How's life during Spring Festival in Foshan? Bustling sounds at stores, permeating ink scent on Huichun Street, etc. As the exciting new year approaching, we will share the classic new year delicacies in Foshan to give you an original taste of Foshan's new year.

Speaking of the Chinese New Year, it will be incomplete without some festive food. Let's take a look at the most popular choices for Foshan people.

New Year Snacks

Jiandui is actually a kind of fried glutinous flour dumpling. For years, marked by its crispy texture, the snack remains one of Foshan people's favorites. It also embodies people's desire for family reunion and prosperity.

Eating "Lawei" (cured meat), with a signature flavor of cooking wine and sugar, is a tradition in Foshan, even in Guangdong Province. People have cured meat before the Chinese New Year, which can range from cured sausages, cured pork to cured pig scalp.

Xiaokouzao is a kind of Foshan's local deep-fried dough snack. It looks like a person with a big smile. People who eat it wish to have laughter in their lives.

Fried turnip cake is a festive snack for Spring Festival, which is crispy outside and chewy inside. It tastes soft and sweet and smells very inviting.

Fried dumpling, the adorable bow-shaped snack, bears the wish of good luck for next year. The snack looks like a purse, in different sizes, which symbolizes family union and safe life for the old and young.

Crisp Egg Pieces are usually made from flour, gluten powder, eggs and lard. Put it into boiling oil and pick it up when it looks light yellow. It is best matched with some maltose sauce.

New Year Meal

Poon Choi

Poon Choi often consists of oysters, lotus roots, pig trotters and roasted goose. Foshan people think that all their best luck is hidden in Poon Choi. For people in Foshan, a hot meal and all family members coming together constitute an important ceremony for the new year. In their faith, they never stop asking for a family reunion every year.

Chicken Dish

An old saying goes that a feast is not complete without chicken. On a big meal locally, people give great names to chicken dishes like Song of the Phoenix, Dragon and Phoenix, etc., wishing for happiness, success and more.

Fish

The fish dish is also essential. In Chinese, “鱼” (fish) has the same pronunciation as "余" (abundance). It's a great symbol of luck!

Roasted Crispy Suckling Pig

This dish is a must for Spring Festival's Eve Dinner, for the red roasted skin is associated with good luck and health in people's lives.

Foshan is crowned as the City of Gastronomy. There are definitely more new year delicacies than all listed above. Come and explore yourself!

Reporter | Eleanor

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