Top most luxurious dishes in China

These dishes all have complicated processing processes, rare and hard-to-find ingredients.

1. Bird’s nest soup

Bird’s nest soup is a precious delicacy often served in high-class banquets in the old court. The preparation of this soup is very complicated, it requires the best bird’s nest, and the temperature and time are strictly controlled. After that, people will add many other ingredients to create a clear soup like water, sweet and delicious.

2. Buddha Jumping Wall Soup

This dish is known as “the king of Phu Kien cuisine”, made from dozens of rare ingredients such as sea cucumber, abalone, shark fin, scallops, deer antlers… plus spices such as winter Cordyceps, wrapped in lotus leaves, stewed with broth over low heat for 3 days and nights.

3. Bird’s nest blood sugar alum

Blood nest actually refers to the red bird’s nest, this is the best and rarest kind of bird’s nest. It is an extremely nutritious food, which is difficult to buy the real thing. Blood nest stewed with alum sugar is extremely good for the lungs.

4. Soup of 5 types of snakes

This is a famous dish in Guangdong province, made from 5 different types of snakes along with chicken, abalone, and shiitake. It has the effect of tonic blood, enhancing blood qi.

5. Cabbage Chrysanthemum

This dish looks very ordinary but is very difficult to prepare, created by a chef from Sichuan. Cabbage is boiled in a broth of chicken, duck, scallops and other ingredients for 4 hours. The broth is clear, not oily, sweet, very refreshing to drink. The cabbage used must be the Northeastern variety, boiled in the broth to make the taste very delicious.

6. Braised shark fins

Braised shark fin is a famous traditional dish in Beijing. This dish takes 7 days from preparation to serving. To get the best taste, people choose sharks very carefully. The collagen in the shark fin will completely dissolve into the soup, creating a rich and delicious taste.

7. Goldfish

Yellow fish soup is considered the top dish in the banquets of the Manchu and Han dynasties. This fish is very rare and hard to find. The taste of yellow fish is very special, when you take a bite, you will find a light aroma spreading in your mouth, the taste makes people ecstatic.

8. Bamboo mushroom soup

This is one of the four most famous dishes in Sichuan province. The difficulty when making this dish is how to make the soup transparent. The broth is stewed from many ingredients such as chicken, pork bones, scallops, etc., cooked on medium heat for 6 hours, then added alum sugar and longan to cook for another 2 hours.

Finally filter the water, add bamboo mushrooms, liver to cook together to create a dish with a mild, soft and sweet aroma.

9. Duck 3 in 1

3 ducks is a famous traditional dish in Jiangsu province. To make this dish is very difficult, people stuff boneless mallards into domestic ducks, stuff pigeons into mallards, then stew them with a variety of ingredients. Each type of meat has its own flavor that creates a rich and nutritious soup.