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Jiangxi

Leping Crisp Cookies 乐平桃酥

Leping Crisp Cookies (乐平桃酥) are taosu pastries from Leping (乐平), a city under Jingdezhen (景德镇) in Jiangxi, where the Jiangxi Food Factory (江西食品厂) makes them under the An brand (安牌).

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Jiangxi

Huahudie Numbing-Spicy Snack 花蝴蝶麻辣

Huahudie Numbing-Spicy Snack (花蝴蝶麻辣) is numbing-spicy bean-curd skin (麻辣豆皮) from Pingxiang (萍乡), a Jiangxi city on the border with Hunan, sold under the name Huahudie, 'flower butterfly'.

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Jiangxi

Yanghuzi Rice Noodles 杨胡子米面

Yanghuzi Rice Noodles (杨胡子米面) are the wide rice noodles served by the Yanghuzi Mimian shop (杨胡子米面店) in Pingxiang (萍乡), Jiangxi, which Jiangxi Daily (江西日报) calls the best-known name in Pingxiang mimian (米面).

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Jiangxi

Sour Jujube Cake 酸枣糕

Sour Jujube Cake (酸枣糕) is a fruit snack of Pingxiang (萍乡), Jiangxi. The Pingxiang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Press, Publication and Tourism (萍乡市文化广电新闻出版旅游局) features the version from Shangli County (上栗县) and calls it a traditional folk snack of the city, its method handed down from one generation to the next.

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Jiangxi

Jiujiang Osmanthus Tea Cakes 九江茶饼

Jiujiang Osmanthus Tea Cakes (九江茶饼) are small, round, golden pastries from Jiujiang (九江), the old Yangtze port city where Jiangxi meets Anhui and Hubei, filled with sugar, camellia oil, osmanthus and sesame and made to be eaten with tea.

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Lushan Rock Frog (庐山石鸡) — dish photograph
Jiangxi

Lushan Rock Frog 庐山石鸡

Lushan Rock Frog (庐山石鸡) is a dish of mountain frog cooked with chilli from Lushan (庐山) in Jiujiang (九江), Jiangxi; its Chinese name, "stone chicken", comes from a frog whose meat is likened to young chicken.

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Xiushui Shaozi Dumplings (修水哨子) — dish photograph
Jiangxi

Xiushui Shaozi Dumplings 修水哨子

Xiushui Shaozi Dumplings (修水哨子) are filled taro-and-sweet-potato-starch parcels from Xiushui (修水), Jiujiang (九江). Rounded underneath and pointed on top, they are a New Year food whose shape symbolises reunion and rising success.

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