Jinhua cuisine is an important part of Zhejiang cuisine, one of the eight major cuisines in the country. The main cooking methods are roasting, steaming, stewing, simmering and frying. Jinhua cuisine takes ham dishes as its core and is quite famous in other places. There are more than 300 varieties of ham dishes alone. When cooking ham dishes, it is not advisable to braise, dry-cook, or stew. Avoid using soy sauce, vinegar, fennel, cinnamon, etc. in the seasoning ingredients; it is also not advisable to paste or starch the ham, and pay attention to maintaining the unique color and aroma of the ham.

Jinhua’s snacks are the most famous, Jinhua Night Pot, which is famous for its excellent flavor and unique atmosphere. In addition, there are Jinhua crisp cakes, Jinhua meat rice dumplings, Jinhua soup dumplings, Pan'an ramen, Pan'an dumpling tubes, golden candied dates, bayberry shochu, etc.

The main places to taste Jinhua food include: Jinhua Night Market Food Stalls (near People’s Square), the century-old Qinghe Garden, Guomao Hotel, Shifu Food Hall, Lanxi Ancient Mall Food Street, etc.

Special dishes: Eight-treasure fragrant tripe, shredded golden leg, thin sliced ??ham, ham loaded with claws, fire heel fairy duck, fire heel hoof, Wujiang spring.