Food not to be missed in Chaoshan include Chaoshan beef hot pot, Chaozhou brine, rice rolls, glutinous rice with pig intestines, licorice fruits, sweet soup, candied scallion pancakes, rice dumplings, hand-hammered beef balls, and Chaozhou preserved fruits.

1. Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot Although Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot is open all over the country, eating the local Chaoshan beef hot pot will definitely refresh the knowledge of foodies.

The time from slaughtering to serving Chaoshan beef is controlled within 4-6 hours, and the meat is extremely fresh.

With the local chef's knife skills, the thickness is even and the beef is blanched in bone soup for a few seconds to achieve the tender and sweet taste that only belongs to Chaoshan beef.

2. Chaozhou brine is different from brine in other areas of Guangdong. The soup base of Chaoshan brine is added with scallops, dried fish, fish sauce and other ingredients, giving Chaoshan brine a unique flavor of seafood.

Especially the braised goose in Chaoshan, the special cooking process brings the best taste. No wonder there is a saying in Chaoshan that "no feast is complete without goose".

3. Chaozhou-style rice rolls are different from Cantonese rice rolls. In terms of appearance, they are not attractive at all, but the taste is unique to the country.

The Teochew-style rice rolls are made in a unique way. Rice milk is poured into a steamer, and fillings such as beef, enoki mushrooms, and lettuce are added. The sauces are also different.

In Chaozhou, peanut butter is poured on it, and in other places, homemade soy sauce is poured on it, which makes the rice rolls smoother and more fragrant.

4. Pig intestine swollen glutinous rice originated from a traditional snack in the ancient city of Puning. Mix the glutinous rice with pork, mushrooms, shrimp and other auxiliary ingredients, fill it into the cleaned pig intestine, and after cooking, pour brown sugar soy sauce and grease-soaked glutinous rice.

Fragrant and glutinous, the pig intestines are chewy and have an unexpected salty-sweet taste.

5. Licorice fruit originated from the streets of Chaoshan. Licorice juice specially made from licorice and other ingredients is poured on the fruit. The sweetness of the licorice is mixed with the aroma of the fruit itself, and the sweetness is enhanced.

6. Sweet soup Chaoshan has a wide variety of sweet soups, including sesame paste and almond tea, which are more delicious and fragrant than desserts from other provinces, as well as Chaoshan’s exclusive Qingxin Pills.

7. Sugar-onion pancakes. There is no green onion in the sugar-onion pancake. It is named after the shape made from white sugar. It is similar to the Guandong sugar in the north, but the taste is very different.

The candied scallions invented by Shantou Yatan (Futan Village) are crunchy and melt in your mouth without sticking to your teeth.

The rolled pancake is as thin as hair, crispy on the inside and tough on the outside, very delicious.

8. Zongzi balls. Zongzi balls are made in different ways across China. Laoma Gong Zongzi balls are a unique traditional snack in Chaoshan. They are as big as a fist and are rich in fillings, including pork belly, mushrooms, soybeans, sausages, ginkgo, dried shrimps, etc., and have a great taste.

Lubricating and fragrant.

You can also choose a double-ingredient filling, a mixture of sweet and salty, so you can taste two flavors at once.

9. Hand-hammered beef balls Chaoshan beef balls are famous all over the country. Only those produced in Chaoshan area are the freshest.

It uses freshly slaughtered beef shanks and is hammered by local masters, giving it a crispy texture and rich aroma.

Beef balls are divided into two types: beef balls and beef tendon balls. Beef balls are more tender in texture, while beef tendon balls are chewier.

The vacuum-sealed beef balls are still fresh when you take them home and cook them.

10. Chaozhou Liangguo The "Nine Systems" we are familiar with is a kind of Chaoshan Liangguo.

Liangguo, which originated in Chaozhou City, is made from local fruits in Chaoshan, which are pickled, boiled or soaked and then dried.

The most famous ones are the three treasures of Chaozhou, namely Lao Citron, Lao Yaojie, and Huang Pi Pi.