Xuancheng is located in the southeast of Anhui Province. It is the hometown of the Four Treasures of Chinese Studies, the Chinese Crocodile City, Dayi, the capital of Jiangnan, and the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.
What a city shows to the outside world, in addition to various construction projects, must also be inseparable from food and drink.
What are the delicious foods in Xuancheng?
Several are introduced below.
1. Spicy vermicelli Spicy vermicelli is the favorite of many Xuancheng people. It is full of flavor and strong enough. If you don’t eat a bowl every few days, you will feel a little disappointed.
For friends who are out of town, it is a familiar smell.
2. Kidney cake: Kidney cake is a seasonal snack, golden, bright and crispy.
When you bite into it, the crispy outer skin is full of hot shredded radish and the flavor of chives.
In the cold winter, it feels so good to have a bite of crispy kidney cake!
3. The white and tender outer shell of the foreign sugar glutinous rice dumplings is filled with fragrant and sweet sesame seeds and sugar.
The sticky and tough glutinous rice balls, when you bite into them, the tangy sesame aroma and the specially prepared thick sugar juice will immediately overflow in your mouth, so sweet!
4. Artemisia Baba There is a custom in Xuancheng of making and eating Artemisia Baba.
According to the legend passed down from our ancestors, it falls on March 3rd of the lunar calendar every year.
"March 3" is the festival of all the dead.
On this day, everyone in the family eats mugwort cakes to commemorate the deceased and at the same time wish everyone good health and longevity and protection from evil.
5. Lapi Dumplings: "Rapi dumplings" in the memory of Xuancheng people have a long and thin appearance. Sometimes they are filled with radish meat, sometimes they are filled with pickled vegetables, each with different flavors. 6. Osmanthus sugar lotus root Osmanthus sugar lotus root is
Traditional snacks of the Han people in the Jiangnan area are made with lotus root and glutinous rice. Autumn is the best season to eat lotus root.