Rotten Shrimp: A unique and traditional famous dish from Yifeng, widely popular, known for its exquisite preparation, refreshing and rich flavors, smooth and palatable texture, and easy digestibility. Ingredients include 50 grams of lean pork, 5 grams of dried shrimp, 1 egg, 50 grams of cornstarch, 5 grams of shiitake mushrooms, 5 grams of lard, along with appropriate amounts of salt, sugar, vinegar, chili powder, MSG, ginger, and scallions...
Zhangshu City in Jiangxi Province (formerly known as Qingjiang County) was historically called “Shangzhou” and has long been reputed as the “Hometown of Fructus Aurantii.” Over 800 years ago, the Fructus Aurantii produced here were known as “Shangzhou Fructus Aurantii” and enjoyed great fame. The eminent Ming Dynasty physician Li Shizhen wrote in his renowned work Compendium of Materia Medica: “Among Fructus Aurantii, those from Shangzhou are the best.” …
Evodia (scientific name Tetradium ruticarpum, formerly known as Euodia ruticarpa), also called Wu Yu, Cha La, Qi La Zi, Chou La Zi Shu, Zuo Li Chun Yun Zi, Mi La Zi, among other names. It is commonly divided into several varieties such as Large-flower Evodia, Medium-flower Evodia, and Small-flower Evodia...
Gardenia is a specialty authentic medicinal herb of Zhangshu City, where its production accounts for more than half of the national total. It is an evergreen shrub, growing 1 to 2 meters tall, with opposite, oblong leaves. The flowers are terminal, six-petaled, about 5–6 cm in diameter, with slightly recurved lobes. They open white and gradually turn yellow, emitting a fragrant aroma. The flowering period occurs in spring…
Zhushan City has a long-standing tradition of noodle production. With a rich history, there is a local folk rhyme: “Lingjiang Prefecture, Qingjiang County, even six-year-old kids can make noodles” (Qingjiang County is now Zhushan City). The factory area and its surroundings are beautiful, comfortable, and pollution-free. It is the largest noodle and rice vermicelli processing enterprise in Jiangxi Province, as well as a nationally renowned noodle producer...
Stir-fried noodles are a popular folk dish made by frying a type of noodle (typically flat, white rice-flour noodles) in a pan. The noodles are cooked in oil over an open flame, then mixed with vegetables and other ingredients to create a rich, savory flavor with the aroma of rice and the crispy taste of stir-frying. This is a uniquely flavorful and easy-to-make dish that can be...
Zhangshu Huangtugang Winter Wine is a pure glutinous rice wine, meticulously crafted from locally grown glutinous rice, high-quality groundwater, and special brewing yeast. It has an orange-yellow hue and a rich, mellow flavor, making it an excellent choice for sipping from a pot during winter and spring. …
Zhangshu has salt resources with reserves reaching 10.3 billion tons, ranking fourth in the country. The underground warm salt springs are rich in over 40 types of minerals and trace elements beneficial to the human body, such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, bromine, and iodine. The temperature of the springs can reach up to 70°C, with a salt content exceeding 25%, allowing the human body to float effortlessly. This makes it highly suitable for developing warm salt spring health tourism projects characterized by “leisure, wellness, experience, ecology, and culture.”
Zhangshu has long been known as the “Hometown of Tangerines.” The red tangerines produced here are renowned both within and beyond the province for their bright color, sweet taste, juicy flesh, thin skin, and few seeds. Tangerines are a type of fruit belonging to the Citrus genus of the Rutaceae family and are a popular and delicious fruit commonly enjoyed in autumn and winter. They are sweet and slightly sour in flavor, cool in nature, and associated with the lung and stomach meridians in traditional Chinese medicine. Tangerines help stimulate the appetite, regulate qi, quench thirst, and moisten the lungs. They are primarily used to treat chest congestion, vomiting and poor appetite, stomach yin deficiency, dry mouth, lung heat cough, and excessive alcohol consumption. Tangerines are also highly nutritious—one tangerine can almost fulfill the daily vitamin C requirement for an average person.
Zhangshu Smoked Duck features a flat shape, a round peach-like outline, fragrant and tender meat, and a bright color. It has won the Jiangxi Provincial Product Quality Excellence Award multiple times.…
Situ Liquor is produced in Qingjiang, Jiangxi. According to the *Qingjiang County Annals*, it has over 1,700 years of brewing history. As early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, Situ Liquor was already widely sold in Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian. This liquor is characterized by being “as bright as diamonds and as clear as crystal, with an intoxicatingly fragrant aroma that captivates, a smooth, mellow, and sweet taste…”
Shatang rice wine has a light yellow hue, clear transparency, a richly aromatic and palatable taste, and a strong aftereffect. It is best made from the Beginning of Winter to the Winter Solstice. To make the wine, wash 50 jin of willow-patterned glutinous rice, soak it for about four hours, then drain and steam it in a bamboo steamer. Pour the cooked glutinous rice onto a bamboo tray to cool, and once it reaches around 20 degrees Celsius, transfer it back into the steamer. Use an equal amount of cold water...
Ingredients: 500g pig’s trotters, 5 slices of ginger, 3 scallion whites, 50g celery, 30g shredded carrot, 10g dried red chili peppers, 10g chopped chili pepper. Seasonings: salt, cooking wine, oil, light soy sauce. Method: 1. Cut the pig’s trotters into pieces, wash them, place them in a pressure cooker, then add cooking wine, scallion whites, ginger slices, and…
When it comes to rice noodles, many who have visited Yichun have tried them. As a land of fish and rice in the fertile south, the region has long had the tradition of turning surplus rice into rice noodles. Yichun is no exception. Compared to Yunnan’s Crossing-the-Bridge Rice Noodles, Guangxi’s Guilin Rice Noodles, the wide rice noodles of the Two Lakes (Hunan and Hubei) and Guangdong, and the thin rice noodles of Fujian, Jiangxi’s rice noodles have their own unique charm. …
The main corn varieties planted in Shanggao County include Yedan No. 13 and White Glutinous No. 2. Yedan No. 13 is of high quality and rich in nutrition, primarily used as feed but also suitable for steaming or boiling as fresh cobs. White Glutinous No. 2 has a fragrant, soft, and delicious taste, mainly consumed as food. It is a distinctive new corn variety that is very popular among people. In Shanggao County, two crops can be planted per year, with a planting area of around 10,000 mu...
Shanggao taro is a traditional local variety with a long cultivation history. The taro has a brown, fuzzy skin and white flesh, primarily cultivated for its edible corms. The bulbs are suitable for cooked dishes, featuring tender texture, high starch content, a slightly sweet taste, and excellent quality. Taro is neutral in nature, with a sweet and spicy flavor, and is known to benefit the spleen and stomach, regulate the middle qi, soften hardness and disperse nodules, resolve phlegm, and harmonize the stomach. The sowing period is in late March…
At first glance, the black-skinned peanuts of Zhangshu look no different from ordinary peanuts, but once you crack open the shell, the plump, slender, and pointed grains wrapped in their purplish-black skins reveal their uniqueness. As you slowly chew and savor the peanut kernels, a subtle sweetness immediately arises in your mouth...
Zhangshu Clear Soup — a traditional snack from Zhangshu, also known as wontons or dumplings. Locally referred to as "monkey-wrapped noodles," it has a history of several hundred years, originating in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It is a long-renowned and distinctive delicacy. The wrappers are thin, the fillings fresh, and the flavor unique.…
Yongtai Preserved Duck – Made from pure red-feathered local ducks raised in the Gan River basin, fed exclusively on rice grains with no hormone additives, making it a pollution-free product. Processed using traditional techniques, the duck boasts tender, crispy, and pure meat, achieving the perfect texture of being crispy without being greasy. …
Chinese herbal slices —— specialty medicinal herbs from Zhangshu, the "Medicine Capital," processed using traditional Zhangbang herbal preparation techniques. These slices offer nourishing, health-preserving, and heat-clearing benefits. Varieties include caterpillar fungus, wild gastrodia elata, American ginseng, sika deer antler, bird's nest and shark fin, gastrodia elata, ganoderma lucidum, red ginseng with fritillaria, and saffron. …