Jiangxi Street Food

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5 street foods from Jiangxi, China: Nanchang Ban Fen, Waguan Tang, Pingxiang Chaofen, Dengzhan Guo and Gannan Leicha. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.

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Street foods of Jiangxi

Noodle · Cold-tossed Nanchang Ban Fen (Nanchang Mixed Rice Noodles) The noodles are scalded for only a few seconds, not boiled — just long enough to warm through before being tossed cold-style in sauce. Round rice noodles are quickly blanched, then tossed with a savory-spicy sauce, roasted peanuts, pickled vegetables, scallions, and chili oil, sometimes with a fried egg or minced pork.

Soup · Slow-simmered Waguan Tang (Clay Pot Soup) Each soup simmers inside its own small clay pot rather than a shared cauldron, so a stall can have dozens of different soups cooking side by side. A pork bone broth is slow-simmered for hours inside small, individual clay pots with add-ins like lotus root, seaweed, pear, or egg, producing a concentrated soup. 🍜 Night Stall · Wok-Fried Pingxiang Chaofen (Pingxiang Fried Rice Noodles) The version locals rate highest is fried with cacai, greens that are salted and then scrubbed hard on a washboard before pickling. Thin rice noodles are stir-fried fast over high heat with egg, shredded pork, bean sprouts and scallion, plus plenty of chili, until they pick up a slightly charred wok aroma. 🪔 Snack Shop · Steamed Dengzhan Guo (Lamp-Cup Rice Cakes) The name means 'oil-lamp cake': each rice cup is shaped like the little saucer of an old oil lamp, and popular stalls sell out so fast that… A rice-flour dough is pressed into small open cups and filled with fresh shiitake, pork, soybean sprouts and bamboo shoots, then steamed in small bamboo steamers over high heat for about… 🍵 Hakka Tea · Ground Gannan Leicha (Hakka Pounded Tea) The Gannan Hakka way of making leicha was added to China's national intangible heritage list in 2014, and a line of Southern Song verse already… Tea leaves are ground to a paste in a ridged earthenware bowl with a wooden pestle, along with ingredients such as sesame and peanuts. Boiling water is poured in, a little tea-seed oil is…

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