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.