China Overseas Chinese Network, February 17th, title: Chinese New Year in the hometown of overseas Chinese, eat first!
New year,
In addition to reunion with family,
Another important item is eating and drinking.
After all, many years ago, some netizens pointed out:
Three catties fatter every holiday season.
And if you spend the New Year in the southern coastal hometown of overseas Chinese, you may face a difficulty: don't know where to start.
Because of these places, there are too many delicious foods.
I can't count all kinds of special foods with both hands and feet, and I don't know where to eat for a while.
As far as food is concerned, Guangdong, which has the reputation of "a province of food", must be on the list.
The Cantonese must have chickens for the New Year.
Although the three cultures of Guangfu, Chaoshan and Hakka are quite different within a province,
But a high degree of agreement was reached on the issue of eating chicken,
The "Dish of the Town Table" for the New Year's Eve dinner must be a neatly presented chicken.
When it comes to eating chicken, white-cut chicken must have a name.
Authentic white-cut chicken must be made with native chicken. The chicken must be about two and a half catties. The so-called "native chicken" is a chicken grown up eating "natural food" such as grain, bran, grass, and insects. The meat is tight and delicious. .
Soak the cleaned chicken in boiling water, soak it until half-ripe, pick it up and soak it in ice water, then soak it in boiling water again, repeat the process until it is eighth mature, let it cool, cut into pieces, and set plate.
Re-make the seasoning, add diced sand ginger, minced garlic, green onion, and add "to smoky" (the first soy sauce, not salty, with the aroma of beans), mix well, and pour in the hot oil-fragrant!
This golden, oily, fragrant chicken served on the table of reunion dinner, symbolizing the good luck of the New Year and spreading its wings.
The order of eating chicken is also particular. Chicken heads should be reserved for the most respected elders in the family, chicken legs should be reserved for wandering children, and chicken wings should be reserved for children studying...
On New Year's Eve, Cantonese people eat not only chicken, but full expectations and blessings for the coming year.
Of course, not only on New Year's Eve, Cantonese can eat chicken from the first day of the first day to the seventh day.
Maoming celebrities eat sesame oil chicken, Qingyuan people eat roasted chicken, Hakka people eat salt-baked chicken, Shunde people eat sauna chicken, Chaoshan people eat brine chicken, and pork belly chicken, coconut chicken, apricot chicken, eight treasure chicken with soy sauce... only You can't think of a trick, there is no chicken that Cantonese can't make.
Data map: Fried oil corner on the streets of Guangzhou.
(Photo by Lai Yuqing, Guangzhou Daily)
In addition to chicken, Cantonese people also eat a small food during the New Year: Fried Youjiao.
Fried oil angle is one of the traditional Chinese New Year foods in Guangdong. It is fried with egg flour and good dough, wrapped in peanut and coconut sugar filling, and fried. The finished oil angle is golden yellow and looks like a pouch. It comes with "Gong Xi Fa Cai". Festive style.
One bite, crispy and sweet, is simply the taste of happiness.
Fried oil corner is also the taste of "childhood" in Cantonese memory.
So far, many overseas Chinese in Guangdong have to buy fried oil corners from their hometowns during the Chinese New Year. It is "the taste of the year" and is also homesickness.
In the western part of Guangdong, in the first month of the month, every village will hold a "yearly rule". The “yearly rule” was originally an ancient local sacrificial activity. From the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the end of February, each village has a slightly different date, but the content It's all about the same: wandering gods, offering sacrifices, worshiping ancestors, and the main event-entertaining guests.
What?
Do you ask what dishes are on the banquet?
There are white sliced chicken, sesame oil, chicken, fried chicken, three-wire fried rice noodles, fragrant taro meat, five spice meat, lychee, crispy skin, roasted goose, deep potato, radish cake, steamed fish, braised fish, roasted suckling pig, fish balls, rolls, eight-treasure rice. Sea Cucumber, Abalone and Shark Fin Soup...
You can search the Internet for a copy of the "annual" dates of each village, and then take turns eating each village.
I'm not afraid that you will not have a good time, or that you will not get fat!
When mentioning the words "Fujian" and "New Year", the first picture that popped out of my mind was:
This thing is called "Red Tortoise Cake", also known as "Red Tortoise Cake". It is a traditional festival food, popular in Fujian, Taiwan and even Guangdong, and it is also particularly popular in Southeast Asian Chinese society.
How popular is it?
In 2018, Honggui Kueh was listed on the Malaysian National Cultural Heritage List.
Although the name and appearance of "Honggui Kueh" are very peculiar, it is actually a kind of rice cake.
First grind the soaked glutinous rice into rice milk, pour it into a rice bag, tie it tightly and dry it to remove water, and take it out after it is half dry.
Then add the safflower rice and stir it into red, then knead it.
After kneading is completed, subdivide it into pieces about the size of a slap, fill it with stuffing (usually sweet bean paste, glutinous rice, sesame, etc.), then put in kueh stamps and press to make the turtle stamps.
Finally, oil the back of the red turtle cake and place it flat on the bow banana leaf, then place it in a cage bed and place it on the large pot on the stove. It is cooked with hot water and steam, and it tastes sweet and soft.
Honggui Kueh played an important role in the tribute in southern Fujian. The ancients used tortoise as a symbol of longevity, and it will have its shadow in all kinds of birthday celebrations.
Honggui Kueh is also the constant nostalgia of overseas Chinese.
During the holidays, many overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia will prepare red tortoise cakes early to worship their ancestors and BAITIANGONG. The roots and souls of Chinese culture are passed down from generation to generation in this red food.
In the Fuzhou area in central Fujian, one of the foods that must be eaten during the Chinese New Year is "Taiping Yan".
Yanpi is hand-made from pork and sweet potato flour. It is as thin as white paper, its color is like jade, the taste is soft, tough and strong, and it is extremely delicious.
And because of its auspicious name, it means "peace" and "peace", so it has become a must-have item during the Chinese New Year, and there is even a saying that "no swallow can make a feast, and no swallow can grow up."
Taiping Rouyan
Other people eat big fish and meat during the New Year, but Haikou, Hainan, eat fast on New Year's Day.
Haikou people are very particular about eating dishes. Six dishes must be served on each table: big potato, cress, tofu, lentils, salted fish and eggplant.
Six dishes have their meanings.
Dashu is to let children and grandchildren never forget their roots, celery is to teach children and grandchildren to be diligent and thrifty throughout their lives (the Hainan dialect "qin" and "qin" are homophonic), tofu is to teach children and grandchildren to be as innocent as tofu, and beans are a symbol of living a good life. It is delicious to "dou" (the Hainan dialect for "dou" means throat), fish is expected to have more than one year ("fish" is a homonym for "余"), and eggplant is expected to live better year after year ("egg" is The meaning of "surpassing" in Hainanese).
Data Map: Zhai Vegetable Pot (Photo by Haikou Daily/Long Yiqiang)
Of course, there are various other vegetables, such as fermented vegetables, beets, yuba, peanuts, bean sprouts, vermicelli and so on. It is a big pot of refreshing and refreshing, which means clean, safe and happy in the coming year.
Hainan is not only eating Zhai, Wenchang Chicken East Goat and Le Crab Seafood Pig, listening to it will drool.
Moreover, as an island, Hainan has never lacked all kinds of fish.
Hou'an mullet, mackerel, grouper, and even miscellaneous fish soup, miscellaneous fish soup, fresh and delicious, and with the beautiful meaning of "surplus every year", has become a must-have for the Hainanese people at the Spring Festival table, and is also for visiting relatives and friends A great gift for you.
In Qingtian, Zhejiang, the most "nian-flavored" food is mountain flour dumplings.
People in Qingtian like to use mountain flour dumplings to entertain guests during the New Year.
Mountain flour dumplings are cooked with taro, peeled, mixed with "mountain flour" (sweet potato flour) and kneaded evenly, then filled with dishes, minced meat, winter bamboo shoots, tofu, etc., wrapped into triangles, squares, crescents, etc. The shape is steamed and stored, and then boiled and seasoned when eating, which means "Fu, Lu, and Shou" in the coming year.
During the New Year, Qingtian people have to eat another prosperous and sweet food-sugar cake.
The origin of sugar pudding can be traced back to the Northern Song Dynasty. Brown sugar is mixed with glutinous rice flour, and it is steamed on a pot with rue leaves.
The steamed sugar cake is as amber in color, sweet and savory, and happy and complete. It's another new year.
This year's Spring Festival, due to the epidemic, many people can only celebrate the New Year on the spot and gather with their loved ones in the "cloud".
However, no matter where you are, as long as you eat or even think of the familiar taste, you will know that hometown has never been far away.
What do you eat for New Year in your hometown?
Tell everyone!
(Reference: Overseas Chinese network, China News, the Guangzhou Daily, Haikou Daily and other authors: the Ecological)