As the saying goes, "Eat in Guangdong and taste in Zhanjiang". Cantonese cuisine we are familiar with consists of three local flavors: Guangfu cuisine, Chaoshan cuisine and Hakka cuisine. If you look closely, you will find that there is no Zhanjiang food here, which is actually due to historical reasons. I found that the style of Zhanjiang cuisine actually belongs to Guangfu cuisine, which generally conforms to the eating habits of people in the Pearl River Delta and tastes similar to Shunde cuisine. The only difference is the composition.

Zhanjiang cuisine pursues the original flavor to a great extent. Famous boiled chicken, boiled shrimp, boiled fat sausage, etc. Skillfully cut or even cut the knife when handling the ingredients, which will completely maintain the shape of the ingredients and avoid the loss of juice, such as boiled chicken. When I travel to Zhanjiang, I usually eat boiled chicken during the day and taste local seafood at night. From my experience of tasting Zhanjiang local cuisine, I think Zhanjiang cuisine is mainly seafood, and Zhanjiang cuisine is not famous for a reason.

Friends who have eaten Zhanjiang cuisine should know that Zhanjiang cuisine has always been "original", and its production methods are mostly light and simple, lacking in changes and unable to highlight its selling points. The most intuitive performance is that the display is not beautiful enough, giving guests a feeling of low level. Moreover, Zhanjiang cuisine has been facing the people for many years, and there is almost no thinking orientation of high-end catering. If there is no innovative packaging, how can this way of catering become popular? Therefore, Zhanjiang cuisine has a good reputation among Cantonese cuisine, but it doesn't rank in the official ranking, which is normal.

Chaoshan cuisine and Shunde cuisine are famous because people are willing to innovate and package, which will naturally become well-known cuisines. On the other hand, Zhanjiang cuisine is original, with simple cooking and poor shape. How can such delicious food attract people from other provinces to like it? Therefore, if Zhanjiang cuisine wants to go out of the local area, to China and to the world, it needs innovation and transformation to cater to the public's tastes. This is the reason why Zhanjiang cuisine is not famous.