Huangshan Food

Food in Huangshan belongs to Hui Cuisine. Hui Cuisine, one of eight main cuisines in China, comprises the specialties of South Anhui. Huangshan Mountain has abundant products for dish cooking, such as pangolin, stone frog, mushroom, bayberry, tealeaves, bamboo shoot, etc.; Chefs in Huangshan pay more attention to the taste, color of dishes and the temperature to cook them, and are good at braising and stewing. They are experts especially in cooking delicacies from mountains and sea.

Famous dishes and snacks in Huangshan City are Mandarin Fish, Youjian, Mao bean curd, Xie Ke Huang (Yellow Crab Shell), La Ba Dou Fu, Stir-fried Pond Snail (Chao Tianluo), etc.

Overview Smelly mandarin fish, despite the name is a dish famous for its good taste and aroma. A lot of travelers, who come to Huangshan, are attracted to taste it by its reputation.

Odorous bean curd is a kind of sour bean curd with a layer of white 'hair' fried in a pan then sprinkled with seasonings. While the bean curd smells bad, it is delicious. It is common to see in snack stalls. If you can bear the odor, you should try it.

This Huizhou flavor snack is actually a baked sesame seed cake with a stuffing of meat and vegetables. It looks like a crab shell, hence the name Xie Ke Huang. The cakes are easy to store, convenient on a day trip.

On the eighth day of the last lunar month of each year, Yixian people start to make the tofu exposed to the sun. The day, December 8th of the lunar calendar, is called La Ba in Chinese, hence the tofu is named La Ba Tofu. It's the specialty of Yixian County in Huangshan.

Spring is the best time to try the stir-fried pong snail. In this period, there are many roadside stalls selling it. The meat of the pond snails is much tenderer.