How to find authentic local food in Chaoshan?

Shantou, known as a gourmet paradise, is much richer than you think. There are all kinds of delicious food in the streets. If you are a foodie, you might as well try it here. There are all kinds of delicious food.

Shantou is a place with delicious food all over the city, with three steps and one stall, five steps and one file, and ten steps and one shop.

A day is basically eating from morning till night, with five or six meals a day.

No wonder Chaoshan is not a particularly famous place.

But for those who are obsessed with "eating", it means two words:

Heaven.

Hong kong seafood

▲ Fishing on the fish steak

Only when you eat local seafood can you eat seafood in Shantou. This sentence is absolutely correct.

Shantou's sea area has an advantage that other places don't have: shallow sea area. The seafood salvaged from here is more sweet and tender and full of flavor! In the old city of Shantou, there is a street full of all kinds of fish shops, which can be called "a street of seafood stalls", with stir-fry and sometimes fish.

But on this trip, we went to the fish raft, watched them fish and cook on the spot, blew the sea breeze, teased the cats on the fish raft, ate seafood and had a good time, which instantly reached the peak of our lives. The most important thing is that a table of seafood for 10 people is only a few hundred dollars, which is super value.

Location recommendation: Seafood Street near Xidi Street in Shantou Old Town.

Haishan fish steak in Raoping County, Shantou City? Fishing music

Spiced goose

▲ A lion-headed goose with a thousand dollars.

Yes! It is the red roast goose that everyone is stunned.

In Shantou, there is a custom that there must be geese when offering sacrifices to the gods, which shows the position of "goose" in Shantou people's hearts.

In fact, braised geese can be seen everywhere in Shantou, so not all braised geese are expensive. Red roast goose is more like a food that Shantou locals can't live without.

And if you want to eat the legendary thousand yuan red roast goose, you need to choose the lion-headed goose. The meat quality and price of Lion Head Goose are different in different growing years. A lionhead that has been raised for more than three years can reach 60 kg, and its meat quality is stronger, and the more it chews, the more fragrant it becomes. (Especially powdered liver, it is soft and fragrant, and it melts in the mouth. Be sure to try it. )

Location recommendation: September Fine Wine and Food Life House

Chun Mei goose shop

Beef balls/hotpot

▲ Beef balls/hot pots that are popular all over the country.

At present, the most famous ones in Chaoshan are probably beef hot pot and beef balls.

Personally, I am fascinated by this kind of food, so I offered to explore it as soon as I arrived in Shantou. The reason why Chaoshan beef products cannot be copied is firstly because of its high-grade beef quality, and secondly because of manual methods.

Beef balls are full of particles, moderate in oil content and firm in teeth. All parts of the cow are carefully classified and presented in the beef hot pot. Compared with other cities, Shantou's beef hot pot is purer and has no extra ingredients. The broth is full of the purest beef flavor when it is rinsed, and it is absolutely delicious when dipped in the local sand tea sauce.

Another unexpected discovery, in the process of exploration, Shantou friends reminded us more than once that we should not eat too much beef balls, and we must leave room for eating beef hot pot. Obviously, for local people, beef hot pot has a higher status in their hearts.

Recommended place: Jijia beef (there is more than one store in his family, and each one tastes good)

rice gruel

▲ Eating rice porridge is not just rice porridge.

When Shantou people say they want to eat rice porridge, don't think it's just rice porridge.

It seems that in Shantou, I heard from Shantou people that porridge is generally rice porridge, not casserole porridge. However, if a Shantou person says he wants rice porridge for dinner at night, no, no, no, no, no, no!

In addition to rice porridge, ordinary white porridge shops have their own main products, such as fish rice, raw salty seafood and so on. The general picture of midnight snack is like this: a table with a pot of cooked rice porridge in the middle and all kinds of stir-fried dishes and seafood around it is no less than a serious food feast. Fuyuan's midnight snack is very famous, the environment is open, the food is everything, and the food is very enjoyable.

Recommended place: Fuyuan diet

_ products

▲ _ Shantou is full of juice snacks.

_ Snacks occupy almost every corner of Shantou, which shows that Shantou people love it.

_, in fact, is the food made of rice flour, flour and potato flour. Among many kinds of products, fried chips and fruit juice are common product types.

First of all, stir-frying means cutting the cake into strips or triangles and adding fish sauce. Sometimes seafood such as oysters are added. And its eating method is also very distinctive. The salty strips fried by yourself should be dipped in sugar, which has no flavor.

And _ juice is to break _ strips into pieces, add marinade, and finally cover them with a layer of braised pork, sausage and other side dishes, and drink them in a big bowl, which is extremely fragrant.

Recommended place: Lao Zi Niang fried _ strips/_ juice

other

▲ Kung Fu tea on the fish steak

In addition to the above Chaoshan cuisines with distinct themes, there are also some diets that Shantou locals love very much and cannot give up.

Such as kungfu tea, sweet soup and licorice fruit.

For kungfu tea, I was impressed that Shantou people can't live without that kind of drink.

No matter after dinner at home, or the owner of a small shop, or even on a fishing boat going out to sea, there will be a tea stove soaked with Kung Fu tea, which is steaming and extremely comfortable.

Even the tobacco and alcohol shops in Shantou will add a word "tea" at the end-tobacco, alcohol and tea shops.

The weather in Chaoshan is hot, and sweet soup is derived from it. There are many kinds of sweet soup in Shantou: sweet bean curd, taro soup, sago dew and jiaozi with bean paste, which are sweet but not greasy and very rich.

When eating fruit in Shantou, you must try licorice. Choose your favorite fruit, cut it into pieces and pour it with sweet and sour plum juice. It feels layered, which is completely different from eating directly. Green mango is highly recommended, which is extremely sweet!

In addition, a friend recommended that the ocean candied fruit in the old city of Shantou tastes good and is worth a try, but unfortunately time is tight and there is no time.

Recommended location: There are fruit shops everywhere in the street, so you can choose them at will.