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Forest Frog Stewed with Potatoes 林蛙炖土豆
Forest Frog Stewed with Potatoes (林蛙炖土豆) is listed among the local specialties of Yichun, Heilongjiang. The name includes 土豆 (potato). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Iron-Pot Stewed Fish 铁锅炖鱼
Iron-Pot Stewed Fish (铁锅炖鱼) is listed among the local specialties of Yichun, Heilongjiang. The name includes 鱼 (fish). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Fish Stewed with Pickled Cabbage 酸菜炖鱼
Fish Stewed with Pickled Cabbage (酸菜炖鱼) is listed among the local specialties of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang. The name includes 鱼 (fish), 酸菜 (pickled vegetables). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Northeastern Stewed Fish 东北炖鱼
Northeastern Stewed Fish (东北炖鱼) is listed among the local specialties of Qitaihe, Heilongjiang. The name includes 鱼 (fish). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Stewed River Fish 炖江鱼
Stewed River Fish (炖江鱼) is listed among the local specialties of Heihe, Heilongjiang. The name includes 鱼 (fish). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Qinggang Stewed Goose 青冈炖鹅
Qinggang Stewed Goose (青冈炖鹅) is listed among the local specialties of Suihua, Heilongjiang. The name includes 鹅 (goose). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms 小鸡炖蘑菇
Chicken Stewed with Mushrooms (小鸡炖蘑菇) is a Northeast Chinese stew of chicken and hazel mushrooms (榛蘑), a mushroom local to the Northeast, and Chinese Wikipedia gives the Northeast as the place where it began.
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Chicken-and-duck blood soup 鸡鸭血汤
Blood curd has a soft, smooth, delicate texture and absorbs the surrounding savory flavor. It should not be expected to taste or feel like a firm meatball.
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Duck-blood vermicelli soup 鸭血粉丝汤
Soft blood curd contrasts with springy vermicelli and firmer offal pieces. Duck stock supplies the underlying savory flavor.
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Nantong pickled-greens and broad-bean soup 南通盐齑豆瓣汤
Soft, floury beans contrast with the greens' sharper, salty taste. The result is a homely soup rather than a thick sweet bean dessert.
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Spicy Pepper Soup 辣汤
Spicy Pepper Soup (辣汤) is a peppery soup from Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu, cooked with chicken, pig bone and swamp eel. English Wikipedia's article on Xuzhou cuisine sets the Xuzhou version apart from the one made in Henan (河南).
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Sha Soup 饣它汤
Sha Soup (饣它汤) is Xuzhou's (徐州) breakfast soup of old hen, pork and wheat kernels, sold at most of the city's breakfast stalls according to Ta Kung Pao (大公报).
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