Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

The annual Mid-Autumn Festival is here!

Rarely do we have to raise our glasses to the moon

Family reunion

How can we not have good food to go with it?

Eating

is the best way for Hakka people to think of their hometown during the Mid-Autumn Festival

Hakka Whacking Fish

Whacking Fish is one of the traditional dishes of Hakka people in Hakka houses, which is excellent in color, aroma, taste and shape, and has the effect of soothing the mind and wakening up the brain, brightening up the eyes, diuretic, and promoting sleep, and it is the gourmet food for nourishing and nourishing the body and it is one of the top dishes of the folk banquets all the times.

Longnan folk "do not know the whacking fish is not considered a great chef," said. Ancestral whacking fish is the euphonious government official Liu Huaigu (Guangdong Chaozhou Chaoyang county magistrate) chef in the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years developed, and then spread to Longnan. In the Guangxu years in the capital as an official of the Longnan people Xu received the balance of the banquet invited the hundred officials, specially called the family chef did the whacking fish, unexpectedly the hundred officials are very favored by the whacking fish, the hundred officials praised, a moment, Longnan whacking fish fame in the capital.

Hakka Stuffed Tofu

The Hakka ancestors originally lived in the Central Plains, the local production of wheat, and often use flour to make dumplings. Later, because of war and other reasons, the Hakka ancestors migrated to the south to live. In the south, there was more rice and less wheat, so there was very little flour, and tofu became a substitute for dumplings.

Spring Rolls

The founders of spring rolls were the Hakka people of Wai Yuen, and it is said that they were adapted from spring pancakes that the Hakka people brought to the south from the Central Plains. Due to the large variety of vegetables in the south, the pasty was spread thinner and thinner, the sandwich vegetables were made more and more refined, and then cold or fried, the spring rolls were formed in their present form. Longnan Hakka people do spring rolls especially like to use tsubaki sprouts mixed with egg skin, shredded meat as filling. Tsubaki spring also, over time, to Tsubaki buds as the filling of this snack is called "spring rolls".

Phoenix Pearl Soup

Phoenix Pearl, one of Longnan's specialties, was originally called Longan Pearl. Legend has it that during the Kangxi years, Longnan people Xu Mou traveled day and night to deliver the tribute live dragon head fish to the Beijing court praise, the court sent ministers to Longnan reward. Xu will pearl powder with meals. The minister ate it and marveled at it. Asked about its name, Xu replied that it was "Dragon Eye Pearl Soup", meaning that it resembled the eyes of a dragonhead fish. The minister of this name taboo, expel the "dragon's eye" called "pearl powder". 1982 in jiangxi province grain, oil and food exhibition, was rated as high quality grain replica, and named as phoenix eye pearl.

Making pearl soup is not easy. First of all, the potato flour with boiling water into a ball; secondly, the ball of potato flour into a round bottom pot spread (no fire), with a hand clockwise pressure on the potato ball on the pot and keep rotating, so that the potato ball slowly decomposed into a pearl-like particles, people called "pearl rice"; and then, with a rice sieve to filter out the uniform pearl rice.

Hakka Fried Fish

Taken from local river fish, it has an attractive flavor, tender texture, slightly spicy and sour, and a strong fish flavor. The origin of this dish is said to be related to Wang Yangming, a philosopher and thinker of the Ming Dynasty, who was ordered by the imperial court to patrol Nan'an, Ganzhou, Tingzhou and Zhangzhou in 1516. Wang Yangming was a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province and loved fish in his life. A Ling chef cooked fish for him to eat every day, often changing the pattern of fish cooking. Once when the cook was cooking the fish, he used Xiaojiu (rice vinegar) as wine in his hustle and bustle. Wang Yangming ate the fish with different flavors and was very impressed. This dish of "small fried fish" has been famous ever since.

Hakka Grey Water Knowledge

Grey Water Knowledge is a traditional Hakka snack and dish. It is a pure green food, absolutely environmentally friendly. Whenever a relative's family has a wedding, the relative has to make a good Grey Water Confessions along with other gifts to congratulate them. Grey water meets can be steamed or fried, and generally have two colors, yellow or green. The yellow color is made by adding an ingredient called acacia blossom to the paste, while the green color is made by adding fresh chives to the paste.

Hakka Chestnut Potato Balls

To taro, sweet potatoes or chestnut potatoes as the main ingredient, the potatoes with a ginger brush brush into a paste, with sweet potato flour, rolled into a round shape and then fried, crispy and delicious, long aftertaste.

Longnan cut cake

Cut cake, also known as white cut cake, melon slices, sugar, peanuts, sesame seeds, onion oil, these are essential ingredients to do cut cake. The pastries are made into bricks and are usually served in slices or pieces with a knife, and the pastries have a thick, very pure flavor.

It is understood that the Hakka people do sweet cakes has a history of hundreds of years, its cakes are varied, whether it is the New Year's Eve, visiting friends and relatives or rituals and prayers, the Hakka people will take the cakes with them, there is a meaning of good luck. It is an indispensable food for the Hakka Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, when you are tired of eating icy, fruit, five kernel, bean paste moon cake, do you want to eat a piece of hometown cut cake ......

These Hakka traditional food,

although it can't satisfy people's petty taste nowadays,

but it is inherited as always,

will These delicacies will remind you of this rich and long Hakka flavor no matter where you are in the world

That's the taste of your hometown

-- look up at the moon and think of your hometown

This is the taste of your hometown

This is the taste of your hometown.