🔥 Top 5 must-eats
❶ Chengkou Old Bacon
“Living fossil in the world of cured meat” Slow-smoked with cypress branches for 365 days, the meat is amber-colored and has a pine aroma! Stewed cured pork ribs with dried bamboo shoots, be careful not to lose your eyebrows when drinking the soup~
🍴Recommended ways to eat: Fried bacon with potato chips, cured pig’s trotter soup pot
📍Guide from a gourmet: Zhang’s smokehouse in Kanggu Old Street (30-year-old stove)
❷ Alpine baked potatoes
The iron pan bakes a caramelized crispy shell! The hot mashed potatoes gush out when you poke with chopsticks, dip it in the secret wild onion chili sauce, it is so sticky that it sticks to your lips!
💡 Hidden way to eat: Potato cake mixed with farmhouse sour tofu pudding
❸ Stewed Chicken with Rock Ear
Rock fungus picked from the cliff + free-range pheasant, simmered in a casserole for 4 hours! The soup is golden, and the freshness of the mushrooms is wrapped in the fragrance of chicken oil!
⏳Best tasting period: Rock fungus is the thickest after the rainy season from July to September
❹ Corn Cake Rhapsody
Corn pulp freshly ground from a stone mill, wrapped in banana leaves and steamed to create honeycomb pores! The moment you bite it, the sweet juice will set off fireworks in your mouth~
🚩Must-order breakfast: Paired with salty and fragrant fermented bean curd, sweet and salty lovers will be delighted
❺ Fried fish with Renhe pepper
Rock carp raised in cold rapids, sprinkled with freshly pounded green Sichuan peppercorns! The fish meat is springy and has the numbness of Sichuan peppercorns. Your lips will dance for 3 minutes after eating it!
🍃 Mountain Limited Blind Box
✔ Morel stuffed with meat (limited to May-June)
✔ Braised bamboo chicken with wild chestnuts (a must-try in autumn)
✔ Stir-fried cured pork liver with sour tofu (a great dish to go with rice)
🚗 Chengkou Food Rush Route
DAY1: Old Street cured meat sweep → Mountain farmhouse banquet → Night market roasted potatoes
DAY2: Forest mushroom digging experience → Stilt house long table banquet → Bonfire roasted whole lamb