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AI illustration: A plate of two round or oval browned stuffed flatbreads.
Henan

Mutton-Stuffed Griddle Bread 羊肉炕馍

Mutton-Stuffed Griddle Bread (羊肉炕馍) is a Kaifeng (开封) night-market snack: minced mutton and seasonings enclosed in thin white-flour flatbread and cooked on a griddle until the outside is crisp.

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Four-Flavour Bowl in Hot Broth (四味菜) — dish photograph
Henan

Four-Flavour Bowl in Hot Broth 四味菜

Four-Flavour Bowl in Hot Broth (四味菜) is a Kaifeng (开封) dish also called siwei huicai (四味烩菜). Its four components are braised beef, cooked meatballs, stewed wheat gluten and daylily buds, brought together in mutton broth.

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AI illustration: A glass bowl of light sweet soup with pale jelly pieces.
Henan

Thickened Almond Drink 杏仁茶

Thickened Almond Drink (杏仁茶), known in Kaifeng (开封) as almond tea, is a sweet, spoonable drink made by scalding almond powder with boiling water poured from a large copper kettle, then loading it with nuts, seeds and dried fruit.

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AI illustration: Small rectangular and irregular pieces of sesame or peanut brittle and puffed-rice candy on a simple plate.
Henan

Peanut Cake 花生糕

Peanut Cake (花生糕) is a Kaifeng (开封) sweet whose making craft is on Henan's provincial intangible-heritage list, and the century-old Baiji (百年白记) brand is run by the craft's fourth-generation inheritor.

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AI illustration: A white plate of crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings with browned flat bottoms and pale pleated tops.
Henan

Kaifeng Pan-Fried Dumplings 开封锅贴

Kaifeng Pan-Fried Dumplings (开封锅贴) are guo tie, long filled wheat dumplings fried in a little oil and water, a dish that Chinese Wikipedia counts mostly as Kaifeng (开封) cooking in Henan.

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Beef Soup (牛肉汤) — dish photograph
Henan

Beef Soup 牛肉汤

Beef Soup (牛肉汤) in Luoyang (洛阳), Henan, is one of the city's traditional named foods, and since 2020 it has had a Luoyang local cooking standard of its own.

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Mutton Soup (羊肉汤) — dish photograph
Henan

Mutton Soup 羊肉汤

Mutton Soup (羊肉汤) in Luoyang (洛阳) is one of three traditional dishes for which the city issued a local cooking-technique standard in April 2020; the other two are beef soup and the Xin'an (新安) scalded-dough dumpling.

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AI illustration: A ceramic bowl of light savory soup with small pale cooked morsels.
Henan

Donkey Meat Soup 驴肉汤

Donkey Meat Soup (驴肉汤) is donkey meat stewed in a clear broth, which Luoyang Net (洛阳网), the Luoyang Daily news site, presents as a Luoyang (洛阳) speciality belonging to Henan cuisine (豫菜).

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