Diguo chicken, a famous dish of the Han nationality, originated in northern Jiangsu, southern Shandong, eastern Henan and northern Anhui, with chicken, star anise and flour as raw materials.
Xuzhou has a long history of earthenware dishes, which originated in Weishan Lake area at the junction of northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong. In the past, fishermen who worked and rested on Weishan Lake often ate pot rice. This is because the conditions on board are limited, and cooking is often not very convenient. Fishermen take a small earthen stove, sit an iron pot on the stove, support a few pieces of dry wood below to make a fire, and then cook a pot of dishes as usual, even cover the noodles with cakes, which produces this cooking method of sharing meals-pot dishes.