Famous Local Produces of the Yellow Mountains
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 Corn Cake: A local refreshment in Shexian county. Local
people use corn flour to wrap up some fresh vegetables and salted potherb as filling. Then
press it into round cake. Cook it in a frying pan until the two sides are golden and the
cake crispy. Bean Curd Mouse: A Huizhou local flavour. People use high-quality lean pork and bean curd as its main ingredients. Mixed with ginger , egg and salt , the meat is chopped as thin as possible. The minced meat is put on the wheat flour rolled so a white dough comes out. After being cooked, it looks like a mouse. The dish is tender and delicate, suitable for both young and old. Fermented Soy Bean: a local snack. Its main ingredients are high-quality soy beans and fresh bamboo shoots. After being well-cooked in pot, it is dried in the sun or on an oven. Then it is stirred in the original liquid and dried again. The process is repeated several times until it carries a unique flavour. The snack is easy to carry and with high nutrition. Winter-melon Dumpling: It was first cooked at Yingchun Restaurant in Tunxi 100 years ago. The main ingredients of the stuffing for dumping are pork, ham, mushroom and sesame. Frozen-rice Sweets: Before Spring Festival, every family in the countryside will make frozen-rice sweets. This custom has been handed down from nearly 1000 years ago. After being steamed, high-quality glutinous rice is dried and frozen in the open air, then fried in the pot to be popped. Then it is mixed with sugar. It becomes a cake with unity of colour, fragrance and taste. Du-style Dried Bean Curd with Shelled Shrimps: a Xiuning local snake. Its produced at Du family¡¯s bean curd shop, well-known for its unique usage of raw material, exquisite way of preparing. Hibiscus Cake: People make fine glutinous rice into rice slices and fry them in the oil and then mix with refined sugar and maltose. The whole process is so complicated that there are very few factories which can produce this cake. In Huizhou, it is a local custom to entertain guests with this cake before or after Chinese Lunar New Year. Fuling Rose Shortbread: The well-known traditional cake is made in Fuling Village, Jixi County. Since rose is one of the ingredients, the refreshment has the fragrance of rose. It is made of refined sugar, sesame, wheat flour, maltose, rose, green plum, preserved orange and red-and-green pickled fruit. Kudzu Vine Starch Ball: A Huizhou local flavor. Extracted from the root of kudzu vine, the starch is used to make desserts in the countryside. It not only tastes and smells good, but also has the effect of refreshing one¡¯s heart and brightening one¡¯s eyes. Hongtan Fermented Bean Curd: a local product in Hongtan Village, Yixian County. If you savour it, you can get the fragrant, sweet, sour, and spicy taste. The way of making it is different from that of making ordinary fermented bean curd. The longer it is stored, the better it tastes for it can carry the taste of a mellow wine. Butterfly Noodle: a Huizhou local flavor. It has a high prestige in Shanghai, Jiangsu and along the Yangtze River. In preparation, people cut noodles into rhombus shaped ones, fry them, then stir-fry with pork, bamboo shoots, shrimps, hams, mushrooms, green vegetables and so on. Huangshan River Snail: a Huizhou local flavor. In Huangshan city, the unpolluted water and sandy riverbed breed high-quality snails. Their flesh is blue and white, tender and without the muddy smell.  Hui-style Fried Noodle: A Huizhou local flavor. People use traditional
knife-cut noodles in Huizhou-style to prepare. It is first fried with lean pork, then
stewed with bamboo shoots, shrimps, water-soaked mushroom, lard and rice wine. It looks
golden and smells fragrant.Huizhou Pie: The stuffing is made of cooked and ground soy bean and fat. The dough is prepared by using boiling water. A gentle is used in baking. This local flavour is originated in Ming Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong came to Huizhou in plain clothes and happened to taste it. After going back to his palace, he praised it highly and the food gained it fame since then. Huizhou Glutinous Dumpling: a Huizhou local snack. One may enjoy glutinous dumpling in any part of China, but this one has a very special flavor. Its distinct shape and taste comes from the special bamboo or reed leaves used, the different stuffing and the peculiar way of wrapping. It is a nice food with high nutrition and special flavour for tourists. Baked Bean Curd: a Huizhou local flavor in Tunxi District and Xiuning County, Huangshan City. The hard bean curd is cut into squares and fermented on the rack. Then it is baked over charcoal fire until the bean curd turns golden. Braised Winter Bamboo Shoots: a Huizhou local flavour in mountain area. The whole bamboo shoots are buried into firewood ashes and braised until they are soft. Sandwich some seasonings according to your liking when enjoying the dish. Jixi Steamed Cake: a Jixi local flavor. The water soaked glutinous rice is ground in stone mortar and dried. When preparing, people put fermented glutinous rice, sugar, preserved date and red and green prickled fruit in the paste like glutinous rice flour. After steamed, the cake will carry a fragrant smell. Mung Bean Bag: a Huizhou local flavour. The deep fried mung bean sprout with flour is appears golden and tastes both crispy and soft. Sesame Crunchy Candy: a traditional Huizhou refreshment handed down since South Song Dynasty. Fragrant, sweet and soft, it is made of cooked sesame flour and sugar. Wrapped in red paper, it looks even more tempting. Dried Vegetable Moon Cake: a Huizhou local flavor. The dried, salted vegetable stuffing and the crispy crust give the refreshment a special flavour. Taro Bean Curd: a Huizhou specialty. The ground taro becomes curd when cool. It has the function of curing dysentery, amenorrhoea, fusurcle, erysipelas and scald. It can also reduce hypertension and weight, improve appetite and prevent cancer. Laba Bean Curd: a local food of Yixian County. Laba refers to December 8th in Chinese lunar colander, usually a very cold day. The round, golden and salted bean curd is dried in the mild winter sun, which gives the food a special taste. Laba Porridge: a Huizhou seasonal snack. Laba refers to December 8th in Chinese lunar colander, usually a very cold day. It is a custom for local to have this porridge on that day. After preparing, people first worship their ancestors and then have the porridge. The main ingredients are refined rice, corn, all sorts of beans, sweet potato, taro and so on. Oriental Hueberry Rice: a local flavour. Oriental hueberry is an evergreen bush, belonging to azalea family. Taoists often use it to cook rice. Cooked with ham, the black rice is even more delicious. Yarn-like Noodle: a specially made noodle from the southern part of Shexian County. The unique process offers it a special flavour. Shendu Dumpling: a Huizhou local snack. Shendu is an old port in Shexian County, where Hui merchants flocked before they went to other places. Chefs there imitated their clothes wrapper in making the dumpling. It is noted for its delicious taste and the clothes-wrapper shape. Stone Pie: one of the best Huizhou local snacks. As a traditional food, it was already well-known in Qing Dynasty and won a universal praise. The pie with pork and fried soy been flour as stuffing is baked under the weight of a stone, which offers it a special taste. Double-winter Bun: a Huizhou local refreshment. Since there are winter mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots in the bun, it is named as double-winter bun. The pine-cushion food steamer adds to its special flavour. Sweet Fermented Glutinous Rice: a Huizhou local refreshment. It is made of high-quality glutinous rice. In Huangshan City, you can always see peddlers carrying fermented glutinous rice in baskets. It can be eaten both fresh and cooked. People usually put candied date or eggs to cook it with. Tunxi Drunken Crab: a well-known Tunxi dish. Brush-cleaned crabs are put in a jug. Add soy sauce, Huizhou Fengguang wine and some other seasonings, then seal the jug. One week later, this delicious crab is ready. Wucheng Bean Curd Slice: a traditional local product of Huangshan City. Beautiful, fragrant and delicious, it is well known for its particular and exquisite way of preparing. Its main ingredients are soybean,  thick soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, clove,
cassia bark and fennel, which makes it nutritious.Yellow Crab's Shell: a well-known Huizhou refreshment. This crispy stove-baked cake has dried leaf mustard and pork as stuffing. When well baked, it looks like a steamed crab's shell from which the name comes. Ramie Leaf Cake: a Huizhou local snack. Local people pick ramie leaves to prepare the cake during late April and early May. Since the leaves contain protein, carotene, carbonhydrate, fat etc., this jade-green cake is detoxicating, dephlogisticating and antipyretic. So a Chinese saying goes: A ramie leaf cake on the first day of summer keeps the heatstroke away. |