Chongming Island Snack

White Goat

White Goat is also one of the most famous specialties bred under specific local water and soil conditions. White goat is nutritious and delicious, and it can be boiled and braised in white. The large pot of tender and fragrant braised mutton or taro mutton with milky white soup cooked by local farmers with stoves and firewood are the first delicacies to be robbed at the farmhouse table. Dongjiang mutton restaurant, located in the south gate, has long been a household name, and it is often crowded. The local people have long regarded mutton as a nourishing product to keep out the cold, help warm, resist diseases and prolong life in winter. Visitors should not miss it when they visit Chongming Island in autumn and winter.

roasted seed fish

From early May to early July every year, anchovies swim in groups to lay eggs near Chongming Island, where salt and fresh water meet in the Yangtze River estuary, forming a fish season. Chongming anchovies are delicate in meat, and the roasted seed fish made of them is full of flavor and chewiness, and they are especially popular with tourists.