Dongguan cuisine is mainly salty and sweet, but in such hot weather, light Dongguan cuisine is on the summer table and becomes people's favorite. Ordinary Dongguan cuisine can be found in the streets and alleys, and it is welcomed by the public for its simple appearance and salty and tasty taste. Middle-to-high-grade Dongguan cuisine attracts people's attention for its delicacy, exquisite, special, light and delicious taste.

Dongguan cuisine belongs to Lingnan cuisine, which has strong local characteristics, including Shanxiang cuisine and Shuixiang cuisine, each with its own representative dishes, such as Da Lang fried rice with olive sauce, Qingxi Maogen soybean pit snail soup, etc. Shuixiang cuisine includes keel soup with lotus root in Shatian, braised clam meat with taro in Hong Mei, roasted eel in Humen honey sauce, Zhangmutou Hakka salted chicken in Shanxiang flavor, etc.

Dongguan is close to the river and faces the sea. It is rich in aquatic products, and seafood is also one of its characteristics. Besides the famous cream crab, heavy shell crab, seta shrimp, grouper and so on, it is also famous for producing metapenaeus ensis. The most famous place to eat seafood is Xinwan Town, Humen. More than a dozen food stalls are lined up by the sea, and listening to Taopin seafood is wonderful.

The most famous flavor snacks in Dongguan are "Sanhe Banquet" and Houjie Roasted Goose. "Sanhe" refers to insects, sparrows (which are now forbidden to prey) and carps. It is rich in nutrition and has excellent taste. Daojiao Water Town is a good place to taste insects and carps. Roasted goose in Houjie is made of whole goose, large pieces of meat and bones, and many special herbs and spices. It is delicious and attractive, and many tourists from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and even Hong Kong go to Dongguan to enjoy this delicious food. Other flavor snacks include Houjie sausage and Dongguan rice noodles, Daojiao steamed dumplings and meatball porridge, maltose and sugar pomelo peel of Shilong, lotus root in Shatian, hibiscus meat and taro sticks in Shijie, fish balls in Xiansha in Gaosong, and aconite fish in Chang 'an, etc.

In addition, Dongguan has gathered various delicacies from the north and south of the Yangtze River, such as Hunan Restaurant in Yonghuating, Coral Road (Taiwan Province Street) in Houjie, Northeast Cuisine in Dongcheng South Road, and vegetarian chain in Nancheng District.