Cantonese food, from rice rolls in the roadside breakfast stall to casserole porridge and roast goose in the midnight snack food stall, is delicious. Cantonese cuisine, also known as Cantonese cuisine, has strong local characteristics.
Cantonese cuisine includes Guangzhou cuisine, Chaozhou cuisine and Dongjiang (Hakka) cuisine, and Guangzhou cuisine is usually the representative. Guangzhou cuisine not only combines the local flavor characteristics of the Pearl River Delta, such as "South (Shanghai), Fan (Yu), Shun (Germany) and Zhong (Shan)", but also combines the strengths of other provinces such as Beijing, Jiangsu, Yangzhou, Hangzhou and Shandong, as well as western cuisine, and becomes a unique family.
Guangdong cuisine, as one of the four major Chinese cuisines, enjoys a high reputation for its unique style and flavor. The features of Cantonese cuisine mainly include the following aspects:
1. The biggest feature of Cantonese cuisine is its complex materials, rich dishes, wide range of materials and skillful ingredients. Snakes, insects, rats, ants, birds and animals, delicacies, Chinese and foreign food, everything, is the highest in the country. These raw materials, once cooked by the chef's skillful hands, make every eater applaud and sigh as exotic treasures.
like eating snakes. People in Guangzhou have been eating snakes for more than 2 years, and there are dozens of ways to eat snakes. Anything you can think of can make delicious snake dishes. Dare to eat anything, but Guangzhou people's open mind and innovative consciousness in the food culture.
2. The second feature of Cantonese cuisine is its light taste. Cantonese cuisine can be summed up by the words "fresh, tender, smooth and fragrant". This is the fundamental reason why Cantonese cuisine is so popular. There are many kinds of Cantonese condiments, including sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty and fresh. However, generally only a small amount of ginger onion and garlic are used as "materials", and less spicy seasonings such as peppers are used, which will not be salty and sweet.
Guangdong cuisine emphasizes color, and requires wok gas (that is, heat wok with a torch, add oil, and bring the oil to a boil, so that the fried dishes have a fragrance), and the heat is just right. Cantonese cuisine pursues the original flavor and fresh flavor of raw materials, such as lively seafood and game, which should be slaughtered and cooked immediately to be original. Guangzhou people eat chicken, but the favorite is boiled chicken.
It is soaked in white brine without any ingredients, but the skin is smooth, the meat is white and fragrant, and the bones are full of flavor. This characteristic of pursuing lightness, freshness and original flavor not only conforms to the climate characteristics of Guangzhou, but also meets the requirements of modern nutrition, and is a relatively scientific food culture.
3. The third feature of Cantonese cuisine is that it is good at variety, well-made and innovative. Cantonese cuisine has the advantage of "hybridization". Because the history of the formation of Cantonese cuisine is the confluence of Chinese and foreign food cultures and the continuous innovation combined with regional climate characteristics.
Guangdong people are open-minded, not dogmatic, and always good at imitating and innovating, so they are rich in changes and unconventional in the development of dishes and snacks; Well-made and rich in variety. Cantonese cuisine also pays attention to variation with seasonal changes, with light in summer and autumn and heavy and rich in winter and spring. The dishes at the banquet are all crowned with good names, such as three snakes with old cats.
Up to now, there are more than 5,4 kinds of Cantonese dishes, more than 1, kinds of dim sum and hundreds of kinds of flavor snacks. There are hundreds of kinds of chicken gizzards alone. Almost every famous restaurant and restaurant has its own "signature chicken" to attract customers. The famous ones are Qingping Chicken, Wenchang Chicken, Taiye Chicken, Dongjiang Salt Baked Chicken, Dongfang Shijia Chicken, Tao Tao Ginger Onion Chicken and so on.
As one of the eight major cuisines in China, Cantonese cuisine occupies a very important position. It not only represents people's eating habits in Guangdong, but also represents the food culture handed down for thousands of years there, which is an indispensable part of China's food culture.