Hakka Food

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Hakka Food

The most particular thing about Hakka food is the cooking techniques the Hakka use, including pressure-cooking, quick frying, stewing, and the sauces they use. Hakka food tends to be vinegary and salty, including a large variety of pickled vegetables. The pickled vegetables not only replenish the salt lost through sweating caused by hard work, it can be stored for long periods of time. This falls in line with frugality considered so important by the Hakka. The most frequently seen types of Hakka food are rice flower dishes, snacks, and main dishes.

Hakka Food

Common Hakka Rice Flour Dishes Include

The main ingredient of "bantiao" (wide noodles) is pure rice flour milled into paste. This mixture, the thickness of which is between 0.2~0.4 centimeters, is then steamed. Before cooking, it is cut into strips and boiled briefly. It is then placed in a mixture of broth, soy sauce, sesame oil, scallions, marinated meat, and bean sprouts. The result is a dish of tasty bantiao.

Hakka Food

"Caitougui" (turnip cake) is another popular Hakka fare. It differs from the Guangdong "luobogao" (turnip cake) in that it is made from nothing but "zailaimi" rice (a species of rice) and turnips. It is generally dipped first in soy sauce with scallions or kumquat sauce when being eaten.

Hakka Food

Bangui is a type of "zongzi" (filled glutinous steamed rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves) particular to the Hakka. It is made of glutonous rice and "zailaimi" rice. They make both regular and sweet versions. The regular, or "salty" in Chinese, version is filled with shredded turnips, ground meat, oil, scallions, and shortening. The most common filling for the sweetened zongzi is sweet bean paste.Both types of zongzi are delicious.

Hakka Food

The Hakka "caibao" (vegetable bun) is also known as the "Zhulonggui" () because it resembles the bamboo cage used to hold pigs. The delicious Hakka caibao is filled with shredded turnip and small shrimp wrapped in a rice flour bun.

The Hakka make a special type of maji called "qiba" for all special occasions. They dip these tasty treats in syrup or peanut powder.

Hakka Food

草粄 and 紅粄 are special Hakka rice dishes used when in ceremonies to venerate ancestors. The 草粄 is filled with vegetables like turnip and is salty. The 紅粄 is filled with sweet bean paste and is delicious.

Hakka Food

Hakka Food

Common Hakka Treats Include

Fried pork tripe with ginger, which is very much representative of Hakka snacks, is deliciously crispy. It has a delicate taste and is not oily. Served with finely shredded tender ginger and just the right amount of vinegar and spices, it is a wonderful treat.

Sliced white pork-boiled in water to maintain tenderness and dipped in soy sauce, it is mouth-watering.

Hakka Food

Common Hakka Dishes Include

Sichuan Vegetable and Pork Soup, representative of Hakka cuisine, combines the saltiness of the Sichuan vegetable and the delicate flavor of the meat to create a simple and delicious dish.

"Feng", means fatty pork, with white gourd and "feng" meat with cabbage with are very typical of Hakka fare. It is stewed in a broth made with oil, and scallions. If you happen to go to Meinong, you must try some!

Hakka Food

Fried "fucai", a kind of grass, is also characteristic of Hakka cuisine. In the past, Hakka let their ducks feed on weeds, including fucai, as well as tadpoles. Today, people from Meinong quick fry fucai like any other vegetable and mix it with thick broad bean sauce. It has become a unique Hakka dish.

Hakka Food

Hakka Food

美食食譜 -客家菜脯蛋

材料：客家菜脯 200 公克、 5 粒全蛋、青蔥 2 枝、香菜 2 枝

調味料：香油 1 小匙、鹽巴、白胡椒少許、水 30cc

作法： 1. 首先將菜脯泡水約 30 分鐘，再洗淨取出擰乾水分，再切成碎狀，下鍋用少許油炒出香氣，再加入少許香油即可關火。 2. 再將青蔥與香菜洗淨，再切成碎狀備用。 3. 取一個容器先敲入雞蛋在裡面，加入所有材料、調味料拌勻。 4. 取一個炒鍋，加入 2 大匙沙拉油，再加入攪拌好的蛋液，以中小火煎到二面上色熟化即可。

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