Cantonese cuisine is categorized into: Guangzhou Cuisine, Chaozhou Cuisine, Dongjiang Cuisine and so on.

1. Guangzhou Cuisine

Guangzhou Cuisine covers the Pearl River Delta and Zhaoqing, Shaoguan, Zhanjiang, etc. It is rich in ingredients, fine selection of materials, and excellent techniques, clear but not bland, fresh but not vulgar, tender but not raw, and oily but not greasy. Specializing in small fry, the requirements to master the fire and oil temperature just right.

2. Chaozhou Cuisine

Originally from the Chaoshan area, it has developed its own style by combining the strengths of Fujian and Guangdong. To cooking seafood, soup, vegetarian dishes, sweet dishes are the most characteristic. The knife work is fine and the flavor is pure. Although the Chaozhou cuisine is the world's most famous and expensive dishes, but the essence of the people's dishes, belonging to the coarse dishes fine work.

3, Dongjiang dishes

Dongjiang dishes originated in the Hakka people inhabited areas along the Dongjiang River in Guangdong, the dishes are mostly meat, very few aquatic products, the main material is prominent, pay attention to the aroma of thick, heavy oil, taste salty, to the casserole dish is long, with a distinctive rustic flavor.

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Famous Dishes

1, Honey Barbecued Pork

Features: To do the barbecued pork is best to use the plum blossom meat. Plum blossom meat is the upper shoulder of the pig, lean meat accounted for more than 90%, from the cross-section can be seen crisscrossed fat shredded meat. When you make barbecued pork with plum blossom meat, the fat shredded meat will be melted after baking, making the meat more flavorful and tender but not greasy.

2, Chaozhou brine platter

The most prominent feature of Chaozhou cuisine is to cook seafood. Cooking seafood selection of materials carefully, the production of fine, as for the sauce plate condiments, to achieve fresh and delicious, clear and not light, fresh and not fishy, lush and not greasy. This time mentioned the brine platter is not seafood, but also in the Chaozhou seat enjoys a good reputation.

3, stuffed tofu

The so-called tofu package includes a pre-dinner meal with tofu flower, as the main dish of fried stuffed tofu, tofu pot, tofu balls, glutinous rice stuffed tofu, fried tofu skin, and so on, and as a snack of tofu milk and so on.

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