Yaoli people are very particular about their diet, and most of the ingredients are taken from nature, forming local characteristics, with various patterns and complete categories. For example, there are as many as 36 kinds of "pearl rice Fruit", "Ointment" and "Alkaline Water Ointment". There are 74 kinds of special dishes, such as stewed stone chicken, turtle stealing mushrooms, bacon and loach soup, among which vegetarian dishes include duck feet, longevity grass, purslane, bitter tofu, bitter vermicelli and bitter powder.

Yaoli cuisine is a kind of folk food with unique local flavor, which is processed by local famous local products. It is very famous in Jiangxi Province and won the gold medal in Jiangxi Cooking Competition. Famous dishes and snacks include "dry pickled pit meat", "wet pickled fish head", "yellow crucian carp boiled with tofu", "wet pickled vegetable fried with ash soup cake", "fried yellow crucian carp with winter bamboo shoots", "bitter tofu", "Ji Kang", "pearl rice fruit", "Qingming Bao" and so on.