Foshan, a bright pearl in the Pearl River Delta, is a historical and well known city, composed of Nanhai, the ancient city, Shunde, the hometown of flowers, Sanshui and Gaoming, the new riverside cities.

It has a total area of 3813.64 square km and a total population of 3.1106 million people.

Foshan is a well known hometown for overseas Chinese. Foshan's history can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty and it gained its present name in the Tang Dynasty. During the Tang and Song Dynasties it developed into a town of commerce in South China

Being the same well known cities with Hankou in Hubei Province, Jindezhen in Jiangxi Province and Zhuxianzhen in Henan Province, Foshan was one of "Four Famous Towns". Since the ancient time, Foshan has been praised as "the center of Guangdong Gauze", "South China Ceramics City" and "the Source of South China Medicinal Herbs".
Foshan is "the hometown of delicious food" of the Pearl River Delta, "Eating in Foshan" is a great praise for Foshan in history. Foshan has fertile soil, crisscross network of river and abundant goods of air-land-water. No matter the animals living in the way of flying, crawling, drilling or swimming, but also the fresh vegetable can be made into delicious foods under the cooks' elaborately concoction.

The dainty foods and snacks are refined in accord with the different districts and tasks. Foshan Zhuhou Food and Fengchong (Daliang) fried food are famous for a long time. Foshan snacks, such as Foshan Manggong Cake, Pricked hoof, Daliang Pheasant roll, Fried Milk, Double leather cheese, Xiaofeng biscuit, Nanhai Living Fish, Dafu cake, Jiujiang Fried Biscuit and Sanshui Gouzi Duck, etc. are famous for their excellent tastes.

Editor: zhangzt