A roadside butcher's shop in Guangzhou. (Yang Xiaonan / Dayoo.com)
Various flavored meat ("Shao La" in Chinese) is popular in Cantonese menu, including the roasted and the sauced and the cured.
The roasted varieties are porket, geese, ducks, pigeons, pork, steaks, spareribs and chicken wings with delicious strong flavor.
Roasted goose (left) and pork.
The sauced meat include chicken, Baiyun Seasoned Pig Feet, ducks, geese, sausages and some others.
Cantonese sauced meat.
The cured are the most recommended, such as sausage, pork, duck and some other 50 kinds. They feature three kinds of tasty flavor of sauce, bacon, and liquor. They have nutrition, attractive and appetizing presentation, and nice and balanced marriage of sweetness and saltiness. The sausages are categorized according to different proportion of fat and lean meat contained.
Similar cured sausages are produced in Dongguan, a city near Guangzhou. They are bigger, shorter and greasier than the Cantonese sausages.
Cured sausages.
Cured ducks.
The most-renowned local manufacturers of cured meat are Huang Shang Huang 皇上皇 ("Kings' King", founded in 1940), Babai Zai 八百载 ("Eight Centuries Old", founded in 1937) and Cang Zhou 沧州 (founded about 100 years ago). The roasted and cured meat of Wing Wah 荣华 from Hong Kong are also popular in Guangdong province.
Many butcher's shops and restaurants in Guangzhou sell their home-made flavored meat, such as:
Da Tang Roasted Geese, Shao E Zai ("Roasting Boy"),
Guangzhou Restaurant, Bingsheng Restaurant, Eh-gong Village Restaurant;
Zhousheng Ji Taiye Chicken 周生记(at the crossroads of Beijing Road and Wenming Road; The Smoked Chicken is its trademark delicacy), Jin Ji 锦记(373 Xihua Road) , Xihuan Sige 西关四哥 (287, Dezheng Zhong Road), Zhu Zai Ji 朱仔记.
Most of the shops are small and basic inside downtown residential communities, markets or shopping blocks.
(By Ronald Li)
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