Eating in the Name of Play —— A Tour of Chaoshan

Things you can't help but mention when you travel to Chaoshan

The trip to Chaoshan written four days ago seems to be short-lived, but it has already been planned, that is, all kinds of Shantou friends encouraged us to take us home "by the way" (four people in the same company: Shantou Shantou sister paper is the big head, Guangxi Nanning sister paper+Guangzhou sister paper+Guizhou Anshun sister paper). Also, because this trip to Chaoshan is to visit her home with friends, and there are shuttle buses everywhere for eating, drinking and taking taxis, I won't make a detailed strategy.

Our trip is the high-speed rail "Guangzhou South-Kwai Tong; Kwai Tong-Puning "(if you buy a ticket late, you can only transfer at the intermediate transfer station. If you can't buy a ticket, you can consider this method). We live in Chaonan District of Shantou, which is close to puning station, so we landed in Puning.

Although I haven't been here long, my main goal is to eat, but there are still some impressive things worth talking about. I hope to share with you the Chaoshan in my eyes.

1, Chaoshan people take you to fly ~

Fortunately, this time I was wandering in Chaoshan with the locals, otherwise it was really a language barrier and I was afraid of being pitted (after all, it was from other places). The language barrier is true. When I meet some old grandmothers and grandfathers at roadside food stalls, I really can't speak Mandarin, and it is impossible for all the old people at friends' homes to communicate in Mandarin. They can only rely on the bosses who take us everywhere as translators. She takes the lead in asking the price when shopping, and the boss is also very kind and easy to talk to ~

2. Didi? Let's take a taxi or bus.

Shantou and Chaozhou are not big, but the common fault of small cities is that the transportation is not convenient enough, there is no subway, taxis are few, but there are many motorcycles. Just try it. Either you have it or you don't, you might as well drive yourself.

3. traffic lights that will never be found

Crossing the road in Shantou feels like crossing the road with your life (especially in areas outside the road). Motorcycles and cars go very fast. I can't find a street lamp, and the light I see occasionally is only yellow light ... The yellow light that never changes keeps flashing and flashing, and my face is covered.

4, stay in Chaoshan for a few days, eat slowly, don't collapse ~

Chaoshan is more than just a city. Chaozhou, Shantou, Jieyang and Puning all have local snacks with different flavors. It is estimated that if you want to taste it all, you may have to stay here for a long time ~

5. Be sure to eat a home-cooked meal of Shantou friends (or play beef hotpot at home).

The taste at home is superb. Not only is it delicious, but Chaoshan people are also very enthusiastic. Thanks to the Xiao Ting family for their hospitality ~

6. Drink Kung Fu tea once

I wonder if we are drinking kungfu tea. The first time I went to my friend's house, I saw her making tea. The host made us a pot of Tieguanyin and always warmly greeted us for tea.

Asked my friend what "kungfu tea" is, she said that kungfu tea is not the name of tea or tea, but the technology of making tea. The reason why it is called Kung Fu tea is that this way of making tea is very particular, and it takes a certain amount of effort to operate. Kung fu is the knowledge of making wine and the kung fu of drinking. So she thinks that the tea brewed by ordinary people at their own banquets is regarded as kungfu tea.

7. Go out for a walk at night? no

I was really scared that day. Lao Chaoshan's suggestion is "It's not safe at night, don't go anywhere". People from other places can tell at a glance that they are from other places (you can't understand or speak, and you are carrying a bag). Well, it's Spring Festival ... and it's not very safe. My friend's father also drove some distance.

8. The menu is not marked, and the food is served when drinking.

It seems that I have never seen a roadside stall or food stall in Chaoshan with a menu and a price tag. Sit down and tell the boss directly: I want a xxx (for example, 4 bowls of kway teow), and the boss will serve it directly. Anyway, the price won't be too bad. Everyone knows that, but if you are going to a food stall, it is better to ask the price first and then order.

9. Take a walk in the park and enjoy a moment of peace.

I wandered around Zhongshan Park. It was an accident. Walking around the park, basking in the sun and feeding the fish, there is actually nothing to visit, just for that half-hour leisure _

Well, I'm tired of wandering around the city at night. When I got back to the hotel, I lay down and turned on the TV. I still broadcast news in Shantou, and I don't understand it at all. It is still understandable to recognize Chaoshan dialect by reading subtitles.

1 1. Please prepare cash.

Since you are here to eat Chaoshan cuisine, please prepare cash. You don't need much. The price in Chaoshan is not high, and you can eat very well at a fair price, but many snack bars and roadside stalls still only accept cash. Alipay is generally only used in big stores or downtown areas.

12, "Sweep the Street" to taste authentic Chaoshan snacks.

(1) rice rolls with more materials.

Every bite of a dish of rice rolls in Chaoshan can be full, so don't worry about a rice rolls.

1) Shantou rice rolls

In the picture, I ate in Shantou and steamed rice rolls in a steamer. The rice paste is very fresh, but I feel that the soy sauce tastes slightly salty (it should be from an individual store) and the skin is thin, smooth and tender. Rice rolls store basically takes the route of self-selected ingredients, with eggs, vegetables, seafood (mainly oysters) and pork as standard. Most shops have free tea, so have a cup of tea after dinner to relieve boredom! Satisfied!

(Location: near No.12 Middle School in jinping district, Shantou)

2) Chaozhou rice rolls

Rice rolls comes standard with eggs, pork and Chinese cabbage, while rice rolls comes with a single oyster, a spoonful of oyster sauce and peanut butter, and a sweet rice rolls.

(2) I eat tofu pudding in People's Square.

I know that tofu pudding is eaten everywhere, and it is basically sweet in the south and salty in the north, but I have never tried such thick tofu pudding! The picture shows the tofu of the "Square Time-honored Tofu Sweet Soup" near People's Square in jinping district, Shantou. It looks hard, like a cake. You can see the hole when you cut it, but it tastes soft and the bean flavor is super strong. The last spoonful of bean curd goes well with a spoonful of powdered sugar. 5 yuan, a bowl. Then, at this time, my colleague's Guizhou sister paper began to say that their bean curd was salty with Chili (Jia Yan, don't wash me when you see this).

(3) Everywhere

Chaoshan people's "bread" is made of rice flour, similar to "cake", but things like kway teow and bread juice are not bread, but bread is actually a sacrifice.

(Location: near No.12 Middle School in Shantou and Paifang Street in Chaozhou)

1) The picture below shows leek buns (a kind of rice buns without rice), which are fried with sweet potato powder and crystal clear. It tastes delicious, crisp and fresh!

2) Hey? How to pronounce this thing?

Mandarin is: ò(hòu)ü(guǒ), and Chaoshan dialect really doesn't know how to spell it (Hao? gui？ )。 There is shrimp and meat in it, because it is fried, it is crispy when you go, and it is tender and sweet inside, but it will get tired if you eat too much. It is said that the most orthodox way is to mix horseshoe crab meat with rice slurry, add minced meat, mushrooms, partridge eggs and other ingredients, and finally cook in oil at medium and high temperature. But horseshoe crabs should be hard to find now, so most of them use sweet potato powder or rice slurry, and then add other ingredients. You can still try going to Chaoshan.

3) Potatoes, rice, bamboo shoots, taro and radish cake

They are all fried, very oily, and they are tired of eating too much. They don't like eating very much.

4) Red crepe

Ah, irresistible girlish heart. This is the heart, and Chaoshan is also called Shoutaoguo, heart and heart. Rice or vegetables, salty. How pink is made is unknown. Maybe I added some paint to make it happy.

(4) beef hot pot, try it!

Chaoshan hot pot looks very beef at first sight!

The first dinner was ordered at a friend's house, and the first choice was beef hot pot! Hosted at a friend's house, my parents bought a lot of things: beef, handmade beef balls, tripe, beef jiaozi, cows ... I don't remember the name of the cows.

The soup base of beef hot pot is pale white, which is less red, orange, yellow and green than Sichuan spicy hot pot. Hua Dan, the master of hot pot, is naturally beef and beef balls, which are definitely indispensable. The meat is fresh and bought from the beef shop outside. It tastes particularly refreshing, with plenty of meat and butter. Take a bite and the fragrant juice will splash. With the special sand tea sauce, there is a strong fragrance between the mouth and teeth.

(If you don't eat hot pot at home, you can comment on "Hai Ji" in WeChat official account)

(5) Have a bowl of authentic kway teow.

Let the local people take it to eat a local authentic kway teow (actually it should be quite authentic).

Boss, a bowl of "beef ball kway teow or beef kway teow"? No, no, no, just say "a bowl of kway teow", meatballs and beef are mixed.

Say "one, two, two" when ordering? (In Guangxi, if you order powder, it will be as little as one or two powders and as much as two or two powders. ) No, no, no, there is no such thing. It's all a big bowl

The kway teow is very different from what I ate in Guangzhou. Very thin, slippery, soft and delicious!

The next morning, my friend tried pork rice noodles with him.

(6) Fried sweet potatoes? Pig's foot ring? One meaning

Many street vendors in Shantou sell this fried food. I don't know how to say Chaoshan dialect. Anyway, all kinds of frying: fried potatoes, fried taro, fried sweet potatoes ... I sent a ticket circle to ask everyone what this is. Various answers are bombarded in turn: sweet potato cakes, pig's trotters, fried hooves ... I don't know how to spell Chaoshan dialect.

(7) strawberry ice that you want to eat is always in line.

I found strawberry ice in Shantou No.12 Middle School, the legendary online celebrity milk tea shop. There are many people in line, but it's worth it. Strawberry ice is a delicate strawberry ice made directly from fresh strawberries, fresh milk and ice cubes, with pulp and matcha ice cream on it-this is the winter controlled by strawberries and matcha.

(Location: near No.12 Middle School in jinping district, Shantou)

(8) Sugar onion cake? Where are the onions?

I saw an old woman selling it by the roadside, 1 one in 0 yuan,1sugar-wrapped onion +8 pieces of cake bottom+a small packet of ingredient powder. When eating, the bottom of the cake is wrapped with onion-shaped sugar and sprinkled with peanut and sesame powder, which is sweet. Sugar onions are all made of sugar. I guess it's because there is a hole in the middle, like an onion, so it's called sugar onion, right It's best not to eat the sugar onion directly, because it's sweet and greasy, and it's much better to wrap it up, and it's enough to eat at most two pieces.

(9) Baked oysters and cucumbers

Oyster baking feels like a cake made of small oysters (oysters), potato flour and eggs. Because it is eaten in a food stall, oysters are fresh and tasteless, and they taste soft and crisp. Perfect for sweet potato porridge.

(Positioning: Shantou jinping district Laozi Niang Night Porridge)

Baked cucumber 10 yuan, with shredded cucumber, shrimp and crab roe. A large part. It looks delicious and tastes less salty than oysters. It's pretty waxy. Maybe there is too much potato flour.

(10) Unfinished vegetables

Motherwort and hemp leaves are both unheated vegetables. They can be fried and boiled. Motherwort is very common in Chaoshan kway teow. I don't know if fried hemp leaves are wild vegetables, which is a bit rough.

(1 1) I fired, I fired, I fired, I fired.

I met an old woman selling fried dumplings (I think it's fried dumplings) in the snack street next to Shantou No.12 Middle School. What a stuffed jiaozi! Leek, taro, corn, carrots, jiaozi with minced meat ... and potatoes jiaozi and mango jiaozi that I have never seen before. Potato jiaozi is delicious. You must try it yourself when you go home. Mangguang, what is Mangguang? Baidu once said that it is a cold potato, also called Shage, but it tastes crisp and sweet anyway.

(Location: near Shantou No.12 Middle School)

(12) Is coix seed soup coix seed water?

I thought it was ordinary coix seed syrup before eating it, but I didn't expect it to be eaten as breakfast in Chaoshan. It is salty! Salty! There are pig viscera, preserved fish, fungus and coix seed (that is, all pork kways are replaced with coix seed).

(13) mung bean spring rolls

Crispy skin and salty stuffing, with salty mung beans, shrimp and mushrooms. The boss is very enthusiastic. He saw me with a camera, so he picked up my bag and took my picture.

(Location: Paifang Street, Chaozhou-Hu Rongquan)

(14) Zongqiu -50/50

The magical yin-yang zongzi-because it is half salty and half sweet, and the sweet package is mung bean, which tastes like mung bean cake; Salted shrimp, mushrooms, bacon and so on.

(Location: Paifang Street, Chaozhou)

(15) What a big plate of fried cakes!

Wow, a big plate is full. The cake is a rice cake steamed with white rice pulp, then cut into small pieces and stir-fried with eggs, shredded ginger and onion. Chaozhou Paifang Street is the first place to eat. Eggs are slightly salty, don't eat too much, just satisfy your mouth addiction.

(Location: Paifang Street, Chaozhou)

(16) Duck Mother Twist

You can't guess it's sugar water just by looking at the name. This is a super sweet dessert. I went to Hu Haiquan Restaurant of Chaozhou Cuisine, a bowl of 8 yuan, a bowl of two balls similar to glutinous rice balls, a sesame ball and a peanut ball, with sweet potato, taro and tremella boiled in sugar water. There is really too much sugar.

(Location: Paifang Street, Chaozhou)

(17) Glutinous rice pork intestines are not delicious.

It's glutinous rice and peanuts stuffed with casing, and the sauce is sweet. But the taste is very general and sticky, which is not recommended.

(Location: Paifang Street, Chaozhou)

(18) Goose rice-no goose can cook a meal.

At 7 o'clock on the third night, I took a bus back to Shantou and went directly to Shantou Qishan Old Goose Hotel. As soon as you sit down, start serving directly. You don't have to order. It's super fast. Goose head, goose intestines and kidney are the most expensive, and goose intestines are crispy; Goose meat is common, but fresh and sweet; Favorite goose blood, fresh but not fishy, dipped in sour plum juice is awesome!

A dish of gravy was poured on the white rice of goose rice, which seemed to be goose juice? Delicious ~ the soup is bitter gourd sparerib soup, a little fleshy, sweet and bitter. Finally, we swept away the dishes on the table and settled the bill 180 yuan.

(19) yam soybean milk? Egg soy milk?

This is also eaten for breakfast in Shantou, which is sweet. It is strange to add yam or eggs to soybean milk and cook it together. The bean flavor is very strong. Yam is sliced and cooked soft and smooth, which is a good match. Fried dough sticks are crisp and there is not much flour.

(20) Chaoshan tea is suitable for handwriting

The so-called tea matching means refreshments, sugar cakes, preserves and the like. Passing by a specialty store, all kinds of cakes are available, which makes people have an appetite. After consulting Chaoshan students, they all recommended mung bean cake (láo), bean cake and black bean cake, and immediately bought five bags ... Many small snacks are so enviable.

It's so sad and spicy. I regret every trip, and there are still many snacks left before I can eat them. Unfortunately:

Chaoshan Ke Fan, Puning Dried Bean, Puning Liusha rice rolls, Chaoshan Fansha Taro, Fish Dumplings, Tang Hua, Sesame Tea, Phoenix Dried Bean, Casserole Porridge. ...

13, pick up your pen and mobile phone.

People who like to record can write down what they saw, heard and felt when roaming in Chaoshan. I haven't been to Chaoshan for a long time, and I haven't tasted all kinds of recommended foods, so I can't cover everything. If there are any mistakes or omissions in this article or need to be supplemented, please leave me a message and I will reply in time.

Finally, I still want to talk about my personal views on Chaoshan tourism. This article is based on the route I have taken, not professional, and the route is not necessarily the best. If the writing is not good, please tell the truth. The following are purely personal tastes and thoughts. I don't like and refuse personal attacks. ...

1, eating in Chaoshan

It is said that "food is in Chaoshan". Yes, there are many snacks in Chaoshan, but it is not an exaggeration to say that a gourmet paradise has everything, because all kinds of snacks in different places have different tastes, depending on personal tastes.

2. The most recommended tour:

(1) Shantou: Eat.

Find a place to eat when you get off the bus (it is recommended to go to a place where snacks gather). After eating snacks, change to a different restaurant and continue to eat snacks. You can go back after eating. There is really nothing to visit.

Recommended food: Jinyuan Snack Street, Xiashan Town, Chaonan District, Shantou, near No.12 Middle School in jinping district, Shantou (although the snack bars here are scattered).

(2) Chaozhou: the combination of eating and shopping.

Guangji Bridge, one of the eight scenic spots in Chaozhou, is worth visiting. Walking by the river, the river wind is blowing, and it happens to be cloudy and cold when you go. This scenery is comparable to the Sanjiang Wind and Rain Bridge of Dong nationality in Guangxi. There are also Chaozhou snacks around Guangji Bridge. Try it ~

Recommended food: Chaozhou Paifang Street area.

3. The most recommended snacks: bean curd, yam soybean milk, kway teow and oyster sauce.

What I want to say most is: Thank you for your warm hospitality. Welcome to my hometown, I will definitely take you to fly ~