The dishes cooked in Dabu pay attention to salty, strong, roasted (hot) and fragrant. The snacks are mostly processed with grain as the main ingredient. The varieties are diverse and the taste is unique, forming unique Hakka and flavor snacks, which are quite famous.

Famous dishes and snacks in the territory include: white chopped chicken, meatballs, stuffed tofu, braised pork with pickled vegetables, chicken blood cake, glutinous rice cake, Yizi cake, bamboo shoot cake, eight-treasure glutinous rice, pancakes, leaf cake, rat cake, duck double soup

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The traditional Hakka cuisine in Dabu County has a variety of varieties, unique flavors, and a full range of colors, fragrances, and fully embodies the characteristics of Hakka food culture. It is quite famous and deeply loved by overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and domestic folks. Therefore, Dabu is known as "Hakka"

It is known as the "City of Traditional Food".

Yannanfei Tea Field Resort Ye Shuai’s Former Residence Thousand Buddha Pagoda Overseas Chinese Encirclement Yinna Mountain Wuzhi Stone [Baihou Pancake] (The one in Baihou Town, Dabu County is the most authentic, not far from the county seat Huliao Town,

It takes about 15 minutes by car) and has a history of more than 200 years.

According to legend, it is one of the four snacks (pancakes, mung bean cakes, bean soup, and fern powder cakes) that Yang Zanxu, a Baihou native, brought back to his hometown during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty when he was the inspector of Shaanxi Province.

Pancakes are known as the "treasure bag".

Its production method: first, use flour as the crust.

Add an appropriate amount of water and a little salt water to the flour, and knead it vigorously until it is soft and sticky. Place it on a heated flat pan, push it flat and press it thin. When baked, the cake will be as thin as paper.

The second is to make fillings.

Generally, meat, dried tofu, white garlic, shiitake mushrooms, shrimps, shredded squid, etc. are used as raw materials, plus appropriate cooking oil and soy sauce, simmered until cooked, wrapped in a pancake crust, and added with pepper or hot sauce and other condiments.

, ready to eat, it is delicious, sweet and delicious.

[Duck Pine Soup] (available in the county) The raw materials are pure white starch, brown sugar, lard, ginger and dried tangerine peel.

The method of making it is to stir-fry the cornstarch first, then add an appropriate amount of water to the brown sugar and boil it until thickened. Filter it through coarse gauze to remove impurities, put it back into the pot, sprinkle with minced ginger and tangerine peel, and add an appropriate amount of oil.

When it is boiling, use a fine sieve to evenly sift the fried cornstarch onto the thick sugar, while slowly pouring in the oil and stirring constantly until the soup is dark brown, bright and moist, and the aroma erupts.

It tastes sweet and crunchy.

[Yi Zi Cong] (Eatable in the county seat) has a history of more than 300 years.

The key points for making it are: first, use glutinous rice flour to make the dough, knead it until soft and sticky, divide it into small balls, sprinkle with an appropriate amount of cornstarch, and press it into a rice dumpling skin; second, make the filling, usually with meat slices, shredded squid,

Use dried tofu, white garlic, shiitake mushrooms, dried shrimps, etc. as raw materials, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil and soy sauce, simmer until thoroughly cooked, then wrap the fillings into the rice dumpling skin, tie it into a square shape, wrap it with clean leaves, and coat

Add cooking oil, put it in a steamer, steam it over high heat, add condiments, and it is ready to eat. It has a unique taste.

[Pearl Rice Cake] (Eatable in the county) The original name was rat rice cake. The famous writer Douai thought this name was indecent, so he changed its name to "Pearl Rice Cake".

Its main raw material is sticky rice.

The method is to soak it in cold water for a few hours, pick it up and drain it, then grind it into powder, then mix it with boiling water, knead it repeatedly until it is appropriate, and then twist it into a ball. That is, use a special "thousand-hole cake rub" to put it on the pot, and put the cake into a ball.

Press it on the rice noodle and rub it hard back and forth. Then you can remove each 1-2 inch rice noodle strip and drop it into the pot. When the rice noodle is cooked and floating on the surface, pick it up and soak it in cold water. After cooling, pick it up and dry it for later use.

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Before eating, it can be boiled or stir-fried. It is delicious with diced meat, chopped green onion, pepper and other condiments.

In Dabu County, the pearl cakes in the Xihe area are the most famous.

[Mung Bean Cake] (can be eaten in the county) The main raw materials are mung beans, glutinous rice, and brown sugar, plus an appropriate amount of orange cake, jujube meat, longan meat, melon slices, etc. as condiments.

The production method is almost the same as that of Yizi Zong; use glutinous rice flour as the skin, bean paste and condiments as the filling, wrap it in the skin, tie it into a rectangular shape with clean banana leaves, apply cooking oil to wrap it, and put it in a steamer

Steam over high heat until cooked.

When eaten, it is sweet and fragrant, with a complete color, flavor and aroma, so it is known as "gold digging in the sand".

According to experimental measurements, it is rich in vitamins, fructose, tannins and other nutrients.

[Ren Ding Cake] (Can be eaten in the county) Mainly made from a mixture of sticky rice and glutinous rice powder, mixed with filtered brown sugar water or boiling water, sprinkled with a little edible red coloring, knead until soft and sticky, then knead into small balls.

Use the palm of your hand to roll it into a cylindrical strip, about 15 centimeters long, and place it in a steamer over high heat to steam thoroughly.

Most of the people in rural areas of Dabu make this kind of cake as an offering during the New Year's Day or the meeting to welcome the gods, which symbolizes the happiness of the family and the prosperity of the population.

[Abacus] (Can be eaten in the county) The main raw materials are taro and starch, the ratio is 2:1, and the ingredients include minced meat, shredded squid, mushrooms, shrimp, etc.

Preparation method: Peel, wash, slice the taro, sprinkle with some salt, steam thoroughly, heat and mix into potato starch, add boiling water, mix well and knead until tough, roll into strips, cut into particles, roll into round shape, and then use

Press it with your thumb and index finger to form an oblate shape with two concave sides, like beads on an abacus.

Then put it into a pot of boiling water and cook, remove and drain the water, then put it into the pot and stir-fry the ingredients evenly, pour in the pork bone soup, sprinkle with chopped green onion or coriander, and serve.

Its flavor is smooth, delicious and delicious.

[Bamboo Shoot Cake, Bean Cake] (can be eaten in the county) The production includes two parts: the skin and the filling.