What are the snacks that you have to try when you are in Chaoshan that you won't regret?

Shantou has become a symbol of China's new food capital with the promotion of Tongue Tip China and Sanlian Life Weekly. You can't say you're a food lover if you've never been on a food pilgrimage to Shantou!

I've been to Shantou no less than 20 times myself, and although I'm not a Shantou person, I'm definitely a big fan of Shantou's flavor. Every time I went to Shantou, I would ask a local friend to be my guide and take me through the streets to find all kinds of delicious food. However, at this point, I realized that Shantou people have become disunited! Because each of my Shantou friends recommended different food destinations, such as goose and pork soup, each of them had their own favorites, and there was no unity of thought, understanding or awareness at all. However, this serious disagreement has also benefited me a lot, following a variety of Shantou friends, but let me eat different angles and different styles of Shantou flavor. As time goes by, I, a foreigner who can't even speak Teochew, am eager to recommend Teochew food to my foreign friends:

First of all, I'd recommend the sugar and onion pancake. Many people don't know what is sugar onion, in fact, it is not onion, but a kind of sweet made of maltose pulling. It's very crunchy, and with a layer of soft pastry on the outside and various toppings like peanut paste, it tastes really good.

Many people don't understand why there are so many desserts in Chaoshan, but according to Mr. Zhang Xinmin, a scholar of gastronomy and cultural studies, the sugar industry is in fact closely related to the history of the Chaoshan region. In the early days, the Chaoshan region became a pillar of the local economy with the development of the sugar industry, and the earliest batch of Chaoshan merchants were mostly sugar merchants, so the local history of eating sweets is very long, and in addition to eating seafood and eating beef meatballs, we should remember to taste the long history of the Chaoshan region, and to eat the unique flavor of the desserts once.

Since we are talking about sugar onions, and not to be annoying, we recommend another dessert, the square bean flower that Shantou people love to eat. Very hard to do the bean flower, which added a lot of peanuts, sesame sugar powder, etc., and we eat the kind of slippery and tender bean flower is very different, but also to appreciate the broken for alternative sugar food scenery it.

Another thing to recommend is fish rice. Many people have eaten frozen fish rice in the restaurant, but I went to Shantou Dahao side to eat, is still with the temperature of the fish rice, this is Mr. Cai Lan also went to recommend the taste of delicious, and we eat in the restaurant inside the frozen fish rice is different from the day a rice, the hot fish rice has a rare smooth and soft texture, eat with frozen fish rice is a completely different feeling.

Also, I would recommend those friends in Guangzhou to go and eat the Shantou sausage, because Guangzhou people take the sausage as their bible of the morning, in fact, the Shantou people eat sausage, but the Shantou sausage and the Guangzhou sausage are very different things.

Sometimes I think that Shantou and Guangzhou belong to the same Guangdong Province, but its cultural qualities are very different, which is also a very interesting two-city story, the two flowers, the taste of the wonderful experience of it