Anhui Dining
Anhui cuisine, also known as "Hui Bang" and "Huizhou flavor," is one of China's eight major cuisines. Huicai originated from Huizhou Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty (now Huangshan City, Wuyuan County in Jiangxi Province, and Jixi County in Xuancheng City, Anhui Province). Anhui Cuisine is a local feature of ancient Huizhou, and its unique geographical and humanistic environment confers uniqueness to Anhui cuisine. Due to the rise of Huizhou merchants in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this local flavor gradually entered the market and spread to the middle and lower reaches of the area of Yangtze River in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Anhui, Shanghai and Hubei, with a wide range of influences. Once in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it once occupied the top one of eight cuisines.
The typical dishes include:
- Steamed chicken（清蒸石鸡）: It is a traditional dish of Huizhou, Anhui province. This dish is delicate. The original mellow taste is famous for its treasures. Shiji is frog that lives in the rock of the foothills and is a specialty of Huangshan Mountain. The most famous frog cuisine is from Daxie in Xiuning County. A Huangshan frog(shiji) weighs about fifty-two, with abdominal white milk and black stripes. The meat is delicate , which is rich in protein, having high calcium and other nutrients..
- Huizhou Fermented tofu（徽州毛豆腐）is a traditional dish in Huizhou area. Due to the use of artificial fermentation of tofu, so that the surface of a layer of white hyphae is called "hair of tofu." Tofu is decomposed into a variety of amino acids during fermentation, and its taste is more delicious than ordinary tofu. The name of the bean curd is due to the appearance of tiger stripes after torment. The practice of “tiger bean curd” is first cooked in a pan and both sides would become golden yellow soon.
- Huizhou meatballs（徽州圆子） is one of the authentic Anhui cuisine varieties. Originated from Ji County, it is also known as “Fine sand fried meatballs”, which has the history of more than 200 years.
- Gu Jing Gong Liquor（古井贡酒） is a Luzhou-flavor Daqu, which was produced in Zhangzhou, Anhui. It’s said that there was an ancient well here, which was reportedly a relic of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Well water was clear and transparent, drinking sweet and throat, there was a "world famous well". The locals used well water to produce wine with excellent results. During the Ming Wanli period, it was used as a tribute to the famous production and was extended to the Qing Dynasty as a "tribute" and the named as "Gujing Distillery". Gu Jing Gong Liquor” has repeatedly been rated as the national famous wine, renowned Chinese and foreign.
