First, the materials are extensive and elegant. Chaoshan proverbs such as "sit in the study, roast tea (drink hot tea), abalone pork chicken, sea cucumber lobster and crab", "swallow, wing, abalone, ginseng, belly (fish glue)" are the regular dishes in the recipe, and are also the ingredients that are common to the hipsters; Sweet potato taro can be cooked into a delicious and beautiful "golden jade full hall", and even the sweet potato leaves are made into a beautiful "tai chi soup" (a famous dish of Chaoshi cuisine: go national dish).
The second is that the skills are transcendent and the mastery is clumsy. Chao cuisine enjoys the reputation of "kung fu dish", knife work, cooking are very exquisite, dozens of techniques; chao cai is the most exquisite is the soup, can be called the soup can not be separated from the soup, diners jokingly call eating chao cai as "full of water", the ingredients are noble, from grass carp raw to snails, are still "soup burning"; soup must be refined, raw materials are more old hens, Jinhua ham, pork bone meat and other complex procedures "boiled" made, cooking must be clumsy, the more high-grade ingredients are made of simpler, the fresh things to "shang tang" and "burn" shabu, can be described as a fine blend, elegant and customary.
The third is to pursue the taste of the essence, the great beauty. Chao cuisine not only pays attention to color, fragrance and taste, but also pursues shape, meaning and connotation, pursues light and true taste, and has a deep foundation, the ancients described the hipsters as eating fish raw "every flying frost, soaking honey mash, ginger wilting, all from the color joy." Seafood must be fierce, fruits and vegetables must be delicious, the main ingredients try to express their "original taste", supplemented by a variety of sauces and sauces, one dish or one dish of multiple dishes: raw cooking lobster with orange oil, mustard, oyster sauce with pepper fish sauce, scorching snails with shrimp paste, plum lamb sauce, beef with sand tea sauce, snake meat hot pot with fried bean sauce, blood cockles with authoritarian three-seep sauce, etc., dipping in the meeting, meaning is far-reaching, and the mood is timeless. The food industry has long had the saying of "eating Guangzhou flavor Chaoshan", the chaozhou cuisine in the cuisine is like the Guilin landscape in the scenery, Wang Zengqi praised it as "Guilin landscape cave, the chaozhou cuisine color and taste fragrant"; the famous scholar Xian Yuqing praised the Chaoshan cuisine as "cooking seasoning in the southeast beauty, the most is the kung fu tea and soup"; in 1988, Wang Zhen, former vice president of the state, gladly inscribed "Chaozhou cuisine A world" after tasting the chaozhou cuisine.
The fourth is people-oriented, large and medium-sized. The hipsters revere the Confucian and Taoist cultural traditions, and the chao cuisine everywhere highlights the idea and heritage of "the way of the mean, yin and yang and harmony". "Medicine and food homology", "medical food homology", is the deep-rooted health concept of chaoshi cuisine, chaoshi cuisine pays attention to conforming to the four times, following the mechanism of heaven and earth, eating according to orders, pursuing the unity of nature and man, health and fitness; a table dish or a dish, must take into account "salty, sweet, bitter, hard" to take its "sweet", "cold, cool, hot, dry" to take its "and", spring and summer to help the sun to extinguish the fire, autumn and winter to dry, from "cordyceps water duck" to "olive pig lung", seasonal medicinal food is a regular menu. Chao cuisine pays attention to people-oriented, measure people side dishes, Chao Cuisine restaurant must ask the number of people, according to the gender, age, preferences and physical conditions of diners to prepare menus, or to help correct the evil, or to fill in the deficiencies and conditioning, and even to help cure the disease, "the rational medical science organic without revealing traces of implanted sensual delicacies", in the diners at the same time to achieve yin and yang harmony, health and fitness, is the higher realm pursued by Chao Cai. In addition, the chaoshi cuisine must be accompanied by kung fu tea, each dish between the tea to clear the taste, full of aristocratic temperament; the wedding feast will be opened and ended with desserts, full of "sweet head and tail sweet" happy outlook on life; the seasonings of the chao cuisine "sauce dish" are various, reaching the peak, during the banquet, let the diners at will, at any time, with the scene with the "original taste" of the main dish, meaning thousands, big in the big, big and large, can be called a model of food culture.
Fifth, great opening and great cooperation, great new and great differences. Teochew cuisine "no spectrum", which refers to the flexibility and personalization of the collocation and production of chaoshi cuisine, is also the openness and borderlessness of chao cuisine. The "Fa Yi will come from Wuzhe to Wuzhe, and the delicacies will come from the sea" in Lin Xichun's "Poetry of Feeling the Time" at the end of the Ming Dynasty records the openness and compatibility of Chaoshi cuisine, the worldwide exchange of Chaoshi people and the vigorous development of Chaoshi cuisine in the world, prompting Chao cuisine to cultivate the spirit of openness and fashion between tradition and innovation. Whether it is domestic cuisine, Southeast Asian flavors or European and American Western cuisine, from ingredients to techniques, Chaoshi cuisine is compatible with Tuna, maintaining a rapid development trend and forming the "core competitiveness" of the sustainable development of Chaoshi cuisine.
Whether in style or from the connotation, the characteristics of Chao cuisine "clear but not light, fresh but not fishy, tender but not raw, fat but not greasy" are in line with the value orientation of today's people's pursuit of scientific and healthy diet, leading the fashion of Chinese diet, and can be called "the dish of the future".
