Delicious Winter Food

A villager makes doubao, steamed buns with sweetened red bean paste fillings, at Laobai Mountain Snow Village in Dunhua City, Jilin Province. [Photo by Chen Boyuan/China.org.cn]

People living in northeast China, especially those from Manchu and Mongol ethnic groups, have their own eating habits during the winter season. Apart from beautiful scenery, visitors can also enjoy delicious local food and its abundant culture. Even in the chilly environment, local people tend to have frozen food, such as ice-lollies, sugar-coated haws on a stick, frozen pears, persimmons and so on–in effect, combating cold with cold. Stewed dishes, including braised pork with vermicelli, chicken with mushroom, ribs with tofu and other combinations of meat and vegetable, are distinctive hot dishes for local people to fend off the cold. Other typical foods like doubao, steamed buns with sweetened red bean paste filling, and suancai, a kind of pickled Chinese cabbage, have also won popularity among visitors. Even with the cold weather, Jilin Province has its own unique glamour and people can come to experience the joy and fun of living there.

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