moxa sticks

In Hakka areas, there is a popular saying, "Eat moxa sticks around Qingming Festival, and you won't get sick all year round". During the Qingming period, there is much rain and heavy humidity, and Artemisia argyi can dispel dampness and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Therefore, after visiting the mountains to sweep graves and go hiking, Hakka people will pick some fresh Artemisia argyi leaves and Tian Ai (Qingming grass and) and go back to make seasonal mugs, so "mugs" also gather the wisdom of Hakka people.

HuangZan

HuangZan is a traditional Hakka snack. There are many ways to eat yellow hairpin, which can be brewed, steamed, boiled, fried and fried, and can also be sliced and dried in the sun. In summer, it is used to cook sugar or salted eggs to cool off the heat. Steamed soft yellow hairpin slices, dipped in the oil juice leaked when steaming bacon, have a unique flavor.

dustpan hairpin

dustpan hairpin is a famous Hakka snack, which belongs to a kind of hairpin. In the old days, rice paste was spread evenly in a dustpan, steamed and stuffed. It exists in western Fujian, western Guangdong and southern Jiangxi, especially in the southwest of western Fujian. It looks a bit like rice rolls or Meizhou, so many people confuse it, but its technology and materials are not the same.

Old Mouse Hairpin

Mouse Hairpin is one of the Hakka special snacks, which originated from Tai Po, Meizhou, Guangdong Province. Because of its sharp ends, it looks like a mouse. Hakka people used to call rice flour products "hairpin", originally called "mouse excrement hairpin", but later renamed it "mouse hairpin" because it was indecent.

fermented glutinous rice

Fermented glutinous rice is a common Hakka food. Every time the morning cereal comes on stage, many Hakka people grind fermented glutinous rice to celebrate the harvest. This tough and unique flavor can be eaten with yellow sugar and a little soy sauce, sliced with pork and mushrooms, or fried with flour paste.

Hong Tao Ban

The peach hairpin symbolizes auspiciousness, and it will be beautiful in Chinese New Year, wedding, relocation and so on. During the Chinese New Year and the holidays, it can be an offering for worshipping gods and heirs. In Hong Tao Ban, the stuffing is usually glutinous rice or taro, and sometimes preserved vegetables are added.

radish hairpin

The winter solstice is called "wintering" by Hakkas. In Hakka areas, there is a saying that "the winter solstice celebrates the New Year". Eating radish hairpin adds a strong sense of ceremony to Hakka people's "wintering", and they are strangers in a foreign land. Every winter solstice, almost every household in Huizhou, Heyuan and other places in Guangdong will make radish hairpin with powder.

XianrenZan

Eating XianrenZan is a custom of Hakka people. It has been handed down by ancestors that eating XianrenZan on this day will not cause prickly heat all summer. This kind of black jelly-like hairpin, which is made by mixing the juice boiled by immortal grass with sweet potato starch, is cool and cool, and it is like a turtle paste in the plant world.

Bundle hairpin

Bundle hairpin is a local specialty snack in Fengshun County, Guangdong Province, which belongs to Hakka cuisine. It is said that after the ancestors of Fengshun Hakka moved from north to south, because there was no wheat and no flour to make spring rolls, rice flour was used to make skin instead of spring rolls, which was a great creation with a unique flavor.

Bowl hairpin

Bowl hairpin (bowl hairpin, hairpin) is a characteristic traditional snack in Hakka area, belonging to Hakka cuisine. In Fengshun and other Hakka areas, it is a gift for relatives and friends. Because it is sweet and contains less water, the even number of four, six, eight, ten and twelve is usually used as an auspicious number for a bowl hairpin given to others.

Sweet Zan

Sweet Zan, also known as Da Long Zan, is a rice cake in Hakka area, which symbolizes a sweet and beautiful life in the coming year. During the Chinese New Year, most Hakkas have the custom of "steaming candied fruit", and there is a saying that "it is not a new year without steaming candied fruit, and no ceremony without candied fruit". Up to now, in the Hakka area of Guangdong, when Chinese New Year guests visit, families with steamed candied fruit will cut off a piece of candied fruit at home and give it to the guests as a gift.

bamboo shoots

bamboo shoots (sǔ nǔ bǔ n) is a traditional Hakka snack that originated in Dabu, Meizhou, Guangdong. The production of bamboo shoots and beans includes two parts: the skin of bamboo shoots and the meat stuffing.

Yizishan

Yizishan is a famous traditional snack in Tai Po. It is said that it originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 3 years. Yizi hairpin is made of glutinous rice flour, kneaded until it is soft and tough, divided into small balls, sprinkled with appropriate amount of raw flour and pressed into the skin; Special fillings are generally made from sliced pork, shredded squid, dried bean curd, garlic white, mushrooms and dried shrimps.

potato hairpin

potato hairpin, a Hakka delicacy, is indispensable to the gathering of relatives and friends. The method of potato hairpin: firstly, peel a big potato (divided into purple and white) and grind it with a tool, then add seasonings such as eggs, salt, soy sauce and chopped green onion to the ground potato and stir it evenly. When the oil is hot, use a spoon to set aside a small group of big potatoes and put them in a pot for frying. During the frying process, pay attention to turning over and frying until the surface is golden yellow.

popularity hairpin

"popularity hairpin" is a traditional custom of Hakka. Whenever married, both men and women should steam "popularity hairpin" at home as a dessert for relatives and friends, so as to get lucky, reunion and good popularity.

Niangzhan

Niangzhan, also known as Hakka Niangzhan and Niangzhan, is a delicious traditional dish and belongs to Cantonese cuisine. One of the snacks in Hakka area of Guangdong Province during the holidays, the stuffing can be freely played, and the meat can be vegetarian, soft and delicious, and the flavor is unique. The northern immigrants who moved south miss the taste of steamed buns and want to make them, but because there is no flour, they have to use rice flour instead, thus producing the food of "fermented glutinous rice".

thin hairpin

fried hairpin

vegetable hairpin

vegetable hairpin is a Hakka snack. Every year "Spring Festival" and "Winter Solstice Day" and offering sacrifices to ancestors all need to use "Cai Zan". The practice of "vegetable hairpin" is usually divided into two parts, one is to make "hairpin skin", and the other is to make stuffing, which is usually leek. Minced pork.