Another worry is what to buy. In Paifang Street of Chaozhou Ancient City, apart from restaurants and snack bars, there are local specialty shops all over the street, ranging from beef balls to cakes and snacks, as well as local traditional wood carving handicrafts, which can be said to have everything, dazzling tourists and a little confusing.
If you eat and drink in Chaozhou, you will definitely eat special beef balls. The taste of Explosicum is unforgettable. They all provide vacuum packaging and cold delivery service, which is very convenient. When drinking tea in Chaozhou, you should also eat some refreshments, such as mung bean cake, navel cake and lobster sauce cake, each with its own characteristics. In addition, the Chaoshan products sold on the street are also delicious, and the festive and prosperous hearts are also specially shaped. Carved hearts are naturally very popular.
However, the most popular specialty on the streets of Chaozhou is three kinds of candied fruit, known as the three treasures of Chaozhou. Many tourists don't know what candied fruit is, but what are the so-called three treasures?
In fact, candied fruit and candied fruit are somewhat similar, but they are quite different. Candied fruit is mainly preserved with sugar, usually as a snack. Chaozhou candied fruit is mainly preserved with licorice, salt and sugar, which has the function of medicinal diet.
Chaozhou's three treasures refer to the three most distinctive candied fruits in Chaozhou, including old medicine orange, yellow-skinned douchi and old fragrant yellow.
The old medicine orange is best understood blindly, and it is made from kumquat. Everyone is a little strange to yellow-skinned black beans, but in fact, the raw material is also in the name, that is, yellow skin. This is a southern fruit that is very similar to longan. The grain is smaller than longan, the skin is thin and the fresh fruit is delicious.
In the end, it is as fragrant as yellow, and it is known as the first of the three treasures in Chaozhou. It is hard to see what the raw material is in the name, but it is actually bergamot. This kind of food is even more unfamiliar to everyone, and friends in the northern region may not have seen it when it was fresh. As it grows old and fragrant, it is more difficult to recognize its true face.
These three kinds of candied fruits, which are homologous to medicine and food, have been marinated for a long time, and their colors become black and black, which looks less attractive. But the enthusiastic Chaozhou shopkeeper will warmly invite you to taste the old medicine orange and drink a cup of tea brewed by the old fragrant yellow.
Tourists who have eaten too many kinds of delicious food are so kind that they are reluctant to take a bite, but they are surprised to find that they have a feeling of being tired of eating.
Yes, Chaozhou Sambo has the effects of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, resolving phlegm and moistening lung, but it is very suitable for all those who have eaten enough in Chaoshan tourism. The pharmacological soothing effect of traditional craft forging is much more reliable than eating the current dish of motilium. Therefore, many tourists will buy some Chaozhou Sambo to take home and give it away for their own use.