Ningbo specialty cuisine, also known as "Yongbang cuisine", is good at cooking seafood, combining fresh and salty food. It mainly uses steaming, roasting, stewing and other techniques. It pays attention to freshness, softness, original flavor and rich color.

Foods like yellow croaker wrapped in bean curd skin, grilled greens in small squares, and stir-fried fresh bamboo shoots with pickled vegetables are cheap and delicious.

For snacks, you have to go to the Chenghuang Temple, which is lively and unique. Crab rice dumplings, pot stickers and rice noodles, lard glutinous rice balls, fermented rice dumplings... eat while walking, until your stomach bursts.

You must go to Chenghuang Temple’s century-old Seed Picking Restaurant.

Top ten famous dishes: rock sugar turtle, pot-roasted river eel, yellow croaker wrapped in bean curd skin, grilled in small squares with moss vegetables, golden chicken with fire, steamed pork with lotus leaves and rice flour, whole yellow croaker in colorful sauce, foie gras wrapped in net oil, yellow croaker maw, and yellow croaker dragged with moss vegetables.

Top ten famous dishes: lard glutinous rice dumplings, dragon and phoenix golden dumplings, crystal oil buns, rice with eight-treasure bean paste, lard crispy cubes, three-shredded banquet noodles, fresh meat dumplings, siomai, fresh meat wontons, fermented rice dumplings, etc.