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Hainan special food

1, coconut cake: Coconut cake is a special snack in Hainan, as soft as rice cake. But the difference is that the biggest feature of Haikou Coconut Cake is its stuffing, which generally includes coconut shredded peanut stuffing and coconut grove sesame stuffing. Coconut milk cake is wrapped in the fragrance of coconut leaves and can stimulate people's appetite. Open the banana leaves at the bottom of the cake, and the coconut cake will give off a fragrance. Take a bite, and the sticky feeling and tenacity of glutinous rice will be unforgettable.

2. Coconut rice: Coconut has high nutritional value. Chinese medicine believes that coconut meat is sweet and flat, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, killing insects and eliminating malnutrition; Coconut juice is sweet and warm, which has the effect of promoting body fluid and benefiting water. Modern medical research shows that coconut meat contains protein and carbohydrates; Coconut oil contains sugar, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and so on. Coconut juice contains many nutrients, such as sugar, glucose, sucrose, protein, fat, vitamin B, vitamin C and trace elements and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron. It can be seen that coconut is a good product for both medicine and food.

Celastrus orbiculatus: Celastrus orbiculatus is called "talinum" by the people because of its functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating dampness and enriching blood. As a Chinese herbal medicine, it can dispel wind, promote diuresis, promote digestion, relieve cough and pain, and can also be used for rheumatism, bone pain, traumatic injury and so on. According to folklore, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, women can eat chicken manure _ seed soup to replenish blood. According to the custom in some places in Hainan, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, every household should eat "chicken dung vine".

4. Hainan Zongzi: Hainan Zongzi is different from the northern Zongzi. It is wrapped in banana leaves into a square cone and weighs about half a kilogram. There are salted egg yolk, barbecued pork, bacon, braised chicken wings and so on. In glutinous rice. After peeling, there is the smell of bananas and glutinous rice first, and then the smell of meat and eggs. The fragrance is strong or weak, and the taste and meat are ready-made, which makes people's appetite open. Hainan Zongzi is the most famous in Ding 'an Zongzi, Danzhou Loki Zongzi and Chengmai Ruixi Zongzi.

5. Lingshui acid powder: Lingshui acid powder is a special snack in Hainan Province. Sour, spicy and sweet, rich in spices, extremely delicious and memorable. Lingshui acid powder is sometimes called Hainan powder. Because Lingshui is a county in Hainan Province, its full name is Lingshui Li Autonomous Region. Because the acid powder made by Lingshui is the most authentic and delicious, the name of Lingshui acid powder comes from this. With the spread of Lingshui acid powder in Hainan province, some people in other cities and counties also made acid powder, and gradually the name Hainan powder was given to mainlanders.

6. Houan powder: Houan powder is named after Houan Town and produced in Wanning. Houan town is a small town with few people, but the whole town is almost a powder shop, and the smell of Houan rice noodles is everywhere. People seem to have regarded aftercare powder as an indispensable part of their lives. Breakfast is it, a bowl of thick soup, ringing a busy day. You can completely indulge in thick soup, forget all the harassment, and be as quiet as Houan Town.

7. Bamboo-tube rice: Bamboo-tube rice made of "fragrant rice" made of Shan Lan rice (a kind of upland rice) mixed with meat, put it into a bamboo tube sawed with fresh pink bamboo or mangosteen, add a proper amount of water, and then block the mouth of the bamboo tube tightly with banana leaves, so that the bamboo can be scorched with charcoal fire. The cooking method of bamboo tube rice is quite characteristic of picnic, that is, cut off a bamboo tube, add a proper amount of Shan Lan rice and water, and cook it over the fire. When the surface of the bamboo tube is burnt, the rice is cooked. Split the bamboo tube, the rice is wrapped in bamboo film, soft and delicious, with the fragrance of bamboo and rice. When eating, break the bamboo tube and take out the rice, which is the famous "bamboo tube fragrant rice". If the lean pork is mixed with fragrant glutinous rice and a proper amount of salt and baked into fragrant glutinous rice in a bamboo tube, it will be a precious treat for VIPs.

8. Fish tea: In Wuzhishan, Hainan, local people generally make a kind of "fish tea". Fish tea is the main course for Li and Miao people to entertain guests, and it is also the flavor food of Li and Miao people. Fish and tea will be sold in markets in Hainan minority areas. Although it is called "tea", it has nothing to do with the black tea and green tea we drink on weekdays.

9. glutinous rice cake: glutinous rice cake is a Han pastry snack made of glutinous rice and flour mixed with various ingredients. Blood glutinous rice is tough and needs to be cooked properly, not hard or sticky. It's just steamed. It's still steaming. Black glutinous rice is known as "black pearl" because of its rich nutritional value and medicinal value. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there is a saying that "black enters the kidney, and the kidney is strong and youthful"; Folks regard it as nourishing, fitness and medicinal effects.

10, Hainan morning tea: Because of the slow pace of life in Hainan, many people have the habit of drinking morning tea. A pot of tea can be drunk from morning to afternoon. So there are many morning tea shops in Hainan, including big hotels, small hotels and teahouses. At seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the morning tea shop is already crowded with people. Some popular morning tea shops, if they arrive late, may have no seats and have to wait for an hour or two, which shows that Hainan people like to drink morning tea very much.