The four major cuisines commonly known as Hainan in the past generally refer to the local specialties of Hainan:

1 Wenchang chicken

Wenchang Chicken is the first of the four famous dishes in Hainan and the most famous traditional dish of Han nationality in Wenchang, Hainan. Wenchang Chicken is used for banquets, light meals or family dishes in Hainan.

There are two main stages in the authentic Wenchang chicken breeding method: slope chicken, that is, stocking, mainly feeding on coconut and fig seeds; In the cage fattening stage, cooked rice, bean skin, sweet potato, rice bran and other mixed feeding are the main ones! ! Prepare these ingredients every morning, that is, put sweet potato shreds, glutinous rice, rice bran, peanut cakes and coconut cakes into a pot and boil them. Soon after boiling, add sweet potato leaves and stir them together. In order to make the chicken more delicious, peanut cake, coconut cake, shredded coconut, rice and rice were mixed during the fattening period 30 days before slaughter. Wenchang chicken specially fed by this method has the characteristics of crisp skin, soft and fine bones, tender and smooth meat, fresh and fat but not greasy.

Its practice is called white chopping, also called white cutting. The cooked vegetables are smooth, thin and crisp, rich in flavor, fat but not greasy. Dip sauce also goes well with chicken. It is made of chicken soup, coriander, ginger and garlic, sugar, orange juice and sweet pepper. With Wenchang chicken rice, it is a famous food in Southeast Asia. Steaming rice is wrapped in chicken oil, and every bite can taste the natural sweetness of chicken. In Singapore, Malaysia and other places, it will be called Hainan chicken rice. Many China people travel to Southeast Asia, and Hainan chicken rice is also a must-eat dish.

2. Lehe Crab

Let's talk about Lehe Crab, which is produced in the waters around Wanning City. Lehe crab is actually a kind of blue crab. Hainan abounds in all kinds of seafood. Why are Le and Crab so famous? Butter is mainly meat and fat, which is rare in other blue crabs, especially its fat cream, which is golden and shiny, like salted duck eggs and fragrant. "Lehe Crab" has a variety of cooking techniques, such as steaming, boiling, frying and roasting, especially "steaming", which not only maintains the original flavor, but also maintains the original color beauty. You can get up early to go to the fishing pier or go to the seafood market to buy it. Fresh and big, it is the first choice for gourmets.

3. East goat

Dong goat, mainly produced in Dongshanling, Wanning, Hainan, is called Dong goat. In Wanning, no matter whether you get married for your birthday or Chinese New Year, you can't live without a feast of sheep. Dong goat is mainly used for meat, with excellent meat quality, uniform fat distribution, tender skin and thick meat, delicious taste and no peculiar smell. During the Republic of China, the Nanjing government also included it in the menu of the "Presidential Office", which is now famous all over the world. The delicacies cooked with Dong goat include braised Dong goat and clear soup Dong goat, each with its own characteristics, which are rare delicacies. Braised East Goat is golden in color, neatly packaged, crisp and rotten in meat, palatable in lubrication, fragrant and delicious.

Step 4 add ducks

Jiaji Town, qionghai city, Hainan is rich in Jiaji ducks. Jiaji Town, qionghai city is an excellent duck breed introduced from abroad by overseas Chinese of Qiong nationality in the early years. This dish has a white skin and thick meat, attractive aroma, seasoning to help taste, refreshing and crisp, and intriguing. Cargill ducks can be cooked in various ways. Generally, Jiaji duck has three methods: boiled duck, salted duck and roast duck. However, white cut can best reflect the original flavor, so it is the most famous, with big chest, thin skin, soft bones, tender meat, less fat, fat but not greasy, and delicious taste. Moreover, the seasoning is also very particular: garlic and ginger are washed with rolling duck soup, squeezed into lime juice, and made with refined salt, sugar and Chili sauce.

Of course, in addition to the above foods, there are many special foods in Hainan.

1, Hainan powder

The most popular street snack in Hainan. Hainan rice noodles are as white as snow and as delicate as silk. Compared with the famous Guilin rice noodles and Yunnan crossing the bridge rice noodles, its fineness is incomparable to the above rice noodles. Its eating method is called "cold salad" in northerners and "marinated powder" in Hainan, that is, fried peanuts, fried sesame seeds, bean sprouts, chopped green onion, shredded pork, sesame oil, sauerkraut, coriander and bamboo shoots are added to the prepared rice noodles. It is precisely because of the delicacy of Hainan powder that the mixed materials can taste. After they are mixed evenly, their taste is full of fragrance and endless aftertaste. After eating, add a spoonful of conch broth cooked with conch or onion soup cooked with shallots, which is very delicious. You can also pour the soup into a bowl filled with Hainan powder, which tastes more delicious.

2, Paul powder

Paul powder is also a kind of rice flour, which is slightly thicker than "Hainan powder" and is called "coarse powder soup" in northern Hainan. However, because Paul Town in Wenchang County is the most famous one, the name of Paul Powder was opened. Delicious abalone powder is in the soup. There is often a big pot in the powder shop, which is cooked with pig bones or cow bones. When the soup is boiling, skim off the floating foam until the fishy smell of bones is completely oozing out, and then add a proper amount of salt and monosodium glutamate to make it fresh and tender. Paul's noodle soup is spicy and delicious, with strong and chewy seasoning, not greasy or greasy, fresh and slightly sour and spicy, and attractive appetite.

3. Coconut rice

Among the folk foods in Hainan, coconut rice is a very unique food, which is steamed with high-quality glutinous rice, natural coconut meat and coconut juice in Hainan, and is a traditional peasant snack in Hainan. It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica and folk food tonic prescriptions, which has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, warming the middle warmer and regulating qi. The ancient coconut rice was stewed in a lime-burning kiln, and the production process was complicated.

Now tourists who travel to Hainan can generally eat this dish in the arcade snack street in Haikou and the food city in Sanya.

4. Hainan zongzi

Hainan Zongzi is a traditional snack of Han nationality, belonging to the Dragon Boat Festival. Similar to China's Zongzi, it is wrapped by Hiragi leaves into a square cone and weighs about half a kilogram. There are salted egg yolk, black pork and shrimp in glutinous rice. When it is peeled off, it first smells of Hiragi leaves and glutinous rice, and then smells of meat and eggs. The fragrance is strong or weak, and the taste and meat are ready-made, which makes people's appetite open. Loki Zongzi in Danzhou and Ruixi Zongzi in Chengmai are the most famous in Hainan. In addition, plant ash is soaked in water, and then the supernatant is soaked in glutinous rice, which is then made into alkaline dumplings.

5. Lingshui acid powder

Authentic Lingshui acid powder comes from the hand of a man named Hu in Lingshui County and Village. In the second generation, it was transferred to the Wangs. Dried worms, fish cakes, small salted fish, shredded squid and other seafood were added to the ingredients of Hainan powder, and vinegar was added to the sauce soup used to mix the powder. Coupled with the yellow persimmon pepper, a specialty of Lingshui, it becomes sour and sweet, which is far from the taste of Hainan powder. Slowly "Lingshui acid"

6, chicken excrement rattan clam

Paederia hainanensis is a folk tonic with local characteristics, also known as Paederia hainanensis, which is refined from Paederia hainanensis leaves and rice. Although the name is not very pleasant to hear, Paederia Japonica has the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, benefiting qi and enriching blood, and its smell is mellow, so Paederia Japonica soup has always been a favorite food.