Xuzhou cuisine

The local cuisine in Xuzhou is a blend of many of the flavours of northern and southern China, as a result of the location of Xuzhou. It is known for a number of dishes, including those below, and various dog meat dishes.

List of notable dishes

EnglishTraditional ChineseSimplified ChinesePinyinNotes
Xuzhou-style popiah烙饃烙馍lào móA food likes burrito in some way, in Xuzhou dialect sounds like luǒ mó
Wok braised chicken地鍋雞地锅鸡dì guō jī
Strung pork belly把子肉把子肉bǎ zǐ ròu
Diced meat with vegetables千刀肉千刀肉qiān dāo ròu
Stuffed fresh fish with square mutton羊方藏魚羊方藏鱼yáng fāng cáng yú
Stewed dog meat with soft-shelled turtle黿汁狗肉鼋汁狗肉yuán zhī gǒu ròuThe Asian giant soft-shell turtle, namely "鼋" in Chinese, used to serve as the ingredient,

has been replaced by common soft-shell turtles as the former became endangered in modern era, but the Chinese name of the dish still retains the character "鼋"

Xuzhou-style spicy soup辣湯辣汤là tāngDifferent from Henan's, its main ingredients are chicken, pig bone, swamp eel, gluten, pepper, spring onion and ginger
Sha soup𮨻湯𬲱汤shá tāng
Soup of assorted ingredients燒雜拌烧杂拌shāo zá bànUsually only be treated in local banquet
Tadpole-like liangfen瓦魚(~兒)瓦鱼(~儿)wǎ yú (~ér)Be made from the starch jelly. Its name nearly was written as "蛙鱼" nowadays, namely the frog in Chinese[1]


References

  1. ""蛙鱼"考略(in Chinese)".
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