LOCAL FOOD GUIDE

Songpan Yak Jerky 松潘牦牛肉干

Songpan Maoniu Rougan

Songpan Yak Jerky is featured among the local specialties of Sichuan.

AI illustration: An oval white plate of thin layered cooked brown-red meat slices.
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Songpan Yak Jerky (松潘牦牛肉干) is a dried-meat speciality of Songpan (松潘), made from yaks raised on the county's natural pastures. It has a pronounced meat aroma and a firm, chewy texture.

Flavour and texture

Local shops sell packaged five-spice and mala versions. Mala (麻辣) denotes the combination of numbing and chilli-hot seasoning..

How it is sold

Songpan's halal beef market includes shops hanging wind-dried meat. Seller Mi Jianeng (米加能) identifies his wind-dried beef as pure yak meat. Packaged jerky also appears in the county's speciality-food shops, where visitors taste the jerky and buy bags to take home and share with family. The same market also displays cooked beef heads and feet alongside the hanging meat.

AI illustration: A small wooden board of dark reddish-brown dried yak-meat strips.
AI illustration · AI 示意图（菜式参考，非实拍） · 牦牛肉干 — A general serving example; recipes and presentation vary.

China Revealed · Editorially updated 2026-09-30

Sources & reading

Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-30. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.