Characteristics of Teochew CuisineTeochew Cuisine, or Teochew Cuisine for short. Its cooking has the characteristics of Lingnan culture, the most characteristic is to borrow seafood, pay attention to raw and fresh.

The main cooking methods are: (fire Wen), stewing, frying, deep-frying, burning, burning, cooking (steaming), stir-frying, soaking, buckling, clearing and dripping and so on 10 kinds of methods. Among them, Wen and stew to make flavorful, stir-fry to make crisp and smooth, cooking, clear, soak, drizzle can maintain the original flavor.

Chaosu cuisine with a wide range of materials, with "three more" characteristics:

One: aquatic products. Most of them are taken from the sea, fish, shrimp, mussels, clams, etc. has been the main ingredients of Chaozhou cuisine, can be cooked into many famous dishes.

Two: Vegetarian food style and unique. It is cooked through the meat and become, on the table when you see vegetables do not see meat, is a vegetarian meat to do, so that it reaches the "flavor to make three out of the flavor to make three into the" situation, so that the green vegetables are soft and rotten, not rice, full of meat flavor, fresh and tasty, vegetarian and not fasting. There are dozens of famous products such as thick mushroom mustard, glass cabbage and guardian of the country, which are the representatives of vegetarian dishes in Guangdong cuisine.

Three: beet varieties and special materials. Sweet potato, taro, pumpkin, ginkgo, water chestnut, lotus seed, citrus orange, pineapple and beans and other plants are certainly commonly used, and fat pork, pork and other meat can also be made into a top quality dishes. With plants to do the sweet and cloying phase, the representative works are golden melon taro puree, sweet lotus seed, lamb roasted white fruit, sweet wrinkles fried meat and so on.

Chao Cai especially to cook seafood: such as open hearth water chestnuts, raw cooking lobster, cooking mandarin ducks crab, red stewed shark's fin, red (fire Wen) sea cucumbers, etc., are fresh aquatic products as the main raw material, fresh flavor, lush and not greasy. Another example is stewed eel, crab balls in clear soup, etc. The soup dishes are freshly stewed, keeping the original flavor. Chaozhou cuisine has more characteristics of sweet dishes, such as sweet wrinkles fried meat, its skin wrinkles, meat soft and sweet, sweet flavor.