"Travel with Food" 2026 Guangdong Culture and Tourism Consumption Promotion Activity Launched in Meizhou

China News Service, Meizhou, September 23 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The "Travel with Food" 2026 Guangdong Culture and Tourism Consumption Promotion Activity was launched on the 22nd in Jiaying Ancient Town, Meizhou City. The event revolves around the themes of "Come to Guangdong all year round" and "Mei's good times and explore Lingnan", based on Meizhou's rich Hakka cultural heritage, using food as a link to form a chain, linking the province's Lingnan cultural and tourism resources, promoting the in-depth integration of "food + cultural tourism", and continuously stimulating and releasing the province's cultural tourism consumption vitality.

Guangdong is an important agglomeration area of ​​the "World's Gourmet Capital". Cantonese cuisine combines the culinary wisdom of the three major cuisines of Guangfu, Chaoshan and Hakka, plus unique seafood delicacies, forming a spectrum of tastes that are unique and shared. The "Travel with Food" activity uses food as a medium and cultural tourism as a bridge to transform the long-standing southern Guangdong food culture into a new cultural tourism highlight that can be perceived, experienced and consumed.

At the event site, the organizers focused on promoting 12 themed routes of "Traveling Guangdong with Food", spreading out a picture of "multiple flavors and multiple sights", making food a vivid entrance to understand Lingnan. The theme routes cover the Pearl River Delta, eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, and northern Guangdong, connecting representative scenic spots with local specialties and covering Lingnan culture, dynamic cities, Hakka houses, Chaoshan nostalgia, red culture, fashionable entertainment, seafood feasts and other themes, forming a food and cultural tourism product system with distinctive themes, diverse content, and rich experiences. Tourists can combine and travel flexibly according to their needs, extending "eating a meal" to "staying one night and traveling around", accelerating the transformation of tongue traffic into increased cultural tourism consumption.

Meizhou, the "Hakka Capital of the World", is an important settlement place for Hakkas. Hakka cuisine is simple, delicious and has a profound cultural heritage. The high-quality Hakka food-themed tourism itinerary released at the event connects Hakka classic flavors and cultural landmarks, allowing tourists to understand Hakka culture while exploring.

The food, culture and tourism market opened simultaneously on site was crowded with people and overflowing with aroma. Mainly based on Hakka cuisine, Meizhou Yongdoufu is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, salt-baked chicken is salty and fragrant to the bone, and pork belly with pickled vegetables is shiny and mellow... Each delicacy carries the Hakka people's persistent pursuit of the original taste of the ingredients, highlighting the unique charm of Hakka cuisine of "salty, mellow, authentic flavor".