Source of this article: Times Weekly Author: Liu Wenjie
If you don’t eat meat for a day, you will feel uncomfortable all over. The sentence
is not an exaggeration. Meat not only contains the protein and nutrition needed by the human body, but also is a nutritional agent for workers. After working overtime, playing basketball, or on holidays, no matter what the scene is, eating meat in big mouthfuls seems to be able to "relieve worries" for modern people.
Who loves meat the most? The answer is from Guangdong and from Sichuan and Chongqing.
According to the statistical data on the per capita consumption of meat and poultry by residents' families across the country, the city with the largest per capita consumption of meat (pigs, cattle, and sheep) is Chongqing, while Sichuan and Guangdong are second. Based on poultry, Guangdong has the largest per capita consumption.
Guangdong is famous for eating chicken, duck, geese and other poultry. The poultry here outlines an authentic Cantonese recipe for Guangdong people. White-cut chicken, soy sauce chicken , roast duck, roast goose and other dishes are loved by Guangdong people and are even more famous throughout the country.
Sichuan and Chongqing, which prefers to eat pigs, beef and mutton, is a famous hot pot city. Adhering to the principle of "no meat, no hot pot", whether locals or foreign tourists, they will order a whole table of meat.
South can eat meat better
Guangdong is the most ruthless province in the country.
is shown in the figure below. According to the total amount of per capita consumption of meat (pigs, cattle, sheep) and poultry in 2020, Guangdong ranks first in the country, reaching 64.7 kg. This means that on average, every Guangdong person has purchased 64.7 kilograms of pork, beef, mutton or poultry meat in 2020.
Specifically, in 2020, the per capita consumption of meat (pig, cattle, and sheep) in Guangdong households reached 33.6 kg, ranking second in the country, second only to Chongqing. Guangdong's per capita poultry consumption is 31.1 kg, ranking first in the country, more than twice the national average (12.7 kg).
Looking at the national average, comparing the per capita consumption of meat (pigs, cattle, sheep) and poultry, it can be found that there are obviously more areas where meat (pigs, cattle, and sheep) are eaten.
There are many regions where per capita meat (pig, cattle, sheep) consumption exceeds the national average (24.8 kg). In addition to Chongqing and Guangdong, there are also Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Yunnan, Beijing, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hubei, Liaoning and Jiangsu, with a total of 14 regions, accounting for nearly half of the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the country.
is different from the stereotype , which is where northerners can eat meat. In fact, southerners consume more meat. According to administrative division, among the above 14 regions, five are located in the southwest and south China, four are located in the east China, three are located in the north and northeast China, and two are located in the central China.
Carefully compares the per capita consumption of three meats, pigs, beefs and lambs, found that besides Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet, beef and lambs are better than pork. In other regions, the per capita consumption of pork is multiples of beef and lambs, and the maximum can reach 10 times.
Among them, Chongqing has the largest per capita consumption of pork, with 29.9 kg, followed by Guangdong and Sichuan. Tibet has the largest per capita consumption of beef, followed by Qinghai and Xinjiang. Xinjiang has the largest per capita consumption of mutton, followed by Inner Mongolia and Tibet.
In addition to pigs, beefs and mutton, poultry is also a major category of meat. When it comes to eating poultry, southerners seem particularly active.
National Bureau of Statistics data shows that among the 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the country, 29 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have more per capita consumption of meat (pigs, cattle, and sheep) than poultry. But there are only two exceptions in the region - Guangxi and Hainan.
The per capita consumption of meat (pig, cattle, sheep) in Guangxi is 24.4 kg, and the per capita consumption of poultry exceeds that of meat (pig, cattle, and sheep), reaching 30.7 kg, second only to Guangdong, ranking second in the country.
The per capita consumption of meat (pig, cattle, and sheep) in Hainan is 21.2 kg, and the per capita consumption of poultry also exceeds that of meat (pig, cattle, and sheep), reaching 30.4 kg, ranking third in the country.
includes , Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan. The top 13 poultry per capita consumption are all southern provinces. In contrast, northerners are less active in consumption of poultry.
Even if braised chicken rice is the birthplace of Shandong, the per capita poultry consumption ranks second in the country (No. 17).Most other northern regions such as Beijing, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Tianjin, etc. are among the middle and bottom in the per capita consumption list of poultry.
Guangdong and Sichuan and Chongqing eat meat equally
Guangdong’s fate with chicken has long been doomed.
Looking at the map of Guangdong from afar, it is exactly the shape of a chicken leg. If you spread the map and study it carefully, you will find that almost every city has its own specialty chicken - Qingyuan Zoudi Chicken, Huizhou beard chicken, Maoming Huaixiang Chicken, Zhaoqing Apricot Blossom Chicken, etc.
In every city in Guangdong, there will be their own unique ways to make chicken, such as white-cut chicken, soy sauce chicken, sauna chicken, salt-baked chicken , Niangjiu chicken, etc. According to the "Food Classic", there are more than 30 types of Cantonese cuisine that use whole chicken as the main ingredient.
Although there are many different ways to make it, the highest praise for chicken dishes by Guangdong people is still "chicken-flavored".
People from other places may not be used to it when they come to Guangdong to eat chicken. But in fact, retaining the chewyness of the chicken skin and the original taste of the chicken happens to be the basic technical requirements of Guangdong people for chicken cooking.
Bissoms are deeply favored by Guangdong people. In addition to chickens, Guangdong people also eat ducks, geese, pigeons, etc.
In the old streets in Guangdong, especially in the alleys with dense residential buildings, you can see a roasted bacon almost one or two hundred meters away. Generally, there is an iron rack at the entrance of the store, with freshly baked roast duck and roast goose hanging on it.
The bright light shines on the well-proportioned roast goose, and from time to time there will be a drop of goose oil on the plate below, which is definitely the biggest visual enjoyment on the way off work. The hungry worker pointed in through the glass, and that was to choose the "hard dish" for the evening.
"Cut the ingredients and add dishes", this is the daily life of Guangdong people to reward themselves.
The master behind the glass took off the roast goose or roast duck from the iron rack, raised his hand and fell down, and the roast goose/roasted duck was cut. The gourmets who know how to eat will also specifically remind the master to "have more juice." In this way, the evening meal may not require any other hard dishes. Just drizzle with roast goose/roasted duck sauce and you can easily kill two bowls of rice and have a hearty dinner.
Pigeon meat is more expensive than ducks and geese. A plate of roasted until golden pigeons were served, with crisp skin and tender flesh, not greasy at all. It's no problem to eat one in one breath, and it's even a little bit unsatisfied.
Cantonese cured flavor Source: Visual China
In order to raise and cook good poultry, Guangdong is really serious.
For example, Chenghai District, Shantou, Guangdong, is the largest breeding base for the national-level poultry and livestock genetic resources protected breed "Chenghai lion-headed goose". Shantou even created the Shantou Chenghai Lion Head Goose Culture Festival, exporting Lion Head Goose pre-made vegetable products to Hong Kong and Thailand, China.
Guangdong Yunfuluo rule is based on the overall layout of in of "one core, two belts, and multiple bases", and plans 5 towns and 95 administrative villages with a total area of 926,000 mu. It has built the fermented chicken industrial park to form an integrated development of breeding, research and development, production, sales and tourism.
When it comes to eating meat, the one that can compare with Guangdong is Sichuan and Chongqing.
"No meat without hot pot", I imagine that Sichuan and Chongqing people can eat meat in one sentence. In Sichuan and Chongqing, whenever you go to the hot pot restaurant, you can see various parts of the pig on the menu - pork belly, crispy meat, pig brain, lunch meat , pork liver, pig blood, etc. There are also many beef, sheep, and seafood meats.
In fact, locals in Sichuan and Chongqing eat hot pot like Guangdong eat chicken, duck and geese. After all, hot pot has a long history in Sichuan and Chongqing. It was originally a food used by boatmen to fill their stomachs and drive away the cold - a clay pot containing water, pepper , pepper, and add various dishes to boil.
As Chengdu and Chongqing have become popular internet celebrity cities, countless tourists from other places have flocked to Sichuan and Chongqing to taste the most authentic Sichuan and Chongqing hotpot. Social platforms are filled with a large number of Sichuan-Chongqing hotpot shop posts.
Demand has spawned the market, and more hot pot restaurants have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. According to the "2021-2022 China Hot Pot Industry Development Report", as of the end of December 2021, there were 395,000 hot pot companies nationwide, of which Sichuan had the largest share, accounting for as high as 12.4%. Chongqing hot pot stores exceed 30,000, ranking first in the country and becoming the city with the most dense hot pot restaurants.
Holding the same determination as "not entering the Great Wall is not a hero", tourists traveled to the hot pot restaurants on the streets and alleys of Sichuan and Chongqing, swallowed tables of meat, and said with burp and said with satisfaction: "I'll come again next time!"
