Guangdong Top Ten Food Snacks

Guangdong's top ten gourmet snacks are steamed rice rolls, dry steamed Shaomai, traditional Shahefen, Pantang Horseshoe Cake, Liwan Boat Porridge, Braised Pork Steamed Bun in Oyster Sauce, Xiangnuo Chicken, Cantonese Egg Tart, Shrimp Wonton Noodles, Thin-skinned Shrimp Dumplings and so on.

1, steamed rice rolls

Steamed rice roll is one of the traditional famous foods in Guangdong, and it is a rice product. Because it is shaped like pig intestines, it is called rice rolls. Rice rolls is a must for morning tea and night market in Guangzhou Teahouse and Restaurant, and it is also a must for breakfast in Guangdong, one of the delicacies in Lao Guang's memory.

2. Dry steamed dumplings

Dry steaming takes semi-fat lean meat, shrimp, wonton skin and eggs as main raw materials, and soy sauce, sugar, salt, chicken powder, pepper, raw powder and cooking wine as ingredients. Wrapped in thin dough and steamed with semi-exposed meat stuffing, it is delicious in color, smooth in texture and not greasy.

3. Traditional Shahefen

Shahefen is a very popular rice product in Guangzhou. Therefore, the powder originated from Shahe, hence the name. Its practice is to soak rice in the Jiulong Spring of Baiyun Mountain, grind it into pulp, steam it, and cut it into strips. Shahefen has a history of 100 years. Its powder is white, thin and tough. In addition to dry frying and wet frying, you can also make soup. Cantonese people call it "Tanghe Powder" or "Tanghe".

4. Pantang horseshoe cake

Water chestnut cake is a traditional classic snack in Guangdong. Legend has it that it originated in the Tang Dynasty and was steamed with water chestnut powder mixed with sugar water. Water chestnut, also called horseshoe in Cantonese, hence its name. Its color is yellowish brown, translucent, foldable without cracking, soft and smooth, refreshing and tough. It tastes sweet, and there is some horseshoe fragrance at the entrance.

5. Liwan boat porridge

There is no boat in the boat porridge, which is named after the porridge cooked by others on the boat. It was once called "Liwan Boat Porridge". "A bay with green streams and red lychees on both sides." In the past, Xiguan, near litchi Bay in Guangzhou, was the most charming and the river was full of traffic. Every summer evening, many scholars and tourists from all walks of life come here to play and take a boat trip.

One kind of boat is porridge boat, which mainly sells special sashimi porridge. If tourists on shore or other boats need it, the owner of the porridge boat will hand over porridge bowl by bowl, which is very popular. Gradually, even snack bars on land sell this kind of porridge called Liwan Boat Porridge.

6. Oyster pork bun

Barbecued pork bun is one of the representative snacks in Guangdong. It is made by cutting barbecued pork into small pieces, seasoning with oyster sauce, wrapping with flour and steaming in a steamer. Barbecued pork buns are generally about five centimeters in diameter, and there are usually three or four in a cage.

7, fragrant glutinous rice chicken

Lotus-scented glutinous rice chicken is wrapped in fresh lotus leaves, and the aroma of lotus leaves will also be emitted during the production process. The method is to put chicken, barbecued pork, salted egg yolk, mushrooms and other fillings into glutinous rice. Then wrap it in lotus leaves and steam it in a steamer. That special flavor is blended into glutinous rice, and the chicken tastes particularly smooth and tender.

8. Cantonese egg tart

The only way to beat the egg tart is to put the cake crust into a small round pot-shaped cake mold, then pour in the egg paste mixed with sugar and eggs, and then put it in the oven; The baked egg tart has a crispy crust on the outer layer and a sweet yellow solidified egg paste on the inner layer.

9. Shrimp Wonton Noodles

There was no distinction between wonton and jiaozi in ancient China. Wonton and jiaozi are eaten with noodles wrapped in stuffing or steamed or boiled. Perhaps our ancestors discovered that the meat stuffing was wrapped in dough, without leaking a seam or a hole, and the "steamed stuffed bun" without "seven tricks" was delicious. So this kind of "steamed stuffed bun" was called "chaos", and later it was changed to wonton, which has been used ever since.

It is said that after jiaozi and Wonton were separated in the Tang Dynasty, Wonton became an exquisite jiaozi and gradually developed its own style.

10, thin-skinned shrimp dumplings

Thin-skinned shrimp dumplings, also known as shrimp dumplings, are one of the most famous dim sum in Guangdong, and are listed as the "Four Kings" of Guangdong morning tea (shrimp dumplings, dry steamed dumplings, barbecued pork buns and egg tarts).