Jingning She Village Rice Sheets 景宁畲乡粉皮
Jingning She Village Rice Sheets is featured among the local specialties of Zhejiang.
Jingning She Village Rice Sheets (景宁畲乡粉皮) include the fenpi made in Yingchuan Town (英川镇), Jingning She Autonomous County (景宁畲族自治县). The rice sheets are eaten at breakfast and also cooked into lunch and dinner dishes.
Steaming thin rice sheets
Making the sheets involves soaking rice, grinding it, steaming, cutting and drying. In a February 2026 Lishui Daily (丽水日报) feature carried by the municipal government, Yingchuan villager Hu Haizhu (胡海珠) pours a ladleful of prepared rice mixture into a steaming tray. After three minutes, she lifts out a white, tender, springy sheet about three millimetres thick. Rice aroma fills her kitchen, while strips of dried fenpi are laid out in village courtyards and drying grounds.
Breakfast and newer dishes
In the county town, breakfast bowls are paired with doufuniang (豆腐娘) or a broth slowly simmered from bones. Lishui Daily also profiles chef Mei Jiandong (梅建东), whose restaurant prepares scallion-oil fenpi and fenpi stewed with pig trotters. Steaming, boiling, pan-frying and deep-frying give the sheets several forms across the day.
Lishui Daily traces Yingchuan fenpi to the early Ming period and describes its former role at festivals and celebrations, and when seeing off relatives or friends.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-27. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.