Liyang chestnut

Liyang chestnut – Liyang is an important chestnut producing area in Jiangsu Province. Pingqiao chestnut is known as the "pearl chestnut", commonly known as "big chestnut” which is famous for its berry, thin shell, bright reddish brown color, and sweet taste.. Raw crispy sweet; delicate sweet glutinous after cooking, particularly great before or after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and August is the season of osmanthus fragrances, therefore, it have a fresh smell of osmanthus fragrance, and euphemistically called “osmanthus fragrance chest nut." Tianmu Lake unique climate and soil conditions created its modest body, sweet, high glutinous characteristics. Over the past 10 years, the planting area of chestnut had constantly expanded, mainly in Pingqiao, and the Longtan Huangjian forest area. The output is also raising, 1995 output reached 549000KG, ranked the forefront in Jiangsu province and become one of the four production bases in Jiangsu after (Liuhe, Xuzhou, Jurong) South Mountain Chestnut, nutrient-rich, according to data records, berry starch 62%, protein 5.7%, oil 2%, vitamin also high contained . Color, smell and taste are all great, raw, fried, cooked, boiled are good.

Zhu Ze pickled geese

Zhu Ze pickled geese - “Zhu Ze " brand pickled Goose Series products , the raw materials are real farm goose, on basis of the combination of the tradition techniques and Yangzhou University Meat latest processing techniques, the scientific method of processing refined. There are three major categories pickled geese, sauce geese and salt water goose, over 20 varieties. This series of products are produced under a sealed industrial process, exclude any chemical preservatives which maintain a traditional flavor being of the four "color, smell and taste, shape" major characteristics, the nature taste will always remains in your mind

Tianmu Lake hands stripping bamboo shoot

Tianmu Lake hands stripping bamboo shoot – which choose Tianmu Lake wild bamboo shoot to modern science and production technology after a long grilling, cooking, vacuum packaging, and high-temperature sterilization. Without stripping the shell, and eat with it, you will immediately feel the unique taste of nature. It can be used as refined cold dish in hotels the day-to-day family vegetable consumption, can also be gifts to tourism or leisure food. Hands stripping bamboo shoot is green health food for high protein, low fat and rich natural fibers. Usually eating bamboo shoots, can not only promote the Gastro-intestinal wiggle, enhance digestion, and can adsorb and remove toxic substances in the Gastro-intestinal, especially the rich tyrosine and Ge, Se microelement in the dried bamboo shoots have significant medicinal function to prevent cancer cells and degradation of the pancreas and maintain human longevity
Ingredients: small wild bamboo shoots, salt, MSG, sugar, fennel, cinnamon, etc.

Dark rice

Dark rice - Liyang every civilian will have the Dark rice at Lunar April 8th. This is related to the spread of local folk tales and abound Dark rice leaves on the mountain. It is told that Mulian one of the ten students of the Buddha happy was happy to see the father in heaven, but not found his mother. The Buddha told him that: his mother duplicity, disrespect for others, and fall into the 18-storey hell after death to the torture of hunger. Mulian was extremely painful, begged food to feed his mother, but even his mother seeing food, the hungry ghosts snatch to eat. After several times, Mulian’s mother had got nothing to eat, Mulian had no way to solve the problem only turn to the Buddha for an answer. Buddha said: the solution is to find a vegetation to dye the rice which is non-toxic and harmless to people. Mulian even use his god power to search that plant, after traveling all over the mountains, and undertaking countless suffering, finally found, "Green refined Dark rice tree" in the Jiangnan area. Dark rice grass, in Taoism is also known as the Green Refined Grass, contains 17 kinds of amino acids and Vc, Vb, Ve and calcium, phosphorus, selenium, zinc, and other microelement which is healthful to the body with nutritious, anti-aging, anti-bacteria effectiveness. It can also increase appetite, improve visual acuity. Always eating it can stop enterorrhea except sleeping. Du Fu once said: "the Dark rice make me had a great complexion " With this tree leaves juice cooked with the rice, tanks to the Dark rice, Ms Qingti was saved from the surfing in the hell by her son’s done. Now local people will all come to the mountains to pick Dark rice leaves, broke up to get the juice, dye rice black, or wrap the dark rice into Zhongzi and sell it to the downtown. This alone can make farmers a net income of 8,000 Yuan.

Tianmu Lake Clouds and Fog Tea

Tianmu Lake Clouds and Fog Tea - As Tianmu Lake neighboring is perennial misty, The tea of the Lakes region grow in blue mountains, immersed in the lake fog, and nurtured by dew which give the tea that name. As the saying goes, "great tea come through clouds and fogs", Clouds, as its color, smell and taste, superb shape ,make it as one of Jiangsu three famous tea after Yuhua and Biluochun tea.

Casserole Fish Head

"Casserole Fish Head" – the essence of Tianmu Lake fish culture, the diligent and intelligent Liyang not only meticulously take care of this Tianmu Lake environment here, but also make wine and beer and cook delicacies, to serve universal guests. Jiangsu Province the famous brand beer, also the special beer for Great Hall “Tianmu Lake Beer” is using water Tianmu Lake water. As the saying goes: great wine should accompanied with delicious food, the famous home and abroad "Casserole Fish Head" is cooked with the big silver carp about 4KG along with Tianmu Lake water which still maintain the state class tow drinking water standard. As Tianmu Lake under bottom is paved by sand, contains no any silt, which makes the fish heat soup without the offensive smell. Its greatest feature is: fresh but not fishy; fat not greasy; milk white soup; original juice and original flavor. Hailed as "natural green food", it has been highly appreciated by the party and state leaders repeatedly. In 1982, 75 countries envoys with their wives came to Tianmu Lake, cheers the soup instead of wine. And in 1985, Deng Xiaoping visited Jiangsu; the founder of the Tianmu Lake "Casserole Fish Head" ZHU Shun came to Eastern Suburban Nanjing Hotels with Tianmu Lake water and fish to produce this cuisine for Deng. Deng Xiaoping tasted it and said this was the best cuisine that night, and entrusted his wife Zhuo Lin to the kitchen to express his thanks to Zhu. Since then, Yang Shangkun, Jiang Zemin, and other party or state leaders had also tasted dishes successively in Nanjing, Changzhou, and other places. So what really condition about the "Casserole Fish Head”? Local people to have such litter poem: "Children drink the head soup, clever-minded; Women drink the fish head soup, fair complexion and good; Men drink the fish heat soup, will get broader ideas."