LOCAL FOOD GUIDE

Fairy Lake Whole Fish Banquet 仙女湖全鱼宴

Xiannü Hu Quanyuyan

Fairy Lake Whole Fish Banquet is featured among the local specialties of Jiangxi.

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Fairy Lake Whole Fish Banquet (仙女湖全鱼宴) is a fish-centred meal from Fairy Lake (仙女湖), Xinyu (新余). Economic Evening News links its development to the lakeside custom of cooking lake fish in lake water, refined into a banquet with more than ten core dishes.

Named dishes

The banquet’s named dishes include Renjian Yaochi (人间瑶池), “a heavenly pool on earth”; Queqiao Xianghui (鹊桥相会), “meeting on the magpie bridge”; and Xiangyi Xiangwei (相依相偎), “nestling together”. These are among the dishes identified by Economic Evening News in its June 2023 coverage.

Where it comes from

At Xianyuji Fish Restaurant (仙遇记生态鱼馆), the meal also connects with the lake’s Qixi (七夕) theme. Chef Hu Zhigang (胡志刚) tells Economic Daily that the restaurant developed “one fish, seven ways” and the Qiqiao Fish Banquet (七巧全鱼宴) around that theme.

China Revealed · Editorially updated 2026-09-27

Sources & reading

Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-27. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.