# The best dishes of Henan cuisine

Yellow River carp with crispy noodles, peony 'bird's nest', braised noodles, hot pepper soup and Kaifeng soup dumplings: the 'mother' of Chinese cuisines.

- 6 votes · 18 items
- Oct 9, 2019 · 杨思雨
- https://even.best/en/l/3707/the-best-dishes-of-henan-cuisine

## Top 18

1. **Zhengzhou braised noodles** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Hand-pulled noodles in mutton bone broth.
2. **Yellow River carp with noodles** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sweet-and-sour Yellow River carp served with crispy noodles.
3. **Hulatang** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Thick pepper-spiced soup with gluten and vermicelli.
4. **Bianjing roast duck** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hung-oven roast duck dating back to Song-dynasty Kaifeng.
5. **Kaifeng soup dumplings** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kaifeng's thin-skinned soup dumplings.
6. **Fried perilla pork** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried pork belly scented with perilla.
7. **Braised carp head and tail** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kaifeng carp head and tail with bamboo shoots and mushrooms.
8. **Mutton with scallions** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tender mutton braised with leeks.
9. **Eight-piece fried chicken** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spring chicken cut in eight pieces and fried.
10. **Sea cucumber with egg white** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sea cucumber with steamed egg white.
11. **Oven-baked shaobing** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Flaky flatbread baked on the oven wall.
12. **Mutton flatbread** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Flatbread filled with mutton and griddled.
13. **Mutton soup** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mutton bone soup.
14. **Egg-filled pancake** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Flatbread filled with egg.
15. **Cai's steamed dumplings** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Zhengzhou juicy steamed dumplings.
16. **Fried liangfen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pan-fried jelly noodles with scallion, garlic and chili.
17. **Bowang guokui** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thick charcoal-baked flatbread.
18. **Peony swallow dish** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Luoyang dish of radish shaped like bird's nest with a peony.

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