Stinky Gui Fish is an Anhui dish. Stinky guifu is a traditional dish of Anhui Huizhou cuisine, mainly found around Huangshan City, Anhui Province. It has a long history, having appeared more than two hundred years ago, when there was no developed preservation technology, and the fish was a valuable aquatic product found only in the waters of the Yangtze River, so the people of Huizhou used a high concentration of salt water to soak the fish to prevent it from spoiling.

Characteristics of Stinky Gui Fish

Because of the hot and humid climate in Huizhou, the salmon soaked in salt water for a long period of time, although on the surface it looks no different from the live fish, in fact, it has begun to emit a strong odor that seems to stink, but not stink. After such salmon frying cooking, people were surprised to find that some of this stinky salmon fresh and delicious, stinky gui fish can thus be popular in the people around the Anhui region, is popularly known as "pickled fresh gui".

Smelly salmon is a fermented raw fish food that cannot be eaten directly and requires some processing steps. First, it needs to be rinsed for a few moments when it is taken out, otherwise the fish will take on the salty, astringent flavor of the pickled brine. There are various ways to make stinky gui fish, including slicing and stir-frying with chili peppers and vinegar peppers and other condiments, which is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a spicy flavor.