China News Service, Shantou, April 6th: Title: Pre-made Kway Teow dishes are gradually becoming a large-scale "exclusive romance" and coming out of Chaoshan
China News Service reporter Li Yiqing
"For a seafood kway teow soup, add clams, meatballs, shrimp balls, ink balls, fish skin glue and fish rolls." "For a beef ball kway teow soup, add lettuce!"...these are the shouting orders. The single dialogue is repeated every day in restaurants across Chaoshan. Chaoshan people cannot live without Kway Teow. How to bring this unique romance out of Chaoshan is a question that the local people are thinking about.
Chaoshan rice noodles are made from rice as the main raw material. After being ground into rice pulp, they are spread into thin layers, steamed and dried, and then cut into finger-wide strips. They can be cooked into staple food and are a rice product often eaten by local people at home. .
Recently, Shantou City issued the "Action Plan for the Industrialization Development of Shantou Instant Powder". Many food production companies in Shantou City promote the development of the prepared vegetable industry, innovate the production of Shantou Kway Tiao (instant noodles), and realize the development of quality, agglomeration, scale and branding of Shantou Kway Tiao (instant noodles).
Guangdong's Shantou Kueh Teow pioneers and innovates to make Kuey Teow (instant noodles). The picture shows a child tasting Kuey Teow instant noodles. Photo by Zhong Xin
Guo Pengcheng, deputy director of the Shantou Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau, said that as a Shantou specialty food, Kueh Teow has always been mainly eaten in dine-in restaurants. Now through technological innovation and technical research, we are vigorously promoting the development of the Kuay Teow (instant noodles) industry. We hope that in five years, we can reach an industry scale of 60 billion yuan in the entire industry chain.
Kuey teow (instant noodles) that incorporate Chaoshan flavor include the popular "Chaoshan beef kuey teow" and the "Chaoshan kueh gravy noodle" which features brine flavor. The taste combines tradition and fashion, opening up a new development model for Shantou's food industry in a new and convenient form. Currently, 16 companies have launched 35 types of kway teow (instant powder) products.
Kadi, a student at the School of Chinese International Education at Shantou University, said that he wanted to bring Kuay Teow (instant noodles) back to China to distribute to my friends and family, so that they can also taste Chinese Chaoshan cuisine.
"I remember there was a Daguanyuan Kueyang Noodles shop on Guoping Road. You could choose from meat patties, Tiupu meatballs, bean sprouts, and lettuce Kuayi Tiao soup. In an era when supplies were scarce, eating a bowl of Kuayi Tiao soup was really delicious." 6 Today, Chen Bingqin, a Chaoshan native who now lives in Australia, said that the taste of Kuey Teow soup when he was young is still unforgettable to him. Now it is so convenient to buy Kuey Teow instant noodles and take them overseas.
"When I was in high school in Shantou, my favorite place was to go to Compound Town to eat a bowl of beef rice cake soup." Chen Yulin, a post-95s boy from Shantou who now works in Guangzhou, said that every time he returns to Shantou now, he will go there to taste it and reminisce about it. smell.
Xin Zaiyong, marketing planning manager of Guangdong Jiweicun Food Co., Ltd., said that with the development of food industrialization and cold chain technology, many technologies have made the impossible possible, so instant rice noodles (instant noodles) have been launched in Shantou and Sold through many supermarkets and convenience stores across the country.
Today, Shantou's instant noodle (Kway Teow) industry is showing strong development momentum, forming a prepared vegetable industry ecosystem that integrates production, sales, cold chain, packaging, and equipment. At the same time, the local area is closely connected with overseas markets with the help of rich overseas Chinese resources. , showing the "exclusive" taste of Chaoshan to the world. (over)