As the saying goes, “Each place has its own way of supporting its own inhabitants”. For the general public, Shaoxing cuisine with mixed smell is irresistible. Although the food are seemingly disgusting with the unique cooking techniques such as fermenting, pickling and soaking, it turns out that the food are not as yucky as people thought. Why not have a taste if you happen to be in Shaoxing. You may pipe up with “yummy”.



The sun-dried vegetable is named for its color in Chinese. The local people call it sun-dried vegetable, while outsiders call it preserved vegetable.


Of all Shaoxing's delicacies, the three most smelly---fermented bean curd, fermented stem of three-colored amaranth and fermented bean curd sheetsare what this mixed dish made of. Although salty and smelly, it tastes good and is considered as the right food to go with rice.

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Graphic editor: Xu Zheyu, Ping Fangyuan
(The pictures in this article are all from the Internet)