Anqing cuisine belongs to the riverside cuisine among the eight major Chinese cuisines. Heavy oil is famous for cooking delicacies and game. Anqing, as the old capital of Anhui Province, has the characteristics of all rivers flowing into the sea, which is gradually formed on the basis of absorbing foreign food. It respects and affirms foreign cuisines, but it also accepts them critically.

Anqing specialties such as roasted dumplings, fried rice with chicken soup, fried bacon with chrysanthemum, steamed shad and so on!