Anhui Wild Vegetable Preparations (Hui Cai Ye Cai / 徽菜野菜)

Anhui Province — particularly southern Huizhou mountain region

Anhui cuisine (one of the Eight Great Cuisines) is defined by its use of mountain and forest ingredients: wild herbs, bamboo shoots, dried mushrooms, and preserved mountain vegetables. The Huizhou mountains produce ingredients not found elsewhere in Chinese cooking: xiansun (fresh bamboo shoots preserved in salt), stone chicken (rock frog — shi ji), and the prized Huizhou black mushroom (huang shan zhi ye hei gu). The cuisine embraces strong preserved flavours alongside fresh mountain produce.

Earthy mountain depth from dried mushrooms and preserved pork; wild green freshness from mountain herbs; the deliberate stinks of fermented preparations — a cuisine that embraces complexity and strong flavour