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Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs 肉酿面筋
Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs (肉酿面筋) are a Wuxi (无锡) dish of fried wheat-gluten balls filled with seasoned minced pork and simmered in a soy-sauce broth.
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Silver Thread Noodles 银丝面
Silver Thread Noodles (银丝面) have a documented Wuxi (无锡) tradition at Xinwanxing (新万兴), a noodle restaurant remembered for fine, white, smooth strands in clear broth.
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Wuxi Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs 无锡油面筋塞肉
Wuxi Meat-Stuffed Gluten Puffs (无锡油面筋塞肉) are hollow balls of deep-fried wheat gluten filled with seasoned minced pork and braised, a traditional dish of Wuxi (无锡) in Jiangsu.
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Taihu Lake Three Whites 太湖三白
Taihu Lake Three Whites (太湖三白) are three foods from Lake Tai (太湖): the whitefish (白鱼), the icefish (银鱼) and the white shrimp (白虾), named for their shared white colour.
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Huishan Flaky Pastries 惠山油酥
Huishan Flaky Pastries (惠山油酥) are a Wuxi (无锡) snack from the Huishan (惠山) area, pastries shaped like Chinese chess pieces, with a filling of more than ten ingredients inside a skin of refined flour and sesame.
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Mirror-Box Stuffed Tofu 镜箱豆腐
Mirror-Box Stuffed Tofu (镜箱豆腐) is a traditional Wuxi (无锡) dish of stuffed tofu blocks, named because the blocks look like the mirror box (a dressing case) a woman used when doing her hair.
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Sweet Taro in Syrup 糖芋头
Sweet Taro in Syrup (糖芋头) is medium-sized taro cooked with brown sugar and finished with sugared osmanthus, the dish Wuxi (无锡) households make for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which older people in the city call "Bayueban" (八月半, "the middle of the eighth month").
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Bazirou Braised Pork Belly 把子肉
Bazirou Braised Pork Belly (把子肉) is a snack of Shandong cooking (鲁菜) and of the Xuzhou-Haizhou kitchen (徐海菜), popular in the Jiangsu-Shandong-Henan-Anhui region, with Jinan (济南), Jining (济宁) and Xuzhou (徐州) as its centres.
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Fish Tucked Inside Mutton 羊方藏鱼
Fish Tucked Inside Mutton (羊方藏鱼) is a Xuzhou (徐州) dish in which a fish is placed inside a large piece of mutton that has been cut open, and the two are stewed together over a low flame.
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Griddle Pancake Rolled with Fried Dough 烙馍卷馓子
Griddle Pancake Rolled with Fried Dough (烙馍卷馓子) is a Xuzhou (徐州) roll in which laomo (烙馍), a single-layer wheat pancake, is wrapped around sanzi (馓子), crisp fried dough.
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Spicy Pepper Soup 辣汤
Spicy Pepper Soup (辣汤) is a peppery soup from Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu, cooked with chicken, pig bone and swamp eel. English Wikipedia's article on Xuzhou cuisine sets the Xuzhou version apart from the one made in Henan (河南).
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Peixian Dog Meat 沛县狗肉
Peixian Dog Meat (沛县狗肉) appears in the local food directory for Jiangsu. The Chinese introduction below explains the named food and its preparation in the linked culinary reference.
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