Me: A Cantonese who doesn't speak Teochew, I've never been able to distinguish between the Chaoshan regions. In my cognition, the people who speak Teochew are Chaozhou people, and when I went to Shanwei City, I thought I had been to Chaozhou, to Puning, and I also thought that I had gone to Chaozhou.
Her girlfriend claims to be a Teochew native who grew up in Chaozhou, but she has never been to Chaozhou because she was born and raised in Shanwei.
Chaoshan: refers to the Chaoshan language area in Guangdong, the main body is the four cities of Chaoshan: Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei. Chaoshan, formerly known as Chaozhou, is a famous historical and cultural city, the birthplace of Chaoshan culture, and the hometown of food.
After reading the online recommendations for Teochew food, we suddenly felt that we were going to Chaozhou and go to a real Teochew! Launched a trip to go, an hour before going out to buy tickets online, Shenzhen train directly to Chaoshan Station.
Inside the ancient city of Chaozhou
traffic
The train from Shenzhen to Chaoshan Station takes about 135 minutes and costs 107 yuan. The bus line from Chaoshan Station to Chaozhou City takes about 40 minutes and costs 18 yuan.
Until I got off at Chaozhou Ancient City, booked a hotel directly at the entrance of the ancient city, walked the ancient city every day, and began to eat and eat for three days to fatten up.
Chaozhou Ancient City Gate
One: The Teochew snacks that can't be forgotten
Chaozhou Three Treasures: It is an old citron, an old medicine orange, a yellow skin drum, and is the best of Chaozhou liangguo specialties.
Authentic old fragrant yellow, used to soak water to drink, clear heat and relieve heat
Chaozhou curd cake, there are dozens of small shops selling curd cake on ArchWay Street, many of which are also baked on the spot, the price is the same earlier, 15 yuan per box. Curd cake is made of more than 10 kinds of ingredients such as curd milk, diced white meat, white sugar, peanuts, garlic, wine, sesame seeds, nuts, melon cubes, flour, etc. The crust is made of flour and peanut oil and syrup, generally two flavors, one salty and one sweet.
Now made curd cake
Chaozhou Phoenix Tofu, from Fenghuang Town, Chao'an District, Chaozhou City, is a local snack. It is known for its tenderness and tenderness, and is generally eaten with pepper and garlic balsamic vinegar, which is different from Chaozhou Puning tofu.
Teochew Phoenix Tofu
Kun: In the Chaoshan region, all foods made of rice flour as the main ingredient and flour, potato flour and other auxiliary materials are called kun.
In Chaozhou we ate too much: beef chowder, pork chowder, fried kway teows, red peach kway teow, mung bean kway, salt water kway 、、、
Beef kway teow, 20 yuan
Pork offal fish balls, 16 yuan
Red Peach Kway. Spring shoots
Guangdong talents have memories, the herbal tea shops on the street, and a cup of herbal tea that is suitable for need all year round.
Shihaihua is a Chaozhou specialty dessert, the raw material is seaweed, after the improvement of the new dessert shop, the popular practice on time, plus a variety of fruit grains, more popular.
Miscellaneous fruit stone sea flowers
Teochew intestine flour, which is filled with shredded Chinese cabbage, and the local practice is to have more vegetables than flour, sprinkled with fried garlic.
Ancient tree temple intestine powder in the archway street side, the gate is small and narrow, the street side put two small tea tables, see the Locals who speak Chaoshan dialect also eat breakfast here, we followed in, the narrow alley inside also placed a few small tea tables, the house is very old, covered with moss, but the cleaning is still clean, this kind of local eating flies small shop is more distinctive.
Teochew's local intestinal flour is filled with sliced Cabbage, a portion of intestinal flour with more dishes than powder, drizzled with delicious peanut butter, the taste is very rich.
Intestinal powder served with minced garlic sauce
Sausage flour with peanut butter
After walking around archway Street for two days, I thought that the salty water kway made by this small shop called Kaiyuan Shangxiping was the most delicious.
Chaozhou saltwater kway teow is a small bowl steamed with rice milk, the taste is smooth and soft, and the oil is fried in the middle of the koi embryo. This small shop makes the most fragrant preserved vegetables, and it is greasy, not greasy, the entrance of the preserved vegetables is salty and refreshing, and there is a strong garlic aroma.
Freshly steamed kon tung in salt water
Add Teochew vegetables and become: saltwater kway
Two: Drink morning tea in Chaozhou
Fucheng Snack Restaurant on the first floor of the Golden Dragon Hotel, a circle around the hometown, there are many guests, weekday morning, the attendance rate is 70%, and most of the locals come with the old and the young. There are not many snacks on the menu, and the waiter pushes four small carts to let people choose, which feels no different from in Guangzhou.
Fresh lily lotus cake sells for 100 minutes, reflecting golden light under the yellow light, and the taste is smooth and not sweet. Shrimp sausage is a classic of Cantonese morning tea, but this wins in the thin skin of the powdered shrimp more. Walnut buns are one of the best we've ever had, with a fragrant, chewy, and colorful walnut filling.
Fresh lotus seed lily cake
Shrimp intestines
Three: Chaozhou cold. Salted crab porridge
The word "hit" in the Chaoshan dialect has the meaning of "to take" and "buy to eat", and the word "cold" is "to cool" or "freeze cold", so playing cold can be understood as "going to eat tide-style cold dishes".
The cold stalls are all food stalls, food is laid out for guests to choose, and locals like to eat with a large bowl of white porridge.
Sauté sea cucumber seeds
Oysters are grilled, the sauce is fish sauce, a little salty, and the entrance has a more seaside feeling
Fragrant city food stalls
The small shop is located in the ancient tree temple street of the archway street, the small shop mainly fights fish raw, but the fish raw food, really not everyone can accept.
Salted crab porridge for two, 140 yuan, the hostess said that fresh lamb crab is expensive, and then with fresh shrimp, oysters and other seafood, absolutely delicious, to order to be freshly made.
Sure enough, fresh, endlessly sweet, in addition to seafood, there are also very small cut white radish grains, in addition to salt, without adding any spices are fresh and sweet enough.
Salted crab porridge with real materials
Four: Eat Teochew food in Chaozhou
Very taut Teochew cuisine: This farm is about seven kilometers away from Paifang Street, we took a taxi and found that many tour groups were eating here, and we were not hopeful, but unexpectedly satisfied.
A swimming lobster is more than two pounds, and the prepared lobster noodles are only 258 yuan, with the noodles under the lobster, the color is more like powder, but it is very elastic and tough.
Spicy wood noodles: Noodles made with green vegetable juice and stir-fried with leeks and fresh fish shreds.
Fishing for moringa noodles
The feeling of this trip to Chaozhou is different from that of Puning and Shanwei in the past, Chaozhou does not have the regional sense of Chaozhou people, and the mother-in-law in the streets and alleys can also speak Mandarin, which has a sense of the city.
There is a saying that no cow can get out of Chaozhou alive. It can be seen that the popularity of Teochew beef hot pot in recent years, because I do not eat, my girlfriend can only accompany me to eat, let her bring less regrets, good to come again next time.
Chaozhou Ancient City has its own Cantonese ancient rhyme, life is strong, the pace is slow, strolling here, just like living in the last century.