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What are the specialties of Hainan

Hainan Island in China's southernmost, is a multi-ethnic settlement, the integration of personnel formed with Hainan characteristics of the flavor of the food, Hainan characteristics of the food, small partners to play in Hainan absolutely can not miss the following these delicious dishes and flavorful snacks.

Wenchang chicken

As the first of Hainan's four famous dishes, Wenchang chicken has long been the chef played to the fullest, salt _, white chopped, steamed, fried and other cooking techniques, concocted a hundred kinds of delicious dishes. Taniu Town is the birthplace of Wenchang chicken, but also the main production area of Wenchang chicken, where the countryside grows a lot of banyan trees, under the trees are always flocks of chickens, chickens eat banyan seeds, living and reproducing, Wenchang chicken and thus the meat is tender, thin skin and bone crisp, the flavor is very strong. Legend has it that a Wenchang man was an official in the Ming Dynasty, and when he returned to the capital, he brought a few Wenchang chickens for the emperor to taste. After tasting, the emperor praised: Chicken out of the culture of the township, people, culture and prosperity, chicken is sweet, really Wenchang chicken! Wenchang chicken thus named, reputation throughout the world.

East goat

East goat because the main production in Wanning, Hainan, East Mountain Ridge, the local people referred to as the East goat, East goat with high-quality goat meat and famous for the island and beyond, and it is with the Gaji duck, and the crab, and the Wenchang chicken is known as the four great dishes of Hainan. Hainan Dongshan goat body hair color black shiny, so also known as black goat, individual also have brown, hooves for brown-black, male and female goats have horns. East goat to meat-based, its meat quality is excellent, fat distribution uniformity, tender skin, thick meat, flavor, no stink. Hainan Dongshan goat goat fetus content is very high. It is the best donor for extracting goat fetus.

Gaji duck

Gaji duck is commonly known as "duck", is one of Hainan's four traditional dishes. Qiong overseas Chinese introduced from abroad in the early years of the good breed of duck, the earliest in the town of Qionghai City, Gaji breeding and breeding famous. Gaji duck breeding methods are particularly delicate: first to the ducklings fed freshwater small fish and shrimp or earthworms, etc., about two months later, the ducklings feathers on the first time, and then to cage, narrowing the scope of its activities, and rice, rice bran mixed and pinched into a small mass of filler, after more than 20 days of filler, when the duck's beak and feet become white, fat infiltration into the muscle, fat and tender meat, fed in this way to Gaji ducks, called the Authentic Kaji duck fed in this way is called "authentic Kaji duck", with white skin and thick meat, attractive aroma and flavorful condiments, crisp and slippery, and intriguing taste.

Boro Vermicelli

Boro Vermicelli is a specialty snack rice noodles in Wenchang City, Hainan. To rice noodles with beautiful soup and a variety of seasonings modulation and become. Because of the town of Wenchang City, the hug Luo name, and because of its powder body than the "Hainan dress up" slightly thick, so the northern part of the Qiongbei also called "thick powder soup". Legend has it that since the Ming Dynasty, holding Luo powder has become a hold Luo town famous for the cuisine of the four townships. Holding Luo powder is a soup powder category, the value of the soup is good, the soup quality is quiet, fresh and delicious, sweet

. The soup is sweet, but it is a unique sweetness, sweet but not greasy, and sweet with acid, tantalizing the appetite, the taste is wonderful.

Huale Crab

Huale Crab is mainly produced in Wanning City, and the town of Huale in the sea, cream full of meat fat, rare for other green crabs, especially its fat paste, golden and oily, like salted duck egg yolk, fragrant. Crab food made of Hele is one of Hainan's four famous dishes. The most common way to eat is steamed, dipped in ginger vinegar seasoning, the original flavor, the beauty of it. Characteristics:

Original flavor, tender crab meat, paste yellow like salted egg yolk, delicious flavor, rich in nutrients. Compared with the mainland river crab, Hele crab has two characteristics: First, Hele crab fat cream is almost the whole of the cover in the back cover, cream slightly quite, while the mainland river crab cream rotten soft, for the block; Second, Hele crab meat thick and more, the mainland river crab meat smooth and weak.

Lingao suckling pig

Lingao suckling pig is a colorful and flavorful Hainan traditional dishes, due to the origin of the northern Hainan Lingao County and named. It is famous for its crispy skin, fine meat, crispy bones and flavor. Lingao suckling pig to barbecue-based, grilled a suckling pig about four or five hours, grilled out of the suckling pig to the whole body, charred, oily, emitting a strong flavor, that is considered master. Such a roasted suckling pig row in front of you, see the smell, color and flavor, people can not help but eat finger. Chewing at the entrance, crunching sound, after eating, there is still a mouth full of aftertaste, memorable.

Hainan Chicken Rice

Hainan Chicken Rice is a Hainanese dish that originated in Wenchang City, Hainan, China, and has become a national dish in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries. The main ingredients are chicken and rice, and the main cooking process is boiling. Hainanese people use Wenchang's local white cut chicken, along with rice cooked in chicken fat and chicken broth, commonly known as Wenchang Chicken Rice on Hainan Island. in the early 1900s, with the wave of immigration, the dish spread to Southeast Asia, and flourished in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. As a result, Hainanese chicken rice is not as well known in Hainan as it is in Singapore and Southeast Asia. We can see "Hainan Chicken Rice" in many Singaporean TV dramas.

Hainan powder

Hainan powder is the most characteristic snacks on Hainan Island, the snack has a long history of circulation, in the northern part of Hainan Island, Haikou City, Dingan County and Chenggmai County towns and cities in the residents to eat more common, but also festivals and celebrations necessary to symbolize the good luck and longevity of the treasures. Hainan powder powder fine more flavorful and fragrant, soft and smooth, stimulate the appetite, so eat more and not tired, love to eat spicy with a little chili sauce is more flavorful, eat to the end of the remaining small amount of powder, add a small bowl of steaming sea mussels soup and eat, it is full of fragrance, aftertaste.

Qingzanliang

Qingzanliang as a popular tropical Hainan Island special ice desserts, mainly red beans (green beans), Job's tears, peanuts, hollow powder, etc. made, placed in the cooling or add ice and become a bowl of authentic Hainan Qingzanliang. The food is cool and delicious, summer heat stomach and lungs, is the most characteristic of Hainan night summer food, cheap, summer relief, suitable for north and south diners taste, to Hainan not eat a bowl of Qingzanliang, as in Hainan do not eat seafood, do not drink coconut water.

Dad Tea

Dad Tea is a unique tea culture in Hainan, a pot of tea, one or two bread, or a dish of peanut rice, simple tables and stools, surrounded by three or two plainly dressed tea guests, leisurely and quietly

"Eat" tea, forming a characteristic landscape around Hainan, especially in Haikou, Wenchang, Qionghai and other places especially The tea is very popular in Haikou, Wenchang, Qionghai and other places.

Beef brisket rice pig feet

Beef brisket rice pig feet is one of the most prestigious snacks in Hainan, and is the authentic people rice. Usually the pots for cooking brisket and pig's feet are placed at the front of the store, with two large pots, one for brisket and one for pig's feet. The brisket and pig's feet are steamed over a long period of time over a slow fire, and with the unique ingredients, the meat is soft and unctuous, making it very tasty. The advice to diners is that it's best to have one serving of each of the brisket and pig's feet, mixed together, and the flavor is, let's not even talk about it, delicious. Pork Feet and Beef Brisket Rice in Hainan does not refer to a restaurant that only sells beef brisket and pig feet. This kind of rice is mainly based on pig's feet and beef brisket, but also carries a variety of home-cooked dishes such as pork mash, beef mash, five-flower meat, taro root seeds, sour bamboo shoots, fried cabbage, watermelon rinds, and pickled vegetables.

Coconut Chicken

Coconut Chicken is a colorful and flavorful Hainanese dish, made by steaming coconut and tender chicken. Coconut juice has a unique flavor, both the flavor of water chestnuts, but also in the sweet with coconut, with thirst thirst, the effect of diuretic, more for the treatment of heatstroke or high fever and other fever; and coconut chicken dishes in the nature of the young chicken is not dry, and coconut juice, complementary to have a clear, unique flavor, *** into the benefit of the gas to generate fluids, clearing the heat and fill the deficiency of the agent; applicable to the old and decrepit, fatigue and weakness, irritable heat and thirst and other diseases.

Hainan hot pot

Commonly known as "hit the side of the stove". In Hainan, both winter and summer are playing side stove, Hainanese people playing side stove has become a normal life and eating habits. Simple stove a pot of water, a few handfuls of vegetables, put some salt, pour some oil; no oil or add a few pieces of fat pork into the seasoning, and then with dipping sauces, water cooking dishes, to a bowl of rice on the OK. high-grade point of the side of the stove with chicken, duck, fish, seafood, beef, mixing together with the water boiled with tofu, vermicelli, lettuce, lettuce, cabbage, cabbage and other seasonal vegetables, eat while adding ingredients to the. People often eat "three streams": sweat, tears, runny nose, after the "two streams" are due to the charcoal as fuel, smoke and fire caused. Nowadays, the fuel used in Ta Bianhu is generally liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) or solid smokeless fuel, and there is no such thing as "two streams", but it can be experienced in remote towns and villages, and the atmosphere is warm and welcoming.

Bamboo rice

Bamboo rice is a traditional cuisine of the Li people of Hainan, using fresh bamboo tubes filled with rice and flavors roasted rice. The Li people mostly make it in the mountainous areas or roast it with charcoal at home. Now by the cook in the traditional basis for improvement, make it on the banquet table, reputation is very high, has become a famous flavor of Hainan cuisine. Its flavor characteristics: bamboo green, yellow rice sauce, aroma, soft through the mouth. Eat, drink a mouthful of Lijia "mountain orchid wine", bite a small mouthful of bamboo rice, slow chewing, interesting.

Warm Springs goose

Mainly produced in the town of Qionghai Ping City Hot Springs area, the locals have been the hot springs goose and one of Hainan's four famous dishes Jaji duck and listed as one of the two major delicacies here. It is rich in nutrients, fat but not greasy, light and original flavor, simple aroma and delicious characteristics. Hot springs goose is very famous at home and abroad, hot springs goose is Wanquan River along the farmers to raise the local hybrid geese, breeding frame stage field free-range, to eat grass for life, fattening stage into the cage fill, to chaff and other rough fodder to fill food. Most of the food method to white cut mainly.

Huangliu old duck

Huangliu old duck is Hainan famous dishes in the rising star, originated in the mid-1980s Ledong County Huangliu town. At that time, a couple in the town to open a duck store, due to the selection of fine materials, unique practices, the old duck meat is pure and not greasy, popular with local diners. Therefore, by the 90s, Huangliu old duck store has begun to popularize the whole island. The most important characteristic of Huangliu Old Duck is reflected in the word "old". The ducks selected must be more than one year old ducks that have laid eggs. There are generally two ways to eat it, namely, white chopped and dry-fried.