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Mini Buddha Jumps Over the Wall 迷你佛跳墙
Mini Buddha Jumps Over the Wall (迷你佛跳墙) is listed among the local specialties of Guangdong. It is grouped here with regional dishes & banquets; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.
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Sizzling Claypot Dishes 啫啫煲
Sizzling Claypot Dishes (啫啫煲) are a Cantonese style of cooking in which fresh ingredients are fried fast in a heated claypot and brought to the table still hissing.
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Baijiao Sea Bass 白蕉海鲈
Baijiao Sea Bass (白蕉海鲈) is the sea bass raised in the fish ponds of Baijiao town (白蕉镇) in Doumen District (斗门区), Zhuhai (珠海).
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Huangsha Clams 黄沙蚬
Huangsha Clams (黄沙蚬) are clams from Lianzhou (莲洲镇) in Doumen District (斗门区), Zhuhai (珠海), Guangdong, where they grow at the mouth of the Xijiang (西江) in fast-flowing water that mixes salt and fresh.
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Sugar-Frosted Taro 反沙芋头
Sugar-Frosted Taro (反沙芋头) is a Chaoshan (潮汕) sweet of fried taro sticks coated in a thin crust of white sugar frost, and it is sold as a street snack in Shantou (汕头), Guangdong.
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Liquorice-Marinated Fresh Fruit 甘草水果
Liquorice-Marinated Fresh Fruit (甘草水果) is cut fresh fruit steeped in a sweet and salty liquorice syrup, a street snack of Shantou (汕头) and the wider Chaoshan (潮汕) region of Guangdong.
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Daliang Stir-Fried Milk 大良炒鲜奶
Daliang Stir-Fried Milk (大良炒鲜奶) is milk cooked in a wok until it sets into soft, white curds, a well-known dish of Shunde (顺德) in Foshan (佛山), Guangdong.
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Winnowing-Tray Steamed Rice Cake 簸箕炊
Winnowing-Tray Steamed Rice Cake (簸箕炊) is a white rice cake from western Guangdong, steamed layer by layer in a woven bamboo winnowing tray (簸箕) and eaten in Zhanjiang (湛江) cut into small diamonds under garlic oil, black-bean sauce and sesame.
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Leaf-Wrapped Rice Cake 树叶搭
Leaf-Wrapped Rice Cake (树叶搭) is a stuffed glutinous rice cake from Zhanjiang (湛江), Guangdong, steamed with jackfruit leaves pressed onto its surface.
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Maoming Stuffed Rice Cakes 茂名籺
Maoming Stuffed Rice Cakes (茂名籺) are the he (籺) of Maoming (茂名) in western Guangdong: cakes and snacks made from glutinous rice, ordinary rice or cassava flour, many of them wrapped around a filling and steamed or boiled.
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Stuffed Sweet Potato Dumplings 薯包籺
Stuffed Sweet Potato Dumplings (薯包籺) are a street snack from Gaozhou (高州) in Maoming (茂名), Guangdong: dumplings of sweet potato starch dough filled with diced pork and peanuts and steamed.
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Mugwort Rice Cakes 艾籺
Mugwort Rice Cakes (艾籺) are steamed glutinous rice cakes with a dark green skin made with mashed mugwort leaves, filled and pressed in moulds, from Maoming (茂名) in western Guangdong.
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