Zhu Xiaoyang

Ding Feng

From south of Zhejiang to the north of Jiangsu, through the best of ingredients, to find the best of man, and to connect with both. This time, we will take you through a journey of different delicacies you will regret missing out.

Lonely Delicacy

Diseño sin título (7)

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Mr. Chen would go up to the top of the reefs, which can be as tall as 30 meters. He’d tie a rope to his waist, and went down the cliffs with proficiency. Along the cliffs, he’d use a chisel to crack open some splits, and take out the ingredients he needs.

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The Fisherman in Tidal-flats

Because it contains high vitamins and protein, families would cook the wild-fire rice for their kids, hoping that the pot of wild-fire rice that contains peas, meat, and bamboo-shoots would keep their kids from illness and grow up stronger every day.

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Wild-fire Rice

On the tidal-flats of Taizhou Sanmenwan, there’s an abundance amount of a plankton microorganism--Razor Clams. Through years of fresh water coming into the ocean, the seawater salinity is just right for it to be the heaven of all kinds of seafood.

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King of All Seafood

Beijing Guijie Street has already become known for its hot&spicy cray-fish. Through April to October, cray-fish has become the “standard” food along with beer at all kinds of restaurants or night fairs. But all of this was unbelievable 30 years ago.

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The Transition of Cray-fish

There is a kind of mysterious crab living on the tidal-flats of Wenzhou Leqingwan, known as the “single-armed ninjas”.Every time when the ebb goes down, the male fiddler crabs would raise their pincers, to demonstrate their authorities.

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Fiddler Crab

Growing in Zhejiang Tonglu, there is a wild river fish. The patterns on their body looks exactly like the patterns on the rocks, so people call these fish tiny rock patterned fish. Even the slightest moves on the shore would chase them away.

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The Invisible Traps

The Anhui famous chef Zhangshun has been in the cooking business for 30 years, and every year in March, he would return to his hometown to find the best and fattest Mandarin fish to make into salted smelly fish.