What Food Is Recommended in Wuyuan? What Local Dishes Can You Try?

Wuyuan cuisine carries on the traditions of Huizhou dishes, featuring steamed dishes with rice flour, plain steamed food and thick stews. Signature dishes include pork steamed with rice flour, thick seasoned tofu, steamed Heyuan red carp, and sweet-and-sour goose necks. You can also taste seasonal snacks such as Qingming herb cakes, rice steamed cakes and glutinous rice cakes to your heart’s content.

Special tip: Dining is very convenient in Wuyuan. If you stay with local families, you only need to pay an extra 10 yuan per person per day for home-cooked meals provided by the host.

Do not leave Wuyuan without trying Heyuan red carp, which is usually steamed, and can also be cooked in brown sauce. Thick stewed tofu and pork steamed with rice flour are also local classics. Game meats such as hare, muntjac, stone frog and wild boar are well worth tasting. Locals love spicy food, and it is a real treat if you get a chance to try these delicacies.

Wuyuan is an inland county far from the sea, so there are no seafood products, yet it abounds in mountain delicacies. Mushrooms, wood ear fungus and bamboo shoots are everyday ingredients. Snakes, hares, pheasants, wild boars and various wild birds are also commonly found here.

Thanks to the high mountains, cold clean water and zero pollution, freshwater fish here taste exceptionally delicious. Soft-shelled turtles, Heyuan red carp, grass carp, yellow catfish and black carp are must-try specialties.