Grilled wheat gluten emits a sizzling sound as it is roasted and brushed with sauce, its aroma wafting dozens of meters to whet your appetite. A skewer of golden-red grilled wheat gluten melts in your mouth—oily, tender, spicy, and savory, both hot and fragrant. The taste lingers on the palate, leaving a long-lasting aftertaste. …
Zhangcun Township: Lotus Roots…
Xitai Shen Village, Gaocun Township: Artemisia capillaris: Once recorded in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica."…
The Houma Butterfly Cup is a type of wine cup produced by the Houma City Ceramics Factory. It features an elegant and classic design. The outer wall of the cup is painted with a traditional "two dragons playing with a pearl" motif, while the inner wall displays several red-and-blue flowers standing gracefully. When the cup is empty, no butterfly can be seen; but once wine is poured in, a colorful butterfly appears to flutter gracefully inside the cup. When the wine is finished, the butterfly...
The ancient name of Houma City in Shanxi Province was Xintian, which served as the capital of the Jin State during the late Spring and Autumn Period. At Xintian Restaurant here, Chef Qu Zhiming makes the “Empress Dowager’s Bubble Cake,” a delicacy that is crystal clear, crispy, and sweet. Because it was favored by Empress Dowager Cixi and resembles blooming bubble flowers, it earned this name. The Empress Dowager’s Bubble Cake became popular in Houma...
Xixian County in Shanxi Province is located at the heart of the internationally and domestically recognized prime fruit production zone along the 36th parallel north on the Loess Plateau of northwest China. The area boasts loose soil, a long frost-free period, abundant sunshine, and significant diurnal temperature variations, with no industrial pollution—creating naturally superior conditions for fruit cultivation that contribute to the exceptional quality of Xixian Yulu Fragrant Pears. …
Xixian Crisp Pear is a specialty of Xixian County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. Xixian County is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Crisp Pears." The crisp pears produced here are renowned nationwide for their thick flesh, juicy texture, crisp and fragrantly sweet taste, rich nutrition, and high sugar content. Situated in Xixian County, Linfen, Shanxi, the area benefits from its unique geographical location and soil conditions, yielding crisp pears celebrated for their thick flesh, juicy texture, crisp and fragrantly sweet taste...
Xixian Golden Pear Juice: Xixian County is located in the central axis of the Lüliang Mountain anticline in western Shanxi. It covers a total area of 1,408 square kilometers and currently administers 3 towns and 10 townships, with a population of 86,300. The county government is seated in Chengguan Town.
Fenxi Potatoes Fenxi County leverages its unique climate, geographical, and soil conditions, steadfastly establishing potatoes as a pillar industry to adjust the agricultural structure and increase farmers' income. Through effective measures such as "selecting varieties, building bases, promoting technology, facilitating circulation, and aiding sales," this industry has evolved into a robust sector integrating research, promotion, production, processing...
Fenxi Bamboo Joint Ginseng is a perennial herb that grows to a height of 50–80 cm, or even taller. The rhizome lies horizontally, resembling a bamboo shoot, and is fleshy, thick, and white in color. It has depressed stem scars between nodes. The leaves are palmately compound, with 3–5 leaflets arranged in whorls at the top of the stem. The petiole is 8–11 cm long. There are usually 5 leaflets, which are membranous, obliquely ovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic...
Morphological Characteristics of Fenxi Hawthorn: A deciduous shrub. The branches are densely growing, with fine thorns, and the young branches are covered with soft hair. The twigs are purplish-brown, while the older ones are grayish-brown. The leaves are triangular-ovate to prismatic-ovate, measuring 2–6 cm in length and 0.8–2.5 cm in width, with a truncate or broadly wedge-shaped base. Each side has 3–5 pinnately deeply lobed segments, with the basal pair of lobes being 0…
Peace Pear…
Fenxi Date Cake Fenxi Date Cake is a traditional specialty food from Fenxi County in Shanxi Province. With its unique flavor and lingering aroma, it is highly nutritious and very popular among locals. Its steaming method involves first boiling the dates until they are about 80% cooked, then mixing three parts of yellow millet flour with one part of fresh corn flour with water to form a wet powder. Layers of flour and dates are placed in the steamer, adding more as it steams. The steam inside the steamer must not be interrupted. Once the flour and dates are fully layered, cover and steam for 20 minutes to finish. It is characterized by its golden color, sweet and delicious taste, and is very filling.
Fenxi Cagedu is also made by scraping dough through a special scraper, sometimes called "Min Gedu" in other places. The dough used for Cagedu is usually mixed grain flour (a blend of wheat flour, cornmeal, bean flour, etc.). The scraper for Cagedu looks similar to the one used for making "Cabaoban," except that the middle metal sheet has small round holes instead. The way Cagedu is made…
In the local dialect, “Mianjie” is pronounced “Mianjier,” hence it is also written as “Mianjian.” The mixed flour used is made from grinding peas and wheat together, mixed with water to form a soft dough, which is then pressed through the holes of a Mianjie bed using the palm of the hand, resulting in pieces about an inch long. Mianjie is rich in nutrients, light and delicious, and easy to digest and absorb.…
Fenxi Cakedough Noodles, also known as "Cakedough Wiped Noodles" or simply "Wiped Noodles," is a distinctive local noodle dish from Fenxi County and surrounding areas. The preparation method is simple and convenient, making it especially suitable for serving large groups. Hotels and guesthouses in Fenxi County often serve this dish to visiting guests and senior leaders from other regions. To make this noodle dish, you need to: 1. Have the right tool for making wiped noodles —…
The fruits of Fenxi Pears are commonly eaten. They are not only delicious, juicy, sweet with a hint of sourness, but also highly nutritious, containing various vitamins and dietary fibers. Different varieties of pears vary greatly in taste and texture. Pears can be eaten raw or cooked by steaming or boiling. In terms of health benefits, pears can help relieve constipation, aid digestion, and are also beneficial to cardiovascular health...
Fenyi Potatoes are a specialty of Fenyi County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. Leveraging its unique climate, geographical, and soil conditions, Fenyi County has focused on developing potatoes as a pillar industry to adjust the agricultural structure and increase farmers' income. Through effective measures such as “selecting varieties, establishing bases, promoting technology, facilitating circulation, and boosting sales,” the...
Huozhou cotton. Cotton is the seed fiber of plants in the genus Gossypium of the mallow family, originally native to subtropical regions. The plant is shrub-like and can grow up to 6 meters tall in tropical areas, though it generally reaches 1 to 2 meters. The flowers are milky white and turn deep red shortly after blooming before withering, leaving behind small green capsules known as bolls. Inside the bolls are cotton seeds...
Huozhou Dates are renowned for their small pits, thin skins, thick flesh, natural resistance to pests, and being pollution-free and eco-friendly. They have been awarded the National Green Food Certificate and Medal.…