NO.1 Chaoshan Snacks - Beef Balls Reasons for being on the list: Beef balls are the most famous and representative delicious snacks in Chaoshan. They are divided into two types: beef balls and beef tendon balls.
The meat of beef balls is relatively tender and tender, while the beef tendon balls have some tender tendons added to the beef, so they are chewier.
It is said that the best beef balls can jump up when thrown on the ground.
When eating, put the original soup and beef balls into the pot and bring to a boil (the water should not be too boiling, otherwise the beef balls will not be smooth), add an appropriate amount of MSG, sesame oil, pepper and celery grains, and serve with sand tea sauce or chili sauce.
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Many people dip their beef balls in chili sauce, but the most authentic way is to dip them in the local specialty Shacha sauce.
NO.2 Chaoshan Snacks - Rice Rice Roll Reasons for being on the list: Chaoshan people made rice rolls probably in the early 1980s. However, Chaoshan people did not copy the rice rolls made in Guangzhou, but combined the methods of Chaoshan people.
For better taste, raw materials from Chaoshan area are used instead.
For example, as for the filling, it mainly uses shredded cabbage or bamboo shoots, minced pork, eggs, and sprinkles with Chaoshan local specialty preserved vegetables. After the rice rolls are rolled, they are also topped with the peanut sauce that Chaoshan people love.
The Chaozhou-style rice rolls, which are full of flavor, are also popular among people.
Nowadays, in the Chaoshan area, you can see food stalls selling rice rolls everywhere in the streets and alleys, and it has become one of Chaoshan people's favorite snacks for breakfast.
NO.3 Chaoshan Snacks - Oyster Roast Reasons for being on the list: Oyster Roast is a unique snack in Chaoshan. Foreigners always have to try this delicacy when they come to Chaoshan.
This kind of snack is often found in hotels and snack shops in town. "Xitianxiang Oyster Brand" is one of Shantou's famous snacks.
Oysters help improve eyesight, are smooth and delicious, and baked oysters can warm the stomach. People prefer to eat them in cold weather.
Features: delicious and fragrant, crisp but not hard, crisp but not soft.
"Oyster roast" is actually "oyster omelette", because "pao" in Chaozhou is actually "fried" in Chaozhou cuisine cooking method.
"Oyster brand" is a traditional Chaozhou snack with a long history. In the late Qing Dynasty, snack stalls making "oyster brand" were very common in Chaozhou cities and towns.
NO.4 Chaoshan snack - fermented bean curd cake. Reason for being on the list: fermented bean curd cake has a unique smell of southern milk, garlic and wine. It is rich, fragrant and delicious. It is named after it has a scent of fermented bean curd.
It is soft and fragrant, with a special fragrance in its sweetness.
Fermented bean curd cake uses a variety of unique ingredients.
It is made from refined flour.
In the pie filling, fermented bean curd cubes account for 2.5%, famous wine contains 2%, white pork must be carefully selected and cut into dices, accounting for 18.2%, and powdered sugar content is 27%.
Point five, as well as garlic, etc., there are more than fourteen kinds of ingredients in total.
The crust is thin but not cracked, the filling is full but not exposed, and it is moist but not burnt.
The fermented bean curd cake is small in shape, sweet but not greasy.
NO.5 Chaoshan Snacks - Kueh Juice Reasons for being on the list: Kuey Sauce Skin is the main ingredient of Chaoshan Kueh Sauce. When cooking Kuey Sauce, put the Kueh Sauce Skin into boiling water, add glutinous rice flour slurry and cook slowly
, stir while cooking so that each piece is cooked but soft and tough, and then put it into a bowl. The kueh juice fully highlights the original flavor of the rice, and after adding the glutinous rice flour slurry, the soup of the kueh juice becomes thinner.
It is as thick as rice cereal, rolled together interestingly, topped with light brown marinade, plus some braised pig intestines, braised eggs, braised dried tofu, peanuts, tofu, pork, pig offal and other ingredients, and it is a complete meal.
The perfect bowl of kuey gravy.
Kueh juice should be eaten while it is hot, it is very refreshing and the more you eat it, the more flavorful it becomes.
NO.6 Chaoshan Snacks - Spring Rolls Reasons for being on the list: The spring rolls have crispy skin and salty fillings. When you bite into them, you will feel the fragrance in your mouth and increase your appetite. It is not only a favorite food of Chaoshan people in all seasons, but also a trendy snack.
A famous snack that guests must try.
It is made by wrapping the stuffing in a thin round dough roll, making it into a strip, and then deep-frying it in oil until golden brown and floating.
The filling can be meat or vegetarian, salty or sweet.
Varieties include leek shredded pork spring rolls, shepherd's purse spring rolls, bean paste spring rolls, etc.
In French Chinese restaurants, the most famous first course is spring rolls. Because the French are particularly greedy for Chinese spring rolls, over time, they were inspired to jokingly equate "a roll cannot make spring" with "a single tree cannot make a forest" and it has spread to China.
Proverbs are on everyone's lips.
NO.7 Chaoshan Snacks - Luotangqian Reasons for being on the list: "Chaoshan Luotangqian" inherits some of the advantages of "Glutinous Rice Qian" in the production method. For example, after the glutinous rice dough is cooked, it is placed in a basin and repeated with a wooden stick.
The advantage of stirring is that the cooked dough becomes smoother and more resilient.
However, the traditional "glutinous rice money" is made by kneading the dough into small pieces with your hands after the dough is cooked, and rolling it with powdered sugar and white sesame seeds. This is not hygienic, and the cooked glutinous rice dough is eaten directly, and the taste is too sticky, so "
"Chaoshan Luotangqian" is modified into mature glutinous rice balls and fried in scallion oil until both sides are slightly crispy, then cut into pieces and served on a plate, thus overcoming the shortcomings of the traditional "glutinous rice money".
NO.8 Chaoshan Snack - Pig Intestine Bloated Glutinous Rice Reason for being on the list: Pig Intestine Bloated Glutinous Rice is made by stuffing pig intestines with glutinous rice and various fillings. It has thin skin, full filling and bulgy shape.
Pig intestine swollen glutinous rice is a special delicacy and traditional folk snack in Hongyang, the ancient city of Puning, Chaoshan region, Guangdong.
Soak the glutinous rice until soft, mix well with pork, mushrooms, shrimp, lotus seeds and other accessories, add salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper and other seasonings, then fill it into the washed pig intestines, tie the ends with yarn.
Boil the water in a pot for about 1 hour, take it out and cut it into small slices, dip it in sweet soy sauce (add brown sugar, an appropriate amount of chili pepper, and starch to the soy sauce, bring to a boil, and sprinkle in the fried white sesame seeds).