Lishui cuisine includes Jinyun sesame seed cake, cod in chicken sauce, braised brook fish, blue crab with egg yolk, mandarin fish with crab sauce, Jinyun glutinous rice noodles, minced meat soup, wheat bean rice, strong tea loach, pickles hot pot and so on. Jinyun has a tradition of making sesame cakes. According to legend, Xuanyuan Huangdi made an alchemy at Dinghu Peak in Xiandu. When you are hungry, use mountain spring water to knead dough and rub it on the inner wall of the furnace. The baked cake is golden in color, crisp and delicious, and full of fragrance.

This technology has been passed down from generation to generation, and the master of Jinyun sesame seed cake has been following the ancient craft of Jinyun, selecting local good water, good noodles and good meat as raw materials, which has made the unique flavor of Jinyun sesame seed cake. The crust of sesame seed cake is crisp and the inside is soft and waxy. Take a bite, wheat, meat, onion and sugar are fragrant, salty and light, oily but not greasy, and caramel is slightly sweet.

Oujiang River runs through Lishui and is the mother river of Lishui. Among them, more than 92% of the reach of Liandu section is the national Class II water quality standard, which is rich in aquatic resources, and it is the concentrated place of stream fish in East China, with as many as 100 kinds of wild freshwater fish. Locals used to call it "brook fish". The spotted mandarin fish of Oujiang River, which specializes in eating wild fish and shrimp in the river, is a native species of Oujiang River.