1. New Year's Cake

In Guangdong, New Year's Cake is an essential new year's product. Even if you don't eat it, you should put a piece at home to show your kindness. Rice cakes have a good color-"high year", which has the meaning of making a fortune, making a step by step and being sweet, implying a complete and sweet life in the new year. Cantonese people like to slice rice cakes and fry them in a pot. Bite it down, the surface aroma is tangy, and the inside is sticky and soft rice cake, plus the sweet taste, which is very popular among adults and children.

The most traditional Cantonese-style rice cakes are dark orange and plain, but they taste different. Now, many merchants also make the rice cakes into the shape of carp, which means that they are taller every year and have more than one year. It has become a double-hearted head. Many people like to buy these carp rice cakes as gifts besides eating them themselves.

2. Sugar ring

Among the seasonal foods, the sugar ring is probably the most beautiful and eye-catching. It has a unique shape, with a ring outside and a five-pointed star inside, which means interlocking and endless meaning.

Sugar rings have a long history. According to the records in Dongguan County Records, the sugar ring was moved southward by Dongguan ancestors. One of the foods brought from the north. In ancient Central Plains, sugar rings were made of flour. Later, when they arrived in Lingnan, they were changed to glutinous rice flour. When they were fried in an oil pan until they were cooked, they were golden yellow, which also implied that gold was full of houses.

3. Tangyuan

Most southern families are used to the traditional custom of having a family gathering and eating Tangyuan on the morning of the Spring Festival. It is said that Yuanxiao symbolizes family reunion, and eating Yuanxiao means family happiness and all the best in the new year. Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month is the same custom all over the country.

The custom of eating Yuanxiao on the Lantern Festival was formed in the Song Dynasty. Yuanxiao was called "Tangyuan" at first, because it floated on the water after boiling, which was beautiful and reminiscent of a bright moon hanging in the clouds. There is a bright moon in the sky, dumplings in a bowl, and every household is round and round, symbolizing reunion and good luck. Therefore, eating Yuanxiao expresses people's love for family reunion.

4. preserved meat

it is a traditional custom in Guangdong to eat preserved meat in the new year. "preserved meat" is a kind of delicious food that only existed years ago, such as sausage, bacon, preserved pig scalp, etc. Its delicious taste makes people salivate. In the old agricultural society, since the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, housewives will be busy preparing food for the New Year. Because curing bacon takes a long time, it must be started as soon as possible.

when buying bacon, you should choose the appearance with smooth color, the lean meat is hard and purplish red, the fat meat is golden yellow with no dent, and each piece of meat is neat, with a fragrant and delicious sugar and wine flavor, which will be particularly refreshing but not greasy. If the bacon has an odor and the meat color turns black, it indicates that it has been stored for too long.