The three most famous dishes of Huaiyang Cuisine are lion's head, grilled pig's head and Yangzhou salt water goose.

The Huaiyang Cuisine is one of the eight traditional Chinese cuisines, "Yang" is Yang Cuisine, represented by the Yangzhou area of the Yangtze River Basin, and "Huai" is Huai Cuisine, represented by the Huai'an area of the Huaihe River Basin. Huaiyang cuisine refers to the regional cuisine of Huaiyang, centered on Yangzhou and Huai'an, and formed in Yangzhou and Huai'an. Huaiyang Cuisine began in the Spring and Autumn Period, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and has been known as "the first flavor of the Southeast, the most beautiful in the world".

Huaiyang Cuisine is characterized by rigorous selection of ingredients, skillful use of materials, fine production, elegant style, and the pursuit of the original flavor, freshness and peace. "Drunken crab does not look at the lamp, wind chicken but the lamp, swordfish but the Qingming, sturgeon but the Dragon Boat Festival", this time varying from time to time to ensure that the plate of food ingredients from the best state, so that people at any time can encounter the wonderful Huaiyang. Huaiyang cuisine is very concerned about knife work, knife skills are relatively fine, especially melon carving is renowned in all directions. The form of the dishes is exquisite, and the taste is mellow; in cooking, it makes good use of the fire, paying attention to the fire, good at stewing, braising, simmering, warming, steaming, burning, frying; the raw materials are mostly aquatic, focusing on freshness, and the taste is calm, fresh and slightly sweet. Its dishes are meticulous and exquisite, elegant style.

Subsequent generations of Huaiyang cuisine, commonly used a "noble" word. This should be related to the salt merchants and river officials of the two Huaiyangs, who spent a lot of money on food and drink, which was also a big guarantee for the growth of Huaiyang cuisine. Xu Qianfang's "Records of Yangzhou's Terroir" said: "Yangzhou natives, mostly salt business for a living, used to pomp and circumstance, good at food, so Yangzhou feasts are famous everywhere, and the dim sum production method is extremely refined, and the soup buns and oil cakes are especially famous at one time." By the salt merchants and salt officials of the dietary norms of the formation of the scene of the great, elegant environment, dishes, peculiar, strict selection of materials, exquisite style of eating utensils, basically is the main features of Huaiyang cuisine replica.