A FOOD TRADITION
Hakka cuisine
Hakka cuisine is associated with Hakka communities in southeastern China, especially eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian, and Jiangxi, as well as diaspora communities elsewhere. It emphasizes preserved and dried ingredients, pork, poultry, tofu, rice, radish, mustard greens, mushrooms, and salted or fermented seasonings. Steaming, braising, stuffing, slow simmering, and the careful reuse of preserved foods are characteristic techniques. Representative dishes include salt-baked chicken, stuffed tofu, and preserved mustard greens with pork. Hakka cooking overlaps geographically with Cantonese, Fujian, and Jiangxi traditions, but its migration history and distinctive use of preserved foods support treatment as a cultural cuisine in its own right.
Dishes linked to this cuisine
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Hakka pig-stomach stuffed chicken
A Hakka banquet dish known poetically as Reincarnation of the Phoenix, with a whole chicken enclosed in pig stomach and simmered.
Hakka poon choi
A communal Hakka basin dish in which layers of meat, seafood, tofu and vegetables are assembled and simmered together.
Hakka Pork with Preserved Mustard Greens
A Taiwanese Hakka braise of pork with preserved mustard greens, soy sauce, aromatics, and sugar until the meat is tender and deeply savory.
Hakka salt-baked chicken
A signature Hakka chicken preparation whose rich flavour and golden colour come from controlled salt baking.
Hakka Stuffed Tofu
A Taiwanese Hakka dish of tofu filled with a seasoned pork mixture, commonly incorporating dried shrimp, shiitake mushroom, green onion, and soy sauce.
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