Meizhou cuisine has distinct characteristics of Hakka cuisine, with fresh and salty taste and crisp taste.

The traditional Meizhou cuisine is mainly poultry and aquatic products. Meizhou's specialties include Meizhou salted chicken, Meizhou stuffed tofu, Meizhou pickled noodles, roasted meat with plum vegetables, vinegar-preserved fish, fried duck, stewed fish belly and so on.

Meizhou area includes Jinmeijiang District, Meixian District, xingning city, Wuhua County, Fengshun County, dapu county County, Jiaoling County and Pingyuan County * * * Meizhou 2 districts, 1 city and 5 counties, and there are many Hakka cuisines.

In addition, the local Meizhou Hakka Niang Liquor is also very famous and worth tasting.

Meizhou Salt Baked Chicken:

Meizhou Salt Baked Chicken selects local tender chickens, slaughters them, dries them, wraps the whole chicken tightly with a little cooking oil paper, buries them in the parched hot salt pile, cooks them with slow fire for half an hour, then tears them into strips and puts them on a plate, and can be eaten after pouring sesame oil. Baked salted chicken with crispy skin and delicious taste is a famous dish in Meizhou.

Hakka Niang wine:

Meizhou Hakka Niang wine is made of glutinous rice and wine cakes, which is similar to wine brewing. The method is to steam the glutinous rice, spread it out and cool it, then add the wine cake and mix it evenly, and then put it in a tile wine jar and seal it. After three or four days, it is made. Niangjiu is sweet and delicious, with the degree of 1-2 degrees. Hakka women love to drink it when they are confinement, which has the functions of enriching blood and health care.

Huangban:

In the northern mountainous area of Xingning in Meizhou, there is a unique rice named pearl rice. Its rice grain is smaller than rice, yellow, with extremely low yield and few races. However, using this kind of board, also called Hemi, has a very unique fragrance. Visitors who have just arrived in the northern mountainous areas will definitely try this snack. Although it is not necessarily the best, it is absolutely unique.

bamboo shoots

This is a typical Hakka-style snack. With potato powder as the skin, winter bamboo shoots, squid, shrimps, mushrooms, dried bean curd and pork belly as the fillings, it is wrapped into a bamboo shoot that looks like jiaozi and is bigger than jiaozi. It is steamed with strong fire and eaten with a little sesame oil. It is smooth and delicious.