The zongzi of Malao Palace in Shantou is a very special kind of zongzi. With the help of Mazu belief, it has changed from an ordinary diet to an unusual food suitable for all seasons. 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 gate of Mother's Palace, they will buy some jiaozi as a sacrifice and eat it all the way after the worship. It is delicious and hungry.
The traditional Chaoshan cuisine, Xitianxiang Roasted Oysters, is very common in both market speculation and family dinners. Around 1930, Yang Erxian opened a shop in Xitian Lane, 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 scones. Oyster scones are mainly made of fresh oysters. The ingredients are lard, fine snow powder and fresh duck eggs fried with mane meat, and the seasonings are Chili sauce, fine fish sauce and scallion. 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.
Fuhecheng beef balls, Fuhecheng, was originally a place name in the old city. In the 1960s, "Fuhecheng Beef Ball", represented by Chen's Beef Ball Shop, was famous for its coal paving. For beef balls, you should peel the selected beef, cut it into thick slices, then put it on a big wooden board, beat it with a mallet and turn it.
As early as the 1940s, Xu, an expert in frying cakes in Xinxing Street, Shantou City, was famous for his first special snack fried dough sticks. It is cooked with high-quality white rice pulp, lard, sugar, fresh shrimp, pork liver, lean meat, fresh oysters and other ingredients, as well as sand tea hot sauce, monosodium glutamate, fish sauce and snow powder water. Stir the soup evenly and pay attention to the heat.