Chaoshan porridge Chaoshan people especially like to eat porridge and have a long history. It can almost be said that from ancient times to now, Chaoshan people have the habit of eating porridge. There are several reasons: first, because Chaoshan is located in the subtropical zone, the climate is hot and humid, people sweat a lot and have poor appetite, and eating rice porridge can nourish the stomach and produce fluid; It can not only satisfy hunger and thirst, but also preserve health and benefit the stomach; The second reason is that historically, people's living standards were still very low at that time, and it was impossible to eat dry rice for three meals, so they could only eat more porridge.

Porridge is called "rice" in Chaoshan dialect and recorded in many ancient books in China. For example, Erya Shi Yan, a dictionary compiled by China in the pre-Qin period, has such an explanation: "The porridge is also mi." Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty also mentioned: "The Yellow Emperor began to teach me." It can be seen that the porridge called "rice" by Chaoshan people has a long history. www.findart.com.cn

Chaoshan porridge is very different from Guangzhou porridge. People in Guangzhou like to "drink morning tea", which often contains various kinds of pasta. Guangzhou people mainly use these noodles as breakfast content, and porridge is only used as a liquid food to distribute all kinds of noodles, so Guangzhou porridge is very thin and rotten. Chaoshan people tend to take porridge as their staple food. If cooked thinly, it is impossible to satisfy their hunger, so Chaoshan porridge is thicker and the rice grains are more shaped.

Chaoshan porridge is the staple food of Chaoshan people. People often eat porridge once or twice a day. However, Chaoshan porridge is also a snack. People often like to eat a bowl of porridge as a snack after three meals, such as rest and supper. With people's love for porridge, there are various ingredients of Chaoshan porridge, fish porridge, pork porridge, duck porridge, bird porridge, crab porridge and so on. Nowadays, stalls selling all kinds of rice porridge and meat porridge can be seen everywhere on the streets of Chaoshan, and Chaoshan porridge has become an indispensable snack in people's daily life.

Chaoshan people eat mixed salt rice porridge, that is, all kinds of Chaoshan local dishes, black olives, pickles, tribute vegetables, mustard tuber and olive vegetables.