2. Shantou Malao Palace Zongzi is a special kind of Zongzi, which is transformed from an ordinary diet into an unusual food suitable for all seasons with the help of Mazu belief. At about 1920, a man named Zhang Qiangde began to set up a stall to sell zongzi near Malao Palace. Its production is very particular. Fine selection of materials (glutinous rice with abundant grains), unique creativity (sweet and salty stuffing), and no expense (salty stuffing includes mushrooms, shrimps, sausages, minced square fish, lotus seeds, chestnuts, and salted south milk mane meat). In the past, there was a horizontal plaque in the shop that read "You will know when you eat", but it was later interpreted as a popular sentence in society. In the past, Chaoshan people would come to worship Mazu and pray for peace every time they sailed. At the entrance of the mother's palace, they will buy some zongqiu as offerings and eat them all the way after the worship. They are delicious and hungry.
3. Chaoshan traditional food Xitianxiang roasted oysters are very common in both market speculation and family dinners. Around 1930, Yang Erxian opened in Tianxiang Road, Shengping Road, and later Hu Jinxing, Yao Laosi and others continued to monopolize nearby. In order to compete for business, they each managed to improve the cooking technology and quality, and formed the world-famous Xitianxiang oyster. Oysters are baked with fresh oysters (scientific name oysters), with lard, fine snow powder and fresh duck eggs fried with mane meat as ingredients, and Chili sauce, fine fish sauce and scallion as seasonings. The ingredients are specially selected Dahao oysters, snow powder and scallion, which are mixed evenly and put into the pot (commonly known as frying pan). They are fried with the fat in Wanghuo sausage, topped with egg paste, and mixed with appropriate amount of fine fish sauce and Chili sauce. They were blown to golden yellow on both sides.
4. Fuhecheng beef balls, once a place name in the old city, were famous in the 1960s, with Chen's beef ball shop as the representative and coal paving. Beef balls, first of all, peel the selected beef, cut it into thick pieces, then put it on a big wooden board and beat it with a mallet.
5. Fried cakes in Xinxing Street. As early as the 1940 s, Xu, an expert on fried cakes, was famous in No.1 Xinxing Street, Shantou City, and was known as a speculation. It is steamed with high-quality white rice slurry, with lard, sugar, fresh shrimp, pork liver, lean meat, fresh oysters and other ingredients, plus sand tea hot sauce, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce, snow powder and water. Stir the soup evenly and pay attention to the heat.
6. Chaozhou Embroidery, Guangdong Embroidery, Suzhou Embroidery, Hunan Embroidery and Shu Embroidery are collectively called the four major tongue embroideries in China. Chaoshan embroidery belongs to Cantonese embroidery. It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. According to historical records, during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty (627-649 AD), there was an embroidery craft in Chaoshan, which gradually formed a unique style through the evolution of past dynasties. The main features of Chaozhou embroidery are rigorous composition, proper density, diverse stitches, rich colors, solemnity and solemnity, and the most prominent thing is that gold and silver threads are embedded in the ground, which looks like relief and has a strong texture. This is the famous "golden nail cushion float". In addition, there are velvet embroidery, gold velvet mixed embroidery, yarn embroidery, bead embroidery and so on.
7. Chaoshan embroidery uses flax, ramie cloth, glass yarn, chemical fiber fabric and colored embroidery thread as raw materials, and uses embroidery, crochet and embroidery techniques to make exquisite decorative daily necessities. There are many varieties, which are sold to five continents 100 countries and regions. Chaoshan embroidery includes clothes, tablecloths, pillowcases, quilt covers, bedspreads, handkerchiefs, curtains and placemats. The pattern is mainly flowers, fresh and elegant.