When it comes to Meizhou, people's first reaction to Meizhou food is that your stuffed tofu is really delicious, and this "stuffed tofu", the number one Hakka dish in Meizhou, has become a representative of Meizhou cuisine!

Chinese people have the idea that food is the most important thing to them, which has led to the formation of different food cultures in different regions. For Meizhou cuisine, "brewing" occupies an important position. When you come into contact with Hakka cuisine, you can feel that there is nothing that is not stuffed: stuffed tofu, stuffed bitter gourd, stuffed eggplant, stuffed lotus root, stuffed radish, stuffed carrots, stuffed chili peppers, stuffed string beans, stuffed pig's red, stuffed eggs, stuffed mushrooms, stuffed scallions? In short, there is a wide variety of dishes. Someone once said, "Is there any dish that you Meizhou people can't brew? However, what exactly is "stuffing"? And why are the people of Meizhou so obsessed with 'brewing'?

"Stuffing", that is to say, refers to the method of sandwiching, stuffing, coating and wrapping one ingredient with another or several other ingredients, and then heating them into a dish." Legend has it that stuffed vegetables are related to the change in dietary habits of the Hakka people who migrated south from the Central Plains. Hakka people who migrated from the Central Plains to the south, because they missed their hometown food, and there was no flour for wrapping dumplings in the migrating area, so they had to use different ingredients and vegetables instead of wrapping dumpling skins around the fillings, which created a diverse Hakka stuffed vegetable culture.

Stuffed Tofu

Stuffed Bitter Melon

Stuffed Eggplant

Meizhou Hakka Stuffed Vegetables are unique in their approach, and their cooking methods are varied. Usually, the stuffing of stuffed vegetables depends on the taste of each person or the family's abundance and frugality, usually using pork, with a few mushrooms, squid, shrimp, etc., chopped into a stuffed mud, sandwiched into the corresponding dishes can be.

Stuffed lotus root

Stuffed scallion

Stuffed radish

The most famous Hakka dish is stuffed tofu, which is a must-have for all festivals. Stuffed tofu has long been famous in Meizhou cuisine, but all banquets will have this dish, is the traditional dietary habits of the Central Plains and the migration of the special production of a combination of life-style exemplary food. Therefore, stuffed tofu is the first and foremost Hakka dish.

Stuffed mushrooms

Stuffed bean curd

Nowadays, there are Meizhou people in many places, and where there are Meizhou people, there are different "stuffed" dishes. Wherever the people of Meizhou go, the "stuffed" dish is an eternal homesickness dish. Meizhou people why 'brew' so fond of, I think for the Meizhou people, brewing dishes have long exceeded the function of the stomach, but accompanied by the Meizhou people's lifelong feelings of homeland, is to send the Meizhou people's homesickness as well as a legacy of the Hakka culture.