Yangzhou salted goose, a famous dish in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, is full in shape, rotten but not scattered, with bright butter, soft and tender texture, fat but not greasy, fresh and salty. Yangzhou people, commonly known as "old goose", is an indispensable dish in Huaiyang cuisine with a history of more than 2,000 years. It fully embodies the essential characteristics of China's cooking with taste as the core and cultivation as the purpose.
In Yangzhou, stalls selling old geese are everywhere in the streets. Ten o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Yangzhou is a veritable goose consumption city. The best goose breed in China is "Yangzhou Goose". According to statistics, Yangzhou people consume 20 million salted geese a year, and there are 60 million industrial geese in Yangzhou, so all the geese raised in the north come to Yangzhou for sale.
Besides, at the formal banquet in Yangzhou, Yangzhou salted goose is essential. Yangzhou salted goose is very famous, almost as famous as Slender West Lake. If you haven't been to Slender West Lake and eaten Yangzhou salted goose, you can't count as having been to Yangzhou.