What are the specialties in Chaoshan?

Beef balls are the most common and popular folk snacks in Chaoshan area. They can be used as snacks and soup. Fish balls, like meatballs, are one of the famous snacks in Chaoshan.

According to legend, the custom of eating fish balls began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period: King Chu Ping likes to eat fish, and every meal without fish is tasteless. King Chu Ping is cruel by nature. Once he accidentally cut a fishbone and bone, so he ordered the chef to be killed. One day, a new cook thought that he would not be spared, so he ruthlessly chopped fish with the back of a knife to vent his anger. But this chop miraculously separated the fish from the bone.

The new chef rubbed these boneless fish paste into balls for King Chu Ping to eat, and was praised by King Chu Ping, so the chef was saved from bad luck. Later, with the southward migration of King Chu Ping, this dietary custom spread to Chaozhou.

Development Status of Chaoshan Snacks

Shantou snack market has a variety of business forms, complete varieties, scattered outlets and appropriate concentration, which can basically meet the consumption needs of the local market. In terms of business form, one is a simple takeaway shop. It is operated by package stalls, snack bars, food stalls in vegetable markets and grocery stores.

They provide customers with finished or semi-finished products, such as zongzi balls, steamed dumplings, crystal balls and so on. Now you can buy it home to eat. Meatballs, casserole, taro casserole, etc. To provide more semi-finished products for customers to take home for processing; The second is the form of take-away food. It is operated by snack bars and time-honored snack bars.

For example, beef ball snack bars all over the city are shops that make beef ball soup, beef ball kway teow and take-away beef balls. The time-honored "fragrance" snack bar and "Aiqian" noodle shop are also such business forms; The other is a snack bar, which mainly sells and eats.

For example, the Chaoshan Snack Buffet Package in China Travel Agency Restaurant, with 25 yuan for each person, is free to choose. Chaoxiang City is a snack supermarket. Nowadays, it is not difficult for local people to get together at home or abroad and entertain foreign guests to taste Chaoshan snacks.