As the saying goes, food is in Guangzhou and taste is in Chaoshan. Chaoshan cuisine is clear but not light, fresh but not fishy, tender but not raw, depressed but not greasy.

Chaoshan cuisine is one of the three major cuisines in Guangdong. Chaoshan cuisine here refers to the whole Chaoshan area, not just Chaozhou city. Chen Xiaoqing, director of China on the Tip of the Tongue, said: "People who have never been to Shantou can't call themselves gourmets, because from raw fish to fat wine, there is a food culture from the Qin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, and Shantou is an isolated island in China's food industry." In most people's eyes, Chaozhou-Shantou cuisine is Chaoshan beef hotpot, beef balls, seafood and chills. But these do not represent all Chaoshan dishes, Chaoshan dishes are far more than these. The characteristic of Chaozhou cuisine is that it attaches great importance to the sauce, in which sour taste, sweet taste, spicy taste and salty taste have their own characteristics. A dish should be accompanied by a small dish of different sauces, which is much more delicate than other cuisines.

There is an indispensable braised taste here, and the most common one is braised goose. In Chaoshan area, if you have guests at home, you will definitely "cut the goose for Lu (please cut the goose)". In addition to goose meat, braised goose also has a series of derivative products: goose head, goose liver, goose intestines, goose wings ... and almost every Chaozhou-Shantou food stall has to bake oysters. At the entrance, the skin is crispy, and the white jade-like oyster is creamy and delicious. Beef balls, which are popular in Southeast Asia, are the strength of Chaoshan food industry. Fresh beef leg wrapped meat was selected as the seasoning, and the beef balls were beaten by hand with a special square hammer knife, and the meat was tender.

when it comes to Chaoshan cuisine, both Chen Xiaoqing and Liang Wendao give high praise. Chen Xiaoqing said that people who haven't been to Shantou can't call themselves gourmets, because from raw fish to fat wine, there is a food culture from the Qin Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. "It is an island in China's food industry."