The beautiful Beibu Gulf is rich in seafood treasures. Located in the subtropical North Sea, the advantageous geographical environment makes the products here particularly rich. The reform and opening up has attracted foreigners from all directions and brought various eating habits, making Beihai's food culture more colorful.

1. Cuisine and characteristics

Beihai has rich and noble Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine with various flavors and Cantonese cuisine with various tastes. Beihai was once under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province in history, and its cuisine was mainly Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese cuisine refers to Guangdong-style cuisine, which started late compared with Shandong and Sichuan cuisines. It originated in Qin Dynasty, took shape in Han and Wei Dynasties, developed in Tang and Song Dynasties and completed in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The main features of Beihai cuisine are as follows:

1. The raw materials are widely used, and there are many varieties and exotic dishes. Some people say that people in Beihai eat everything, and "anything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground and swims in the water" can be eaten. Fish, shrimp, crabs and snails are steamed and eaten, while snakes, stings, turtles, rats, storks, raccoons, cats, dogs and partridges are caught and cooked, while clams and locusts are roasted and eaten, which are regarded as delicacies and expensive.

2. The flavor changes with the climate, paying attention to freshness, smoothness and crispness, with strong southern characteristics. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, four seasons change, what to eat and how to eat, a set of a set, eloquent, and reasonable. For example, in hot summer, the weather is hot and dry, which soup to stew to cool off in hot and humid summer; It's cold in winter, the air is dry, and what to eat is good for warming up and keeping your skin moist. Even ordinary people can tell you why. Beihai people not only eat well, but also pay attention to food, especially to freshness, such as raw shrimp, raw sand worms and raw mud cubes. When cooking, I also pay attention to "boiling up, sweet and crisp". This is Beihai cuisine that is light, not bland, but fresh in the clear, tasty in the light, tender but not raw, smooth but not vulgar, oily but not greasy, and some are called the beauty of five or six flavors.

3. Unique cooking techniques. For example, "boiling soup" is different. In cooking, we pay attention to "adding soup" when cooking vegetables by frying, stewing, stewing and stewing. This kind of soup is obtained by boiling. "Bao" is a cooking method based on soup, which is generally made of crock.

4. The seasoning is unique. Pay attention to clear, cool, light, fragrant and crisp in the seasoning process. For example, some special condiments, such as oyster sauce, sweet and sour, lemon juice, sour plum river, white brine, ginger, garlic, chopped green onion, curry powder, peel and so on.

2. Eating habits

1. Pay attention to drinking soup. Beihai people like to drink soup. The first sentence when they sit down at the last meal is "What soup does the boss have?" And I especially like to drink fish soup, such as tiger fish soup, grouper soup, yellow silk fish soup, beef heart fish soup, jumping dog fish soup, shark soup and miscellaneous fish soup.

2. There are fish in the meal. Fish is an indispensable dish on the dining table of Beihai people, so some people call it "Beihai people's cat phase". However, there are many kinds of fish. People in Beihai like swordfish, oily sweet fish, Longli, Gouli, Basset, yellow wax, osmanthus fish, and fish left behind.

3. I like salted fish porridge. Salted fish is a specialty of Beihai, and salted fish porridge is the favorite staple food of Beihai people in summer, which tastes refreshing and crisp.

4. I like herbal tea. Affected by the subtropical climate, people in Beihai are prone to get angry when eating, and they are used to drinking a cup of herbal tea, such as Guangdong herbal tea, Wang Laoji, Shisanwei, Wuhua tea, Ersiwei, Maogen bamboo cane water, and arhat fruit tea. The most famous herbal tea shop in Beihai should be "Huangshengxiang herbal tea shop".

5, boiled chicken. White-cut chicken is an essential dish for Beihai people to celebrate the New Year.

3. Famous dishes in Beihai

1. Seafood: boiled shrimp, boiled crab, celery fried with cuttlefish, shredded squid with sesame sauce, lemon with melon, squid tube, fried mackerel, steamed yellow wax fish, steamed osmanthus fish, and raw worms (mud worms).

2. Meat: beef, spiced dog meat, etc.

3. Porridge: crab porridge, snail porridge, worm porridge, mud porridge, etc.

4. Flavor snacks

Paederia, melon vinegar, sweet wine, sweet wine glutinous rice balls, rice rolls, rice cakes, beef brisket powder, fried shrimp cakes, radish cakes, crab juice, shredded squid, pigeon porridge, eel porridge, etc.

Taste the Seurated Shrimp

Seurated Shrimp, also known as "Crawling Shrimp" and "Jumping Shrimp", has such a strange name because when it is out of water, there is always a stream of water flowing out of its body, like a baby peeing, so it has a rather indecent name. This kind of shrimp lurks in the mud at the bottom of the sea during the day and comes out to feed on the beach at night. On the muddy beach where it crawls, it will leave traces like a tail fan rake, so it is also called "shrimp rake". Although all the coastal areas of our country produce Setaria shrimp, the quantity is relatively small, so even this gourmet has never tasted it. When we arrive in Beihai, we can't miss this delicious food! The flood season of Seurated Shrimp is from October to April next year, and the golden season is before the fourth breeding period. At this time, Seurated Shrimp is not only fat, but also fresh in meat. Southerners like to shell and take meat sauce, vinegar and other condiments to eat. In Shantou, Guangdong, shrimp is often salted for a day or two and eaten raw. It is said that it has medicinal functions such as promoting blood circulation, promoting fluid production, strengthening yang and tonifying kidney. People in Beihai often eat in two ways: one is steamed or boiled, and then the shell is removed to take meat sauce, vinegar and other condiments to eat, and the other is salted with ginger wine and salt, and then fried in an oil pan, which is a "salted shrimp" with fresh meat and crisp skin. You can eat the meat by removing the shell, or you can chew it with the shell, because with experience, even the shrimp shell made by this process is rare and delicious. No, the saliva is almost set aside. Let's talk about it first at the seafood steak in Beihai Waisha! By the way, the shrimp has a strong vitality. It can still survive for more than 1 hours after leaving the water, and it can last for more than 5 hours at degrees Celsius! You can still eat it!

Plum-flavored fish: it smells delicious

Plum-flavored fish doesn't refer to the variety of fish. In fact, there is no formula for this dish in terms of fish types. As long as it is big and fresh, it can be made. The method of making Plum-flavored fish is similar to that of water fish and shrimp. The main difference is that Plum-flavored fish requires "big fish" and uses "tough" salt. The curing time is also relatively a little longer, and it is enough to be "cooked" until a layer of mold similar to tofu milk is formed on the skin of the fish. Because the individual of Mei Xiang fish is relatively large, the skin of this fish is very salty after pickling, but its meat is just right. Fish tastes delicious, and it is a good food for dinner. All the above are the self-produced characteristics of Beihai. At present, some foreign "smelly members" have joined in our city. There are some stalls selling stinky tofu in Changqing Road and Fugui Road. These stinky tofu should be traced back to its root, perhaps it should be spread from the hometown of stinky tofu in Hunan. Pickled "moldy" black tofu, fried in a pot, suddenly stinks, but it tastes crispy when bitten down. At present, this snack has gradually been welcomed by the citizens of Beihai. According to nutrition experts, these stinky dishes contain a high amount of vitamin B12, which has the effect of appetizing, helping digestion and stimulating appetite, but it is always bad to overdo the best things. Nutrition experts reminded that due to the role of microorganisms, stinky vegetables decompose protein and generate amines, which produces a bad smell. If you eat too much, you will have adverse reactions. Therefore, those who are addicted to "smelly" should never eat.

water shrimp and water fish: favorite for porridge

water shrimp and water fish are the special dishes in Beihai that can make outsiders feel strange and scary to eat. It is unique in a "life". Water shrimp and water fish are very particular about the selection of materials, that is, the fish and shrimp used must be fresh and generally the size of a thumb. After putting those fresh small fish and shrimp into a jar, sprinkle a layer of salt, spread a layer of fish (or shrimp), and finally seal the jar and put it in the sun. When these fish and shrimps are pink, they are cured successfully. Because it is made directly from raw fish and shrimp, the pickled water shrimp and water fish smell a strong fishy smell, which is generally difficult for people who are not used to eating. In fact, this dish tastes a little fragrant and sweet, which is hard for non-native Beihai people to taste. Beihai people like to send porridge with it.