Popular Snacks of Guangzhou

Guangzhou delicacies are the main representatives of Yue Cai (Cantonese Cuisine), which also includes Chaozhou dishes and Dongjiang dishes and enjoys great popularity all over the country. This kind of cuisine uses a wide range of ingredients from the sky, the earth, and the water. They also use seasonings sparingly. Compared with other Chinese cuisines, these local dishes use few thick spicy dressings in order to keep from masking the original taste of the food.

Bao Zai Fan is to steam the rice is a clay hot pot. It is the traditional Cantonese cate. The style of the hot pot rice can reached as much as more than twenty, such as Chinese sausage, ground pork, preserved pork etc. Bao Zai Fan is absolutely a traditional and authentic Cantonese cuisine. The rice is steamed in a clay hot pot will with fragrant foods on top. Frequently, on the top of the rice it is often put the different kinds of Chinese preserved meat, and as the rice being streamed, both the aroma of the preserved meats and the scent of the clay pot permeate the rice

Bao Zai Fan (Clay Hot Pot Rice)

Congee with Pig"s Liver and Kidneys

Guozheng Zongzi

Guangzhou people seem like have special fondness for rice noodles and noodles with great passion. It named as so as it originally came from Shahe Town. Shahe is a small town at east of Baiyun Mountain. There is a fountain in this mountain. The water of making Shahe Rice Noodles is from this fountain. Shahe Rice Noodles featuring white, bright, flexible, smooth and soft is about more than 100 year-old.



Yun Tun Mian
Yun Tun Mian is the local name called by Cantonese. Yun Tun Mian is wonton. It is said that in they had already had the habit of having wonton in Tang and Song Dynasties. Thin and nearly transparent skin covers much filings is one of the most important features. High quality wonton must satisfy three requests. One is the filling must be fresh and tasty. Second is the cover must be watery and flexible. Third is the soup must be clean and can not put into gourmet powder. Wonton though is a ordinary food in Guangzhou, it gains high reputation and is very popular.