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AI illustration: A plate with a few round golden baked or griddled flatbreads.
Heilongjiang

Hanging-Oven Flatbread 吊炉饼

Hanging-Oven Flatbread (吊炉饼) is listed among the local specialties of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang. The term 饼 points to cakes or flatbreads.

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Heilongjiang

Ning'an Bohai-Style Cuisine 宁安渤海风味

Ning'an Bohai-Style Cuisine (宁安渤海风味) is listed among the local specialties of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang. It is grouped here with regional dishes & banquets; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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AI illustration: A ceramic casserole of large irregular duck or goose pieces simmered in dark savory sauce.
Heilongjiang

Linkou Goose 林口大鹅

Linkou Goose (林口大鹅) is goose raised in Linkou (林口) county, Mudanjiang (牡丹江), Heilongjiang, where the county government has built goose farming into a local industry.

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Heilongjiang

Dongning Russian-Style Bread 东宁俄式列巴

Dongning Russian-Style Bread (东宁俄式列巴) is listed among the local specialties of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang. It is grouped here with regional dishes & banquets; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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Pieces of Korean-style pounded rice cake coated with bean powder.
Heilongjiang

Pounded Rice Cake 打糕

Pounded Rice Cake (打糕) is the glutinous-rice cake of China's Korean ethnic group (朝鲜族), beaten into a dough with wooden mallets.

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Spicy Pickled Cabbage (辣白菜) — dish photograph
Heilongjiang

Spicy Pickled Cabbage 辣白菜

Spicy Pickled Cabbage (辣白菜) is listed among the local specialties of Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang. It is grouped here with tofu & vegetable dishes; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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Heilongjiang

Russian-Style Bread Loaf 俄式列巴

Russian-Style Bread Loaf (俄式列巴) is the large Russian-type loaf baked in Heilongjiang, also called da lieba (大列巴), "big lieba". Lieba is the Chinese rendering of khleb (хлеб), the Russian word for bread.

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Heilongjiang

Russian-Style Smoked Sausage 俄式香肠

Russian-Style Smoked Sausage (俄式香肠) is the dark-red smoked sausage that Heilongjiang knows as red sausage (红肠), a Lithuanian-style sausage that came to Harbin (哈尔滨) in the railway era and is still called Russian red sausage.

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AI illustration: A deep ceramic bowl of cooked bone-in fish chunks in pale broth.
Heilongjiang

Stewed River Fish 炖江鱼

Stewed River Fish (炖江鱼) is listed among the local specialties of Heihe, Heilongjiang. The name includes 鱼 (fish). 炖 describes slow simmering.

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Lanxi Min Pig Pork (兰西民猪肉) — dish photograph
Heilongjiang

Lanxi Min Pig Pork 兰西民猪肉

Lanxi Min Pig Pork (兰西民猪肉) is meat from the Min pig (民猪), the black-haired pig of north-east China that was once the main breed kept by farming households, raised in Lanxi (兰西) county in Suihua (绥化), Heilongjiang.

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