Special dishes
When you go to Huangshan, you must try the local special dish "Huizhou Stinky Fish" and all kinds of delicious dishes cooked with fresh bamboo shoots or dried bamboo shoots. It's called "smelly", but it's actually fragrant. Siniperca chuatsi is pickled with seasoning, steamed with diced meat and sprinkled with pickled peppers, but it's not too prosperous, with a strong taste and mouth-watering.
The famous snacks in Huangshan are: roasted winter bamboo shoots, hairy tofu, tofu mouse, crab shell yellow, wucheng dried tea, etc.
Name: Stinkfish
Introduction: "Huizhou Stinkfish" is a famous dish in Huizhou, with unique flavor. It is collectively referred to as "barrel fresh fish" and also commonly known as "pickled fresh fish". The so-called "pickled fresh" means smelly in Huizhou dialect. This "flavored mandarin fish" smells smelly and tastes fragrant, which not only keeps the original flavor of mandarin fish, but also has mellow and tasty meat. At the same time, the bone spurs are separated from the fish and the meat is lumpy.
Name: Winter Melon Dumpling
Introduction: Winter Melon Dumpling was founded by Tunxi Yingchun Pavilion and has a history of one hundred years. The stuffing is made of wax gourd as the main material, with pork, ham, mushrooms, sesame oil and so on, and then thickened with starch. Jiaozi is wrapped and steamed in a cage. After steaming, the stuffing is soft and tender, with a faint scent of marinade and wax gourd, which is delicious.
Name: frozen rice candy
Introduction: Before the Spring Festival, every family in the countryside cut sugar to make frozen rice candy. Legend has it that this custom has been circulating for nearly a thousand years and is still continuing today.
Frozen rice candy is made by steaming high-quality glutinous rice, drying it in the open air, freezing it, frying it in a pan, puffing it, and then mixing white sugar and caramel. Then cut out a piece of imprint with a knife and slice it by hand when eating. Make more exquisite cakes with natural spices such as red and green rice, sweet-scented osmanthus, sesame seeds and orange slices, and make them into cakes with full color, fragrance and taste.
Name: Hibiscus Cake
Introduction: Hibiscus Cake is made of fine glutinous rice flour, sliced into rice cakes, fried, and refined by mixing white sugar and maltose. Among them, soaking glutinous rice and fried cake slices are very complicated and highly technical, so only a few manufacturers can produce this kind of cake. Huizhou has the custom of entertaining distinguished guests with hibiscus cakes around the Lunar New Year.
Name: Fuling Rose Crisp
Introduction: Fuling Rose Crisp is a traditional pastry with a long reputation, which is produced in Fuling Village, Jixi County. It is named because it contains roses as accessories and has a rose fragrance.
preparation method: take fine white sugar, sesame, flour, caramel, etc. as main materials, supplemented by rose, green plum, orange cake and red and green silk. Sesame is shelled by hand, fried, ground, sieved, mixed with fine white sugar and dried into hemp chips, layered and stacked with a small amount of maltose and fine flour mixed with hemp chips, cut into pieces according to certain specifications, and then evenly sprinkled with fine white sugar, roses, finely chopped green plums, orange cakes, red and green silk, etc.
Name: Ge Fen Mariko
Introduction: Huizhou mountain snacks. The mountainous area of Huizhou is rich in pueraria lobata, which is cool and sweet. Pueraria lobata squeezed and washed into powder named Ge Fen, also known as famous mountain powder, which is often used by Huizhou folks to make snacks.
Ge Fen meatballs are made of pig fat, sugar, etc. into a spherical stuffing, which is rolled with a layer of Ge Fen for three or four times, then put in a cage and steamed until the skin is black and shiny with small bubbles. This dumpling is flexible and strong in texture, sweet in taste, and has the effect of clearing heart and improving eyesight.
Name: Butterfly Noodles
Introduction: Huizhou-style snacks. Butterfly noodles enjoy a high reputation in Shanghai, Jiangsu and along the Yangtze River.
specific method: cut the dough into rhombic slices, fry them in an oil pan, scoop them up, put them in a wok, add the sliced meat, winter bamboo shoots, dried shrimps, ham, mushrooms, vegetables and broth, stir-fry and stew them to taste. The dough is fried and soft, refreshing and not greasy. Because the diamond-shaped dough looks like a butterfly, it is named.
Name: Huangshan River Snail
Introduction: Huangshan flavor snacks. The streams in Huangshan City are clear, the shallow bottom is full of sand, and there is no pollution. The quality of the screws produced is better than that of snails. The meat is white and tender, and there is no muddy smell. The shredded snail in Huangshan River is slightly smaller than the snail. When it is processed, the tail end is cut off first, with oil, salt, onion, ginger and vinegar, and it is fried in a pot, which is particularly delicious and deeply loved by diners.