Features: This is a traditional famous dish in Wuyishan. Using local geese as raw materials, through a unique smoking process, the goose meat is integrated with the aromas of tea, laurel leaves and glutinous rice. The meat is firm and the taste is mellow with a rich smoked flavor, and it becomes more and more fragrant as you chew.
Recommended Shop: For example, the “Wuyishan Langgu Smoked Goose Shop”, where the smoked goose tastes authentic, the quality of the goose meat is good, and it is freshly made and sold every day, allowing diners to taste the most delicious smoked goose.
Zhuzi Xiaomu Cake
Features: The outer skin is crispy and the inner filling is soft and glutinous, sweet but not greasy. There are various flavors to choose from, such as mung bean filling, red bean filling, chestnut filling, etc. Each flavor has its own unique characteristics and carries the cultural heritage of Wuyishan. It is one of the favorite souvenirs among tourists.
Recommended Shop: “Xiaomu Cake Shop”, the production process of its Xiaomu Cake has been passed down for many years, with particular attention to materials, and the taste and texture of the cake are excellent.
Dishes
Wuyishan Red-eyed Fish
Features: This kind of fish looks like a carp, but its eyes are big and red. Its meat is tender and delicious, and its scales can also be eaten. After cooking, the scales are crispy and the fish meat is sweet and fresh. It is usually cooked by steaming or braising in soy sauce, which can retain the freshness of the fish to the greatest extent.
Recommended Shop: “Jiuquxi Fish Restaurant”, this restaurant is good at cooking various stream fish and has unique skills in cooking Wuyishan red-eyed fish, presenting the freshness of the fish vividly.
Bamboo Shoot Feast
Features: Wuyishan is rich in bamboo shoots, and there are different varieties of bamboo shoots in different seasons, so the bamboo shoot feast has a rich variety of dishes. You can taste various dishes made with fresh bamboo shoots as raw materials, such as braised pork with dried bamboo shoots, oil-braised bamboo shoots, shredded bamboo shoots in a cold dish, etc. The taste of the bamboo shoots is either tender or crispy, all with a unique fragrance.
Recommended Restaurant: “Bamboo Forest Family”, this restaurant is characterized by bamboo shoot dishes, using the freshest local bamboo shoots, combined with various ingredients and unique cooking techniques to create a table of mouth-watering bamboo shoot feasts.
Snacks
Lean Meat Soup
Features: The lean meat is ground into a meat paste, and an appropriate amount of seasonings and starch are added to make the meat soup. It tastes smooth and chewy, and the soup is delicious. Usually, laver, dried shrimps, scallions, etc. are added to enhance the flavor. It is a common and popular snack on the streets of Wuyishan.
Recommended Stall: The “Granny’s Lean Meat Soup” stall at the entrance of the Wuyishan scenic area. Granny has been making lean meat soup for many years, with real materials, authentic taste and affordable price.
Qingming Cake
Features: This is a traditional seasonal snack. The outer skin is made by mixing glutinous rice flour and wormwood juice, presenting a fresh green color. There are two flavors for the inner filling, sweet and salty. The sweet filling is usually red bean paste, etc., and the salty filling is mostly made by stir-frying bamboo shoots, meat, mushrooms, etc. The texture is soft and glutinous with the fragrance of wormwood.
Recommended Shop: “Old Street Qingming Cake Shop”, their Qingming Cakes follow the traditional production process, and each cake is full of strong human touch and authentic Wuyishan flavor.
Recommended Food Streets
Wuyishan Sangu Resort Food Street
Features: There are various restaurants and snack stalls on both sides of the street. There are both local specialty foods and some popular dishes from other regions. The environment is lively, and there is a wide price range. You can choose restaurants of different grades according to your budget.
Reason for Recommendation: This is an area where tourists are relatively concentrated. There is a rich variety of foods that can meet the taste needs of different tourists. Moreover, there are many specialty shops and entertainment facilities around, which is convenient for tourists to engage in leisure shopping and other activities after tasting delicious food.
Wuyishan Old Street
Features: It is full of ancient charm, and there are many old shops selling traditional Wuyishan cuisine on the street. Here you can taste the most authentic and genuine local flavor, and the prices are relatively affordable.
Reason for Recommendation: It allows tourists to deeply experience the local food culture of Wuyishan, feel the unique atmosphere of the old street, have close contact with local residents, and understand the history and local customs of Wuyishan through food.
