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Xingyang Persimmon Sugar Mooncakes 荥阳霜糖月饼
Xingyang Persimmon Sugar Mooncakes (荥阳霜糖月饼) is listed among the local specialties of Zhengzhou, Henan. The term 糖 points to confectionery.
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Soup-Filled Steamed Buns 灌汤包
Soup-Filled Steamed Buns (灌汤包) in Kaifeng (开封) combine a thin wheat wrapper with meat and broth.
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Pan-Fried Starch Jelly 炒凉粉
Pan-Fried Starch Jelly (炒凉粉) is a Kaifeng (开封) snack served hot from a flat iron pan. Sweet-potato or mung-bean starch can form its base.
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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
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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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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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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Fried and Braised Small Fish 黄焖鱼
Fried and Braised Small Fish (黄焖鱼) is a Kaifeng (开封) snack made by frying small fish and then gently cooking them in seasoned broth under a lid.
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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
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
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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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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