Chaozhou snacks are snacks other than family meals, which are supplementary and supplementary to banquets in hotels and restaurants. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the emergence and development of commodity economy in cities and towns, a large number of snack bars, snack stalls and snack sticks have appeared in Chaoshan, meeting the needs of a large number of citizens, especially low-and middle-income consumers. Chaozhou snacks have a wide variety and a long history, naturally forming a number of socially recognized brand-name snacks, such as Chaozhou Spring Cake, Duck Mother Nian (Tangyuan), Oyster Baked (Crisp), Fried kway teow in Dengtang, Phoenix Fried Tofu and so on. These famous snacks are not only known in Chaozhou, but also affect the nostalgia of overseas Chinese and are attached to them. As the saying goes in the seafood series, "eat the mountain by the mountain and eat the sea by the sea." Because Chaozhou is located on the coast of the South China Sea and the coastline is continuous, Chaozhou has superior natural conditions. The first choice food on people's menu is naturally seafood such as fish, crabs, shrimps and shellfish. Open the menu of Chaozhou restaurant, from precious swallows, wings, abalone and ginseng to common fish, shrimp, snails and crabs, and then to common clams and shellfish, almost three-fifths of them are seafood. Therefore, when people mention Chaozhou cuisine, they think of seafood, and when they think of seafood, they think of Chaozhou cuisine. There is also a saying in the catering industry that "there is no feast without seafood". Bird's nest and shark's fin were imported into China from Southeast Asia after Zheng He's voyage to the West in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. Chaozhou does not produce swallows and wings. Although it produces lobsters and abalones, the output is not much. However, Chaozhou, with expatriates as the media, is not only easy to introduce raw materials from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, but also widely learn and absorb the skills of cooking swallow, wing and abalone from Thai cuisine, malaysian cuisine cuisine, Hong Kong cuisine and even Guangfu cuisine, and then combine them to innovate, making Chaozhou's top-grade famous dishes such as "official swallow with chicken", "shark's fin with immortals" and "braised abalone with red rice" become fine Chinese dishes. Chaozhou cuisine Chaozhou cuisine not only inherits the flavor of traditional famous dishes, but also combines and absorbs the sauces of Guangdong cuisine and Dongjiang cuisine. On the basis of traditional flavor, Chaozhou cuisine combines the flavors and cooking techniques of famous dishes from all over the world, refining and innovating, and its "color, fragrance, taste and shape" is well-known at home and abroad. Chaozhou cuisine is exquisite in material selection, exquisite in production, exquisite in knife work and beautiful in shape. It is full of skills such as frying, frying, cooking, stewing, soaking, frying, roasting, stewing, cooking, marinating, smoking, buckling and rolling. It shows the characteristics of Chaozhou cuisine, which is "clear but not light, fresh but not fishy, tender but not raw, depressed but not greasy", making Chaozhou cuisine famous at all times and all over the world. Today, when Chaozhou restaurants are spread all over the country and all over the world, as the birthplace of authentic Chaozhou cuisine, with the attention of Chaozhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, the labor department has systematically studied and innovated the skills of Chaozhou cuisine, such as the formation, materials, knife tide and patchwork. In particular, Chaozhou Chaozhou Cuisine Chef Skill Appraisal Center has collected and sorted out the accumulated information in the training and skill assessment of Chaozhou cuisine chefs in recent years.
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