Gushi Braised Goose Pieces 固始鹅块
Gushi Braised Goose Pieces is featured among the local specialties of Henan.
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Gushi Braised Goose Pieces (固始鹅块) is goose stewed slowly in an old broth in an iron pot and served in red chilli oil, the dish Henan Daily calls the star of the New Year reunion dinner in Gushi (固始) county, Xinyang (信阳), Henan.
How it is made
The goose is cooked in an iron pot over a fire and stewed slowly in an old broth, a stock kept from earlier cooking. The finished pieces are golden and come coated in a clear red chilli oil. In the workshop behind one online seller, the goose is stewed, portioned and packed, and cold-chain lorries send it across the country.
Flavour and texture
Henan Daily's reporter, a Gushi native, describes the meat as firm, and the flavour as both savoury and hot. The newspaper calls the golden goose in its red oil "饭张力" (roughly, "makes you reach for more rice").
Where it comes from
The flavour of Gushi Braised Goose Pieces is said to go back more than a thousand years, and in the past it was something people could only enjoy at New Year. At the Dabie Mountain (大别山) agricultural wholesale market in Gushi on 15 February 2026, the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, one shop had vacuum-packed goose pieces and gift boxes of goose offal stacked high; one buyer who works in Beijing was taking two bags back for friends and colleagues.
Gushi geese are raised mainly in the rice-growing north of the county, on rice-stubble fields where rice grains and young shoots serve as feed; one farmer in Yangji (杨集) township keeps more than 2,000 birds. In 2026 Gushi goose-piece shops opened in Shenzhen and the dish appeared at a market in Hong Kong. Henan Daily names it with braised pot pork (焖罐肉), Nanwan fish (南湾鱼) and Huangchuan tribute noodles (潢川贡面) among Xinyang's signature foods.
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.