Huangshan people often eat a kind of hot pot in winter. Legend has it that this dish was created by Mrs. Yu, the wife of the first-ranking official of Shidai County's "Four Ministers of the Shangshu", Bi Medan, in the Ming Dynasty. Once, the emperor suddenly drove to the Shangshu House as a guest, the seat in addition to the delicacies of the sea, Mrs. Yu deliberately burned a Huizhou home cooking - hot pot. Unexpectedly, the emperor ate with relish and praise. Later, the emperor learned that the delicious hot pot is Mrs. Yu personally burned, then said the original or "a pot"! The name of the dish was then finalized.
Fuling Rose Cake
"Fuling Rose Cake" is a famous traditional pastry, produced in Fuling Village, Jixi County, because of the rose flower as a supplementary ingredient, with rose fragrance and so named. "Fuling Rose Crisp" is made of fine white sugar, sesame, flour, caramel, etc., supplemented with rose, plum, orange cake, red and green silk; it is made of small amount of caramel and fine flour mixed with hemp crumbs, rolled and folded in layers, and then cut into pieces according to certain specifications, and then sprinkled evenly with fine white sugar and rose on the surface.
Dried shrimp and bean curd
Huining flavorful snacks. Wanan "Du" trademark dried shrimp and tofu, quite famous. Du family tofu store shrimp dried tofu, with unique materials, fine production, the recipe is well known, color and flavor.
Du pickled fresh Mandarin fish
Commonly known as "stinky Mandarin fish". It is made in a unique way and has a unique flavor when eaten. According to legend, more than 200 years ago, fishmongers along the river transported Mandarin fish in wooden barrels to the mountains of Huizhou. In order to prevent the fresh fish from deteriorating on the way, a layer of fish was sprinkled with a layer of light brine, and often turned up and down, so that it arrived at Tunxi and other places in seven or eight days. At this time the fish gills are still red, scales are not off, the quality has not changed, only the skin gives off a kind of special smell that seems to stink, but after washing by hot oil frying, fine fire cooking, not only no odor, but fresh and fragrant, into a popular delicacy.
Hibiscus Cake
"Hibiscus Cake" is made of fine glutinous rice flour, made into rice cake slices, then deep-fried, and then mixed with sugar, caramel refined. The two processes of soaking the glutinous rice and deep-frying the slices are quite complicated and technical, so only a few manufacturers can produce this kind of pastry.
Tiger skin hairy tofu
Huangshan traditional dishes. Because of the use of tofu for artificial fermentation, so that a layer of white hair (white mycelium) grows on its surface, the protein decomposition into a variety of amino acids during the fermentation process, the flavor is more delicious than ordinary tofu. The name "Tiger Skin Tofu" is derived from the fact that the hairs are fried and baked to give it the appearance of tiger skin stripes.
Tofu Mouse
Huizhou flavor snack. Take good meat, white tofu as the main ingredient, with ginger, eggs, salt, chopped fine as mud, hold a large group of eggs, placed in a bowl of wheat flour, hold the bowl with both hands, repeated bumps rolled, so that it wrapped into a white ball, and then put into the boiling water to cook, to be floating in the water, fished into the fresh broth of the pre-prepared condiments that are ready. "Tofu mouse" tender and delicious, the old and weak, women and children savory, recuperate the sick body is also excellent food.