Raohe Whole Fish Banquet 饶河全鱼宴
Raohe Whole Fish Banquet is featured among the local specialties of Heilongjiang.
Raohe Whole Fish Banquet (饶河全鱼宴) brings together a range of river-fish dishes in Raohe (饶河). Local fish restaurants offer banquets of more than twenty dishes, including steamed aohua fish (鳌花) and gaya fish (嘎牙子) braised in sauce. Fresh chum salmon and aohua arrive from the Ussuri River (乌苏里江) at these restaurants.
A repertoire of fish dishes
A 2024 Heilongjiang Daily feature records a nine-dish presentation by cooks from Sipai Hezhe Township (四排赫哲族乡). Their menu included stewed aohua, shashengyu (杀生鱼), talaha (塔拉哈) and poached pike balls.
Sipai’s cooking on show
At the 2024 Dadi Liucai China Village Cooking and Arts Showcase (大地流彩——中国村厨村艺大“晒”), organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Sipai team received cooking awards for stewed aohua and pike-ball soup. The cooks presented these dishes as an expression of their Hezhe fishing culture.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-26. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.