Wangluo Red-Braised Pig Trotters 王洛红烧猪蹄
Wangluo Red-Braised Pig Trotters is featured among the local specialties of Henan.
Wangluo Red-Braised Pig Trotters (王洛红烧猪蹄) are pig trotters cooked in a spiced master stock in Wangluo (王洛镇), a town in Xiangcheng County (襄城县), Xuchang (许昌), Henan, where Huanqiu, the Global Times news site, calls them the county's most representative food brand.
How it is made
The trotters are stewed in an old master stock (老汤) that has been handed down from generation to generation, seasoned with more than thirty spices. Huanqiu credits this stock and the long spice list with the dish's flavour.
Flavour and texture
Wangluo Red-Braised Pig Trotters come out a glossy soy-red. The skin and meat are soft and sticky, the flavour is rich and fragrant, and although the trotters are fatty they are not greasy.
Where it comes from
Local tradition traces the dish to the Spring and Autumn period, more than two thousand years ago, and presents it as a recipe carried down ever since. Wangluo has built a festival around it: the first trotter promotion season was held in 2024, and on 20 September 2025 the town opened the second, with a trotter-eating contest, a molten-iron fireworks show (打铁花) and a street of food stalls among the events.
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Qingfeng trotters are another Henan county's trotter speciality; the Wangluo version is defined by its inherited master stock and more than thirty spices.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-24. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.