Treasure Island Rice refers to rice produced in the Ussuri River basin of Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province, and is named after Treasure Island, a border island between China and Russia within the region (see Figure 1: Treasure Island Rice). It is a China National Geographic Indication product. The raw material base for Treasure Island Rice is exclusively planted on pollution-free land monitored by environmental protection authorities, irrigated with water from the China-Russia border Ussuri River system...
Linden honey has a crystal-clear color and a rich, sweet taste. It contains more glucose, fructose, vitamins, amino acids, hormones, enzymes, and esters than ordinary honey, offering multiple therapeutic benefits such as enriching blood, moistening lungs, relieving cough and thirst, promoting cell regeneration, stimulating appetite, and easing pain. It is a rare and premium variety among honeys. The linden tree is a dominant wild...
Everyone is familiar with this, especially the ladies. The stinky tofu from our Jixi is different from the kind you get here. Over there, it’s sold on skewers, all thrown into the hot oil together until they puff up, and then they’re brushed with sauces. I saw them using three kinds of sauce—one of them was spicy. Without that spicy sauce, it just doesn’t taste right, and honestly, it doesn’t smell that bad either. But it tastes way better than the stuff you get here—really, you’ve got to try it to believe it!
Hulin City is one of the key areas in Heilongjiang Province where peat resources are densely distributed, boasting abundant peat reserves. Preliminary surveys indicate approximately 6,143 hectares of peatland, with nearly 42.31 million cubic meters of high-quality peat reserves. (Hulin)…
Chinese Herbal Medicine Resources: Hulin City has approximately over 210 types of traditional Chinese medicinal materials. The total reserves amount to 100 million kilograms (including 14.475 million kilograms of authentic medicinal materials and 34.35 million kilograms of bulk medicinal materials). Among animal-based medicinal materials, frog oil, deer antler, deer tail, and bear gallbladder are the most precious. Authentic medicinal materials include Phellodendron bark, …
Wild fruits: Berries mainly include mountain grapes, kiwi berries, crowberries, thistle herbs, schisandra berries, strawberries, and raspberries; nuts include pine nuts, hazelnuts, acorns, and hickory nuts. (Hulin)…
Xingkai Lake Rice is a specialty of Mishan City, Jixi, Heilongjiang Province. The cultivation of Xingkai Lake Rice primarily adopts the "Three Modernizations and One Management" cultivation technique innovated and researched by Xu Yirong, known as the "Father of Rice in Beidahuang" (the Great Northern Wilderness). This technique includes "dry nursery, sparse planting, and three modernizations for cold-region rice." It establishes a comprehensive "Three Modernizations and One Management" technical system that emphasizes high-quality varieties, standardized strong seedling cultivation through dry nurseries, full mechanization, and field leaf-age diagnosis technology management...
The Beautiful White Shrimp of Xingkai Lake is a specialty of Xingkai Lake in Mishan City, Jixi, Heilongjiang Province. Commonly known as lake shrimp, the Beautiful White Shrimp comes from Xingkai Lake. The plump shrimp from Xingkai Lake are large, transparent, tender, meaty, fragrant, and delicious, making them one of the lake's most distinctive products. Xingkai Lake is located in the eastern part of Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, 35 kilometers from Mishan City. It was formed in ancient times...
The Great Whitefish of Mishan Xingkai Lake, scientifically known as Erythroculter ilishaeformis, commonly called the Great Whitefish, belongs to the Cyprinidae family; it is about 50–60 cm in length and weighs between 2–10 kg. It has a light brown or silver-gray body with a white belly, large eyes, an upward-facing mouth, and a thick, protruding, upward-curving lower jaw. It lives in the mid-to-upper layers of flowing and large bodies of water, moves swiftly, is a good jumper, and is…
Hulin Black Bee Honey is a specialty of Hulin City, Jixi, Heilongjiang Province. Hulin is the homeland of the Northeast Black Bee and one of the main honey-producing areas in the region. The Northeast Black Bee is one of the world’s four most famous bee species. It was introduced by ancestors from Russia hundreds of years ago and has been naturally isolated and bred over generations for more than a century. The honey produced by this bee is of premium quality…
Mudanjiang Oil Bean Pods have a long cultivation history and are known for their excellent quality, making them highly popular among consumers both domestically and internationally. In 2008, they were selected as an exclusive vegetable supplier for the Beijing Olympics. Geographic Scope: Mudanjiang City is located in the southeastern part of Heilongjiang Province, on the eastern foothills of the Zhangguangcai Mountains and the western foothills of the Laoye Mountains. To the east, it borders Russia’s Primorsky Krai, …
Baoquan Brand Soybean Paste is made from non-GMO, pollution-free soybeans and flour sourced from China's national-level ecological demonstration zone in the northeast. This soybean paste can be served as a condiment with meals or used for dipping in hot pot. When cooking dishes, it imparts a rich red hue and delicious flavor, making it an excellent seasoning.…
Bear gall powder is a dried product made from the drained bile of the black bear (sterilized at low temperature). It appears as irregular fragments, granules, or powder, in colors ranging from yellow to dark brown, some with deep green or light red hues. It is semi-transparent with a glassy luster, brittle in texture, hygroscopic, with a faintly fragrant and slightly fishy aroma, an extremely bitter taste with a slight sweetness upon swallowing, and a cooling sensation. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica"...
Also known as: Frozen Mushroom, Winter Mushroom. The fruiting body of the Pleurotus fungus from the Pleurotaceae family. The fruiting bodies grow in clusters or stacked layers and are fleshy. The cap is 5–21 cm wide, initially convex and hemispherical, later flattening into a fan, kidney, or semi-circular shape. The Yuan Mushroom resembles a fan, with a diameter of 7–15 cm. Its color varies greatly — when young, the surface is dark brown, and…
Ingredients: 300g ground pork, 1 spoon of water, chopped green onions, ginger powder, five-spice powder, salt, an appropriate amount of cooking wine, 1 egg white, 100g water starch, 2 large spoons of sugar, an appropriate amount of sesame oil, 1 large sheet of dried tofu skin. Method: 1. Add a small amount of water to the ground pork, stir in one direction to fully incorporate the water into the meat, then add chopped green onions, ginger powder…
Ingredients: Machine-made sliced noodles or homemade dough are both acceptable, sesame paste, cucumber (or radish, celery), fine salt, cold boiled water, vinegar, garlic. Method: Take a bowl, pour in sesame paste, mix in a small amount of salted cold water (prepared by stirring an appropriate amount of fine salt into cold boiled water until it dissolves), gently stir clockwise with chopsticks. As the water...
Rice cake is made by steaming glutinous rice and then pounding it. When served, it is cut into pieces and dipped in bean flour, white sugar, or honey, offering a chewy texture and fragrant taste. First, the rice is soaked in water for 3–4 hours, then drained and sprinkled with a little salted water before being steamed in a pot. The steamed rice is placed in a wooden or stone trough and pounded repeatedly with a wooden mallet until...
Xingkai Lake Sika Deer The Xingkai Lake Sika Deer is a large deer species. Adult stags weigh around 120–140 kg, with a body length of about 95–115 cm; adult hinds weigh around 75–95 kg, with a body length of about 85–105 cm. They have a sturdy build, a thick and round body, a compact overall structure, a relatively long head…
The roe deer, also known as the dwarf deer or wild goat, belongs to the family Cervidae under the order Artiodactyla and is a herbivorous animal. Its body is grass-yellow in color, with white hair at the base of the tail. Male roe deer have antlers, while females do not. The roe deer is one of the more economically valuable wild animals. Its meat is purely lean, with no fat, and is rich in nutrients, tender, and delicious—often regarded as the king of lean meats. Its liver, kidneys, and other organs are also edible, offering benefits such as warming the spleen…
Red ginseng is the processed form of ginseng, created through a series of steps including soaking, cleaning, sorting, steaming, drying, and baking. During the steaming process, heat treatment triggers chemical reactions that alter its composition. This results in the formation of new compounds not found in fresh or white ginseng—unique physiologically active substances specific to red ginseng…