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Huainan beef soup 淮南牛肉汤
The broth is deeply savory, with soft beef and contrasting chewy or absorbent additions. Chili changes the balance considerably.
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Feixi chicken soup 肥西老母鸡汤
The liquid is savory and rounded, with tender but sometimes firmer-textured hen meat and a light layer of chicken fat.
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Anqing chicken broth with toasted rice 安庆鸡汤泡炒米
The early spoonfuls combine crisp grain with savoury broth; later ones are softer and fuller. It is a gentle, warming dish whose appeal comes from grain aroma and broth rather than heavy chilli or a thick sauce.
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Qimen Zhonghe soup 祁门中和汤
Expect a gentle, savoury soup with soft tofu and more resilient chopped additions. It is less heavy than a deep-fried course.
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Huaibei Lamb Soup 淮北羊肉汤
Huaibei Lamb Soup (淮北羊肉汤) is the milky-white lamb soup of Huaibei (淮北), Anhui, where, in the words of People's Daily Online, people have a particular fondness for lamb.
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Sa Soup 撒汤
Sa Soup (撒汤) is a scalding, full-bodied soup eaten in Fuyang (阜阳), in northern Anhui, mostly at breakfast and often with flatbread. The name is a local spelling.
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Xiaoxian Mutton Soup 萧县羊肉汤
Xiaoxian Mutton Soup (萧县羊肉汤) is the goat-meat soup of Xiao County (萧县) in Suzhou (宿州), in the north-east of Anhui.
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Pork Stewed with Dangshan Pears 砀山酥梨炖肉
Pork Stewed with Dangshan Pears (砀山酥梨炖肉) takes a red-braised form in a preparation presented by Suzhou Culture and Tourism (宿州文化旅游). It uses pork belly with alternating layers of fat and lean meat.
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Suzhou Sa Soup 宿州sa汤
Suzhou Sa Soup (宿州sa汤) is the breakfast soup of Suzhou (宿州) in northern Anhui, not the Suzhou in Jiangsu: a raw egg is beaten in the bowl and cooked by a ladle of boiling-hot old-hen stock thickened with flour.
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Mengcheng Peppery Sa Soup 蒙城撒汤
Mengcheng Peppery Sa Soup (蒙城撒汤) is listed among the local specialties of Bozhou, Anhui. The term 汤 points to soup.
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Chicken Stewed with Starch Sheets 粉皮炖鸡
Chicken Stewed with Starch Sheets (粉皮炖鸡) is listed among the local specialties of Bozhou, Anhui. The name includes 鸡 (chicken). 炖 describes slow simmering.
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Jingde Chicken Stewed with Lingzhi Mushroom 旌德灵芝炖鸡
Jingde Chicken Stewed with Lingzhi Mushroom (旌德灵芝炖鸡) pairs a free-range local chicken with lingzhi (灵芝), the medicinal fungus also called reishi, cooked slowly in a clay pot.
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