Beef balls are the most common and popular folk snack in Chaoshan area. It can be used as a snack or a soup dish for banquets.

Fish balls, like meat balls, are also one of Chaoshan’s famous snacks.

The custom of eating fish balls is said to have started in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: King Ping of Chu liked fish, and every meal without fish would be tasteless.

King Ping of Chu was cruel by nature. Once he accidentally caught fish bones or fish bones, he ordered the chefs to be killed.

One day, a new chef thought that he would not be spared, so he chopped the fish with the back of a knife to vent his anger. Unexpectedly, this chop miraculously separated the fish meat from the fish bones.

The new chef used the boneless fish meat to roll into balls and gave them to King Chu Ping. King Chu Ping actually praised them, and the chef was saved from bad luck.

Later, as King Ping of Chu moved south, this food custom spread to Chaozhou.

The development status of Chaoshan snacks. The Shantou snack market has various business forms and complete varieties. The business outlets are mainly decentralized and appropriately centralized, which can basically meet the consumer demand of the local market.

In terms of business form, the first is a store that is solely for takeout.

It is operated by bakery stalls, snack bars, vegetable market snack stalls, grocery stores, etc.

They provide customers with finished or semi-finished products, such as easy-to-carry rice dumplings, siomai, crystal balls, etc., which can be bought and eaten at home.

Meatballs, cabbage cakes, taro cakes, etc. are often provided as semi-finished products for customers to take home for processing; secondly, they are mainly eaten now and taken away.

It is operated by snack restaurants, time-honored snack bars, etc.

For example, there are beef ball snack bars located in every corner of the city. They are shops that make beef ball soup, beef ball rice noodles, and takeaway beef balls.

The time-honored "Piaoxiang" snack shop and "Aiqian" dry noodle shop also have this business model; the other is the snack restaurant, which mainly sells and eats now.

For example, China Travel Restaurant’s Chaoshan snack buffet set menu costs 25 yuan per person, free to choose.

Chaoxiang City is a snack supermarket. You can purchase with your card and eat now.

Nowadays, it is not difficult for locals to have gatherings at home or outside, or to entertain foreign guests to taste Chaoshan snacks.