Where can you find delicious food on Wudang Mountain?

The local cuisine of Wudang Mountain is mainly Hubei cuisine and Sichuan cuisine, both of which rank among China's seven major culinary traditions. The unique Taoist vegetarian meals exclusive to Wudang Mountain also stand out. Absorbing the finest cooking techniques of Buddhist and Taoist vegetarian dishes, they emphasize the natural flavour of ingredients with a mellow and fresh taste. You can enjoy them at both Zixiao Palace and Taihe Palace.

If you want to try local snacks, head to the ancient-style Yongle Prosperity Street near Yuxu Palace, where snack bars line up closely one after another.

It would be a real pity to visit Wudang Mountain without tasting authentic Taoist vegetarian feasts. The ingredients of Wudang Taoist vegetarian food are mostly wild plants and fruits growing on the mountains, nourished by rotten branches and fallen leaves as well as natural organic fertilizers. Typical ingredients include salted dried bamboo shoots, deer-tail bamboo shoots, Chinese herbaceous peonies, frozen tofu, walnuts, chestnuts, kiwifruit, wood ears, shiitake mushrooms and sealwort. Only vegetable oil is used for cooking. The meals fully embody the Taoist philosophy: "Tao follows nature, and humanity returns to simplicity".

At Zixiao Palace on Wudang Mountain, two kinds of vegetarian meals are available: set banquets (200 yuan per table) and casual buffet meals (10 yuan per person). Taihe Palace only serves set banquets, priced at 200 to 300 yuan per table. Most ordinary restaurants in the Wudang Mountain area focus on Sichuan spicy flavour.