Ningbo cooking, also known as"Yong clique cooking", specializes in the seafood cuisine, combining the taste of freshness and saltiness. The cooking mainly adopts the techniques of steaming, roasting and stewing, with the characteristic tender and authentic flavor. Representative dishes of Ningbo cooking like yellow croaker steamed with fermented tofu pieces, roasted liverwort, and potherb mustard fried with bamboo shoot, are low in cost, but delicious in favor. The best place for local snacks is the city temple, where you can enjoy small steamed bun with meat and crab powder, fried dumplings with rice noodle, lard dumplings made of glutinous rice, fermented dumplings, and so on, in a lively and distinctive surroundings.
Ten renowned dishes: soft-shelled turtle boiled with crystal sugar, pot-cooked river eel, yellow croaker steamed with fermented tofu pieces, roasted liverwort, roasted chicken, steamed meat with lotus leaf powder, fried yellow croaker, fried goose liver,yellow croaker belly-meat, and yellow croaker cooked with liverwort.
Ten renowned snacks: Ningbo glutinous rice dumplings, sweet stuffed yellow bun, crystal oil bun, eight-treasure rice pudding with sweetened bean paste, lard flaky pastry, shredded meat noodle, small steamed bun with fresh meat, shrimp sumai, fresh meat ravioli, and fermented dumplings.