Shantou has been known as the "hometown of food" reputation, Shantou food reflects the deep heritage of the Chaoshan food culture. Shantou's more famous local snacks are; "Mom Palace dumplings ball", "Xitian Lane oyster brand". Xitian Lane Oyster Roast", "Fuhecheng Beef Balls", "Xinxing Fried Cake", "Shrimp Bamboo Shoots in Piu Xiang Snack Shop", etc., and a variety of seafood flavors on Nan'ao Island.
The old mom's house is a great place to eat.
Mother Palace dumplings ball, Shantou, Shantou, Mother Palace dumplings ball is a very special dumplings, it is with the help of A-Ma belief in the spirit of the light, from an ordinary food, into a suitable for the enjoyment of the four seasons of the uncommon food. Around 1920, a man named Zhang Qiangde started to sell dumplings at a stall near the Ma-Ma Palace. The production is very careful; the selection of materials (selection of full-grain glutinous rice), creative (sweet and salty double spelling stuffing), no expense (salty stuffing with mushrooms, shrimp, rice, rice and other ingredients). Shrimp. Chinese sausage. Square fish powder. Lotus seeds. Chestnuts and marinated nanmilk mane head meat), in the past, the store also hangs a plaque written "food fixed Zhengzhi", and later interpreted into a phrase widely circulated in the community; "Lao Ma Gong zongzi ball - food fixed Zhengzhi! "In the past, the Chaoshan people would come to worship Mazu every time they sailed to the sea to pray for blessings and peace. In front of the Old Mother's Palace, will go along to buy a few dumplings ball as an offering, after worship all the way to the mantle will eat them, and delicious and hunger.
Xitian Lane oyster brand, oyster brand for the traditional food of Chaoshan, the market speculation or family meals are very common. 1930 around the time, Yang two first in the Shengping Road, Xitian Lane business, and later there were Hu Jinxing, Yao Lao Si and others continue to specialize in the vicinity. In order to compete for business, each of them tried to improve the cooking technology and quality, forming the famous Xitian Lane oyster brand at home and abroad. Oyster brand with fresh oysters (scientific name of oysters) as the main ingredient, with the mane head meat fried in lard. The best snow powder, fresh duck eggs are the ingredients. Fresh duck eggs are the ingredients, chili sauce, chili pepper sauce, fish sauce, and other ingredients. Fish sauce． Seasoned with chili sauce, fish sauce, green onion, etc. The oysters are made from the best quality oysters from Dalhousie. Snow powder． Mixed with green onion grains in a pan (commonly known as frying pan), with a high fire, thick turnip intestinal fat frying, topped with egg batter, and with the right amount of high-quality fish sauce. Chili sauce. Fry until both sides are golden brown. When tasting, put on the cleaned and chopped coriander and with the best fish sauce as a seasoning. It has the characteristics of crispy outside and tender inside, and crispy and fresh.
Fuhocheng beef meatballs, Fuhocheng, the original is a place name of the old city, in the 1960s, here in the coal store foot Chen's beef meatball store as the representative of the "Fuhocheng beef meatballs" has been known far and wide. Beef meatballs, first of all, to choose a good beef membrane, cut into thick slices, and then set the meat on a large wooden board, with a mallet side whacking flip, with the best lychee mallet, whacking the meat must be uniformly fast mantle moderately, the meat pulp to the hand to grab and put down, the meat does not stick to the degree of very laborious work.
Xinxing Street fried cake barley, as early as the 1940s, fried cake barley cooking expert Xu Chunsong in Shantou City, Shantou Xinxing Street, Maocheng No. franchise famous, known as the old Xu fried barley. Steamed with high-quality white rice syrup processing, with lard, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar. Sugar. Fresh shrimp． Liver． Lean meat． Fresh oysters and other ingredients, plus sacha chili sauce. MSG． Fish sauce． Snow powder water. The soup stir-fried even focus on the fire, the color of the golden yellow bright, fragrant.
Other what kuey teow ah, millet ah, these are not considered Shantou specialties, other places have, just that the practice is not the same.
Non-food items:
Specialty One: Chaozhou Embroidery
Cantonese embroidery is one of the four major types of tongue embroidery in China, along with Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery and Shu embroidery. Chaoshan embroidery belongs to the scope of Cantonese embroidery. The embroidery of Chaoshan has enjoyed a good reputation both at home and abroad. According to historical records, during the Tang Zhenguan period (627-649 AD), Chaoshan already had an embroidery craft, which has gradually formed a unique style through the evolution of generations. Chaozhou embroidery is mainly characterized by rigorous composition, sparse and appropriate, a variety of needlework, rich in color, solemn and thick, the most prominent is to support the ground cushion, the use of gold, silver thread inlay, resembling relief, strong texture, which is the famous "nail gold cushion floating". In addition, there are velvet embroidery, gold and velvet mixed embroidery, yarn embroidery, bead embroidery.
Specialty two: Chaoshan yarn
Taking linen, ramie, glass yarn, chemical fiber fabrics and colorful embroidery threads as the raw materials, adopting the crafts of embroidery, crocheting and felting, the products are made into exquisite and decorative daily necessities, which are of various varieties and are sold in more than one country and region on five continents. Chaoshan drawstring has clothing, tablecloths, pillowcases, quilt covers, bedspreads, handkerchiefs, curtains, tray cushions, etc., the pattern is mainly floral, fresh and elegant.