With the improvement of living standards, people's requirements for eating are gradually changing, and food culture is more and more valued by people. Catering enterprises began to transform from simple "canteens" to palatial restaurants, restaurants or more conceptual brand enterprises, and in the past few years, they have returned to a simple way of eating: original ecology and green health.
"Hainan Food Travelogue" is to "eat" as the carrier, through the way of food tourism, excavate, discover and share Hainan food culture, in order to express our attitude to life and life perception, as well as our love for Hainan. "Eating" is not only a taste art, but also an art of vision and feeling, we have not only tasted food with "taste", but also used our hearts to taste every delicious dish given to us by nature, and used our lens, in our image lens, in the imaginative plane and space design, vividly depicted a unique spiritual feeling. Subsequently, we are also trying to share our wonderful experience with more friends.
Our dream is to make more food come to life, to let more people know that the food here is so delicious and unique. So we've been working hard to recommend the best food to people who love life. Together, we share a pure leisurely life and taste the life with dreams.
How beautiful Hainan is, we tell you: Hainan cuisine is known for its green, pristine and healthy food culture. Eat seafood and mountain treasures in Hainan, and win with light and fresh, original taste. The unique tropical oceanic climate and complex and diverse geographical environment form the uniqueness of Hainan cuisine raw materials, so that Hainan cuisine has uniqueness.
Four famous dishes in Hainan
1. Wenchang chicken
Produced in Wenchang City, it is one of the best edible chicken breeds in China, and is known in Hainan as "no Wenchang chicken is not a seat". Chickens eat banyan seeds and fatten, and then use cages in a quiet sheltered place for 6 to 9 months in the wild, and feed peanut cakes, shredded coconut meat, sweet potatoes, hot rice and other fertilizers. Food Wenchang chicken is mainly white cut, and its white cut processing method and condiment are unique. White cut Wenchang chicken skin is yellow and crispy, the meat is tender and beautiful, and the bones are crisp and fresh. There are also coconut milk chicken, crispy chicken, fried chicken and so on.
2. Add duck
Produced in Qionghai City, also known as "Fan Duck", it is said to have been imported from Malaysia by overseas Chinese more than 300 years ago. The duck has a red crown and yellow webbing and black and white feathers. Because the method of raising fan duck in the Jiaji area of Qionghai City is different from other places, its large breasts, thin skin, soft bones, tender meat, less fat, fat and not greasy, high nutritional value, so people call the fan duck raised in the Jiaji area of Qionghai City as the Jiaji duck. White cut duck, plate duck, roast duck, and added duck are all three kinds of food methods. Hainan folk regard the accumulation of duck as a medicinal food to supplement fatigue, take cordyceps together to stew, can nourish the body; stewed with sea cucumber, the effect of nourishment is greater; such as boiled duck porridge with glutinous rice, it has the effect of nourishing the stomach, blood replenishment, and vitality.
3. East Goat
Produced in Dongshanling, Wanning City, the coat color is dark, the meat is fat but not greasy, and the soup is thick but not greasy. Its delicacy is rumored to be due to the fact that sheep eat rare grasses such as partridge tea, a specialty of Dongshanling. The Eastern Goat has enjoyed a great reputation since the Song Dynasty and was once listed as a "tribute". The eastern goat has a variety of food methods, including red braised eastern goat, clear soup eastern goat, coconut water eastern goat, etc., each with its own characteristics, are rare delicacies.
4. Hele Crab
Produced in the sea around Wanning City and Lezhen, the cream full of meat is rare for other crab species, especially its fat paste, golden butter bright, like salted duck egg yolk, fragrant and nutritious. There are many ways to eat crab, the common way to eat is steaming, and dipped in ginger, garlic, vinegar made of seasoning, the original taste, beautiful in it. Compared with the inland river crab, the Hele crab has two characteristics: one is that the fat paste is almost covered on the entire back cover, and the paste is firm; while the inland river crab paste is soft and soft, and the number is obviously less than that of the Hele crab. Second, the meat of Hele crab is of good quality and quantity.
Famous dishes from other places
1. Lingao Roast Suckling Pig & Oriental Roast Suckling Pig
It is a unique pig breed in the country, with a small waist and straight waist, thin skin and thin meat. After grilling, the color is oily red, and the skin is crispy and fragrant. This pig sells well in Hong Kong and Macao, enjoys a long reputation, and is a traditional export product of Hainan.
Lingao roast suckling pig
Oriental roast suckling pig
2. Shishan sheep
Produced in the Shishan area of Haikou City, it is kept in captivity and fed with selected "sheep grass" from this area (which is an extinct volcano) to make its skin delicate and tender, not greasy and unsatisfactory. The best sheep are lambs born between half a month and 20 days old or a middle sheep that weighs about 15 kg in captivity for about two months. Lamb is famous for its soup shabu, white cut, red stew and medicinal stew. Chop the lamb bones into pieces, boil the soup, the soup is accompanied by fresh bamboo shoots and sauerkraut, the skin and meat are blanched, the meat is fragrant and smooth, and the soup is sweet and sour. At present, in the Liwan Wine Village in Shishan, you can taste the sheep feast in the lychee forest.
3. (YanFeng) Qukou seafood
Qukou Bay is located in Dongzhai Port in Haikou City, where seafood has long been famous, and green crabs, blood cockles, oysters and shrimp are the best.
4. Sandworms
Hainan specialties, about 2 to 4 inches long, shaped like reed buds, stir-fried soup under the hot pot are suitable, the entrance is crisp and tender and fresh. Sandworms are high-protein supplements. It is said that on the night of the big moon, the sandworms float to the shallow sea to mate with the best catch, which has the effect of tonifying the kidney and aphrodisiac.
5. Abalone
It is one of the "three musts" in Sanya. Abalone is a shellfish species and is a marine mollusk. There are five main species: variegated abalone, half-striped abalone, sheep abalone, ear abalone and wrinkled plate abalone. Abalone has a nocturnal habit. During the day, it clings to the walls of stones and caves several meters deep in the water. The abalone picker dived to the bottom of the sea, spied on the abalone, and quickly used a small iron hook to hook the abalone off the rock wall. Hook abalone must succeed once, otherwise it will not break away from the rock wall even if it is hooked. From March to September every year, it is the season of abalone picking. July to August is the breeding season for abalone, when the abalone gonads are developed and the flesh is thick and fat. The area around Longlou Town in Wenchang City is also rich in abalone.
6. Hou'an mullet
It is one of the specialties of Wanning City, which is abundant in Hou'an Xiaohai. Mullet is divided into five species: aconitum, white mullet, red fish mullet, green mullet and hard phosphorus mullet. The posterior mullet has a slightly flattened body length, a flattened head, a protrusion at the front of the lower jaw, a depression in the center of the upper jaw, and two dorsal fins. The small one is about 10 cm long and the large one is about 50 cm long. Mullet feeds on diatoms and other organisms attached to the mud surface.
Mullet can be caught all year round, with autumn and winter being the peak season. It is a premium fish species, seafood supplement. It is not only a delicacy at the banquet, but also one of the best tonics for the elderly, the sick and the weak, and women after childbirth.
7. Sea urchin
Also known as the sea hedgehog, it is an echinoderm that is round, hemispherical or heart-shaped. The sea urchin produced by The Dragon Building in Wenchang City is more famous. Although the sea urchin is not proud of its appearance, its reproductive glands, that is, the sea urchin cream, is a very delicious food with high nutritional value. It can be eaten raw or processed into alcoholic sea urchins, salted sea urchins, chilled sea urchins and steamed. As early as the Qing Dynasty, China has used sea urchin cream to process it into "Yundan", which is listed as a delicious feast with a unique style. Sea urchin cream and lean pork are cooked together, which is delicious and flavorful.
8. Lobster
Lobsters are marine animals that live in tropical and subtropical shallow waters, and are among the best shrimps. It is cloaked in armor and has two long tentacled whips, beautiful and mighty. Hainan produces several kinds of lobsters, and tourists can choose fresh lobsters in the farmed nets to taste delicious immediately. Lobster is a precious food, its meat is soft and smooth, fresh and delicious. In Hainan, most of them eat raw lobster (dipped in mustard and spices), and boil porridge with shrimp head, tail, foot, etc.; there are also fried, stir-fried, steamed ways to eat. Lobster, prawns and shrimp form the main dish of Hainan cuisine.
9. Five-fingered mountain beef
It is mainly produced in Wuzhishan City and Baoting County. The mountain cow is a smaller cattle that is placed in wild flocks in tropical mountain forests and allowed to roam freely. This cow grows up in a purely natural environment, almost wild, and often needs to be hunted before eating. The meat quality of mountain cattle is particularly good, fragrant and fresh, and there are mountain beef races in Hainan that of Wuzhishan and Baoting.
10. Horse mackerel
Mackerel, Hainan (Wenchang) dialect "black fish", is a special favorite dish of Hainan people's daily life, especially the family reunion during the Spring Festival, with the beautiful meaning of "fish every year".
11. Higashiyama flaky cake
It is a unique method of secretly making flapjacks at Dongshanling Restaurant in Wanning City, similar to the mille-feuille cake in the north, but more fragrant, crispy, soft and crispy. This cake is characterized by a crispy outer skin, a soft inner skin, a strong flavor, and people appreciate it. Some people praise it as "the first cake in Hainan", and some people call it "the first cake in the world". Tourists can only eat this cake at Dongshanling Restaurant, and in recent years, due to the flow of flaky cake chefs, some restaurants in Haikou or Sanya have sometimes served Dongshan flaky cakes. In addition, many hotels and restaurants have also created their own specialty flatbread and flapjacks, each with its own flavor.
12. Bamboo tube rice
Bamboo tube rice is usually made when the Lai family goes out to hunt or entertain guests. Use the "fragrant rice" in shanlan rice (a kind of dry rice) and meat as raw materials, put it into a bamboo tube made of fresh powdered bamboo or mangosteen sawn, add an appropriate amount of water, and then use banana leaves to block the mouth of the bamboo tube, and the green bamboo can be charred in the charcoal fire. Bamboo tube rice is known as salt rice, black bean rice and so on. At present, in the hotels in Wuzhishan City, Li tourist villages and some other restaurants, you can taste the Li bamboo tube rice.
13, Li people sweet and bad
It is made by fermenting glutinous rice from Shanlan, a specialty of the Li ethnic group. The Li family mixed the sticky rice of Shanlan with yeast made of lishan unique plants, put it in a bamboo basket and covered it with fresh and clean banana leaves, let it ferment on its own for a few days and then sealed it into the altar, and after half a month it became sweet. Sweet and rotten is high in nutritional value, and it is more delicious to use to boil eggs. If the sweet jelly is buried deep in the altar and dug out after three or five years, the sweet jelly has all turned into slurry and becomes "mountain orchid wine".
14. Five-color rice
It is a kind of rice with strong national characteristics made by the Miao people in Hainan Province, and is made by almost every Miaozhai family at the time of the folk festival of "March 3rd" in the lunar calendar. The five-color rice is available in red, yellow, blue, white and black, all of which are mixed with glutinous rice with a unique plant sap as a natural pigment and steamed in a special wooden steamer basket. The five-color rice is brightly colored, fragrant and delicious, and is a cool food for appetizing and de-burning. Nowadays, the Miao family's five-color rice has been changed to a three-color rice, with red, yellow and black colors, which are taken from the fresh plants of red sunflower, yellow ginger and triangular maple. The sweet fragrance of the three-color rice brings laughter to the children of the Miao family and also gives tourists a unique feeling.
15: Shredded coconut glutinous rice
It is a common flavor snack in Hainan, the main ingredient is made of glutinous rice flour as a skin, filled with fresh shredded coconut meat, sesame seeds, crushed fried peanuts, sugar and other fillings, wrapped in wild pineapple leaves into a round rice ball about 5 cm in size, steamed and eaten hot. This rice dumpling is not greasy, sweet and delicious, and has a unique flavor.
16. Jinshan fried pile
Fried heaps are commonly known as "treasure bags" in Hainan. There are many types of frying piles made in various parts of Hainan, including filling solid frying piles, sandwich filling frying piles, and fried hollow fried piles without fillings. The fried heap in Jinshan Town, Wenchang City, has a history of hundreds of years and is a famous snack. It is characterized by fine production, exquisite materials, crispy skin and fragrant filling, and strong taste. The filling has more than ten kinds of ingredients and vegetarian, meat, sweet, light and various flavors, as well as various shapes of lump and silk. Jinshan Pan-Fried Heap uses the finest glutinous rice to make the peel (some of which are also sticky with sesame seeds) and fried in peanut oil. Both the peel and the filling have a rich aroma.
17. Hainan powder & Baoluo powder
It is a very common local snack in Hainan, sold everywhere, and particularly attractive. Hainan flour has soup powder, pickled powder, fried powder and so on. How to eat: Pickle powder drizzled with special seasonings, accompanied by green onions, coriander, the taste of the first Chengmai, Haikou pickle powder is also famous. The soup powder is placed in the condiment soup, and the Lingshui County sour powder, which is both sweet, lightly sour and slightly spicy, is the most important. The fried powder is the most outstanding in Tayang Town, Qionghai City.
Hainan powder
Hugs powder
Soup powder is expensive in the soup, the soup is boiled with a variety of raw materials, sweet but not greasy, sweet contains acid, sour in the spicy. Using this soup to mix noodles, accompanied by beef jerky, peanut kernels, bamboo shoots, sauerkraut bones, peppers and other ingredients and condiments, "it tastes great"!
Soup powder
Stir-fry the powder in the heat, stir-fry with pork liver, lean meat, green onion, and beat with corn starch, and then sprinkle pepper when eating, the aroma is fragrant.
Stir-fried flour
18. Hainanese chicken rice
The main ingredients of chicken rice are chicken and rice, and the best chicken rice is "Wenchang chicken". Since the supply of "Wenchang chicken" is in short supply, the general chicken rice stall uses local breeds of variegated chickens, requiring freshly mature chickens that have not yet laid eggs, 1 to 1. 5 kg is appropriate. The rice is made of fine fresh and high-quality rice, the chicken is a white cut chicken, the clear soup is blanched, the skin is yellow in oil, the meat is white and tender, the bone marrow is bloody, and it is sweet and refreshing to eat.
The preparation method of rice: first, stir-fry the chicken fat and garlic in a fierce hot pot, then pour into the washed and filtered rice and stir-fry, then add chicken soup to mix well, cover and cook; one is to pour the chicken fat of garlic or green onion into the hot rice cooked by ordinary methods, add a little salt and MSG and stir evenly. This kind of rice is soft and smooth, fragrant and refreshing. At street stalls, white cut chicken is accompanied by wine, and chicken rice follows, and its taste is long.
19. Cool up
One of the classic snacks of Hainan, with a long history and great Hainan characteristics. Haikou qing supplemental cool raw materials are rich, more than 20 kinds, local materials, fresh and delicious. The materials for cooling are mainly spleen and dehumidification, and there are also mainly moisturizing lungs. The ingredients are usually Huaishan, lotus seeds, cishi, barley, lilies, red dates, north and south apricots and lean meat. There are also sand ginseng, jade bamboo, tangerine peel and longan. Qing Tong Liang can also be made into sugar water, which has its own unique flavor. In summer, Qing Supplement is a very unique landscape in Hainan.
20. Hainan Morning Tea (Dad Tea)
Morning tea is available in large hotels, small hotels and tea houses in Hainan. Every morning, the hotels, restaurants, tea houses, and liquor stores in the streets and alleys of Hainan cities and counties are crowded with tea customers, or drink slow drinks, or negotiate business, or give thanks, or couples dating, and everyone conveys feelings and exchanges information in mutual consideration and mutual accommodation.
Some people summarize Hainan morning tea as "poor tea rich point". Tea is oolong tea, white sand green tea or Hainan black tea, and there are many kinds of points, including small, medium and large points and apexes and characteristics. Meat dishes are mostly made of chicken feet chicken wings, duck palm duck wings, pig's feet pig tail, mutton and beef as raw materials, as well as seafood and poultry stews, similar to Guangdong morning tea; vegetarian food has glutinous rice coconut cake, meat dumplings (including chicken, salted egg yolk and the like), fried powder, agar cold cuts, etc., quite Hainanese characteristics.
21. Hainan rice dumplings
The northern rice dumplings are conical in shape, wrapped in small and exquisite rice leaves, filled with glutinous rice, and then add red beans and red dates to the rice dumplings. The dumplings in Hainan are different: they are wrapped in a square cone of banana leaves and weigh 0. About 5 kilograms, there are salted egg yolks, char siu, bacon, braised chicken wings and so on in the glutinous rice. Hot rice dumplings are peeled off, first there is the fragrance of plantains and glutinous rice, followed by the strong aroma of meat and eggs, the aroma is both rich and light, the taste of meat and vegetarian, and the appetite of the eaters.
There is a tradition of making meat dumplings all over Hainan, with Danzhou, Hele and Ding'an black pork dumplings being the best.
22. Hainan hot pot
Commonly known as "playing edge stove", in Hainan regardless of winter and summer, the side stove is beaten. This hot pot is boiled with meat bones and shellfish with red dates, ginseng, yam, goji berries and other tonic Chinese medicine soup, first with sashimi, seafood, beef leaves, chicken hot food, compound tofu, vermicelli and watercress, lettuce, hollow cabbage, Cabbage and other seasonal vegetables blanched, and finally even the soup with water to eat and drink. Before the establishment of the province, people often ate "three streams": sweating, tears, and runny nose - all because of the use of charcoal as fuel at that time, smoked and burned. Nowadays, because the fuel and equipment of the side furnace have been improved, the "third stream" no longer flows, but the atmosphere of the side furnace is still warm.
23, Hainan vegetables
There are many varieties of wild vegetables in Hainan, representative of which are five-fingered mountain tree vegetables, four-sided beans, wild celery, Lei Gong bamboo shoots, wild hollow cabbage, mountain bracken, "revolutionary vegetables" and so on. Wuzhishan tree vegetable is a tropical tree bud, looking at its verdant, crisp and refreshing food, very nutritious, it is rumored that Japan imported this dish after renaming it "heavenly bud". At present, the supply of five finger mountain tree vegetables in the market outside the island is in short supply.
Five-fingered mountain wild vegetables
Reishi weed
Stagchille
24. Wenchang horn puff pastry
Snacks during the Spring Festival. Coconut oil frying, the warm taste of home, the strong nostalgia, Wenchang people linger in a taste memory.
25. Envelope cake
At the beginning of the last century, envelope cakes were brought back by villagers from The town of Hoi Man in HonChang, who had gone out to Work in Singapore. At that time, there were many people who went out to work in nanyang, and because of their homesickness, they made this small snack into the shape of an envelope, returned to their hometown with strong friendship, and passed down the craft from generation to generation. Today, envelope cakes have been given the meaning of reunion and happiness, which is a good omen for the coming year in the New Year. It has also become a traditional snack in the Wenchang Huiwen area.
26. Fried shrimp cake
When I grew up, the fried shrimp cakes of ABO on the streets of my hometown have always been the most authentic taste memories of my childhood that I can never forget. Crouching in the corner, staring at the shrimp cake slowly turning brown and emitting a charming fragrance, it was the happiest moment.
Source: Plum Brothers Hainan Food Travelogue
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