Composition of Guangxi Beihai Cuisine

The beautiful Beibu Gulf is rich in seafood treasures. Located in the subtropical North Sea, the superior geographical environment makes the products here particularly rich. The reform and opening up has attracted foreigners from all directions, brought various eating habits, and made Beihai's food culture more colorful.

I. Dishes and specialties

Beihai has rich and noble Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine and Guangdong cuisine with different flavors, which brings together talents from all walks of life. Beihai was once under the jurisdiction of Guangdong province in history, and the cuisine was mainly Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese cuisine refers to Cantonese cuisine, which started late compared with Shandong cuisine and Sichuan cuisine. It originated in the Qin Dynasty, formed in the Han and Wei Dynasties, developed in the Tang and Song Dynasties and completed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The main characteristics of Beihai cuisine:

1, the raw materials are widely used and varied, and the dishes are exotic. Some people say that people in Beihai eat everything, "anything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground and swims in the water". Fish, shrimp, crabs and snails are steamed and eaten, while snakes, stingers, turtles, rats, storks, raccoons, cats, dogs and partridges are caught and cooked, while clams and locusts are roasted and eaten, which is regarded as delicacies and expensive.

2, the flavor changes with the climate, pay attention to fresh, smooth, crisp, with strong southern characteristics. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four seasons change, how to eat what you eat, a set of a set, eloquent and well-founded. For example, in hot summer, the weather is hot and dry, and what kind of soup is stewed in hot and humid summer to cool off the heat; Winter is cold and the air is dry. What you eat is good for keeping warm and keeping your skin moist. Even ordinary people can tell you why. Beihai people not only eat well, but also pay attention to food, especially the freshness, such as raw shrimp, raw sand worms and raw mud cubes. When cooking, I also pay attention to "cooking, sweet and crisp". This is that Beihai cuisine is light, not tasteless, fresh in the clear, tasty in the light, tender but not raw, smooth but not vulgar, oily but not greasy, and some are called the beauty of five or six flavors.

3. Unique cooking techniques. For example, "making soup" is different. In cooking, use frying, stewing, stewing, stewing and other methods to cook vegetables, and pay attention to "adding soup". This soup is boiled. "Bao" is a cooking method based on soup, which is generally made of crock.

4, the seasoning is unique. Pay attention to clear, cool, light, fragrant and crisp during seasoning. For example, some special condiments, such as oyster sauce, sweet and sour, lemon juice, sour plum river, white brine, ginger, garlic, chopped green onion, curry powder, peel and so on.

Second, eating habits.

1, pay attention to the soup. Beihai people like to drink soup. The first thing they said when they sat down at the last meal was "What soup does the boss have?" And I especially like to drink fish soup, such as tiger fish soup, grouper soup, yellow silk fish soup, beef heart fish soup, jumping dog fish soup, shark soup and miscellaneous fish soup.

2. There is fish in the rice. Fish is an indispensable dish on the dining table of Beihai people, so some people call it "the cat's face of Beihai people". However, there are many kinds of fish. Beihai people like swordfish, oily fish, Longli, dog's fish, bagido, yellow wax, osmanthus fish and fish left behind.

I like salted fish porridge. Salted fish is a specialty of Beihai, and salted fish porridge is the favorite staple food of Beihai people in summer, which tastes refreshing and crisp.

I like herbal tea. Affected by the subtropical climate, Beihai people tend to get angry when eating, and they are used to drinking a cup of herbal tea, such as Guangdong herbal tea, Wang Laoji, Shisanwei, Wuhua tea, Ersiwei, Maogen bamboo cane water, and arhat fruit tea. The most famous herbal tea shop in Beihai should be "Huang Shengxiang herbal tea shop".

5, white-cut chicken. Boiled chicken is an essential dish for Beihai people in the New Year.

Third, the famous dishes in Beihai.

1. Seafood: boiled shrimp, boiled crab, celery fried cuttlefish, shredded squid in sesame sauce, lemon with white gourd, squid tube, fried mackerel, steamed yellow wax fish, steamed osmanthus fish, and raw sand worms (mud worms).

2. Meat: beef, spiced dog meat and so on.

3, porridge: blue crab porridge, snail porridge, ascaris porridge, loach porridge and so on.

Fourth, flavor snacks.

Chicken paederia, melon vinegar, sweet wine, sweet wine jiaozi, rolled rice noodles, rice cakes, beef brisket powder, fried shrimp cakes, radish cakes, crab juice, shredded squid, pigeon porridge, eel porridge, etc.

Try the shrimp.

Seurative shrimp, also known as "crawling shrimp" and "bouncing shrimp", has such a strange name because when it leaves the water, there is always a stream of water flowing out of it, like a baby peeing, so it has a rather indecent name. This kind of shrimp lurks in the mud at the bottom of the sea during the day and comes out to feed on the beach at night. On the muddy beach where it crawls, it will leave traces like a tail fan rake, so it is also called "shrimp rake". Although the coastal areas of our country all produce green shrimp, but the quantity is relatively small, so even this kind of food has never been tasted. When we arrive in Beihai, we can't miss this delicious food! The flood season of prawns is from 10 to April of the following year, and the golden season is before the fourth breeding season. Shrimp at this time is not only fat but also fresh. Southerners like to shell and eat spices such as meat sauce and vinegar. In Shantou, Guangdong, shrimp is often pickled for a day or two and eaten raw. It is said to have medicinal functions such as promoting blood circulation, promoting fluid production, strengthening yang and tonifying kidney. People in Beihai often eat in two ways: one is steamed or boiled, and then the shell is removed to take meat sauce, vinegar and other condiments to eat, and the other is pickled with ginger wine and salt, and then fried in an oil pan. This is the "salted shrimp" with fresh meat and crisp skin. Meat can be eaten without shell or chewed with shell, because by experience, even shrimp shells made by this process are rarely delicious. No, my saliva is almost put aside. Let's talk about seafood steak in Beihai Waisha first! By the way, shrimp has a strong vitality, and it can survive for more than 10 hour after leaving water, and it can last for more than 50 hours at 0 degrees Celsius! You can still eat!

Xiang Meiyu: It smells delicious.

Plum-flavored fish does not refer to the kind of fish. In fact, this dish has no formula in the variety of fish. As long as it is big and fresh, you can do it. The method of making plum fish is similar to that of water fish and shrimp. The main difference is that plum-flavored fish requires "big fish" and "hard" with salt. The curing time is also relatively long, until a layer of mold similar to tofu milk is formed on the skin of the fish, which is considered "cooked". Because the individual of Xiangmei fish is relatively large, the skin of this kind of fish is salty after pickling, but the meat quality is just right. Fish tastes delicious and is good food for dinner. All the above are the characteristics of Beihai. At present, some foreign "smelly members" have joined in our city. There are some stalls selling stinky tofu on Changqing Road and Fu Gui Road. These stinky tofu should be traced back to the source, perhaps it should be handed down from the hometown of stinky tofu in Hunan. Pickled "moldy" black tofu, fried in a pot, suddenly stinks, but it is very brittle when bitten. At present, this snack has been gradually welcomed by the citizens of Beihai. According to nutrition experts, these stinky vegetables contain a lot of vitamin B 12, which can stimulate appetite, help digestion and stimulate appetite, but excessive amounts are always bad. Nutrition experts remind that due to the role of microorganisms, smelly vegetables decompose protein, produce amines, and produce odor. Eating too much will have adverse reactions. Therefore, people who are addicted to "smelly" should never eat it.

Water shrimp and water fish: the favorite to eat porridge.

Water shrimp and water fish are the specialties of Beihai, which can make outsiders feel strange and dare not eat them. It is unique in a "life". The choice of materials for water shrimp and water fish is very particular, that is, the fish and shrimp used must be fresh, generally the size of the thumb. Put those fresh fish and shrimps in the jar, sprinkle a layer of salt, spread a layer of fish (or shrimp), and finally seal the jar and put it in the sun. When these fish and shrimp are pink, they are successfully cured. Because it is made directly from raw fish and shrimp, pickled water shrimp and water fish smell a strong fishy smell, which is generally difficult for people who are not used to eating. In fact, this dish tastes a little fragrant and sweet, which is difficult for non-local Beihai people to taste. Beihai people like to send porridge with it.