1, Chaozhou spring cake

As early as in ancient times, the people of Chaozhou have the custom of eating spring rolls, in ancient times, the spring cake, also known as the "spring plate", according to legend, 1,600 years ago in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is a spring plate came out. Spring plate, that is, in the spring day with vegetables, cakes, bait, fruit, candy and so on into a plate, gifts to friends and relatives, to take the meaning of its birth to welcome the spring, symbolizing the beginning of the first year of renewal of the auspicious.

Spring pancakes to modern times, but also evolved into spring rolls, and spring pancakes parallel, is a famous Chaozhou folk snacks. However, the cake skin is spread more thinly, rolled into the trap material to seal, and then put into the frying pan fried into a golden brown, eat especially crispy and delicious, not only eat on the day of the Spring Festival, can be eaten throughout the year.

2, Chaoshan beef meatballs

In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there were many countryside peasants picking up small burdens, in the city of Chaozhou, walking the streets, hawking beef meatball soup. The clever Chaoshanese saw that the Hakka beef balls were very distinctive and transplanted them. However, the Chaoshan people did not simply copy the Hakka beef meatballs, but absorbed their strengths and improved on their weaknesses.

For example, the traditional countryside pounding beef meatballs, is to use the back of the chopper, so the effect is poor, and not enough strength, affecting the quality of the meat paste, the Chaozhou people will change to use two special iron bars, each 3 pounds, the face of the square or triangular, take turns with both hands pounding, left and right, until the beef into a meat paste.

Because the Chaoshan people make beef meatballs with better skills than the traditional farmers, and are more meticulous, the beef meatballs made by the Chaoshan people are crispy and have a strong beef flavor, which is particularly tasty, and soon after they were made, they soon became popular throughout the entire Chaoshan area, and became a kind of the most popular Chaozhou folk snacks.

Expanded

Chaoshan beef meatballs characteristics: it is said that the good beef meatballs thrown on the ground can jump up high, the previous beef meatballs are handmade may be able to make this show, because all by manual operation, so the cost is higher than the mechanism. early 80's the emergence of the ball machine, the traditional way of making handmade is also increasingly rare.

With the foreigners and the old Shantou people want to taste the kind of "fall to the ground can still be bounced high" hand-beaten beef meatballs, which makes the delicious hand-beaten beef meatballs to reappear in the "rivers and lakes".