Before going to Guangdong, it was always unclear the relationship between Chaoshan and Chaozhou. Chaoshan is always considered to be a city name. Come to Guangdong to find out that Chaoshan is a region, a Chaoshan region with similar Chaoshan language and culture. These four cities include Shantou, Shanwei, Jieyang and Chaozhou. When I came to the Chaoshan area, I clearly understood that Chaozhou was originally an old city with a thousand-year history.
Entering Chaozhou City, the first feeling is that the rich Chaoshan culture here, the Chaoshan language, is common in the Chaoshan area, and the local food culture and customs and traditions can be traced back to the same roots.
Chaozhou can be said to be a representative of Chaoshan culture, here retains the ancient Chaoshan culture, the ancient city of Chaozhou in the center of the city has a history of more than 3,000 years, the famous attraction Guangji Bridge is one of the four ancient bridges in China, and the ancient residential buildings are the inheritance of the history that can be seen in Chaoshan culture. No, in Chaozhou City, you can feel the simple and special Chaoshan culture everywhere.
The cuisine of the Chaoshan region is also a representative of Guangdong, and the inheritance of food culture is particularly significant for Guangdong people and Chaoshan people. Food is one of the characteristics of guangdong.
When you come to Chaozhou City, you will fall into the dilemma of not knowing where to enter, there are hundreds of snacks and delicacies, and you don't know where to choose. But there are also some special traditions of food that are necessary to eat when coming to Chaozhou.
Beef hot pot is the most representative of Teochew cuisine, for me who do not love hot pot, the beef hot pot in chaoshan area will also be conquered, the beef meat here is tender, it is the fresh taste of the day slaughtered and sold, the hand-beaten beef balls are tight Q bombs, the soup base is beef bone clear soup, and the taste is the most natural taste of beef.
Kway teow is the most common snack in Chaozhou area, can also be used as a staple food, there are many types of kway teow, there are beef stir-fried kway teow, bamboo shoot kwai, salt water kway teow, kway teow soup, etc., the variety of kway teow is different, the taste is different, the production ingredients are different will produce a different taste, a total suitable for your taste.
Oyster fried is the same as Xiamen's oyster frying, using sweet potato flour and sea oysters as raw materials to make crisp and delicious seafood stalls, which is a snack special to Chaozhou region.
The most common delicacies in Chaozhou city include duck mother twist, intestinal powder, pig's foot ring, grass kway teen herbal tea, phoenix floating bean jerky, fish dumplings, fish raw... Everywhere you walk into the city is delicious.
Chaozhou also has three treasures of old medicine orange, old fragrant yellow, yellow skin soy, Chaozhou is known as the hometown of cool fruits, these three treasures have a high medicinal value, raw jin throat, cough and phlegm, can be used as medicinal food.
Chaozhou City's rich Chaoshan culture seems to make people experience a journey through time and space, and the ancient city of thousand-year culture and century-old food culture are truly showing the beauty of Chaozhou.