What are the main characteristics of Hakka cuisine?

"Fatty, salty and cooked" are the main characteristics of Hakka cuisine~

Traditional Hakka signature dishes are: salt-baked chicken, stuffed tofu and braised pork. Compared with Chaozhou cuisine, Hakka cuisine is more "fat, salty and cooked", which is related to the living standard and habits of Hakka people in the past.

First of all, because in the past the Hakka people ploughing the mountains to live in the mountains, labor intensity and less meat, fat and greasy food can be effective hunger; Secondly, the Hakka people due to the long-term food shortage, even if the more affluent households to eat at least one meal a day porridge, most of the family for years and years at a time thin rice, and more water and rice, boiled porridge, "blowing off a layer of waves, drink to a lane! ", vegetables salty both suitable for sending porridge, but also increase the body salt; again, the mountainous areas of grass and trees, developed the Hakka people do not cherish the habit of firewood, and they feel that the more food cooked to the fire the more fragrant.