2. Chicken. Cantonese people have always been "no feast without chicken", and eating whole chicken takes the homonym of "home", which means starting with chicken and reuniting the whole family. In addition, the whole chicken is also an indispensable tribute for Cantonese people to worship their ancestors. Fresh chicken with scallion oil and white-cut chicken are the most popular. Cocks and hens eat slightly differently. Hens are generally used for stewing soup, while cocks are suitable for quick frying. Because the fat content of hens is high, the umami substances in meat are easily dissolved in soup, and the stewed chicken soup tastes delicious. On the contrary, the rooster's meat is tight and it is difficult to make thick soup. People prefer the delicate "young chicken" when eating roosters, so it is more important to stir-fry it quickly to keep it fresh and delicious.
3. Water chestnut. The common water chestnut has a black shell and two sharp ends, and looks like a black eagle. It is said that eating water chestnut in Mid-Autumn Festival can make children grow smart because they are defined as "angular" and "sharp-edged". However, water chestnut is often rejected by children because of its unflattering image. Water chestnut is rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins and trace elements, and has the effects of diuresis and lactation, quenching thirst and relieving alcoholism. When young, it can be eaten raw as fruit, which is sweet, flat and non-toxic, with crispy skin and delicious meat. You can also cook peeled water chestnut with rice into salty white porridge. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes and drinking a bowl of water chestnut porridge, a lot of greasy in the stomach was removed on the spot.
4, grapefruit. The round shape of grapefruit symbolizes reunion. At the same time, the homonym of "grapefruit" and "you" represents the good will to protect the moon. In addition, before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it coincides with the abundant period, so grapefruit naturally becomes the festive food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Or "Italian head" is good enough, which makes grapefruit an indispensable protagonist in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating grapefruit in Guangdong is still a tradition. When selecting pomelos, you can buy pomelos with sharp top and wide bottom, thin and smooth skin, light green or yellow color, rich fragrance and elastic skin by "seeing", "smelling" and "knocking".
5, pig cake. Shaxi people in Zhongshan celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and have the habit of eating pig cakes and making porridge. In the era of lack of materials, poor families can't afford moon cakes, so they use "brown rice cakes" and "pig cakes" instead. Brown "brown rice cake" is made of sticky rice crushed into powder and mixed with slices of sugar. It is about 1 cm thick and about1cm in diameter, with a small piece of thin fat embedded in the middle, which tastes sweet and greasy. "Piggy cake" is made of flour into the shape of a pig and sold in a pig cage. It is affectionately called "children's moon cake".
6, snails. Chen Mianxiang's "Yangcheng Zhuzhi Ci" in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "How is the Mid-Autumn Festival? Every family feeds more cakes and baits. Worship Chang 'e and pour the moon, and the taro will smell more fragrant snails. " The climate in the south is still warm during the Mid-Autumn Festival, unlike the cold autumn in the north, which is a good season to touch snails, so fried snails are also an essential delicacy. People in Lingnan believe that eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight, and before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when snails are empty, there are no snails in their bellies, and the meat quality is particularly fat. Therefore, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
7. Shantou. Cantonese "taro" is homophonic with "protecting the head". In Mid-Autumn Festival, taro must be eaten by the whole family. Big taro represents adults, small taro represents children, and eating taro together by the whole family means family reunion and peace. In addition, eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival also means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. There is a common saying that eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival and worshipping ancestors with taro, "When rivers and streams talk to each other, taro is scary to eat." The Milky Way and Chaoshan people call it a river. In A.D. 1279, Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty, which was cruel to the Han people and the people were massacred. In order not to forget the suffering of Hu people's rule, later generations took taro as a homonym with "Hu people" to pay homage to their ancestors, which has been passed down from generation to generation and still exists today.
8. hey. On the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, many families in urban and rural areas of Enping, Guangdong, besides eating moon cakes, they also have to make a kind of cake called "Ye Baojin" to eat. Eating "leaf-wrapped gold" is another local custom for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that eating "leaf-wrapped gold" can bring good luck all the year round. "Ye Baojin" was originally called "Ye Zaixiang". Because it opened like an ointment, some people nicknamed it "Ointment Xiang". Later, people saw that the cake was golden yellow, as if the leaves were wrapped in a piece of gold, so they simply called it "leaf wrapped in gold."