Shangrao’s local dishes belong to the Gan Cuisine school and form a distinctive branch known as Rao-style cooking. The local palate favours rich, aromatic and bold flavours. Chefs use a wide variety of fresh ingredients, pay strict attention to knife skills and elaborate cooking procedures. Traditional techniques include braising, simmering, stewing, steaming and stir-frying. Dishes are tailored to ingredients, resulting in tastes ranging from light and fresh to crispy, spicy and zesty. Later, culinary styles from Beijing-Tianjin regions as well as Jiangsu and Zhejiang were introduced to Shangrao, gained instant popularity, and have been preserved to this day.
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Signature Main Dishes
Specialties include shredded fish rolls, hand-chopped shrimp balls, stir-fried chicken and eel, steamed Heyuan red carp, braised bighead carp head with tofu, steamed soft-shelled turtle, chicken shreds with potatoes, and crispy rice crust with chicken strips.
County-level delicacies cover Yiyang Highway Fish, Guangfeng soy-braised goose, stir-fried Artemisia selengensis with cured pork from Poyang, and the whole-fish feast of Poyang County.
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Classic Breakfast Staples
Blanched rice noodles with pork liver, spareribs, mutton or pork intestines are the most popular breakfast foods for local residents. Made from thick, wet rice noodles unique to Shangrao, they are blanched and then boiled, simmered or stir-fried with different seasonings to suit varied tastes.
Highly representative local varieties include Wannian Tribute Rice Noodles (fine-textured, resistant to over-boiling, stretchy and tough) and Guangfeng stir-fried mutton rice noodles.
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Street Snacks
Popular bites include glutinous rice cakes, Qingming Festival herb cakes, meat sesame flatbreads, buckwheat stuffed pastries, croissant-shaped candies, rice pulp dumplings, Yiyang rice noodles stir-fried with rice cakes, deep-fried dough sticks wrapped with glutinous rice cakes, Yanshan lamp pastries, Geyuan tofu, sautéed white jade beans, and rice cakes made from Wannian tribute rice.
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- Yiyang Guifeng Villa: Specialties include Yiyang beef cake, Yiyang Highway Fish, braised pork belly, sesame rice candy and local free-range dog meat.
- Highway Fish Hotel.
Recommended Shangrao Snacks
Lamp Pastry (Dengzhan Guo)
Yanshan’s lamp pastry is an exclusive traditional snack native to Yanshan County, Jiangxi Province. It is made step by step from rice: soaking, milling, boiling, pan-frying, kneading and steaming. It takes its name from its shape, which resembles an old oil lamp bowl.
The snack dates back to the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 400 years. Today it is a household favourite across Yanshan. Many locals eat it for breakfast, and it is always served to out-of-town visitors in hotels and restaurants. Below is an introduction to its craftsmanship.
Glutinous Rice Cake (Nuomizigao)
In Jiangxi, glutinous rice cake is a daily nutritious staple for every family and a popular festive gift. The Chinese character zi here means pastry.
Raw chicken or duck eggs, diced fatty and lean pork (streaky pork) and mild seasonings are mixed thoroughly with glutinous rice. The proportions are precisely controlled so that the stickiness of glutinous rice, the rich aroma of egg yolk and the savoury taste of pork balance perfectly — none can overpower the others.
The mixture needs prolonged, careful kneading to achieve tight cohesion. It is then poured into moulds and steamed over fire until fully set
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