Regional dishes & banquets 地方菜与宴席

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Zhejiang

Kaihua River Snails 开化青蛳

Kaihua River Snails (开化青蛳) are a speciality of Kaihua (开化). In a 2025 essay for Shangguan News (上观新闻), Zheng Xinwei (郑信伟) describes the western Zhejiang (浙江) snails as having slender, inky-black shells and grey-green flesh, and recalls cooking them over a fierce wood fire at his family home.

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Zhejiang

Air-Dried Eel 风鳗

Air-Dried Eel (风鳗) is sea eel (海鳗) salted and hung in the winter wind in Zhoushan (舟山), Zhejiang. Zhejiang Online calls the steamed dish a fixture of Spring Festival tables in most Zhoushan households.

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Zhejiang

Putuo Buddhist Vegetarian Meal 普陀素斋

Putuo Buddhist Vegetarian Meal (普陀素斋) is listed among the local specialties of Zhoushan, Zhejiang. It is grouped here with regional dishes & banquets; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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Qingyuan Mushroom Banquet 庆元百菇宴

Qingyuan Mushroom Banquet (庆元百菇宴) is a meal in Qingyuan County (庆元县), Lishui (丽水), in which a whole table of dishes is made from different kinds of mushrooms.

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