What are the specialties of Shanwei?

Shantou has many specialties, but I will mainly introduce the more "earthy" ones

Shantou is near the sea, so it is naturally rich in seafood, and there are some wholesale streets that sell a lot of dried seafood, which will be bought for storage or used as a gift for the guests during the New Year and festivals. Typical are: dried squid, dried small fish, dried cuttlefish.

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2. Shanwei Hai Feng Salted Tea (Shan Mei Salted Tea). This is a must-try tea, and yes, it's not to drink but to eat. Tea in the tooth bowl stirred in a little hot water to continue to stir, stirring can also be added to the mint leaves or tilapia leaves (South African leaves) into the mint leaves have the effect of moisturizing and refreshing, and tilapia leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification. Stir until rotten until, you can pour the tooth bowl full, with hot water. Then you can taste it. It is better with fried rice, sesame peanuts, fried soybeans and black beans. Some supermarkets or stores also sell portable packs for tourists.

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3. Shanwei Yingli cake-like pastries. If the Great White Rabbit milk candy is the childhood memories of the post-90s, then the various kinds of pastries and candies produced by Yingli are the childhood memories of local parents. Lard sugar, ginger sugar, sesame seed cake, peanut cake, brown sugar cake, to this day are not out of date, packaging, although more and more exquisite, but the hometown love still remain.

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4. Shantou horse mackerel balls. There are white meatballs, meatballs and big meatballs. Fish balls are only sold in Chaoshan, but not in other places. It is worth tasting.

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5. Shantou Hai Feng Fair Beef Jerky. The beef jerky sold in the market nowadays is either air-dried or baked, attracting consumers with health gimmicks. Fair beef jerky although it is fried, when the beef is made from the hind legs of the local cattle, cattle free-range, adequate exercise, so the beef jerky made from the hind legs of the cattle, fried is also very chewy, although it is fried, but eating does not feel greasy, the more spicy the more flavorful. You can buy some as a gift for friends or for yourself, but because it's fried. You know, it's better to eat a little less for your health, but "it's so flavorful."

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