Guangdong specialties include:
1. Double-skin milk
Double-skin milk is a Cantonese dessert. It originated in Shunde during the Qing Dynasty, using buffalo milk as raw material; now it is spread in Guangdong, Macau, Hong Kong and other places. A bowl of excellent double-skin milk is made from ordinary milk. It looks like paste, is white in color, has a delicate and smooth texture, and has a sweet and light taste. Double-skin breasts can be seen in many places now, and even ingenious girls can make them themselves.
2. Rice rolls
Rice rolls originated from Luoding, Guangdong, and have now spread throughout the country. The more famous ones based on geography (taste) include Guangzhou’s Xiguan rice rolls and Meizhou’s rice rolls. Hakka rice rolls, Chaozhou and Chaoshan rice rolls, Yunfu's Hekou rice rolls, Yunan's Capital rice rolls, etc. Rice rolls are also a dish often seen in Cantonese restaurants, and there are many types. You can choose pork, beef or shrimp rice rolls. Many people also like to eat vegetarian rice rolls.
3. Barbecued pork
Barbecued pork is one of the famous delicacies in Guangdong and belongs to Cantonese cuisine. It is a type of Cantonese barbecue dish. Mostly red, made of lean meat, slightly sweet. The marinated lean pork is hung on a special fork and grilled in the oven. Good barbecued pork should be tender, juicy, bright in color and full of flavor.
4. Tingzi porridge
Tingzi porridge was created by Danmin (also known as water people), who were nomads on the water in the Pearl River Delta in the past, and later became popular in Guangzhou. It is now one of the famous traditional snacks in Guangdong. The ingredients of Tingzai porridge include sashimi, lean meat, shredded fried dough sticks, peanuts, chopped green onions, shredded eggs, floating skin, shredded jellyfish, shredded barbecued pork, shredded roast duck and squid. When cooking, pour the hot porridge base into the ingredients and scald until cooked. Tingzi porridge is famous for its smooth porridge base, delicious taste and rich texture.
5. Dry steamed siomai
Dry steamed siomai is a Cantonese snack. Dry steamed siomai in Cantonese tea drinking is one of the popular snacks that must be ordered in the tea market. In the 1930s, dry steamed siomai became popular all over Guangdong. In the past 20 years, it has spread to large and medium-sized cities in Guangxi and has become a must-have in Lingnan teahouses and restaurants. Dry steamed siomai is made of semi-fatty lean pork, shrimp, wonton skin and eggs as the main raw materials, and light soy sauce, sugar, salt, chicken powder, pepper, corn starch and cooking wine as ingredients.
6. Chicken Cake
Chicken Cake is a famous traditional cake snack of the Han people in Guangzhou, Guangdong. Its original name was "Xiaofeng Cake". It was made by a wealthy family named Wu in Xiguan, Guangzhou during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. It was created by a female worker named Xiaofeng. Chicken cake is one of the four famous cakes in Guangdong. Just the appearance makes people fall in love at first sight: petite figure, oval face that is slightly like a beauty, showing an alternative beauty among the almost all round cake bait groups. The ones with thin skin and less stuffing taste crisper; the ones with thick skin and rich stuffing are just like the chickens bowing their heads foraging in the paintings of the master of traditional Chinese painting Qi Baishi. They are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and very chewy.
7. Tangbushao
Tangbushao, also known as Ruyi Guo, is a traditional Han Chinese snack in Guangdong and is a Cantonese dessert. The taste is absolutely smooth and sweet, refreshing but not greasy, full of flavor, and suitable for all ages. It is the twin brother of glutinous rice balls. Adding ginger juice is especially good for dispelling cold and righteousness. "Tang Bu Shu" is simple to make. Just boil the glutinous rice flour, roll it into powder balls, cook it in hot syrup in an iron pot, and then sprinkle it with crushed fried peanuts or shredded fried eggs to accompany it.
8. Shantou Beef Balls
As the most famous and popular snack in Shantou and even the entire Chaoshan region, Shantou Beef Balls can be used as both a snack and a banquet soup. As a famous Chaoshan snack, beef balls have a history of nearly a hundred years in Shantou. Beef balls can be divided into two types: beef balls and beef tendon balls. The tendons are tender and the texture just adds a bit of chewiness.
9. Fried rice noodles
Shahe noodles is one of the popular traditional Han dishes in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. It is named after it first came from Shahe Town, Guangzhou City. Flour making is a must. The production method is quite particular. The raw materials are selected Longmei white rice, which is soaked or ground in Baiyun Mountain spring water with excellent water quality. It maintains the traditional fine production techniques such as stone grinding and basket-pulling to produce powder. Thin and transparent, tough and smooth.
10. Ginger Cream
Guangzhou Ginger Milk originated from the traditional folk food in the Pearl River Delta. The taste is mellow and smooth, sweet and slightly spicy, with a unique flavor and a stomach-warming and surface-heating effect. Ginger is known as a good food and medicine. Research has found that ginger contains a special substance similar to salicylic acid. When diluted, it can be used as a blood thinner. It can lower blood lipids and blood pressure, prevent thrombosis and myocardial infarction, etc. It has special curative effects. Regular consumption can maintain health and strengthen the body. The effect of health preservation and longevity is deeply loved by people from all walks of life.