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Henan Cuisine is representative of the cooking style popular in central China. The soups are especially delicious. The most famous dishes that have evolved over the past millenniums are peony and swallow vegetables, fried purple crisp pork, lightly fried bean curd, jadeite shredded fish, and sea cucumber shaped like lotus flowers and stuffed buns steamed in small bamboo baskets.
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Luoyang Shui Xi (Luoyang Water Feast)
Luoyang Yan Cai (Steamed Radish in Nourishing Soup)
Liyu Yue Long Men (Carp Jumping over Dragon Gate)
Luoyang Shui Xi (Luoyang Water Feast)
As the dish most peculiar to Luoyang, the Water Feast is famed as 'Top Banquet under the Heaven' and parallels the well renowned Dumpling Banquet in Xian. It originates from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and has a long history of over one thousand years. There are in total 24 dishes accompanied by different soups, hence the names of the feast. The dishes combine meat and vegetables together and are served according to a very strict order. You can delight your taste buds with the abundance of flavors that include sour, sweet, salty and hot.
Luoyang Yan Cai (Steamed Radish in Nourishing Soup)
Served first in the Water Feast, this is an imperial dish. It is said that when Empress Wu Zetian (the first Chinese empress) governed the nation in the Tang Dynasty, a farmer discovered a huge radish in Luoyang and he presented it to the empress. The royal cooks steamed it with delicacies of all kinds, making it taste like succulent bird's nest soup (Yan Wo in Pinyin). The empress was greatly satisfied and praised it as the 'succulent mock bird's nest soup'. The dish is made by steaming radish threads and then mixing them with chicken threads, pork threads, sea cucumber threads and seaweed threads in a nourishing pork soup. It not only tastes fresh and delicious, but also appears like a beautiful peony blossom.
Liyu Yue Long Men (Carp Jumping over Dragon Gate)
Carps living in the Yellow River are always famous for their tender flesh, rich nourishment and fresh flavor. This dish uses those carps as an ingredient and looks quite vivid. The steamed carp is presented as holding its head towards a 'dragon gate' made from vegetables on the serving dish. This beautiful creation symbolizes happiness and good luck.
Luoyang-zhen bu tong
Luoyang-Churrascaria Do Brasil
Luoyang Restaurant
Tasting Restaurant
Yaxianglou Restaurant
Luoyang City Xuangong Building
One-of-a-Kind Restaurant
Luoyang-zhen bu tong
The specialty at this popular restaurant housed in a huge five-story Chinese-style building is the famous Luoya¡ng Shuixì (Water Banquet), consisting of 8 cold and 16 hot dishes variously cooked in broth, soup, or juice (examples include zhenyancai, a soup made of ham, radish, mushrooms, and eggs; and ma¬zhi tudou, sweet potato fries in syrup). The full complement of dishes, designed for a table of 10 people, costs ¥688 ($86), but happily, the first floor dining hall offers more reasonably sized four-dish or five-dish mini-banquets. The staff is a little surly, but this is a unique local dining experience that shouldn’t be missed.
Luoyang-Churrascaria Do Brasil
This Chinese-style Brazilian barbecue offers all-you-can-eat lunch and dinner buffets. Choose from any number of meats, including beefsteak, lamb, chicken wings, cuttlefish, and even spicy vegetarian chicken. Chefs will deliver the grilled skewers right to your table, accompanied by a variety of cold Chinese dishes, dim sum, dumplings, and fruit.
Luoyang Restaurant
Add: #345 Zhongzhou Rd., Central Xigong District, Luoyang
Tel: 3934260
Description: It serves a variety of dishes, features Yang Zhou dishes.
Type of Cuisine: Yang Zhou Cuisine
Open Hour: 10am-2pm, 5pm-10pm
Tasting Restaurant
Add: East side of the Xiyuan Park Gate, Luoyang
Description: One of the top ten restaurants designated for in Luoyang.
Type of Cuisine: Huaiyang Cuisine
Yaxianglou Restaurant
Add: Guangzhou Market, Jianxi District, Luoyang
Description: highly recommended as the best Cantonese restaurant in Luoyang.
Type of Cuisine: Cantonese Cuisine
Luoyang City Xuangong Building
Add: #275 Zhongzhou Rd., Central Xigong District, Luoyang
Tel: 3931940
Description: It serves excellent seafood.
Type of Cuisine: Cantonese Cuisine
One-of-a-Kind Restaurant
Add: #359 Zhongzhou M. Rd, Luoyang
Tel: 3991404
Description: Try the 4-course mini-Water Banquet—a Luoyang special.
Type of Cuisine: Local Cuisine
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