Hui cuisine, one refers to Huizhou cuisine and another refers to Anhui cuisine, is one of the eight traditional Chinese cuisines.

It is a unique and well-known cuisine.

Anhui cuisine originated in the Qin and Han Dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and reached its peak in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. Anhui cuisine is a local specialty of the six counties in Huizhou. Its unique geographical and humanistic environment gives Anhui cuisine a unique taste. Due to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Anhui cuisine

With the rise of Huizhou merchants, this local flavor gradually entered the shops and spread in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Shanghai, Hubei and even the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. It had a wide influence and once ranked first among the eight major cuisines during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Let's take a look at the top 10 "alternative Anhui dishes" that Anhui people love to eat. Diners from other places can only look at them with excitement and sigh, but they will not be happy to enjoy them.

1. Tiger skin tofu Tiger skin tofu is fried from the hairy tofu (made with a special process and has about 3 cm long white hair) from Tunxi and Xiuning areas in Anhui Province. It is a specialty of Huizhou area in Anhui Province.

A very famous traditional delicacy, which belongs to the vegetarian category of Anhui cuisine. The method of "tiger skin tofu" is to fry the "hairy tofu" in a pot until both sides are brown, then add condiments to braise it, and dip it in chili sauce when eating.

This dish is fresh, refreshing, fragrant and has a unique flavor when eaten.

According to records, this delicacy was made in the Ming Dynasty. This method of making it continues to this day, and the locals regard it as a delicacy. However, for foreign diners, they are afraid to eat tofu after seeing it for the first time.

In fact, this delicacy has no peculiar smell and the white hairs are just white mycelium.

2. Pickled fresh mandarin fish Pickled fresh mandarin fish is also called Tunxi smelly mandarin fish.

It is one of Huizhou's traditional famous dishes. It is fragrant and fresh, with crispy fish meat and unique flavor. Tunxi is famous for its "stinky mandarin fish".

It is the same as Beijing stinky tofu. "Stinky" is synonymous with "umami", so it is also called "pickled fresh mandarin fish" locally. This dish has been famous for more than 100 years. Whenever mandarin fish is on the market during the Double Ninth Festival, people call it "pickled fresh mandarin fish".

One taste of this fish.

For this stench, diners from other places can only sigh with joy, but cannot tolerate it.

3. Feng stewed peonies Feng stewed peonies is a famous dish in Anhui Province. Anhui cuisine is good at cooking and stewing, and it is one of the typical representatives of traditional stews.

This dish involves chicken and pork belly stewed in the same pot over low heat. The soup is milky white and thick, the chicken is crispy and juicy, and the belly is soft and mellow.

Chicken has great medicinal value, and is known among the people as "a good medicine to help the world." In Huizhou and along the Jiangnan area, it is not only used as a banquet dish, but also a good nourishing food for pregnant women.

Many out-of-town diners are not used to the taste of pork belly the first time they try it, but they will get used to it after a few times.

4. Steamed Eagle Turtle Steamed Eagle Turtle is a local traditional dish, which belongs to the Anhui cuisine. It is made with eagle beak turtle, ham, rock sugar and other raw materials.

Turtle and ham are steamed together. The gelatinous substance in the turtle meat dissolves into the intestines and blends with the strong flavor of the ham, making the soup milky white and thick. The turtle meat is tender and fragrant. It is a rare dish in Huizhou mountainous area.

Many people do not like to eat turtles. Many out-of-town diners like to buy turtles and release them, so they do not have the pleasure to taste this delicacy.

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Crispy rice is fried in oil until brown and poured with soup.

It tastes delicious and is a favorite delicacy of local people.

Many people don't like to eat duck gizzards, mainly because they can't stand the taste.

6. Steamed Stone Chicken Steamed Stone Chicken is a traditional famous dish from Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province. The main ingredients include Stone Chicken, fungus, etc. Huangshan Stone Chicken is a kind of frog that lives in the cracks of rocks in mountain streams. It is a specialty of Huangshan Mountain.

The Dafuying Stone Chicken produced in Dafuying, Ning County is the most famous. Each Huangshan Stone Chicken weighs about five taels, with a milky white belly and a black back with stripes. Because the meat tastes delicious and resembles chicken, it is called the Stone Chicken locally.

For many out-of-town diners, when they hear that this delicacy is made from frogs, they can only look forward to it and sigh, unable to enjoy it.

7. Braised stinky mandarin fish Braised stinky mandarin fish, also known as pickled fresh mandarin fish, is a traditional famous dish in Huizhou and belongs to the Anhui cuisine.

After cooking, this dish is very popular among diners because of its fragrant and bone-melting flavor, crispy fish meat and special aromatic taste. Many guests who come to Huangshan come here to taste this dish, and they all feel like this after tasting it.

Delicious and full of praise.

This dish has a history of more than 200 years and still has such influence. The key lies in its speciality. The pickled mandarin fish smells "stinky" before cooking, but the cooked mandarin fish tastes delicious.

This "stinky" and fragrant flavor forms a sharp contrast, which adds to the charm of this dish and makes it one of the classics of Anhui cuisine.

Because of its unique odor, many people avoid it. Just like stinky tofu, those who like it regard it as a treasure, while those who don't like it lose their appetite after smelling it.

8. Huangshan Shuangshi Huangshan Shuangshi is a famous Huizhou dish that uses stone chicken and stone fungus as the main ingredients. It is introduced above that stone chicken is a kind of frog.

According to records, in the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong's reign (1790), in order to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Qianlong Hongli, the Sanqing Troupe with opera artist Gao Langting as the mainstay was recruited from the Huizhou area to Beijing. The foreman asked Chef Wang who followed him to Beijing to present a Huizhou specialty.

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After Emperor Qianlong tasted it, Long Yan was delighted and asked, "What is this? It tastes so delicious." Chef Wang replied, "Stone frog stewed with stone ear." Emperor Qianlong sighed, "There is such delicious food in the world, smooth but not greasy, refreshing." From then on

The Double Stones of Huangshan Mountain are famous.