Are there any special snacks in Chaoshan?

Chaozhou cuisine is popular in Chaoshan area where Shantou is located. It is one of the three major cuisines in Guangdong (the other two are Cantonese cuisine and Hakka cuisine). Chaozhou cuisine has a long history of formation and development. Han Yu, a great writer in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote "Early Southern Cuisine: One Yuan and Eighteen Harmony Laws", which is a famous article introducing Chaoshan cuisine in ancient times. As can be seen from the poem, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the cooking skills in Chaoshan area had reached a high level.

Chaozhou cuisine is good at cooking seafood. From the selection of ingredients to the sauce, it is required to be fresh and delicious, clear but not light, fresh but not fishy, depressed but not greasy. Crab in mandarin duck sauce, roasted oysters and crab balls in clear soup are representative works of Chaozhou cuisine and seafood.

Chaoshan snacks are a wonderful part of Chaoshan food culture. Folk dim sum chefs of past dynasties have learned from the strengths of many families, collected local specialties and carefully produced them, and gradually accumulated and formed colorful and unique food artworks, which are also famous for their variety, exquisite materials, fine production, unique ingredients and delicious taste.

● Name: Spring Cake

Introduction: It was originally beginning of spring food, which was called Spring Festival in Tang and Song Dynasties. After the Qing dynasty, the production was improved, and its stuffing was composed of celery, leek and bamboo shoots, which meant hard work, long time and prosperity. It will become a snack of the four seasons in the future, called spring cake. The means of production have been gradually improved. The material and production method of modern Chaoshan Spring Cake: Cover the pancake skin made of fabric, add bean paste, pork, fresh shrimp, fragrant shavings, shrimp skin and garlic, mix with fish sauce, monosodium glutamate, pepper, sesame oil and lard, wrap it into a roll, stick the seam tightly with thin batter, put it in an oil pan, and fry it until golden brown at about 180℃. It is characterized by crispy skin and fragrant stuffing.

● Name: Caitouguo

Introduction: Folk snacks. Also known as radish cake. Vegetable head is the common name of radish, and vegetable head pot is a kind of local rice cake in Chaoshan, which is steamed by every household during the New Year. When making, first scrape the rough skin of radish, cut it into shreds, stir-fry it in a small pot until it is soft, add sausage, shrimp, mushrooms and celery, add proper amount of monosodium glutamate, refined salt and pepper, mix well with rice paste and potato powder, then steam it in a steamer (first put cloth on the bottom of the cage) until it doesn't stick to your hands when inserting chopsticks. Another method: the shredded radish is not fried, but directly mixed with rice flour and other ingredients, mixed with water, and steamed in a steamer. When eating, cut the cauliflower into pieces, put it in a pot and fry it until golden brown. The head of the vegetable is crisp outside and tender inside, and it tastes fragrant but not sweet.

● Name: Mama Duck Twist

Introduction: Traditional famous snacks, formerly known as glutinous rice dumplings, were first created in the early Qing Dynasty. Now Hu Rongquan, a traditional famous shop at the end of Taiping Road in Chaozhou, makes the most authentic duck mother twist. Duck mother twist is similar to glutinous rice balls in the north, and the traditional production requirements are strict. There are four kinds of stuffing for duck mother's dough twists, namely mung bean stuffing, red bean paste stuffing, taro paste stuffing and sesame sugar stuffing, and each kind of stuffing is about 15g. The mother duck is boiled in white sugar water until it floats on the water. Traditionally, there are three pieces of duck in each bowl, and the stuffing of each piece is different. In order to distinguish the difference of each filling, the shape of the mother duck with different fillings is also different when filling, for example, some are slightly round and some are slightly pointed, each with its own marks.

● Name: mung bean cake

Introduction: Shanzhanglin ancient port was "the place where red-headed ships met the ocean" in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, thousands of smart women often like to process and make gourmet cakes-mung bean cakes. Its traditional technology and processing method are exquisite, and it is crystal clear after steaming, sweet and delicious, and has a unique flavor. It is not only a delicious seasonal medicated cake, but also a nutritious food created by Zhang Lin food culture. It can be called the leader of Mid-Autumn Festival cakes in Chaoshan area.

● Name: mustard tuber

Introduction: It is a traditional home-cooked dish in Chaoshan area, made of local radish and salt. Crispy taste, it is a good food to accompany meals and give to relatives and friends.

● Name: Cao Ke

Strawberry bean curd brain, Shantou people's "emotional food" (Figure)

Introduction: KUSANAGI is a kind of hay called KUSANAGI, which is boiled with a little sweet potato powder to solidify it. It is put in a small jar and covered. When picking and selling, one end is a bowl chopsticks rack and brown sugar, and the dish washing water is placed under the rack; At one end is a small cylinder. When selling, cut the bowl from the top of the grass with a copper spoon, sprinkle with powdered sugar and light a drop of orange paste. When selling hay in Chaoyang and Puning rural areas, a porous copper coin is used to dig out the condensed hay in the jar and make it into strips. Add brown sugar and eat it warm or cold. Eating hay can relieve the heat, but don't spend the night. If it rains, people will not eat it. There is a saying in Chaozhou that "when the grass is ripe, the weather will change." Describe the change of seasons and the bad business.

● Name: Fansha taro

Introduction: Fansha taro was once the seasonal food of Mid-Autumn Festival. After peeling taro, cut it into finger-shaped pieces, fry it in the oil pan and pick it up. Every once in a while, put taro in oil to remove water vapor. Then add a proper amount of water to the white sugar, put it in the pot, and when the sugar water is as sticky as glue, put the taro block in, mix well, pick it up and take it off the stove immediately.

● Name: Red Roasted Goose Sausage

Introduction: After marinating, the fishy smell of goose meat is removed. Goose meat is full, tastes soft and tender, and has a aftertaste after eating. It's best to drink some wine with dinner.

● Name: Chaoshan Baked Oyster

Introduction: Oyster Baked is a unique snack in Chaoshan, and foreigners always want to taste this delicious food when they come to Chaoshan. There are many such snacks in hotels and snack bars in the town, and "Xitianxiang Oyster Roast" is one of the famous snacks in Shantou. Oysters are good for eyesight, smooth and delicious, and can warm the stomach. People like to eat them in cold weather.

● Name: Beef Ball

Introduction: Fresh beef legs wrapped in meat are selected as seasoning, then cut into pieces, placed on the main board, and beef ham is hammered into pulp with two special square hammer knives (weighing about 3 kg). Add a small amount of snow powder, refined salt, first-class fish sauce and monosodium glutamate, and hammer for 15 minutes. Then put it in a big bowl and add chopped square fish, white meat and monosodium glutamate. When eating, use the original soup and beef balls to boil (don't boil the water too much when cooking, or the beef balls will not taste good), add proper amount of monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, pepper and celery, and serve with sand tea sauce or Chili sauce.

● Name: Dahao Fish Pill

Brief introduction: Selected high-quality fresh fish is white, tender and refreshing, which is convenient for ordinary family hotels to use.

● Name: Bitter juice

Introduction: One of rice products. Pay attention to the deployment of auxiliary materials. The auxiliary materials are long-acting pork gravy, braised pork belly and fried garlic.

● Name: fried cake.

Brief introduction: The cakes are steamed with high-quality white rice pulp layer by layer. When making, cut the cake into small pieces, mix with fish sauce and red sweet soy sauce, and fry it slightly with low fire until the cake looks reddish and delicious. Then put it in a pan (frying pan) and fry it with lard over civil and military fire, add sugar and stir well, then add fresh shrimp. Xinxing Street pays great attention to the heat, making the cake crisp and tender outside, fresh and sweet, golden and bright in color, full of fragrance, salty, sweet, fragrant and spicy.

● Name: General Hill of Malao Palace

The glutinous rice balls in Malao Palace refer to Shunde glutinous rice balls near Mazu Palace (namely Malao Palace) at the head of Shengping Road in Shantou City. Because zongzi is wrapped in bamboo leaves, you don't know the taste until you open it, so there is this saying. Metaphor has already seen through people's hearts. Because hipsters have the custom of eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May. Moreover, after the Dragon Boat Festival in the south, the climate began to turn hot. Therefore, there is also a proverb "Don't eat zongzi in May, don't dare to put it".

● Name: Rat Quxiang

Traditional Chaoshan women can make cakes, and they don't forget to make mouse songs every Lunar New Year (the homonym of "mouse songs" in Chaoshan dialect is "mouse shells", so the locals call them mouse shells). Usually, mouse shells are made only during the Lunar New Year, so Chaoshan people also call them Nianguo.

● Chaoshan braised goose

Chaoshan specialty lion-headed goose, with fat meat, braised goose is a local flavor food, which is smooth, fat but not greasy.

● Drop soup money

Chaoshan Tangqian is an innovative Chaozhou snack based on the traditional Chaozhou snack "glutinous rice money". It absorbs the good practices of traditional snacks and improves some shortcomings of traditional snacks, thus making this snack more perfect. It is a representative innovative Chaozhou snack. "Chaoshan soup money" inherits some advantages of "glutinous rice money" in the production method. For example, after the glutinous rice dough is cooked, put it into a basin and stir it repeatedly with a wooden stick. The advantage of this is that it can make the cooked rice noodles more pure, smooth and elastic. The traditional "glutinous rice money" is to cook the dough and knead it into small pieces by hand, and then roll it with powdered sugar and white sesame seeds. This is unsanitary. The cooked glutinous rice balls are eaten directly, and the taste is too sticky. Therefore, the "Chaoshan soup money" is changed into mature glutinous rice dough, fried with onion until both sides are slightly crisp, and then cut into pieces and put into plates, thus overcoming the shortcomings of the traditional "glutinous rice money".

● Crystal ball

The crystal ball is made of raw powder. The skin is thin, uniform in thickness, tough, smooth and transparent, the shell is spherical, and the stuffing inside can be seen clearly. There are sweet and salty fillings, such as mung bean stuffing, bean paste, taro paste and so on. Because the cooked raw flour is not easy to get, it is relatively easy to make rice noodles, but it is not so easy to make the skin uniform and round.

● Fat intestines swell glutinous rice

Pork sausage glutinous rice is a traditional folk snack in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. The general production method is to take the middle section of pig intestines and rub it repeatedly with salt, soda ash or starch until there is no peculiar smell. First, soak glutinous rice, mix it with pork, mushrooms, shrimps, lotus seeds and other auxiliary materials, add seasonings such as salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper, and then fill it into the cleaned pig intestines ("Swelling" means putting things into a container in Chaoshan dialect, hence the name "Swelling glutinous rice in pig intestines"), and tie both ends tightly with yarns. This snack is suitable for all seasons, not only for Chaoshan people, but also for tourists from all over the world.