What are the characteristics of Cantonese cuisine?

1, the biggest feature of Cantonese cuisine is its complex selection of materials and rich dishes. It has a wide range of materials and exquisite materials. Snakes, insects, rats, ants, birds and animals, delicacies, Chinese and foreign food, everything, can be called the most in the country. These raw materials, once cooked by the chef skillfully, make every diners applaud and sigh as exotic treasures.

2. Cantonese cuisine with light taste can be summarized by four words: "fresh, tender, smooth and fragrant". This is the fundamental reason why Cantonese cuisine is so popular. There are many kinds of Cantonese condiments, including sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty and fresh. But generally, only a small amount of ginger, onion and garlic are used as "materials", and less spicy spices such as peppers are used, which will not be salty and sweet.

3. Cantonese cuisine is heavy in color, which needs to be wok-fried (refers to heating the wok with a torch, adding oil, and boiling the oil to make the fried dishes fragrant), and the heat is just right. Cantonese cuisine pursues the original flavor and fresh fragrance of raw materials, such as fresh seafood and game, which should be cooked immediately after slaughter. People in Guangzhou eat chicken, but boiled chicken is their favorite.

4. Learn from others, be good at change, be well-made and be brave in innovation. Cantonese cuisine has the advantage of hybridization. Because the formation history of Cantonese cuisine is the intersection of Chinese and foreign food cultures and the continuous innovation combined with regional climate characteristics.

Up to now, there are over 5,400 kinds of Cantonese cuisine, over 1000 kinds of dim sum and hundreds of kinds of flavor snacks. There are hundreds of kinds of chicken gizzards alone. Almost every famous restaurant and restaurant has its own "signature chicken" to attract customers. The famous ones are Qingping Chicken, Wenchang Chicken, Taiye Chicken, Dongjiang Salt Chicken, Oriental Shi Jia Chicken, Tao Tao Ginger Chicken and so on.

As one of the eight Chinese cuisines, Cantonese cuisine plays an important role. It not only represents the eating habits of Cantonese people, but also represents the food culture that has been circulating for thousands of years there, and is an indispensable part of China food culture.