# The best classic Cantonese dishes

Combining Sohu's '16 dishes that have made the top ten of Cantonese cuisine' and NetEase's 'Guangdong's 10 classic dishes': the most classic, most often ranked Cantonese dishes, from white-cut chicken to roast suckling pig.

- 48 votes · 16 items
- Sep 26, 2024 · 杨思雨
- https://even.best/en/l/906/the-best-classic-cantonese-dishes

## Top 15

1. **Honey char siu** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The emblem of Cantonese siu mei, sweet and glossy.
2. **Steamed spare ribs in black bean sauce** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The classic dim sum steamed ribs.
3. **Slow-boiled soup (lou fo tong)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — The long-simmered soup no Cantonese table goes without.
4. **Crispy roast pork belly** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Pork belly roasted until the skin blisters and crackles.
5. **White-cut chicken** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — The first of Cantonese chicken dishes, poached, with silky skin and pure flavour.
6. **Crispy roast goose** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Golden-red, crisp skin and tender meat; Shenjing roast goose is the most famous.
7. **Rose soy sauce chicken** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Chicken poached in rose wine and soy sauce.
8. **Pork tripe chicken** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Hakka peppery hotpot of chicken in pork tripe.
9. **Roast suckling pig** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Banquet centrepiece with amber, crackling skin.
10. **Poached shrimp** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Blanched in boiling water and dipped in soy: all about freshness.
11. **Roast squab** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Crisp-skinned Shiqi pigeon.
12. **Sweet and sour pork** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The Cantonese dish best known abroad.
13. **Dry-fried beef ho fun** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Rice noodles stir-fried with plenty of wok hei.
14. **Dongjiang salt-baked chicken** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Hakka classic cooked in hot salt.
15. **Baiyun pig's trotters** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Sweet-and-sour trotters from Guangzhou's Baiyun Mountain.
16. **Steamed fish** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Mandarin fish or leopard coral grouper with scallions, hot oil and soy.

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