Salty Shrimp A must-eat dish when visiting Shanwei is mantis shrimp.
The scientific name of mantis shrimp is tube shrimp, also known as piano shrimp.
Shrimp and crab legs, shaped like a centipede, with two pairs of antennae. The first pair is longer and sickle-shaped. The body is grayish gray and the tail segment is red.
Spring is the peak season for mantis shrimps. At this time, the mantis shrimps are plump and tender, with a strip of egg yolk in their meat. They are called "red mantis shrimps" and are the most delicious.
There are many types of barley in Shanwei, including pig intestine barley, heavy cake barley, turnip barley, potato starch barley, fried barley, Dingliu barley, Shengfan barley, duck blue barley, Tongpanjuan barley, hair barley, vegetable barley.
There are also various kinds of barley soup, glutinous rice balls, pointed rice balls, etc.
It’s really a dazzling array of things to look at.
Since the introduction of Leicha in the summer, it has been popular to eat Leicha in the rural town of Shanwei City.
Whenever relatives and friends come to visit, the hospitable Hailufeng farmers will immediately start making Leicha as a treat, which feels very cordial.
Leicha is also called salty tea.
Eating Leicha in midsummer can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, promote body fluids and moisturize the lungs, refresh the mind and eliminate fatigue.
Eating Leicha in the cold winter can promote metabolism, relieve coldness and keep warm.
Vegetable Tea When you come to Shanwei, you can't help but try Shanwei's special food - vegetable tea!
Although it is called "tea", it is very tasty because it is made by putting a variety of chopped foods such as dried squid, dried shrimps, barbecued pork, sausages, vegetables, fried rice, etc. into a bowl first, and then pouring the tea into it.
It becomes a delicious and filling bowl of vegetable tea.
Tea is mixed with a variety of ingredients and has a very special taste. In the past, vegetable tea was, as its name suggests, an assembly of vegetables and tea. However, with the improvement of living standards, "tea" was replaced by pork bone soup.
But it only changed the soup but not the medicine, so the name followed the tradition.
The beef balls are made from fresh beef shank meat ingredients. After removing the tendons, cut them into pieces. Place them on a large chopping board. Use two special square hammer knives (weighing about 3 kg) to pound the beef shank meat up and down into pieces.
To the meat slurry, add a small amount of snow powder, refined salt, high-quality fish sauce and MSG, continue beating for another 15 minutes, then use a large bowl to serve, add minced fish, white meat cubes and MSG, mix well, and stir the tart with your hands until the meat is cooked.
The pulp will stick to your hands until it does not fall off, then grab the meat pulp with your hands, clench your fists and squeeze into balls, scoop them into a basin of warm water with a spoon, cook the balls over slow fire for about 8 minutes, and pick up the beef balls.
The pizza is not as its name suggests. It is not the kind of pizza with various fillings that you usually eat in Guangzhou.
This pancake from Shanwei is similar to KFC’s Beijing Chicken Roll. The pancake skin rolls the fillings into a roll, and the fillings are divided into sweet and salty.
The sweet fillings are twists and the like, and the salty fillings are shrimps, dried squid, bean sprouts, etc., which are stir-fried together over a high fire. The fire is strong enough and the flavor is strong.
It is usually only available during the Qingming Festival.
Kengluo Kengluo is a famous local product in the mountainous areas of Luhe County.
Its body is slightly longer, with a pointed tail and a hard, dark brown shell, resembling a round cone.
Its mouth is also its abdomen, and its abdomen and legs are extremely developed. It lives in streams in deep mountains, hiding day and night, and likes places with clean water.
They are usually adsorbed on cracks or rocks in the water and feed on aquatic plants such as microorganisms and small algae on the rocks.
Generally, the individual is slightly larger than the tail finger of the hand and can be picked up and cooked. The larger one is as big as a thumb.
I have eaten fried rice noodles a lot in other places, but I have never tasted the same taste as in my hometown. The price is the same but the taste is different. I can’t tell the specific difference. I believe you can only know after trying it.
Oil-baked sesame eel, commonly known as sesame eel in Hailufeng, is cut into pieces, marinated with salt, added with shredded ginger and oil and baked in a pan.
After the eel is baked in oil, its own fat is basically drawn out and penetrates into the fish meat. The whole eel is full of fish oil fragrance without being greasy, and the freshness and tenderness of the fish meat is maintained.
There are no extra ingredients, just the sweetness of the eel itself. What is the original taste? This is called the original taste.
The beef jerky that is Shanwei Fair's specialty is not the beef jerky that everyone often eats. It has a unique taste and a completely different style. It is delicious and nutritious, and has a South Asian taste.
A reliable gift for wine lovers and travellers; it is edible after opening and does not need to be refrigerated.