# The best Huaiyang dishes

Huaiyang cuisine, the core of Jiangsu cooking, prizes knife work and pure, fresh flavours. Signature dishes from Wikipedia's article.

- 12 votes · 12 items
- Jul 12, 2019 · 杨思雨
- https://even.best/en/l/1714/the-best-huaiyang-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Lion's head meatballs with crab** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Large pork meatballs with crab meat and roe, gently stewed.
2. **Braised shredded tofu** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Finely shredded dried tofu in rich stock, a knife-skill test.
3. **Yangzhou fried rice** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Egg fried rice with shrimp and ham.
4. **Crystal pork terrine** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Translucent jellied pork hock slices.
5. **Three-nested duck** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A domestic duck, wild duck and pigeon nested and stewed.
6. **Stir-fried soft eel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Eel back fillets flash-fried, silky and fragrant.
7. **Sizzling eel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Eel strips doused with sizzling oil at the table.
8. **Salted goose** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Yangzhou's tender salted goose.
9. **Steamed Reeves shad** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Reeves shad from the Yangtze, steamed with its scales.
10. **Braised pig's head** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Braised pig's head, part of Yangzhou's 'three heads' banquet.
11. **Wensi tofu soup** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Silken tofu cut into hair-thin threads that bloom in soup.
12. **Crab-roe soup dumplings** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Big crab-roe soup dumplings sipped through a straw.

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