The southernmost city in Guangdong is Zhanjiang, which is also the southernmost city in mainland China, across the sea from Hainan Island. Zhanjiang is located in the Leizhou Peninsula, is a beautiful coastal city, in the last century for a long time the economy leading the province only lost to Guangzhou, can be described as the province's "second oldest". Unfortunately, in the 1980s and 1990s, it began to be overtaken by many cities, and now it has been obscured and rarely mentioned, and it has been forgotten by too many outsiders. Although the economy no longer has an advantage, Zhanjiang's special cuisine has never lost to anyone.
The old saying that "the people take food as the sky" has been vividly played by the citizens of Zhanjiang, and everyone has never been generous about eating and drinking. Therefore, although the average local wage is not high, the price is not low, and no matter how expensive the seafood in the market is, no one is afraid to buy it. For those who know a little about Zhanjiang but don't know it well, the most famous food in Zhanjiang is nothing more than oysters and shrimp. But for locals, oysters and shrimp are just the tip of the iceberg of Zhanjiang cuisine, because there are so many delicious things.
Zhanjiang is a city with a long coastline of 1555.7 kilometers, the seafood is very rich, seafood is well-known throughout the country, shrimp, tilapia and other aquatic products are exported abroad. There are many kinds of local seafood, and traditional wet markets usually have half of the area used to sell seafood, a variety of fish, shrimp, crabs, shellfish, dry goods, in addition to sandworms, mud nails and other rare goods. Although it is the place of origin, natural seafood is not sold cheaply, and many are even more expensive than those sold in the Guangzhou market. Of course, the freshness and deliciousness are incomparable in the Guangzhou market.
Fish, shrimp and crabs are known to everyone, but not many people have eaten sandworms and mud nails. Sandworms and mud nails both look like earthworms and grow in sand, literally in the sand of the beach. The mud nails are one size smaller than sandworms, and there are two linear objects at the tail end after being turned over, which are mainly used in Fujian to make "soil shoot jelly" to eat. But in Zhanjiang, sandworms and mud nails are used to fry, fry, steam, cook porridge, and cook soup. Although they are all a bit unbearable chopsticks, the taste is extremely delicious, especially the sandworms, on the freshness, unparalleled! (PS: Personally do not recommend fried to eat, violent natural objects)
In addition to seafood, Zhanjiang's chicken is also famous, and the locals like to eat chicken, and during the New Year's Festival, there is no chicken and no feast. Zhanjiang's chicken is very fragrant, usually the practice is white cut, that is, after the whole chicken is killed, it is directly cooked with water to eat. The reason why such a simple cooking method is used is because the texture of the chicken itself is good, so that you can taste the original taste of the chicken and leave the lips and teeth fragrant. In addition, Zhanjiang's duck is also delicious, the same is the white cut method, Leizhou Duck Soup Hotel (Duck Boy Hotel) is quite popular in the Pearl River Delta cities.
Zhanjiang people also like to eat dog meat, and there is dog meat sold in the vegetable market every day all year round. In various towns in Zhanjiang City, Leizhou, Suixi, Xuwen and other places, there are several stalls in each vegetable market that sell white cut dog meat. White cut dog meat is also cooked whole and then chopped to sell, when eaten dipped in the boss's secret hot sauce to eat. During the Spring Festival, those who go to school in other places go home for a reunion, relatives and friends gather together, and the supply of dog meat at this time is in short supply, not only the price is doubled, but even the dog bones cannot be bought a little later.
Many people do not understand, white cut dog meat will not have a commotion, how to get out of the mouth? In fact, dog meat does have a unique smell, but it smells fragrant, and it is unusually compatible with the smell of wine, and the mixture of the two is so strange that people can smell drooling from afar. Dog meat is not only fragrant, the taste is also very good, there is no wood and no astringency at the same time, the more chewy the more fragrant, with the wine first-class. In Zhanjiang, dog meat is basically eaten in white, and a small number of them are grilled and eaten like roast suckling pigs, and only when it is cold do dog meat hot pot.
In addition, Zhanjiang's roast duck and roast pig are also a must, not only smell very fragrant, but also eat the same. Roast duck, roast pig in many places, but may be cooking details, ingredients are not the same, the taste of roast duck and roast pig in other places is very different from Zhanjiang's, but even Beijing's roast duck is not as delicious as Zhanjiang's roast duck. There are also zhanjiang geese are also famous, it is true that the old goose is famous, the kind of black brown old goose of three or four years, four or five years has many people love to eat.
The old goose shop in Zhanjiang Chengyue Town is very famous, specializing in selling white cut old geese. The old goose is not very big, but the incense is very fragrant, but the skin is tough, the flesh is thick, the bone is hard, the teeth are not good at all, and it will be uncomfortable to eat a few pieces. But it is this kind of goose meat with old skin and hard meat, and it is not sold cheaply. Just because many local people are good at this bite, maybe their teeth are good, while dragging their hands to eat, while sipping wine, very fragrant, looking fragrant. In addition, the fruits of Zhanjiang are also surprising, such as the red orange of Lianjiang, the pineapple of Xuwen, the mango of Leizhou Qindou, and the fruit cane of Suixi Chengyue.
Friends who travel to Zhanjiang, don't just eat oysters and shrimp in the future, there are so many delicious things waiting for you to eat it!
Dear officials, what kind of special food in Zhanjiang do you like the most?
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