Yangzhou cuisine belongs to the Huaiyang cuisine. Its main characteristics are: strict selection of ingredients, fine knife skills, outstanding main ingredients, attention to the original flavor, attention to fire skills, good at stewing, clear and mellow soup, thick but not greasy, light and tender, unique shape,

Salty and slightly sweet, suitable for both north and south.

Yangzhou chefs are good at carving fruits and vegetables.

Huaiyang cuisine is as famous as Beijing, Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine, and is known as "the delicious food of Southeast China".

Famous dishes in Yangzhou include eight-treasure gourd, grilled pig head, flying colorful butterflies, Yangzhou Wuting Bridge, Pipa prawns, chrysanthemum conches, etc.

Red Mansion Banquet, Three Head Banquet, and Whole Lotus Root Banquet are the three pearls of Yangzhou cuisine.

The Red Mansion Banquet is an innovation of the dishes written in the book "A Dream of Red Mansions".

The author Cao Xueqin once stayed in Yangzhou for a long time. When his grandfather Cao Yin went to Yangzhou to pick up Emperor Kangxi, he also hosted a banquet in honor of the Sixth Division and the Hundred Palaces.

The famous Red Mansion scholar Feng Qiyong said: "Red Mansion cuisine is really the system of Yangzhou cuisine."

The Three-Head Banquet is a banquet developed from three traditional famous dishes of Yangzhou: braised silver carp head, stewed lion head, and grilled whole pig head.

The lion's head is tender and not greasy; the silver carp head has a mellow taste; and the whole pig's head is fragrant, all with a strong local flavor.

The Whole Lotus Root Banquet is a unique feast created by Baoying, which has always been known as the "Hometown of Lotus Roots", based on the preparation methods inherited from its ancestors and innovating more than 50 kinds of lotus root dishes.

In addition, Yangzhou snacks are also very famous.

For example, Yangzhou dried tofu: a piece of dried tofu can be divided into seventeen layers and then cut into shreds, which are as thin as hair.

Crab roe buns: It is best in October every year. It is made from plump crab roe and mixed with refined white flour. It is the best snack in Yangzhou.

There are also Yangzhou spring rolls, sandwich buns, dried vegetable buns, etc., all of which have a strong local flavor.

Almost all of these famous snacks can be tasted at Siwangting Food Street or Yechun Garden Food Street.

In addition, some time-honored hotels: Fuchun Teahouse, Caigenxiang Restaurant, Yangzhou Hotel, *** Hechun Restaurant, Luyang Village, Fumanlou, etc. also provide various snacks, Qionglinyuan, Xiyuan Hotel, Zhenyuan Hotel,

Dongyuan Hotel, New World Restaurant, Qionghua Building, Yangzhou Building, and Palace Restaurant also have all kinds of exquisite snacks. It seems that "eating in Yangzhou" is really well-deserved.

Top ten famous dishes: Sanding buns, Thousand Layer Oil Cake, Shuangma Crispy Cake, Jade Siomai, Dried Vegetable Buns, Wild Duck Vegetable Buns, Glutinous Rice Siomai, Crab Roe Steamed Dumplings, Chejiu Siomai, and Shredded Chicken Rolls.

Top ten snacks: Bamboo shoots pot stickers, Yangzhou cakes, crab shell yolk, egg fire, salty pot cakes, radish cakes, chicken shred rolls, three delicacies pot cakes, osmanthus sugar lotus root porridge, three-color oil dumplings.

Top ten specialty snacks: Sixi glutinous rice balls, raw meat and lotus root clips, tofu rolls, bamboo shoot meat dumplings, red bean yuanxiao, five-nut cakes, scallion pancakes, Huangqiao sesame cakes, shrimp roe dumpling noodles, and bamboo shoot meat wontons.

In the morning, the skin contains water, and in the evening, the skin contains water. Old Yangzhou will tell you that Yangzhou people have two major enjoyments: "The skin contains water in the morning, and the water contains the skin in the evening."

Drink a cup of Yangzhou morning tea in the morning and taste Yangzhou special snacks, and take a bath in the Yangzhou bathhouse in the afternoon. This is the best enjoyment for Yangzhou people.

The bathhouses in Yangzhou are very unique. It can be said that it is a custom that has been formed over the years. The masters of Yangzhou's back rub are also very good at it. They are guaranteed to make you feel comfortable all over.