Huizhou’s food has its own unique flavor. What are the snacks in Huizhou?

Huizhou is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, located in the Pearl River Delta region, where the Hakka people live. Most of the food here has strong Hakka cultural characteristics. There are many Hakka delicacies in Huizhou, such as grandma's call, pickled pork cake with pickled vegetables, Hakka radish rice, knife-cut rice, dragon beard candy, large cage rice, Longmen rice cakes, etc.

Grandma’s cake is Huizhou’s most famous specialty snack. Before making grandma's cake, you must first stir-fry the shrimps and meat cubes separately and set aside. Squeeze out the water from the shredded white radish and set aside. Then stir the fried ingredients, white radish shreds and low-gluten flour batter thoroughly. During the stirring process, add an appropriate amount of salt, sugar and pepper to taste. Then pour the batter into a round vessel, put it into a frying pan and fry until the surface turns golden, then take it out and drain the fat before eating. The biggest feature of Grandma's cake is that it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant but not greasy.

Mei Cai Pork Cake is a traditional snack in Huizhou. Meicai cake is a delicacy made of low-gluten flour, cooked lard, dried prunes and pork belly. The production method is very complicated. First, you need to use low-gluten flour and pork to make a puff pastry, and then use the same ingredients to make a water-oil skin. Flatten the water-oil skin and wrap it in the puff pastry. Finally, wrap the fried pork belly and prunes and bake them in the oven at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes. The plum vegetables are crispy on the outside and fragrant on the inside, with a unique flavor.

Hakka radish rice. Carrot rice is an important Hakka winter solstice food and one of the most representative cultural delicacies in Huizhou. First, add salt and water to the glutinous rice flour to make a slurry, then prepare shredded white radish, minced mushrooms, minced bacon, and fried dried shrimp skins. Heat oil in a pan. Heat the oil to 40% heat, add the ingredients and stir-fry until cooked. Turn off the heat. Add shredded radish and dried shrimps into the pan, add salt and stir evenly. Then pour into the rice milk and stir evenly. Finally put it in the steamer and steam until cooked.

Hakka rice dumpling. Big steamed rice is an important food for the Hakka people during the New Year, equivalent to rice cakes. Large cage rice uses glutinous rice flour as the main raw material. It is steamed with brown sugar, brown sugar, white sugar, etc. over high heat. The taste is sweet and delicious.