Zongyang County's delicacies include Baidanghu hairy crabs, Zongyang steamed pork, pearl dumplings, tanggou Hushi dried bean curd, Zongyang radish, Yijin paizi rice noodles and so on.
1. Baidang Lake Hairy Crab: Baidang Lake Hairy Crab is a specialty of Baidang Lake in Zongyang County, Anhui Province. It is favored by the market and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad because of its large size, fresh color, delicious taste and pure quality.
2. Steamed pork with Zongyang powder: cut pork belly into thick slices, soak it in Chili oil and soy sauce, add seasonings such as white sugar, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate, pour in rice flour, mix well, stack the meat covered with rice flour in a bowl, and steam it in a cage until it is rotten.
3. Pearl balls: The crystal-clear glutinous rice sticks to the meatballs, like pearls, which probably gives the name of this pearl ball dish.
4. tanggou Hu's dried bean curd: It is made of dried bean curd as the main material, supplemented with chicken juice, star anise, cinnamon, licorice, fennel, osmanthus fragrans, white sugar, monosodium glutamate, potassium sorbate and other condiments. First, the soybean slurry is filtered, then compacted by traditional methods and refined by modern technology, which has the local characteristics and unique flavor of bean products.
5. Zongyang radish: it is one of the agricultural and sideline products of Zongyang, and it belongs to the local specialty. Its variety, color, shape and taste are unique.
6. Yijin Paizi Rice Noodle: Its production technology is a folk secret system, which is a municipal intangible cultural heritage, and it has to go through the steps of fermentation, pulping, cooking, mashing, pressing round rods, rectangular plates, drying in the sun, etc.
Zongyang County, which belongs to Tongling City, Anhui Province, is located in the south-central part of Anhui Province, on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, with a total area of 1,473.43 square kilometers; The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, with low level in the middle, low hills and hills alternating with hills, and the riverside is surrounded by lakes; The Yangtze River flows 78 kilometers through the county, and the main rivers are Hengbu River, Yangshi River, Qianqiao River, Luochang River and Zongyang River. It has a humid climate in the north subtropical zone, with four distinct seasons, abundant sunshine and rainfall.