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

Cured pork with flowering greens 腊肉炒菜薹

Salty, smoky or cured-meat flavors contrast with the greens' fresh sweetness and slight bitterness. The rendered fat coats the vegetables lightly.

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Changyang Cured Pork Trotters 长阳腊蹄子

Changyang Cured Pork Trotters (长阳腊蹄子) is listed among the local specialties of Yichang, Hubei. 腊 describes curing.

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Yicheng Pressed Salted Duck 宜城板鸭

Yicheng Pressed Salted Duck (宜城板鸭) is the board-shaped cured duck of Yicheng (宜城), a county-level city of Xiangyang (襄阳) on the middle reaches of the Han River (汉江) in north-western Hubei.

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Tujia Cured Pork 土家腊肉

Tujia Cured Pork (土家腊肉) is the salted, wood-smoked pork of Tujia households in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (恩施土家族苗族自治州), Hubei.

Maozui Brine-Braised Chicken 毛嘴卤鸡

Maozui Brine-Braised Chicken (毛嘴卤鸡) is a chicken braised in aged brine from Maozui (毛嘴), a town in Xiantao (仙桃), Hubei, and the Xiantao culture and tourism bureau counts it among the city's best-known specialties.

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Brine-Braised Crayfish 卤虾

Brine-Braised Crayfish (卤虾) appears in Qianjiang (潜江) in a golden-broth version called jintang luxia (金汤卤虾).

Shennongjia Cured Pork 神农架腊肉

Shennongjia Cured Pork (神农架腊肉) is the cured, smoked pork of the Shennongjia Forestry District (神农架林区) in Hubei. It is smoked over firewood with tangerine peel and fragrant wormwood, and is cooked in stir-fries and hotpots.

Western Hunan cured meat 湘西腊肉

The flavor is concentrated, salty and often smoky, with fat becoming translucent and rich when heated. Texture varies with the cut and length of curing.

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Wugang spice-braised goose 武冈卤铜鹅

The skin is richly flavored, while the meat retains a firmer bite than very soft stewed chicken. A savory spice aroma leads rather than sweetness.

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Steamed Cured Meat Platter 腊味合蒸

Steamed Cured Meat Platter (腊味合蒸) is a Hunan dish of several kinds of cured meat steamed together in one bowl.

Spiced Pressed Duck 酱板鸭

Flattened duck roasted and then braised with soy and spices; this illustration follows the documented Changde version of jiangban ya.

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Xiandu Spiced Pressed Duck 仙都酱板鸭

Xiandu Spiced Pressed Duck (仙都酱板鸭) is a branded duck speciality from Liling (醴陵). Rednet (红网) describes the finished duck as brightly coloured, with dry meat that has chew without being tough.

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