Regional dishes & banquets 地方菜与宴席

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AI illustration: A ceramic platter of cooked open bivalve shellfish with visible pale meat.
Guangdong

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) — dish photograph
Guangdong

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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Winnowing-Tray Steamed Rice Cake (簸箕炊) — dish photograph
Guangdong

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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AI illustration: A wooden tray of pale steamed glutinous rice cakes cut into tidy soft blocks.
Guangdong

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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AI illustration: A small bamboo tray of soft pale white and green rice-dough cakes on leaves.
Guangdong

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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