Yanbang cuisine has more than a hundred years of cultural heritage and accumulation, and has the unique regional characteristics of Zigong. It is related to the taste habits of salt merchants and salt workers. The main ingredients are rabbits, cows, frogs and fish. Stewed vegetables with salt are rooted in the thousand-year-old salt culture, which not only has the basic characteristics of spicy and delicious Sichuan cuisine, but also has unique cooking techniques and taste types, and is an important part of Sichuan cuisine.

Zigong's salted vegetables are very famous, characterized by three words: fragrant, spicy and fresh. Zigong cuisine is rich in flavor, spicy enough and thin enough. The spicy food in Zigong is not the same as that in Chongqing, but fresh and spicy.

Zigong Yanbang cuisine is a wonderful food culture bred by the Millennium Salt Capital, which belongs to a subsystem of Sichuan cuisine. Yanbang cuisine is the only prefecture-level city in Sichuan province with its own system of cuisine, a pearl in Sichuan cuisine and a unique symbol of Zigong salt culture.

Characteristics of salt-help dishes in Zigong

Zigong salt dishes are composed of salt merchants' dishes, salt workers' dishes, dam banquets and home-cooked dishes. , mainly according to the quality of raw materials used, the thickness of materials, the difficulty of cooking skills, and the elegance and vulgarity of food culture. The essence of Zigong salt gang cuisine is Zigong local cuisine, which complements Zigong salt culture. Zigong Yanbang cuisine is a representative dish of Xiaohe cuisine under the Sichuan cuisine system, which has a strong Zigong regional cultural color.

Zigong salt dishes are divided into three branches: salt merchants' dishes, salt workers' dishes and guild hall dishes, with spicy, spicy and sweet and sour as three categories, which are characterized by their strong, heavy and strong taste. In addition to the traditional "diverse dishes and diverse cooking techniques", Sichuan cuisine also has the characteristics of "strong, fragrant, spicy and exciting".

The representative dishes of salt dishes include fireside beef, boiled beef, fresh pot rabbit, steamed pork, cold beef and so on. With the development of salt industry in Zigong, salt-assisting dishes have profound historical and cultural connotations, which is a remarkable symbol of Zigong city brand.