1. Chizhou traditional snack Xiaoba.
What I have to mention about Chizhou’s delicacies is Chizhou Xiaoba, which is a traditional snack in Chizhou. Chizhou people’s day starts with a small cake. Xiaoba is made with various fillings wrapped in flour. There are many types of small cakes; vermicelli
The filling is smooth in the mouth; the shredded radish filling is rich in flavor; the pickle filling is sour and spicy; the bean paste filling is crispy in texture; it is an indispensable breakfast item on the breakfast table for Chizhou people.
2. Stinky mandarin fish.
Stinky mandarin fish is a famous dish in Qingyang County with a unique flavor.
It is collectively known as "bucket fresh fish" and is also commonly known as "pickled fresh fish".
The so-called "pickled fresh" means smelly in local dialect.
This "flavored mandarin fish" smells bad and tastes delicious. It not only maintains the original flavor of mandarin fish, but also has a mellow and mellow meat texture. At the same time, the bone spurs are separated from the fish meat and the meat becomes lumpy.
3. Jiuhua vegetarian cake.
Jiuhua vegetarian cake is a famous Han snack in Jiuhua Mountain, Anhui Province. It is a well-known local specialty and is made of vegetarian food, polygonatum sulfate and mung bean powder from Jiuhua Mountain.
Jiuhua vegetarian cake has a crispy and non-greasy crust. Wild polygonatum sibiricum from Jiuhua Mountain is added. It is not a flavoring agent, but a Liliaceae herbaceous plant that grows on Jiuhua Mountain. The meat is plump.
Adding Polygonatum sibiricum to plain cake after processing can make the cake more oily, fragrant and sweet.
Therefore, when you eat Jiuhua vegetarian cake, you will feel the sweetness in your nose and mouth. It is delicious and not greasy.
4. Rice dumplings from the east.
Steamed rice cakes, also known as rice dumplings, are a traditional snack of the Han people from the east of Anhui Province.
According to legend, it originated in the early Ming Dynasty.
Steam the indica rice until it is halfway cooked, grind it into fine powder and add an appropriate amount of water to make the dough. Then mix the meat filling with fresh vegetables to make a filling, wrap it in it and steam it in a pot before eating.
5. Jiuhuashan vegetarian food.
Jiuhua Mountain is a famous Buddhist mountain. Historically, not only monks and nuns had to strictly observe the precepts and forbid meat and vegetarian food, but also mountain residents and tourists were strictly prohibited from eating meat. Over thousands of years, this custom has been followed, thus forming the unique and long-standing "Jiuhua Mountain"
vegetarian diet".
The main body of vegetarian food is vegetarian dishes.
The raw materials of the vegetarian dishes are taken from mountain delicacies such as bamboo shoots, lilies, polygonatum, rock fungus, fungus, day lily, cabbage, malantou, bean sprouts, spring seedlings, bracken, etc., and are supplemented with tofu, frozen powder, gluten,
Vegetarian oil, fresh vegetables, etc., can be made into more than 100 varieties. Generally, no condiments are added for color and seasoning. The original color is light, with green silk and green leaves, distinct colors, natural game, fragrant, crisp, fresh and tender, rich in nutrients, long-term consumption
Not boring.
All meat and vegetable dishes can be cooked in their own shape, such as vegetarian chicken, vegetarian duck, vegetarian fish, vegetarian sausage, vegetarian sea cucumber, vegetarian ham, etc.
6. Qidu stinky tofu.
Qidu Stinky Tofu is a specialty food in Qidu Town, Shitai County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province.
Like the thousand-year history of the ancient town, Qidu’s stinky dried tofu leaves people with endless aftertaste, which is why it has been “stinky” for thousands of years and has a “stinky” reputation all over the world.
7. To the east is Maiyu.
Wheat fish is a small and valuable aquatic product. It is the same species as the famous Lushan stone fish. It is small and resembles wheat grains and is abundant during the wheat harvest season, hence its name.
There are two types of wheat fish in Dongzhi County: Goby and Goby.
Wheatfish likes to live in rivers and lakes with gravel and sand as the substrate. Its food is mainly small fish and insects, and it also eats silicon tillers in the water.
Maiyu is a traditional specialty in the county. Its meat is tender and delicious, and "people here treasure it" ("Dongliu County Chronicles·Xiangli Chronicles", published in the 23rd year of Jiaqing).
?8. Arrowroot rice balls.
Arrowroot dumplings are a snack in Shitai County.
Huizhou mountainous areas are rich in kudzu root, which is cool in nature and sweet in taste. The powder extracted from kudzu root is called kudzu starch, also known as mountain starch. It is commonly used by Huizhou folk to make snacks.
9. Lingyang dried tofu.
Lingyang dried tofu is well-known far and wide. Its raw materials are selected soybeans and refined broad bean paste, followed by special production techniques. There are many processing workshops in Lingyang area.
The produced dried tofu is black and shiny in color, rich in soy sauce, delicious in taste, moderately salty, and not clean in texture, square in shape, and uniform in thickness. It is similar to "quarried tea dried tofu", but the price is more convenient.
It is so abundant that everyone who tastes it personally will boast that if it is made into dried orchids, the taste will be simply wonderful.
During the holidays, everyone who knows about Lingyang dried beans will drive to Lingyang in large and small cars to buy them; it is also an excellent gift for relatives and friends.
10. Ge Gong Tofu.
Ge Gong Tofu is produced in Dongzhi and has a long history. Its production skills have been included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage list. The reason why it has won the favor of diners is first of all its excellent quality and unique flavor. "White,
Tender, fresh and fragrant” are its main features.
Let’s talk about “white” first. The color of Ge Gong Tofu is not pure white or pale, but an attractive milky white color, which often reminds people of anecdotal stories such as “Tofu Beauty”.
Ge Gong tofu is tender, delicate but not hard, soft and slightly elastic, and it always feels slightly trembling when you hold it in your hands.
The umami flavor of Ge Gong Tofu is natural and unique. It is by no means artificial and cannot be understood by those who are not familiar with it.
The fragrance of Ge Gong Tofu is slightly derived from the fragrance of soybeans. When you eat it in your mouth and feel it in your heart, you can feel the earthy smell and pastoral fragrance.
What makes Ge Gong Tofu "white, tender and fragrant" is its exquisite production process.
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