Wudang Mountain Cuisine
Taoist Vegetarian Dishes
The defining feature of Wudang Taoist vegetarian cuisine is shaping vegetable ingredients into meat dishes. Raw materials such as gluten, dried tofu and bracken are crafted to look like fish, rabbit meat, beef and pork, even named after meat dishes. This cooking style is known as "vegetables made to resemble meat".
Menu
- Cold Platter: Peacock Spreading Its Tail
- Cold Dishes: Spiced Vegetarian Beef, Sweet Honey Fruits, Emerald Melon Strips, Savory Vegetarian Sausage
- Hot Dishes: Vegetarian Abalone Soup with Baby Bok Choy, Lucky Vegetable Rolls, Black Dragon Playing with Pearls, Tai Chi Tofu Boxes, Pan-Fried Vegetarian Prawns, Taoist Mixed Vegetable Stir-Fry, Braised Vegetarian White Fish, Four Treasures of the Immortal Mountain, Taoist Braised Pork (Vegetarian Version), Sautéed Three Fresh Vegetables, Sweet and Sour Vegetarian Pork Chops, Honey Eight-Treasure Tremella Soup
- Dim Sum: Imperial Fritters, Pan-Fried Corn Cakes, Sweet Potato Cakes, Taoist Flatbread
Wudang Mountain Frozen Tofu
Frozen tofu is a local specialty of Wudang Mountain and a must-try for all visitors.
It is pure green food. Soybeans are grown locally on Wudang Mountain, and mountain spring water is used to make solid tofu blocks. The tofu is left outdoors to freeze naturally at minus 20 degrees Celsius for 3 to 5 hours.
It is made in winter. You can eat it fresh, or slice it thin and air-dry it for long-term storage.
The tofu is white and tender. It tastes chewy with a lingering flavour, comparable to beef or pork.
Stewed with pork knuckles, it creates a rich, nourishing broth.
Boiled with chicken, the flavour becomes deeper.
Stir-fried with lean meat, it is crisp, tender and aromatic.
Han River Fish Feast
The Han River runs at the foot of Wudang Mountain. Its high-quality water meets national drinking water standards, and it serves as the water source for the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
The Han River Fish Feast is a full seafood banquet carefully prepared with top-grade river ingredients including soft-shelled turtles, mandarin fish, white fish, eels, sea eels and whitebait. Cooking methods include pan-frying, deep-frying, steaming, quick stir-frying and braising. The dishes feature exquisite plating, unique flavours and rich nutrition.
Menu
- Cold Platter: Fish Leaping over the Dragon Gate
- Cold Dishes: Air-Dried Fragrant Fish, Tomato Fish Fillets, Three-Colour Pearl Salad, Crispy Fried Prawns
- Hot Dishes: Romance of the Han River, Crispy Rice Fish, Golden Fish Rolls, Fish Head Casserole, Tai Chi Cuttlefish with Crab Roe, Garlic White Fish from Han River, Squirrel-Shaped Mandarin Fish in Tomato Sauce, Whitebait with Baby Bok Choy, Dragon Boat Platter, Braised Fish Maw, Orchid Eel and Turtle Pot, Spicy Fresh River Seafood
- Dim Sum: Golden Fish Roe Cakes, Minced Fish Fritters, Mini Fish-Shaped Buns
Guandu Five-Spice Dried Tofu
Guandu five-spice dried tofu has a unique sweet, mellow and rich taste. It is perfect as a snack with wine or as an ingredient in stir-fries.
Since the first year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty, this tofu has been regarded as a treasured delicacy by local people in Zhushan Guandu.
Hosts would consider it impolite to guests if this dish is missing from the dinner table. People would rather serve no meat than leave out the five-spice dried tofu.
Merchants travelling from Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Huangzhou always buy four to five kilograms to take home as gifts for relatives and friends.
Zhuxi Rice Bowl Cakes
Zhuxi rice bowl cake is a genuine local Wudang snack made from fine white rice and soybeans.
It is a famous folk snack with a recorded history of more than 500 years.
It can be eaten hot or cold.
When served hot, cut the cake into small pieces with thin bamboo slices and dip in honey or chilli sauce according to taste.
When eaten cold, slide a bamboo strip around the bowl rim to lift the whole cake out, then cool it down and enjoy.
Yunyang Three-Ingredient Soup
This soup is most popular in winter and early spring. After the Start of Winter, restaurants are always packed with diners.
People slurp the soup loudly; men sweat profusely while women shed happy tears.
A bowl of this soup warms the whole body. It is valued as a folk remedy for fatigue, asthma and rheumatism.
Travel Tip
If you want to try authentic local snacks, head to the Yongle Prosperity Ancient Street near Yuxu Palace in the Laoying Scenic Area of Wudang Mountain. Countless snack bars line the street, offering classic Tujia dishes.
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