Cured meats & roast-shop dishes 卤味腌腊烧腊

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Fengjie Smoked Cured Pork (奉节腊肉) — dish photograph
Chongqing

Fengjie Smoked Cured Pork 奉节腊肉

Fengjie Smoked Cured Pork (奉节腊肉) is the cured and smoked pork of Fengjie County (奉节县) in north-eastern Chongqing. The county government presents its high-mountain cured pork (奉节高山腊肉) as one of the representative foods of the area.

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Shizhu Smoked Cured Pork (石柱腊肉) — dish photograph
Chongqing

Shizhu Smoked Cured Pork 石柱腊肉

Shizhu Smoked Cured Pork (石柱腊肉) is the salt-cured, wood-smoked pork of Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County (石柱土家族自治县) in Chongqing, made with the traditional Tujia (土家) wood-fire smoking method.

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Chongqing

Jar-Fermented Sour Fish 腌酸鱼

Jar-Fermented Sour Fish (腌酸鱼) is listed among the local specialties of Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing. The name includes 鱼 (fish).

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Chongqing

Xiushan Smoked Cured Pork 秀山腊肉

Xiushan Smoked Cured Pork (秀山腊肉) is the cured and smoked pork of Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (秀山土家族苗族自治县), Chongqing, one of the county entries on the Chongqing Cured Meat Map (重庆腊味地图) published by the municipal planning and natural resources bureau in January 2026.

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Tujia Smoked Cured Pork (土家腊肉) — dish photograph
Chongqing

Tujia Smoked Cured Pork 土家腊肉

Tujia Smoked Cured Pork (土家腊肉) is pork rubbed with ground spices, cured in clay jars and slowly smoked over oak firewood in Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (酉阳土家族苗族自治县), Chongqing, where village workshops in Cangling (苍岭) and Tushi (涂市) towns make and sell it.

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Chongqing

Smoked Cured Pork 腊肉

Smoked Cured Pork (腊肉) is a Chinese cured meat, popular mainly in Sichuan, Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Jiangxi and Guangdong; in Chongqing the pork is salted, dried in wind and sun and then smoked.

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Chongqing

Linjiang Cured Sausage 临江香肠

Linjiang Cured Sausage (临江香肠) is listed among the local specialties of Kaizhou District, Chongqing. It is grouped here with cured meats & roast-shop dishes; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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