Dongguan is a gourmet paradise, especially the authentic local snacks in Dongguan, but these foods have never been produced and can't be eaten in restaurants outside, and some of them have even been lost. Snacks such as muffins and radish jiaozi are unheard of by many foreigners and even the younger generation in Dongguan. Radish jiaozi is a food that Dongguan people only eat in previous festivals. It is different from jiaozi in the north. This kind of radish is very big in jiaozi, and it is stuffed with shredded radish. The whole radish jiaozi was wrapped up, and it was full of crispy radishes.

Maogenzhou

Cook porridge with cogongrass rhizome, bamboo cane, carrot, soybean and ginkgo. And cool down.

Houjie rice noodle

It is made of rice ground into powder, and it is tender, smooth and refreshing. It is mainly seasoned with roasted goose and barbecued pork in an open-hearth furnace.

Daojiao steamed dumplings

It is made of high-quality glutinous rice, salted egg yolk, pork belly, mung bean, Hunan lotus seed and various seasonings. After cooking, it smells delicious and tastes great. Daojiao meatball porridge

Meatballs are made of fresh germanium meat, and the meat sauce must be constantly beaten with steel bars, which makes the meat sauce gelatinous, tough and crisp.

Pot-capped insects of Daojiao

Clean the fat worms, put them in a pottery bowl, add appropriate amount of garlic, refined salt, edible oil and eggs, mash them evenly and make them into paste. After steaming, bake it with slow fire until it is slightly yellow, and sprinkle with pepper, which is full of fragrance and rich in nutrition.

Daojiao lotus carp

Before and after the first frost, carp bred in inland rivers were named "Lotus Carp" because they eat flowers, ears and grains. When making, fry carp into orange peel, add ginger, onion and garlic, and cook in a casserole, which is delicious.

Central fork fish bag

It has a history of 70 or 80 years to use fish bags and fish stuffing. The skin of fish is mainly made from the fish on the back of the soil scale fish in August and September of the lunar calendar, while the meat stuffing is mainly made from fresh pork, preserved duck and sausage. Mix with mushrooms and other seasonal dishes and chop them into stuffing. Carefully wrap the stuffing in goldfish with fish skin and put it in soup made of scaly fish for 2-3 minutes.

Steamed fish noodles with fork feet for dinner

After the fish balls are pressed into thin slices, they are cut into noodles about10cm, boiled in clear water for 1-2 minutes, and then fished out. In addition, shredded mushrooms, leeks, chopped green onion and so on. You can eat soup made of fish scales and chicken bones.

Tang bishuai

Glutinous rice flour is made into stuffing-free dumplings (some are made into stuffing), cooked with boiled syrup, sprinkled with crushed fried peanuts or shredded eggs, and tastes smooth and sweet.

Chang' an jinhe pencai

Cook chicken, goose, duck, pork, pigskin, fish balls, taro, vegetables, mushrooms, etc. In a big bowl, when eating, everyone turns the dishes with public chopsticks.

Heng Li Mao Lao fan

Chop lean pork, goose, shrimp and wheat beans and cook them with rice, which is sweet and delicious.

Sugar ring

In ancient times, it was called "Giant Girl" (pronunciation), which was a snack moved from the Central Plains to the south. The sugar ring in Dongguan has changed from flour to glutinous rice flour. Traditional sugar rings, without cake printing, are just twisted into long strips and kneaded into rings, which are hard enough to eat. The shape of sugar ring, from big ring to small ring, is interlocking, meaning endless. Macha

Dongguan people call it a short paragraph. Add fried peanuts and sesame seeds into the fried glutinous rice flour. The grain size of hemp is similar, about two or three centimeters long, and it is rhombic, and its color is like hemp. A handful of marijuana in your hand is usually overlapped and connected together to form a square (square and straight) pattern. The implication is that the founder is innocent, united and lucky. Dongguan people give each other hemp and wish each other good luck.

sponge cake

"25 years old, making muffins", hoping for a promotion next year. The cake is mainly made of glutinous rice flour, and the sugar powder is mixed with glutinous rice flour and sieved into the cake grid. When it is half, add peanuts and powdered sugar, then sieve the glutinous rice flour and steam it. If you can't finish it, you can dry it and make it into dry food. Soft and sweet when fresh, delicious.