Chaozhou, also known as “Greater Phoenix“, located in the eastern part of Guangdong, is a national historical and cultural city, the famous hometown of overseas Chinese, but also an important source of Chaozhou culture. Endangered South China Sea, the subtropical marine monsoon climate, its abundant rainfall and sunshine brought extremely conducive to the production of agricultural products, a variety of tropical fruits, the unique flavor of seafood ……
Specialties
1, Chaozhou beef balls
From the early Qing Dynasty, the use of live cattle to take piece of meat the day with machetes or iron chopsticks back strongly and repeatedly smashed to pulpy, hand squeeze into pills. Unique flavors: beef balls delicious, smooth taste, chewy and very flexible.
2, baked oysters
Selection of fresh oysters and Fan Shufen fat fried oysters baked, tasty and smooth, crisp outside and tender inside, plump, fragrant oils, coveted. Unique Taste: crispy skin entrance when baked oysters, white like creamy oyster is very delicious, distinctive flavor.
3, pig ring
A fried snack cake category, because the circle was, like to cut down from the Trotters, so people euphemistically as pig circle. Unique taste: taste crispy, Chaozhou child is a special favorite snacks.
4, Carrot Cake
Chaozhou place a rice cake, fried radish without directly mix rice flour and other ingredients, and mix thoroughly with water re-steamer steamed. Unique Taste: crispy outside, soft and sweet inside.
Fruit articles
1, Zhang Xi litchi
Nuclear small flesh, crisp and sweet have flavor, taste good and pleasant heart. Have lower blood sugar, appetizers and spleen, swelling detoxification, bleeding and pain, enhance immune function. Every summer season, camphor around town red leaf green fruit, fruit quality ushered Quartet merchants, business is very active.
2, Zhang Xi longan
Zhang Xi planting longan, many categories. Gifted to dilute shop were kind of grass, Shek Kip, eyes and other welfare-oriented. Type longan honey water glistening white soft slip slightly tough; juicy, peel juice flow, light sweet with honey flavor; Sand longan honey-type fruit, leather brown, easy to peel, flesh nuclear small crisp, sweet flavor, sugar high. Every August the mature market.
3, Chaozhou olives
Each year from September to November ripe olives, sweet and slightly astringent taste, aftertaste after chewing glycol, the role of detoxification, Liyan phlegm, thirst, so in addition to the olive as Chaoshan edible fruit, but also like the olive fruit off as paternity, especially many famous Chaozhou miscellaneous salty dishes are based on olives as the main raw material.
4, Chao loquat
Wen County temple town is rich in loquat place. Every year from June to July loquat ripening season, the mountains and plains of the loquat tree, dark edge thick foliage, in the branches of a blossoming loquat surrounded by golden fruit. Loquat not only delicious, nutritious, and has a high health value, loquat fruit has expectorant cough, Sheng Jin lungs, stomach heat effect.
5, the fishing village of Bayberry
Fruit production prestigious fishing village, known as “the fruit of professional town,” said. There are a large fishing village Bayberry grain ebony, crisp nuclear plum, bayberry and other white varieties, with fruit, thick fleshy red, nuclear crisp, sweet and sour moderate, etc., with thirst and stomach digestion effect. Products are exported to neighboring Chaoshan area and Beijing.
6, heart-shaped yellow
With the adjustment and varieties of fruit trees planted area iron Dipu promotion, get a large heart-shaped yellow production development, heart-shaped yellow fruit, fruit shape heart-shaped, golden color, tender and succulent fruit, moderate sweet and sour, rich yellow the special flavor, attracting a large number of fruit merchants. Mature market every year from June to August.
Other fruits: bananas Xikou, Kwun Tong, big tomatoes, phosphorus Creek carambola, guava, Kwun Tong, Raoping banana tangerine, peach rice etc.
Vegetables articles
1, Kwun Tong Dongsheng pumpkin
Dongsheng pumpkin is to cultivate new varieties of pumpkin, ripe fruit flat ball, peel golden yellow, bright. Flesh cavity is small, bright orange flesh, silty, sweet, good taste. Protect the gastric mucosa, help digestion: prevention and treatment of diabetes, lowering blood glucose.
2, Kim Chi chestnut
Also known as water chestnut water chestnut, water chestnut solid, crispy meat, the United States, after cooking and eating, but also eat porridge. Rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins and trace elements. A diuretic through milk, only diabetes, drug hangover effect. Sin Mei Town ChaoAn phosphorus produced so Kim Chi Lin Cape starch and sweet, famous Chaozhou, the products are exported to Shanghai.
3, Jiangdong shoots
Koto shoots tender meat, crisp and refreshing, with phlegm, qi and stomach, promote intestinal peristalsis, helping digestion. Time to market is probably in June each year.
Aquatic articles
1, Raoping Squid
Chaoshan area rich squid, mainly Raoping Jing Zhou, seamounts and along the coast of South Australia. Chaozhou squid fishermen generally put into two categories, one is called the inner harbor squid, color than red, shiny, flesh sweet taste than the crisp, mainly in coastal waters; Another called the Outer squid, color bias white, lack luster, and tough meat, taste bland, mainly in offshore waters.
2, Raoping Hill seaweed
By the Guangdong RAOPING Sea coastal town of wild seaweed from purified by conventional methods, it has a large neck disease prevention, heat diuretic, kidney and nourishing the heart, lower blood pressure, promote a variety of effects, such as human metabolism, regular consumption of health benefits ! Rich in a lot of vitamins, put the soup is the best raw materials, but also instant, delicious flavor.
3, Raoping mantis shrimp
Mantis shrimp is a nutritious, fresh juice, tender seafood food. Its meat contains more water, meat tender and sweet, light and soft, and there is a special kind of tempting flavor. Mantis shrimp fat cream brain is full of fat, meat is very tender, delicious taste, but unfortunately little more meat case. Mantis shrimp warm, sweet. There kidney impotence, blood and fluid, lactation detoxification effect.
4, Tai O beads cockles
Tai O beads cockles, grain bodies round, reddish color white without black gray, delicate meat without salt, more blood and clear red, can Yin and kidney, blood and fluid, nourishing vitality. Shanghai has always been popular because of high quality and famous, Shanghai people love such as jewelry, it is “the big Australian Pearl clam” reputation.
Tea articles
1, Phoenix Dancong tea
The finished appearance of the cable stout, straight Leveling, color brown, oily, light, and there is cinnabar red, after brewing lofty aroma lasting, unique natural orchid fragrance, taste Nongchunxianshuang, throat sweet , clear liquor color Huang Liang, a unique mountain rhyme character, brew tea lovers, and resistance brewing, after drinking sweet. The history of tea production and sales of about 900 years.
2, Chelan Lingtou
Lingtou Ping River originating in rural areas, the area has grown to the next school, such as 50 townships and other neighboring villages, but still Lingtou produced the best quality. Heavy refined slender cord, stem leaves small, narrow shoulders leaves, yellow-green or black color, oily, green sand is not so obvious. Aroma mellowness, like orchids smell, taste mellowness slightly thick and sweet and fresh, resistant to brew.
Agri articles
1, Crane Long Sweet Hearts
Long Red Cape Town, Cape Sweet Origin ChaoAn Feng Long village, which has a long history since the Ming Dynasty has been for hundreds of years of cultural history. This variety is a long vine type. Yourou succulent tubers, sweet and delicate slip, ripe but not rotten, and eating quality.
2, Raoping rice
Raoping luxury specialty rice is native to the area and three Xintang area along the northern Rao, Rao today there are many farmers in the region grow. Raoping rice, rice round full body and bright, and cook a few liters of rice, plus a clam shell as long as rice, he felt a pot full of cinnamon aroma, refreshing, therefore, “Pearl meters cinnamon” reputation.
