Yiwu Dining
Located in the middle of Zhejiang province, Yiwu dishes belong to Zhejiang cuisine featured with fresh, sweet, crispy and tender texture. In Yiwu city, however, many of food stores with features of other places can be found as well. If you travel there, you’d better to taste some authentic food. Here are some dishes that you are recommended to eat if you went to Yiwu.
What to Eat
Buddhist Temple Boiled Mutton(佛堂白切羊肉)
It’s a traditional boiled mutton with tender and fragrant flavor. Add a little bit of raw red sauce crisp and take a sip of white wine when you eat it, which would be authentic and wonderful.
Shouqian Noodles(手牵面)
It is also called Lala Noodles. It is made from high quality flour with a little salt which is made into soft flour paste. The flour paste is pulled into long and slim strip when you need to eat. And then you just cook in boiling water. The noodles are quite chewy so that it is popular and loved by people.
Spring Chicken(神仙鸡)
The common name for this dish is chicken without water because it is steamed with yellow rice wine instead of water. Generally, Yiwu people’s traditional way of steaming chicken is to add some brown sugar and put a few pieces of lean pork. Its chicken meat is crisp and soft, melting in your mouth when you put eat. When you pick it up with chopsticks, the meat would separate from the chicken bone.
Qiaomailaoshu(荞麦老鼠)
It is “buckwheat mice” if we translate this dish into English according its Chinese name. It is made from buckwheat and looks like mice so that it got this interesting name.
Donghe Meat Cake(东河肉饼)
It is also called “double cake with meat”. It’s a fried cake which is filled with meat inside.
Where to Eat
Huagong Food Street, Ximen Food Street, Zuidiehua Fashion Restaurant, Xingxianghui Restaurant, Xiuhurenjia Restaurant, Saichunyang Restaurant, Laodifang Restaurant, Hejialaojie Restaurant, Xiaomigushi Restaurant, etc.
