Which food best represents Chaoshan cuisine? Why?

The food that best represents Chaoshan cuisine is definitely beef meatballs. Chaoshan beef meatballs are the signature food of the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, the beef flavor is naturally strong, firm but not hard, fresh and delicious, popping teeth, rich in protein and amino acids, not only nutritious but also delicious, the key is still versatile, how to cook any dish, very popular, at least I like to eat beef meatballs.

Some people say that beef meatballs are found in many places, so why have they become the representative of Chaoshan's cuisine? It is said that in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there were many countryside peasants carrying small burdens and walking the streets of Chaozhou Prefecture, hawking beef ball soup. The clever Chaoshan people saw that beef balls were very distinctive, so they made their own. The Chaoshan people not only learned the advantages of making beef balls from other places, but also improved the method of making beef balls themselves.

Traditional countryside pounding beef meatballs with the back of the knife, but this effect is poor, and the strength is not enough, but also affects the quality of the meat paste, the Chaozhou people will change to use two special iron bars, each about 3 pounds, one side of the square or triangular, with both hands take turns pounding, left and right, until the beef into a meat paste. The beef meatballs made in this way are more sinewy and Q-bouncy. Traditionally, the water used to cook the meatballs is clear water, but the Chaoshan people, who have always been concerned about the original flavor, have switched to using beef, beef bones boiled out of the broth to cook the beef meatballs, which ensures that the meat flavor of the meatballs will not penetrate into the broth when cooking the beef meatballs, so that the beef meatballs are more beefy, and at the same time increase the number of salsa as a saucy dish to eat. Nowadays, various ways of eating beef balls are also invented by many Chaoshan people! Because the Chaoshan people to make the beef meatballs more delicate and careful, so the Chaoshan production of beef meatballs crisp texture, with a strong beef flavor, especially tasty, soon after the production of the whole Chaoshan region, soon prevailed in the Chaoshan region, very popular among the Chaoshan people, and become a kind of the most popular Chaozhou folk snacks.

Beef meatballs are usually made from fresh beef hind leg meat, which has frequent movement, less fat, and rich in meat fiber, and is the first choice for making the best beef meatballs. Beef is fully beaten, with delicate meat paste and firm meat, and the Chaoshan beef meatballs have a flavorful taste without being greasy, a firm and not loose texture, and are tender and crispy, etc. Whether it's boiled in soup or sautéed, it's a real match for all kinds of food ingredients. Beef meatballs and Chaoshan beef meatballs are the most famous, like friends must try oh!