Representative Dishes from Various Regions of Anhui – Come and Sample Them Together
When mentioning Anhui cuisine, one of the Eight Great Cuisines, Huai cuisine is irresistible. Anhui's location is superior, and various styles of snacks are emerging endlessly, attracting the scorching gazes of countless foodies.
Hefei Lobsters
Hefei Lobsters are not small, the meat is fresh and plump, and was once featured in a BBC promotional film, becoming a lobster heading for internationalization! Every summer, lobsters have become the favorite of Hefei foodies, everywhere in the streets and alleys is a foodie looking for lobsters.
Wuhu Shrimp Knife Noodles
Shrimp noodles in Wuhu, Anhui, are a food with a strong Jiangnan flavor. Shrimp noodles use Yangtze River medium-sized shrimp seeds, combined with various seasonings to make a thick soup, then add hand-made knife noodles, cooked together. The noodles are tough and flavorful, nutritious and delicious.
Bingtuan Fried Pork Belly with Ribs
A popular snack adored by Bingtuan people, Bingtuan fried pork belly with ribs is composed of fried dough sticks and ribs, with a combination of sweet, salty, spicy, numb and fragrant, and crispy.
Huainan Beef Soup
Huainan Beef Soup pays attention to selection, using beef from the Jianghu area, and braising it with beef bones. When cooking beef, it must be soaked in blood to remove the scum, and the internal organs must be cleaned before cooking. Then it is added to the pot to cook together. It is also used with homemade beef tallow to make chili oil. In addition, dozens of nourishing medicines and seasonings are used in a certain proportion to make it through traditional craftsmanship. 'From ninety-nine to just able to walk, if you don't drink beef soup, your life will be wasted.'
Ma'an Yutou Duck
Named because the pig's belly resembles a pocket, Yutou Duck has a salty and fresh flavor. The main ingredients are two-year-old farmhouse ducks and fresh pork belly, combined with angelica root, ginseng, chaerang, coix seed and other precious medicinal ingredients. It is nutritious, authentic in taste, promotes digestion, nourishes yin and kidneys, invigorates blood and beautifies skin, and is suitable for all seasons.
Northping Huotou
Northping Huotou is a characteristic dish in Northping, Anhui. It uses fresh pork belly to cook. Northping Huotou has a delicious, fragrant, crispy and refreshing characteristics, when chewing in the mouth, it makes a 'cracking' sound, so it is called 'Huotou'. Northping Huotou is suitable for people of all ages, with high nutritional value, exquisite taste and aroma, and is loved by people in urban and rural areas.
Copper Ridge Salted Pork Hand
Copper Ridge Salted Pork Hand is a local snack in Datong Town, Copper Ridge. Its characteristic is that the palm part of the pig's hoof is oily and shiny, the big bone is horizontally placed in the soft and not greasy meat, and the skin is also crispy and chewy. You can use a slight force with your teeth to feel the sticky and elastic 'pulling feeling'. The taste is fully absorbed into it, and the flavor of salt and pepper is overflowing. Facing such delicious food, it's probably difficult to stop eating two or three pieces.
Anqing Chicken Soup Fried Rice
Chicken soup fried rice sounds simple, but it's also easy to make. But when you eat it, it will definitely not be simple! The chicken soup boils and the rice enters the chicken soup, and when you eat it, the aroma is overflowing, and there will be chicken soup flavor in the fried rice. After eating, you can also drink chicken soup. Because the fried rice has soaked in chicken soup, it has entered the aroma of the fried rice, so it tastes both chicken soup and fried rice fragrance.
After seeing so much, remember to try the authentic local specialties when you go to Anhui! Do you know other characteristic delicacies in Anhui? Share in the comment section!
