Pan’an Eco Longjing is a specialty of Pan’an County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. The tea features flat, straight, and elegant leaves with a glossy and uniform appearance. Its color is emerald green with a treasured sheen, and it offers a fragrant, refreshing aroma, a mellow and pleasant taste, and a bright, fresh green liquor. Pan’an County is located in central Zhejiang, characterized by undulating mountains, beautiful scenery, and year-round misty conditions. The…
A collective term for five traditional Chinese medicinal herbs produced in Pan’an, Zhejiang: Atractylodes macrocephala, Corydalis yanhusuo, Paeonia lactiflora, Fritillaria thunbergii, and Scrophularia ningpoensis. Atractylodes macrocephala is a perennial herb that thrives in cool climates. Its rhizome is used medicinally and offers multiple therapeutic functions. Efficacy: strengthens the spleen and benefits qi, dries dampness and promotes diuresis, restrains sweating, and calms the fetus. Used for spleen deficiency with poor appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea, phlegm-dampness with dizziness…
A perennial herb. The root is long-cylindrical or spindle-shaped. The stem has four angles and furrows. The lower leaves are opposite, while the upper leaves may be alternate, ovate to lanceolate, 10–15 cm long, with fine serrated edges that are slightly revolute, hard, and have pointed tips. The inflorescence is a large, loose cymose panicle with glandular hairs on the axis…
According to years of experience at the Jinhua Food Factory, the water chestnuts from Xitianfan in Yongkang are hailed as the best variety for canning. Processed into canned water chestnuts for export, they have been highly favored by foreign buyers. The Xitianfan water chestnuts have a long history. According to the Chen family genealogy, the village of Xitianfan began cultivating water chestnuts as early as 1620, which is nearly 370 years ago...
This dish is an absolute must-try for every visitor to Guodong. The chicken clay pot costs 60 yuan per serving, with rich broth and tender meat—truly living up to its reputation. The bamboo tube rice is specially prepared with Jinhua ham, making it an exceptional pairing with the chicken clay pot, a truly rare delicacy. Since both dishes take considerable effort to prepare, advance reservation is required.…
Select fresh bamboo from the current year, mix glutinous rice with corn, green beans, minced meat, goji berries, and other ingredients, then add various seasonings such as oil, salt, and MSG. Pour the rice mixture into pre-split bamboo tubes, specially adding ham from Jinhua. The bamboo tubes are lined up and roasted over coal. To prevent the rice inside from burning, the tubes must be turned every few minutes...
Acorns are the fruits of wild oak trees, oval in shape, containing starch and a small amount of tannic acid. The finished product is delicate and smooth, with the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. It is one of the popular cool summer drinks in the Wuyi and Yiwu areas. …
Xuan lotus seeds are popular in both domestic and international markets for their white color, fragrant aroma, large and round shape, thick flesh that caramelizes easily, and rich nutrition. The lotus seeds are cooked in a sugar and oil mixture until coated with a sweet glaze. They are then served on a plate, sprinkled with osmanthus sugar, and presented hot. The dish has a golden, shiny appearance, with a crispy exterior and a soft, glutinous interior. …
Among the Dendrobium orchids, Dendrobium has long enjoyed a high reputation and is hailed as “a noble variety that stands alone at the pinnacle.” In terms of its essence, Dendrobium gets its name from the iron-green color of its epidermis. Also known as Black Joint Grass, it is the most precious and medicinally valuable type among Dendrobium medicinal herbs...
Four major medicinal herbs—Corydalis yanhusuo, Atractylodes macrocephala, Paeonia lactiflora, and Fritillaria thunbergii—hold significant importance nationwide. Among them, Dongyang Corydalis yanhusuo contains 15 active components such as tetrahydroberberine and corydaline, boasting the highest quality in China and accounting for over 70% of the national production. The Qianxiang Chinese Herbal Medicine Market is one of the top ten herbal medicine markets in China. (Dongyang)…
Product Name: Straw Thread Place of Origin: Dongyang, Zhejiang Product Features: The edges of the straw thread are sewn with fabric instead of being hemmed, which facilitates machine weaving and results in an attractive and lightweight design. Product Description: Dragon beard grass (local name: yellow hair) belongs to the Cyperaceae family. Its leaves are tubular and can grow over 1.67 meters long. Dragon beard grass is propagated by root division—selecting and splitting reserved rootstocks into several clusters, then planting them in rows at equal intervals in the fields using a method similar to rice transplanting. The main finished product made from straw thread is straw mats, followed by straw hats, pillow mats, and sofa seat cushions. After the introduction of dragon beard grass, the annual production of straw mats reached approximately 80,000. Shorter grass is also used to make straw hats, which are sold to neighboring counties.
Wuyi Honey Pear is a specialty of Wuyi County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. Wuyi is one of the three national pear export base counties in China. The “Tongqin Honey Pear” from Wuyi County is renowned for its large size, sweet taste, and attractive appearance. Wuyi has been designated by the Ministry of Foreign Trade as one of the three major national pear export base counties in China. Pear cultivation began here in the 1950s...
Braised Pork Knuckle with Ham Hock, also known as Gold-Silver Knuckle, is made by stewing premium ham hock and fresh pork elbow. It boasts a deliciously savory taste, tender and soft meat texture, and rich, thick gravy. This traditional nourishing dish is suitable for all seasons, whether winter or summer.…
Jinhua Soup Dumplings have a long history and are renowned as the “Number One Pastry of Jinhua,” standing out among southern Chinese soup dumpling snacks. These dumplings are made with a filling of pork skin juice mixed with chicken broth to create the gelatin, along with diced fresh pork and bamboo shoots. They are steamed on a bed of fresh pine needles in the steamer basket, giving the filling an exceptionally fresh taste, abundant juice, and a delicate, pleasant aroma—deeply loved by diners…
Xuan Lotus Soup. Xuan lotus is a renowned local specialty of Zhejiang Province and one of China’s three most famous types of lotus. It is grown in the Xuanping area of Wuyi. Thanks to its unique geographical environment and climatic conditions, Xuan lotus is celebrated for its snow-white color, delicate fragrance, large and round grains, thick flesh that cooks soft easily, and rich nutritional value. It is a bestseller in both domestic and international markets. Features: Delicately fragrant, sweet, and soft; can be served hot or cold. Rich in nutrition…
Farmhouse Chicken is made by stewing organic Wuyang Chunyu tea from the mountainous region of Wuyi with free-range local chicken. After four hours of slow cooking, it fills the air with a delicate fragrance, and the meat is tender, juicy, and smooth. …
Bamboo Tube Rice in Guodong is made by stuffing fragrant rice, corn, green beans, dried vegetables, diced meat, and other ingredients into a bamboo tube. The subtle, fresh aroma of bamboo permeates the dish, resulting in a rich and refreshing flavor. Nowadays, it’s not hard to find Bamboo Tube Rice in Guodong—once you enter the village, you’ll see farm-style restaurants lined up along the roadside. What sets the restaurants in Guodong apart from others is that many have a portable stove (风炉) placed right outside their front doors, and...
Dongyang Chicken Clay Pot. Dongyang chicken is raised on mountain spring water and forest grains, resulting in tender and flavorful meat that qualifies as a green, eco-friendly food product. It is cooked using traditional local methods unique to Dongyang. The stewing process is highly particular—not directly over an open flame, but by placing the clay pot inside a large iron wok and simmering it for several hours until the freshness of the chicken fully melds with the distinct aroma of the earthenware...
As early as the late 5th century, the Southern Dynasty’s Tao Hongjing recorded in his "Mingyi Bielu" ("Supplementary Records of Famous Physicians") that “Torreya comes from Dongyang Commandery”; Northern Song Dynasty’s Yan Youyi wrote in his "Yi Yuan-" that “the Torreya nuts produced in Dongyang are uniquely fragrant and crisp compared to those from other places.” Both renowned medical experts and literati had a strong preference for Dongyang Fragrant Torreya. The nut is closely tied to the lives of the people of Dongyang...
Dongyang is one of the key date-producing regions in southern China, with a history spanning over 400 years. The Longqing-era *Dongyang County Annals* from the Ming Dynasty records: “Fruits include: dates, chestnuts, torreya nuts...”; “Dates from Chachang (now Weiping Chachang Village) are large and sweet.” The Wanli-era *Jinhua Prefecture Annals* of the Ming Dynasty, under the section on fruits, states: “Southern dates, those produced in Dongyang’s Chachang, are the most famous.” The Kangxi-era *Newly Compiled Dongyang County Annals* records: “Southern dates are treasured as far away as the capital and across all the prefectures of eastern Zhejiang, still bearing the name of Chachang. Next come those known as Kuizao (Elite Dates), followed by Tongxinzao (New Communication Dates). Those from Chachang are considered the best—legend has it they can be as big as a fist, with extremely slender pits like sesame seeds that easily come loose when cracked. They are as sweet as honey, fragrant, and crisp, which is why their fame has spread so widely.” During the Republican era, dates were sold to Lanxi and Hangzhou, yielding about ten thousand silver dollars; torreya nuts and chestnuts were sold to Shaoxing, Yin County, and Hangzhou, bringing in around twenty thousand silver dollars. The 1933 *Chinese Industrial Records* state: “The fame of Southern Dates has spread nationwide. Southern Dates refer to the dates produced in various counties of eastern Zhejiang... Among Zhejiang's dates, Dongyang produces the most, with 26,000 dan (a traditional unit), followed by Tiantai with 18,096 dan. The province-wide total was 50,151 dan, valued at 662,570 yuan. Jinhua produced 2,000 dan, Lanxi 2,000 dan, and Yiwu 500 dan.”