What are the specialties of Chaoshan?

Beef Balls are the most common and popular snacks in Chaoshan, which can be served as snacks or as a soup dish. Fishballs, like meatballs, are also one of the famous snacks in Chaoshan.

The custom of eating fish balls is said to have begun in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: King Ping of Chu liked fish, and every meal without fish was tasteless. King Ping of Chu was a cruel man, and once the fish bones and spines were accidentally cut off, he ordered the chef to be killed. One day, there is a new chef who thinks it is difficult to be spared, it is hard to use the back of the knife to chop the fish to vent their anger, who knows that this chopping, but miraculously make the fish meat and fish bone separation.

The new chef used these boneless fish mud rolled into balls for King Ping of Chu to eat, and even get King Ping of Chu's appreciation, from which the chef was able to avoid bad luck. Later, as King Ping of Chu moved south, this food custom was spread to Chaozhou.

Chaoshan snack development status

Shantou snack market business forms, complete varieties, business outlets are mainly decentralized, appropriately centralized, and basically able to meet the consumer demand of the market in the region. In the form of business, one is purely take-out stores. Operated by the package point stalls, snack stores, food market snack stalls, grocery stores and so on.

They provide customers with finished or semi-finished products, such as easy-to-carry zongzi balls, siu mai, crystal balls, etc., can be bought home to eat now. Meatballs, vegetable kuey teow, taro kuey teow, etc., provide more semi-finished products for customers to take home and process; second is the form of eating mainly with takeaway. Operated by snack restaurants, old snack stores and so on.

As spread throughout the city corners of the beef meatball snack store, is now bubble beef meatball soup, beef meatball kuey teow, but also takeaway beef meatball store. The old "Piu Xiang" snack store, "Aixi" dry noodles store, etc., is also this form of business; the other is a snack restaurant, mainly to sell now eat as the main business characteristics.

For example, CTS Restaurant's Chaoshan snacks buffet package, 25 yuan per person, free to choose. And Chiu Hsiang City is a snack supermarket, card-carrying shopping, buy now eat now. Nowadays, for the locals, whether at home or outside the party, entertaining foreign guests to taste the Chaoshan snacks, is not a difficult thing.