Changshou Lake Whole Fish Banquet 长寿湖全鱼宴
Changshou Lake Whole Fish Banquet is featured among the local specialties of Chongqing.
Changshou Lake Whole Fish Banquet (长寿湖全鱼宴) is a spread of fish dishes made from the fish of Changshou Lake (长寿湖) in Chongqing's Changshou District.
The fish
The banquet is built on organic fish that grow naturally in the lake without fish medicines or added feed. They hold an organic food certificate issued by the China Green Huaxia Organic Food Certification Center (中绿华夏有机食品认证中心) of the Ministry of Agriculture. The lake itself is a national 4A scenic area with 65 square kilometres of water and more than 200 islands, and the Chongqing news portal Hualong Net (华龙网) calls it the largest artificial lake in south-west China.
What is on the table
The whole-fish banquet runs to about a hundred dishes. Besides pickled-mustard-green fish (酸菜鱼), numbing-and-spicy fish (麻辣鱼) and pickled-chilli fish (泡椒鱼), it includes fish noodles (鱼面), fish curd (鱼豆花) and cold dressed fish (凉拌鱼). The flesh of the lake fish is fresh and tender, and it is praised both in the spicy style and with pickled greens.
A banquet at the lake
On 20 October 2018 the banquet was laid out inside the Changshou Lake scenic area: more than 500 tables ran for about two kilometres from the south gate of the scenic area to Baihua Island (百花岛), and close to ten thousand people ate together. The cooks were up soon after five in the morning to prepare more than 7,000 jin (about 3,500 kilograms) of fish, all of it freshly netted from the lake.
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Questions before you order
Where does the fish for the Changshou Lake Whole Fish Banquet come from?
From Changshou Lake. The fish grow naturally in the lake without fish medicines and carry an organic food certificate.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-23. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.