Teochew traditional festival snacks or foods eaten

Sweet Ginger Potato with Strong Country Feeling Starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, a lot of people are busy traveling with their families to visit friends and relatives. In the midst of these visits, another specialty of the Chaoshan region has to be mentioned. Chaoyang Chaonan has maintained a folk tradition for many years that the sweet soup for guests on New Year's Day is mostly prepared with a local potato plant - jiang yam. In fact, no matter which family, the Chinese New Year Eve preparations for the New Year's goods, ginger and potato and raw citrus are as essential. A few days before the Spring Festival, people have to carry back from the market basket basket basket ginger potato. The scene is somewhat like the provincial city people scrambling to catch up with the flower market scene. Chao Yang people like to eat ginger potato. New Year's Eve around the stove, several dishes often have a sweet ginger potato; friends and relatives to pay a New Year's visit, the host will cook a bowl of ginger potato soup to entertain. In accordance with the folk customs of Chaoyang, guests can resign from other hospitality, but only this bowl of ginger potato must eat, because it indicates the host's respect for the guests. Chao Yang people eat ginger potato, is very elaborate. There are peeled into thin slices, put into the boiling water for a few moments into the potato chips soup, soup potato chips slightly curled, eat up the fragrant smooth; have cut into potato pieces, add sugar and lard with the fire and slowly cooked into the stewed ginger potatoes, eat up the sweet and moist and tasty; there are ginger potatoes cooked after cooking mashed into mud, mixed with sugar, fished into peaches, apricots, persimmons, and other five fruits in the shape of anytime steaming hot can be eaten. Although the ginger potato belongs to the potato, the price is not low. Some come to visit relatives of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots to return to the place of residence, a long way, but also to bring a basket of ginger potato, so that overseas folks taste. Some compatriots who have been away from home for many years, once they return to their ancestral home, they are eager to eat a bowl of ginger potato soup. Their families understand their wish, and as soon as they enter the door, a bowl of sweet ginger-potato soup will be served to them. Loktang Chien Unlike the offerings prepared for worshiping Mazu on weekdays, on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, families get up early in the morning to make "Loktang Chien," which is made by boiling glutinous rice flour balls, placing them in a basin, and repeatedly stirring them with chopsticks or wooden sticks to make the cooked balls even smoother and more resilient. After the dough is cooked, it is pinched into small pieces and rolled in sugar, peanuts and black sesame seeds, etc. In some cases, the cooked glutinous rice dumplings are fried in a pot with scallion oil until both sides are slightly crispy, and then cut into pieces and served on a plate. Duck mother twist In fact, it is a kind of glutinous rice flour dumplings with fillings, named because of its shape resembles a mother duck wandering on the water and floating and sinking, and was originally a snack for the Lantern Festival, so it is commonly known as Yuanxiao. The production of glutinous rice into pulp, pressure to remove water, adjusted to glutinous rice paste skin were wrapped in green bean filling, red bean paste, taro mud, sesame sugar and other fillings, kneaded into a shape like a duck's egg, put into the sugar water to cook until floating on the surface of the water that is cooked. The filling of each grain in each bowl is different when eating, and in order to differentiate between the different fillings of each grain, when wrapping, the shape of the duck's mother's twists with different fillings is different, such as slightly rounded, slightly pointed, and so on, and each has its own marking. Shrimp jujube Before New Year's Eve, families of capable people began to buy fresh shrimp in large quantities, with horseshoes, white meat, cornstarch, etc. made of palm-sized shrimp balls, wrapped in a thin layer of pork mesh skin outside, after the deep-fried crispy, it has become one of the family's festive season of the wine accompaniment.