Food of Emei Mount all have unique tastes, numerous species give people good appetites. We extracted the essence from them and listed below, hope tourists to have enjoyment of delicious food on their trips.
Three-Mixed Sticky Rice: Sort of sweetmeat, made of fried sticky rice mixed with lard, gingilis and earthnuts. Then stewed over small fire till bouquet wafts. It tastes soft, sweet.
Salty Duck: sincerely recommended, cooked referring to secret recipe. It is ruddy, fresh and tender, smelt flavorful. Salty Duck is really a delicacy going with drinks.
Meaty Cake of Indian Corn: toasted, boiled fine Indian corn mixed with crumbs of preserved hams, peppery oil and other spice, tastes delicious, crisp, hot and meaty.
Bean Flowers: Soybeans grown on Emei Mount boiled in pure fountain, soft, tender, pure white gives good appetite. Blend it in sesame oil, spiced oil, mashed garlic, gourmet powder and chopped fistular onion.
Leaved Cake: Sticky rice holds the fillings of sugar, earthnuts, walnuts, gingilis; steamed wrapped with leaves. It is fresh, flavorful, leaves nice aftertaste. Some people make the fillings with pork (half fat and half muscle) and some other seasonings. Both methods cook the same good food.
Vegetarian Feast: The noted feast offered by monasteries of Bao Guo Temple, Ten Thousand Years Temple, Tiger-Taming Temple. It includes only vegetarian foods like noodles, melons, beans and green vegetables. The diet is of different sorts, imitating the delicacies on earthling’s table with little trace. It is perfect in color, smell, taste, has left nice impressions in travelers’ minds.
Jellied Bean Curd: stewed in spicy bone soup, added with many sauces and loose meat, full of Sichuan’s flavor. You won’t regret trying it!
Food Street: locates by the side of Emei Mansion on Southern Bailong Road. There are numerous kinds of cheap snacks and dishes, open to travelers around the clock. Generally four people may have a belly-worship at the expense of only one hundred RMB.
