Jianshui Dining

Jianshui Dining includes not only Jianshui rice noodle, but also 18 eatings, which has been praised for a long time. 18 eating refer to steam pot chicken, cross bridge rice noodle, grass shoot, acid pomegranate, roasted tofu, sticky rice with lotus root, Qujiang roast duck, bird’s nest, bird’s nest porriage, bird’s nest cake, lion cake, ewe's milk vegetable, navel orange, crispy cucumber, steamed sweet potato, cool sweet potato vermicelli, fried rice tofu and soak pear, they are the eduring taste memory Jianshui folk people.

What to Eat in Jianshui

1. Steam Pot Chicken

In Jianshui, there is a unique earthen ware steamer called steaming pot. It is designed to steam food. And steam pot chicken got its name for steaming with steaming pot. Its main material is chicken and main cooking technology is steaming. Steam pot chicken is deeply loved by the public because of rich nutrition.

2. Jianshui Roasted Tofu

Jianshui Roasted Tofu, also named Linan Tofu, is the traditional delicacy in Jianshui County. After the program A Bite of China, a large documentary film in China, Jianshui Roasted Tofu has been renown all over China. You can see the roasted tofu at roadside stands and restaurants.

3. Jianshui Grass Shoot(Cao Ya 草芽)

Originated from Jianshui county, grass shoot has more than 100 years history of cultivation. It is also called ivory vegetable as it looks like ivory. In Jianshui, people use grass shoot to make soup or fry, it tastes quite good. When there are important guests coming home, they can make a table of grass shoot banquet to express welcome and attention to guests.

4. Jianshui Rice Noodle

Jianshui cross bridge rice noodle originated from Jishitou(鸡市头), which is in the both sides of Suolong Bridge, the eastern part of Jianshui county. Jianshui specialties like grass shoot, lindera and mint are used as ingredients in making rice noodle. During the reign of Daoguang in Qing dynasty, a chef named Liu Jiaqing opened a rice noodle eating house called "Baoxing house" in Jishitou(鸡市头).

5. Cool Sweet Potato Vermicelli(凉勺粉)

Made of sweet potato powder, cool sweet potato vermicelli is slightly thicker than glass noodle, but much more slender than flat noodle. It is no need to be reprocessed. Just eating with some ingredients, it has the effect of relieving heat and thirst.