Chaozhou-Shantou cuisine pays the most attention to fresh and original ingredients. When you arrive in Chaoshan, you must not miss the delicious food:

1. Steamed and raw salted seafood

Seafood is steamed, frozen and eaten directly with garlic oil or Puning bean paste, which is very refreshing. Shrimp, crab and shellfish are basically marinated directly, and vinegar, garlic and special marinated sauce are served as soon as they are mixed, especially blood stasis, but the original ecology and sweetness of seafood completely overflow the tip of the tongue.

2. Chaozhou-Shantou pot-stewed flavor

Chaozhou-Shantou pot-stewed flavor is a must, such as braised large intestine, braised pork belly, braised goose liver, braised palm wings, etc., and the rich and attractive brine fragrance can be smelled throughout the corridor.

The lion-headed goose is huge. A big goose can weigh up to 14 kilograms. The meat of the goose is coarse and worthless. It can only eat the goose head and neck, so it is expensive. However, a goose's head is cut off from the goose's neck and there is a whole dish. The goose's crown and cheeks are rich in collagen.

3. chaoshan beef meatball

Beef balls, it should be said that there are pork balls, fish meatballs and other balls with special elasticity. Everyone knows that they come from Chaoshan. Real hand-made, each meatball has been tempered, refreshing and pure meat flavor, making a bowl of meatball soup, the soup is extremely fresh and sweet.

4. Chaoshan beef hotpot

once again reflects Chaoshan people's persistent pursuit of fresh food. Usually, the cows are slaughtered in the early hours of the morning and sold on the same day, and the beef is cooked on the spot, that is, the slices are rinsed immediately. This kind of meat ingredients is not greasy, and the umami flavor is directly rinsed to a new height.

5. Flesh

Flesh is a unique traditional snack in Chaoshan, which is covered with crispy rotten skin and filled with pork belly, horseshoe and square fish. When you take a bite, the fragrance is rich, and the crispy smell of rotten skin and minced meat is melted into the sweetness of horseshoes.

6. Chaoshan glutinous rice

is a traditional food with distinctive features in Chaoshan area. Rice and potato flour products are snacks, which are glutinous and tough, and the production process is also very laborious. Products with leather bag stuffing, such as hearts, leeks, bamboo shoots, rats, etc.; There are also fillings mixed together, such as: Caitouguo, Shuitouguo, and Rice-free Guo. There are many kinds of sweet and salty glutinous rice cakes, such as glutinous rice juice, kway teow, hair glutinous rice cakes and grass glutinous rice cakes.

7. Chaozhou dessert

Chaozhou used to be the largest sugar producing area in China, so there are countless Chaozhou desserts, with special methods and no taste. The most popular are sweet potato taro with sugar sand, sticky sweet potato taro with sugar coating and powder, sweet but not greasy, and must be signed every time.