The main ingredients are locally sourced air-dried goat meat and “De” brand vermicelli from the Shangcheng area. The “De” brand vermicelli is made from locally grown peas and mung beans, rinsed and processed with mountain spring water. It won a gold medal at the 1914 Panama–Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco, USA. This hotpot, prepared using traditional local cooking techniques...
Zhoukou fried dough twists are golden yellow and appear somewhat translucent. The “rope-end” twists resemble lanterns, while the “umbrella” twists look like umbrella canopies. They are crispy and delicious, easy to digest, with an authentic flavor—neither astringent nor bitter, not gritty on the teeth, free of off-flavors. They catch fire easily when lit and remain crisp and flaky even after long-term storage without becoming moldy or soft. In August 1947, Commanders Liu and Deng led the Central Plains Field Army on a thousand-li march...
Tiankou Township in Xihua County is located in the heart of the Yellow River Flood Area. The main varieties of jujubes grown here are Ash Jujube and Chicken Heart Jujube. Ash Jujube, also known as Large Jujube, has medium-sized fruits shaped like long cones. The fruit skin is brownish-red, the flesh is thick, crisp, with little juice but sweet taste, and the pit is small, slender, and of high quality—making it particularly suitable for processing. It is an excellent variety for both fresh consumption and drying. Chicken Heart Jujube,…
The golden melon, commonly known as muskmelon, is also called the Ten-ridged Golden Melon or Elizabeth Thick-skinned Melon. It has a golden-yellow color, attractive appearance, vibrant hue, and rich fragrance. Packed with various vitamins and high sugar content, it is juicy, delicious, sweet, and crisp. Not only is the golden melon tasty and nutritious, but it also helps invigorate the spleen and boost qi, reduce inflammation and relieve pain,…
Bighead carp is a high-protein, low-fat, and low-cholesterol fish, rich in phospholipids and posterior pituitary hormones that improve memory. Regular consumption can warm the stomach, relieve dizziness, enhance intelligence, aid memory, delay aging, moisturize the skin, and protect the cardiovascular system. Made primarily from bighead carp, the crispy fish steak is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside,…
Eggplant is rich in various vitamins, scopoletin, protein, and other nutrients. It is an affordable and nutritious vegetable. Regular consumption is highly beneficial for people with hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hemoptysis, and scurvy. There are many ways to prepare eggplant. One popular dish is Clay Pot Braised Eggplant in Soy Sauce, which primarily uses eggplant and pork belly...
Stem lettuce, also known as lettuce, has edible tender stems above ground. The flesh is crisp and tender, rich in nutrients such as carotene, various vitamins, potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, and phosphorus, especially in higher concentrations in the leaves. The peeled tender stems can be eaten raw, served in salads, stir-fried, braised, dried, or pickled, and the tender leaves are also edible. Using fresh stem lettuce tender stems...
Peas are rich in high-quality protein, various vitamins, carotene, lysine, chlorophyll, and trace elements essential to the human body. They offer benefits such as beautifying the skin, killing bacteria and resisting toxins, protecting the cardiovascular system, lowering blood pressure, supporting eye health, and regulating the body’s constitution. Made with peas and pork tenderloin, the Pea and Sliced Pork Soup features a green-and-white color scheme. The peas are...
Method: Mix salt with 200 grams of water to form a dough, stir well, then knead repeatedly while gradually adding the remaining water until the dough is smooth and fine without any grains. Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a damp cloth, and let it rest briefly. Flatten the rested dough to a thickness of 1.5 cm, then cut it into 1.5 cm-long strips. Knead each strip to the thickness of a chopstick, place them in an oiled bowl…
The Shangwan Village clay modeling craft in Laocheng Town, Shenqiu County, originated over 400 years ago in Xiazaiwan Village under Nan Guan Neighborhood Committee of Laocheng. Locals commonly refer to Shenqiu’s clay modeling as Gujia Steamed Buns. Currently, around 3,000 people are involved in making Gujia Steamed Buns. These buns have widespread recognition and fame both locally and in surrounding areas. During Spring Festival and temple fairs…
The production process of Three-Handed Hard Flour Steamed Buns is complex and entirely handmade. The dough undergoes three handovers to ensure full fermentation, resulting in a superior texture with distinct layers, a plump and round shape, and a rich, sweet, and mellow flavor upon tasting. …
Method: Rinse black sesame seeds clean and dry them. Place the dough in a basin, crack in an egg, add refined salt and lard, and mix into a dough. Knead thoroughly until smooth, then let it rest for about 10 minutes. Place the dough on a cutting board, sprinkle with black sesame seeds, roll it out into a rectangular thin sheet, then cut into diamond-shaped pieces to form the raw crackers. Pour peanut oil into a wok...
The pickled fish boasts tender, fresh colors—white tinged with yellow, with gleaming scales. Its bones are soft and the meat falls apart easily, offering a savory yet slightly sweet taste that is delicate and pleasant. Not only does it have an excellent flavor and high palatability, but it also contains various nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron. It helps strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, aids in digestion, and improves appetite. It is also an ideal food for treating rickets in children. …
Dried fruit-flavored French fries. A specialty of Shuzhuang. The product is rich in various vitamins and invert sugar, contains natural coloring, has a unique flavor, is sweet and delicious, and highly nutritious. It offers anti-cancer benefits and aids digestion and spleen health. An excellent choice for home use, travel, and as a gift for family and friends. The product sells well in Beijing, Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, and Shanghai. (Zhoukou)…
The Mandarin Duck, also known as Muscovy duck or foreign duck, is an omnivorous poultry breed in the duck family. It differs in physique from the common domestic duck—its body is long and oval-shaped, tapering at the front; it has a large head and short neck; its beak is short and narrow, with well-developed serrations inside the bill. This breed grows quickly, reaches a heavy body weight, is drought-resistant, can thrive on coarse feed, and is easy to fatten. Compared to Cherry Valley ducks, the Mandarin Duck has a lower fat content...
Shangshui roses, which flourished in the late Qing Dynasty, have long been praised as "Golden Needles of Chenzhou, Fragrant Roses of Shangshui." Most of the roses were sold to Shanghai and Tianjin for rose oil production, serving as a precious ingredient for making fragrances, perfumes, soaps, cigarettes, and more. The majority were cultivated near Chengguan. The area was once designated as a national rose production base by the Ministry of Chemical Industry. After 1990...
Also known as: Stone Knife Cypress, Asparagus Tips. Origin: Shangshui, Henan, China. Benefits: Asparagus also has high medicinal value. It has a slightly bitter taste and can treat symptoms such as fever with thirst, difficulty urinating, gonorrhea, and detoxify various types of meat poisoning, among others.…
In recent years, Dancheng County has introduced the Guangdong black-skinned winter melon, which significantly outperforms the local white-skinned variety in overall traits, demonstrating disease resistance, high yield, and superior quality. Planted after the wheat harvest, it has a growth cycle of about 90 days, with approximately 600 plants per 666.7㎡, each fruit weighing 15–20 kg and reaching up to over 30 kg…
Henan Tianyu Sweet Potato Industry Co., Ltd. is an outstanding leading food enterprise in China's food industry and a key agricultural industrialization leading enterprise in Henan Province. The company is primarily engaged in the breeding of high-quality sweet potato seeds, promotion of cultivation, storage of fresh sweet potatoes, deep processing, market sales, and export-oriented production, making it a full-industry-chain sweet potato processing enterprise. …
Handan sweet potatoes are a specialty of Handan County in Zhoukou City, Henan Province. The climate of Handan County is highly suitable for developing the sweet potato industry. The county has 300,000 mu of virus-free sweet potato cultivation area, producing 520,000 tons of high-quality virus-free sweet potatoes annually, and has been designated as a national-level sweet potato production demonstration base. This small county in eastern Henan, barely visible on the national map—Handan—has no mountains…