the line of cuisines

Anhui is located in the northwest of East China, with plains, hills and mountains. The Yangtze River and Huaihe River cross the province, and tributaries are intertwined with lakes. The fertile land and rich products have laid the material conditions for the formation of Anhui cuisine. Anhui cuisine is composed of three local flavors: southern Anhui, along the Yangtze River and along the Huaihe River, with southern Anhui cuisine as the representative.

Characteristics of Cuisine

Southern Anhui cuisine is famous for cooking delicacies, and it is good at stewing and roasting, and pays attention to fire. Heavy oil, simple and affordable. Good at keeping the original flavor, many dishes are made of charcoal and stewed with low fire for a long time, so the soup is pure, mellow and fragrant. The flavor along the Yangtze River is good at cooking seafood and poultry, paying attention to knife work, paying attention to color, being good at seasoning with sugar, and being good at braising, steaming and smoking. Its dishes are crisp, tender, fresh, refreshing and fragrant. Representative dishes include Fried Chicken with Fragrant Flavor, Raw Smoked Chicken, Eight Hammers, Smoked shad from Mao Feng, Baked Fish with Fire, Crab-yellow Shrimp Cup and so on. "Cauliflower turtle, chrysanthemum crab, swordfish followed by shad, spring bamboo shoots, broad beans, lotus roots, sweet-scented osmanthus goose and duck fat in August" clearly reflects the food customs of the people along the Yangtze River. The flavor along the Huaihe River is simple, crisp, salty and refreshing. He is good at cooking techniques such as burning, frying and distilling, and makes good use of coriander and pepper to match the flavor. Representative dishes are: Fat King Fish in Milk, Fried Shrimp with Sauce, Fish Bite Sheep, Old Clam with Pearl, Zhu Hongwu Tofu, Fried Mutton with Coke, etc.

flavor dishes

Anhui's famous flavor dishes are: Xiaoxian mutton, Wuwei salted duck, Mao Feng smoked shad, Fuliji roast chicken, shier stewed chicken, Fang La fish, curry mussel meat, cloud meat, shepherd's purse dumplings, Geng Fuxing crisp sesame cake, mung bean pancake, butterfly noodles, Taihe flat noodles, Fuyang grata, Dingyuan.