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Foshan Cuisine
Foshan is the "hometown of delicacies" in Zhujian Delta, where there are luxuriant land, interweaved waterways, and prolific products. Either any kind of birds, beasts and fishes or a variety of vegetables can be elaborated by chefs and turned into delicacies. There is a wide range of restaurants in Foshan, which are operated around the clock. Foshan people are always having tea either in the morning or in the afternoon. During teatime, the tea buildings are flooded with people. Both families and friends like to chat there for enjoyment, forming an exotic local repast culture.
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Cuisine in Foshan |
Snacks available in Foshan
 Empress's Shuangpi Milk
Foshan Empress Restaurant's Shuangpi Milk is listed into the "2nd Chinese famous snacks in 2000". Its materials include: local milk, high quality sugar and fresh egg white, coupling with intensively selected materials, elaborate cooking via higher level techniques and strict sanitary requirements. Therefore, there is a proverb that Empress Restaurant's Shuangpi Milk is drinkable to prince.
Jinyuan Restaurant's Crystal Ravioli
The Ravioli is made up from such primary materials as meat, leek and fresh bamboo shoots. It's available with beautiful and crystal appearance, delicious taste and abundant nutrition. And, it's available both in Jinyuan Restaurant and in Shanzi Fast Food Restaurant at Funing Road.
Fenning's Sugar-Stewed Cotton Cake
It's in Fenning Food Street where the traditional sponge cake of "Guangji" restaurant was discovered before liberation, then renovated and developed. The primary materials include: intensively selected rice slurry and high-grade sugar, which can be braised into this Cake via traditional methods. As a must of Foshan people, it's also called as Dafasong Rice Cake, and Happiness Cake.
Yingji Yuntun Noodle
Founded in 1936. The shrimp-flavored yuntun noodle with delicious soup is best known for its uniquely delicious soup, shrimp-flavored yuntun and fried egg noodle. Following a traditional spinning method, this kind of Noodle features equal tenacity, moderate thickness, good taste and fragrant egg. Therefore, it's well-known around Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macao and listed into both business and tourism magazines of Chancheng District.
Braised cake with Bamboo Shoots flavor of Jinyuan Restaurant. Braised by such primary materials as fresh bamboo shoots. Therefore, it's an environment-friendly green food, which features abundant nutrition, bright color, low sugar and fat as well as good taste.
Dakeyi "Number One Scholar's Porridge"
The brand name of "Dakeyi" has a 69-year history. The Number One Scholar's porridge is developed based upon the cooking methods of the county's Number One Scholar's porridge which was famous before liberation. Thus, Dakeyi "Number One Scholar's Porridge" is more characteristic with its delicious flavor and appetizing to customers accordingly.
Foshan Nine-layer Cake
During folk festivals, especially Spring Festival, Nine-layer Cake is indispensable for every family in Foshan and Nanhai regions, owing to its implication of "long-time happiness and gradual improvement". As an elaborated food, Nine-layer Cake is a kind of rice cake with sweet savor. The people first saturate the rice, then grind them into powder, mill into slurry, add some sugar water and braise them on silver plate, gradually add up to nine-layer. The braised cake is tasty and refreshing, coupled with distinctive arrangement. Somebody also adds some edible pigment into it so as to make it more beautiful. During festivals, in order to obtain luck, people divide the braised cake into diced pieces for the purpose of worshiping the Heavens and ancestors, then, families share it. During Spring Festival, people always present their relatives and friends Songgao Cake, Rice Cake, Jiandui and Youjiao, other than Nine-layer Cake. It's said that it's no use of sharing this kind of cake with others.
Foshan Zhuhou Catsup
As a unique seasoning regale, Zhuhou Catsup features bright color and delicious taste and sweet, as well as redolent flavor. It's over 100 years ever since Zhuhou Catsup became one of the most characteristic ingredients of Foshan, and was well-known far and near.
Dexinzhai's Pot-stewed Trotter
Every sponger always enjoys Dexinzhai's Pot-stewed Trotter, which is tasty,delicious and appetizing. Coupling with advantages of fast food without cooking and braising at home, this kind of Trotter is famous far and near over 100 years. In addition to main dishes such as chickens, Pot-stewed Trotter is normally used to entertain guests at Foshan.
Silkworm
Commonly called as broadbean containing abundant protein, which is good and cheap. The silk reeling industry is booming in Shunde and Nanhai regions. As a by-product after silk reeling, silkworm is edible and marketable, except that it may be sold to farmers as fertilizers in pond.
1. Edibility. The broadbean is edible after the pod's silk has been reeled in boiled water. Before liberation of China, the workwomen had been forced to work overtime and are not permitted to fetch some food, therefore, they had nothing to eat but the reeled broadbean under the table.
Fried broadbean. To dewater the broadbean, fry it in oil bath slowly into sallow color. It's rather appetizing.
2. Fried dish. To pour some edible oil and quickly fry broadbean along with some vegetables. It's a rather tasty dish in Foshan regions, which can be fried either with leek, or with bamboo shoots and green peppers, etc, presenting a country dish integrating color, fragrance and flavor.
3、Silkworm Catsup. To quickly fry the silkworm, add some salt and red pepper powder to grind them into catsup, and install them in household utensils. They can be used as the seasoning ingredient of braised pork and fried dish with its distinctive flavor.
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