maker holds a thin dough in one hand, wipes it back to the bottom of the hot pot, and the thin layer stuck on the pot solidifies into a cake, so the tin foil cake is lifted and stacked by the other hand. Wipe and collect, expose and play, very fast.