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What are the specialties of Huangpu, Guangzhou?

Guangzhou people love to eat, will eat, the world famous, an exaggeration is: Guangzhou people in addition to the four-legged table do not eat, what all eat, so, sparrows, partridge, pangolin, bats, sea dogs, rats, cats, dogs, snakes, monkeys, turtles ...... more than a thousand kinds of materials can be turned into a table delicacies, and even the illiterate people wrongly regarded as "; locust"; the harvested insects, also cooked in, and once the chef's hands, suddenly turned into exotic wonders, delicious dishes, making Chinese and foreign people scratching their eyes out. The; of the worm, but also in the cooking of the list, and once the chef's hand, and then turned into exotic wonders, delicious food, so that people in China and abroad impressed, very surprised.

Guangzhou is located in subtropical, tropical and subtropical fruit varieties, all year round there are fresh fruits on the market, so there is a "town of fruit" reputation. Guangzhou has more than 500 kinds of fruit varieties, including litchi, bananas, papaya, pineapple, the most widely distributed, the most production, the best quality, known as the four famous fruits of Lingnan.

Food in Guangzhou has a long history of being passed down, and is renowned both at home and abroad. Cantonese cuisine, one of the eight major Chinese cuisines, has become the most popular at home and abroad because of its unlimited ingredients, emphasis on texture and flavor, fresh taste, a variety of dishes, and endless variations. It is composed of Guangzhou Cuisine, Chaoshan Cuisine and Dongjiang Cuisine, with Guangzhou Cuisine as the main body, featuring a wide variety of ingredients, fine production, light flavors, seasonal variations and scientific nutrition. The scale of Guangzhou's catering industry is second to none in the country.

Cantonese dim sum is characterized by a wide range of materials, fine production, a variety of styles, both sweet and salty, fresh taste. Each type of dim sum are concerned about the harmony of color, different shapes, contrasting with each other, people never get tired of eating.

Rich local characteristics of the dim sum snacks are: shrimp dumplings, dry steamed dumplings, powder fruit, Pantang horseshoe cake, honeycomb taro horn, chicken cakes, glutinous rice chicken, hometown of salty water horns and so on. Famous spots, famous snacks, famous flavors are numerous. For example, Guangzhou Restaurant's full feast, Beiyuan Restaurant's seasonal fruits and desserts, Panxi Restaurant's dim sum feast, Nan Guo Restaurant's Chaozhou dishes, Da San Yuan Restaurant's braised shark's fins, Cosmos Restaurant's gold medal of the skinned suckling pig, and so on.

Guangzhou most restaurants, restaurants are operating "three tea, two meals and a late-night snack", but also set the food and entertainment in one, long hours of operation, the food market, a variety of flavors are compatible and inclusive of various types of tourists to meet the needs of various aspects.

Guangdong flavor

Guangdong snacks are Lingnan flavor, mostly from the folk, most of them have been passed down and become a traditional food. Currently there is a difference between the Guangdong snacks and snacks, snacks are exclusively those street stores operating in the rice, noodle small food, the production of more simple; snacks is a teahouse, morning tea a wide variety of varieties, as well as the week of the United States point, etc., characterized by: more varieties of styles, modeling fine.

Guangdong snacks mature method of steaming, frying, cooking, frying four, can be divided into six categories: oil products, that is, deep-fried snacks, rice, noodles and grains as raw materials, with different flavors; cake products, rice, noodles-based, grains, followed by steam cooking to cooked, can be divided into two categories of fermented and unfermented; powder, noodle food, rice, noodles as raw materials, most of them are boiled and made. Porridge, a wide range of names, the name of most of the ingredients, but also the flavor characteristics of porridge and said; desserts, refers to a variety of sweet snack varieties, not including pasta, cakes, including the material in addition to eggs, milk, mostly plant roots, stems, stalks, flowers, fruits, nuts, etc.; omnivorous, not all of the above types of people are, because of their ingredients are very mixed and named, to low prices, a variety of flavors and is known.

Crispy Lotus Seed Paste Buns

The buns are made by folding semi-fermented flour and crispy heart (shortening dough) into a skin, and lotus seed paste into a round shape for filling, and then steamed. The skin color is white, the layers are clear, soft and slightly tough, sweet and tasty. Vermicelli is made by wrapping starch flour around shrimp, pork and other fillings and steamed into an angular shape. The skin is thin, white, soft, translucent, and the filling can be seen in the corner, which is fresh and sweet. This product has a long history. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Qu Dajun "Guangdong New Words" describes the dietary customs of Guangzhou in a book: "to white rice soaked to half a month, into the white round-grained rice which is pounded into powder, lard moistened, distinct and thin as the outside, confetti dew, bamboo fat (bamboo shoots), meat, goose cream full of which as the inside, a name is called the powder horn." 20-30 years, the 20th century, restaurants, teahouses competing to create a brand-name dishes to attract guests, Chaxiang room a E Sister of the female confectionery division of the creation of the powder fruit dominated, people called E Sister powder fruit. 40 years, Chaxiang room closed down, E Sister's heirloom to Cosmopolitan Restaurant, E Sister powder fruit has become Cosmopolitan Restaurant's brand-name confectionery. 50 years later, the major teahouses, After the 1950s, all the major teahouses and restaurants also served it as tea time snacks. Vermicelli also became one of the beautiful spots in Yangcheng.