What are the specialties of Dongguan?

Guanyin Green Lychee

Dongguan Lychee

Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, is geographically located in the south-central region of the province, at an altitude of 30 to 80 meters above sea level, the local geomorphological symptoms of the hilly terraces and alluvial plains are dominated by abundant sunshine, rainfall, and an average annual temperature of 22.7 ℃.

Dongguan rice noodles are a specialty of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. Dongguan rice noodles are most famous in Daojiao. Dongguan rice noodles can be soup can be fried can be steamed to eat, smooth, delicate, pliable, constantly, very distinctive. Dongguan is the township of fishing and rice, rice flour is one of its major specialties.

Fresh Shrimp Lotus Leaf Rice

In the early years, the lotus leaf rice was most famously made in Taiping Town, Dongguan, because this generation was rich in lotus leaves and superior silk seedling white rice. Fresh shrimp and lotus leaf rice is light and refreshing, with the fragrance of lotus leaves, and has always been one of the famous dim sum recipes in the teahouses and restaurants in Guangzhou.

Muffins are cooked on the 25th day of the 25th month of the year to pray for a better life in the coming year. Muffins are also made with glutinous rice flour, powdered sugar and into the glutinous rice flour, perched in the muffin grid. When the cake is half full, put in crushed peanuts and powdered sugar. Then it is filled with glutinous flour and steamed. When it is fresh, it is soft, sweet and delicious.

Salted balls are eaten by Dongguan people on the winter solstice, New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival. Expressing the meaning of family reunion, Dongguan salty pills with fine materials, exquisite, glutinous rice flour production, randomly pinched into a ball, without filling. Made with chicken, accompanied by squid, shrimp, mushrooms, bacon crumbles, pickles sweet and delicious, is a traditional Dongguan cuisine.

Pig red porridge Guancheng sells pig red porridge, the number of Dongmen and Yangqiaotou that the most famous. In the morning, people from near and far go to taste.

Zhongtang Crouch Kau Fish BunsZhongtang Crouch Kau Fish Buns made of fish skin wrapped in fish fillings, has a history of 70 to 80 years.

The Luodu Luodu is made of glutinous rice flour and sugar syrup, formed into a ball, hollowed out, blown with air, dipped in sesame on the surface, and deep-fried to resemble a Wo Lu (Shatian pomelo).

Leaf RiceLeaf rice, also known as lotus leaf rice, steamed rice and meat wrapped in lotus leaves. The leaves are green, the rice is loose, and the grains are soft and fresh, with the fragrance of lotus leaves.

Sinsa Fish BallsSinsa Fish Balls is an authentic Dongguan water town dish. Fishballs are a traditional Dongguan delicacy, especially the most famous fishballs from Xiansha Village in GaoShu Town, which are also known as Washasha Fishballs.

Wanjiang Dragon Boat Rice Dragon boat rice is a common food in Dongguan's water towns, which comes from dragon boat races, of which Wanjiang Dragon Boat Rice is one of the more representative ones. The water township every year at the end of the Dragon Boat Race, dragon boat rowing lads to eat on the boat, the boat will be swaying, clip the food is not convenient, so the dishes and rice mixed together, it became the current dragon boat rice. On the other hand, the rowing boat people have to eat well to have the strength, dragon boat rice shrimp, fish balls and other water town specialties are essential, other ingredients vary from place to place, mostly eggs, roasted goose, Chashu, bean curd, mushrooms, etc., anyway, in order to be tasty for the appropriate.

Humen hemp shrimp

The other thing is of course seafood. Our Dongguan river facing the sea, aquatic products are particularly rich, seafood is also a major feature of our diet here. Dongguan in addition to the famous cream crab, there are heavy shell crab, Lai urine shrimp, grouper and so on.　　Qing Dynasty "Bamboo Poem" has a cloud: "the west wind report Ming shrimp beauty, and cream crab more Interfax", this is "food" of the language. Hemp shrimp, shaped like a curved moon, slender and well-proportioned, as large as the index finger, transparent, brown and famous.

Humen crab

Song Su Dongpo once jokingly called the crab for the intestines of the Prince, the ancients had to hold the wine chelates, chewing and slow pouring of elegance. Every year, when the autumn wind starts, it is the best time for nine females and ten males to taste the cream crabs and meat crabs. Crab feasts, dendrobium cups interlaced, iron chela pincers, so the crab wine, leisure in the shallow pouring, but also a life of pleasure.

Sugar not dumped

The origin of this "sugar not dumped" is rumored to be related to the Eight Immortals. Qing Dynasty Daoguang nineteen years, Dongkeng town around the opium addicts are very many. February 2, early spring, due to the spread of drugs, people do not have enough to live, rushed to Dongkeng over the "Selling Festival" employed by the owner of a few strong men, most of them are yellow and skinny, the labor force is reduced. Heaven's great eight holes fairy Lu Dongbin heard of it hastened to make a cure for addiction elixir, the people of the world. However, the medicine is bitter to the mouth, in addition to the private down to earth, is an offense against the rules of heaven. So Lv Immortal to hide the elixir in the cooked glutinous powder pill, with syrup cooked into a sweet and smooth, tasty "sugar does not throw" (take the "sugar powder sticky Dan not separate" meaning)

Wedelia sauce, Daojiao people commonly known as wedelia salty steak, rich in calcium, iron and other minerals and natural vitamins, has the ability to nourish the blood and skin, and is a good source of health. natural vitamins, has the effect of nourishing blood and skin. Steamed pork with wedelia salted steak, is a good meal, women eating often have the function of nourishment, fried bean curd put on a little wedelia sauce, color, aroma, taste first-class, distinctive.

Daojiao worms

Daojiao worms are famous for being fat and rich in protein. Daojiao people's method of production is to put the worm in the water to wash, hand into the bowl head (pottery products), plus the right amount of garlic, salt, oil, eggs (now most do not use eggs), pounded with chopsticks, the worm into the paste, steamed, with the Wen Wen fire baked, with cooked oil, to be baked to yellow, the aroma of the four, sprinkled with pepper, can be on the table.

Houjie sausage has a long history, since the Ming and Qing dynasties.　　The color, shape and taste of Houjie sausage are unique, with a different shape, oval, purple sauce color, slightly larger than pigeon eggs, and delicious aroma.

Dongguan incense {Aquilaria sinensis} alias: tooth incense tree, daughter of incense, for the Ruixiang family incense tree, belongs to the national second-class protected plants. Is the only tree in China to Dongguan local trees named trees, a long history, the Song Dynasty has been commonly planted, has always been a local specialty of Dongguan, Dongguan City in recent years attaches great importance to the discovery of local specialties, Dongguan incense as a landmark plant breeding to promote the planting of a large number of long-lost Dongguan incense will soon be "incense" all over the land of Guanyi.