Beef bolus

Hand-beat beef bolus is the most common nosh in Chaozhou, it can as nosh, also can as a soup to put on feast.

Chaozhou hand beat beef bolus, saying from history, should come of Hakka. Because there are lots of hilly country in Hakka area, breed scalper, buffalo is very common, so Hakka often take beef as daily meat, during long develop process, Hakka people know how to make beef into beef bolus gradually.

Late Qing dynasty and early Ming nation, lots Hakka sell beef bolus soup in lanes ans streets.

Clover Chaozhou people see this beef bolus possess feature, so repot it. But Chaozhou people not simply copy Hakka beef bolus, and absorb its advantage, improve disadvantage.

Such as Hakka people beat beef bolus with the back of a knife blade, in this way effect will bad, and strength is not enough, effect meat plasm quality. Chaozhou people use two handtailor pontils, each is 1.5 kilogram, surface is square or triangle beat with two hands alternately, use first one hand and then the other in quick succession, until beef into meat plasm.

Such as Hakka people boil with clean water, Chaozhou people use beef and bone soup to cook beef bolus, by this way ensure when cooking beef bolus, taste of bolus will not into soup, thereby make beef bolus possess strong beef taste, at the same time with catsup to eat.

Due to beef bolus done by Chaozhou people is more delicious than of Hakka, not for a long time, it is popular in Chaoshan, welcomed by Chaoshan people, become a most popular folk nosh of Chaozhou. With the time goes, people all know Chaozhou hand beat beef bolus, but less people know that it comes of Hakka.

Of course, there are some folk legends on how hand beat beef bolus passes to Chaozhou. Such as some people say, early Ming nation, a Chaozhou person named Ye Yanqing, often help Hakka, so Hakka pass facture of beef bolus to Ye Yanqing. Ye Yanqing improve this facture continuously, so his beef bolus is very famous in Chaozhou, later Ye Yanqing work in Chaozhou famous store Hu Rong Quan.

Cook beef bolus soup, need add garlic, celery grain and capsicum catsup.

In Chaozhou, still has lots of bolus nosh, like pork bolus, fish bolus, shrimp bolus etc, they are all evolved from the method of beef bolus.