What are the specialties of Dandong?

Dandong City, Liaoning Province is a border city with beautiful scenery.

It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is picturesque.

Going to Dandong is not only to see the beautiful scenery, but also to feel the local cultural atmosphere.

Let’s take a look at what specialties Dandong has today!

Dandong Specialty 1: Baile Smoked Chicken Baile Smoked Chicken is a traditional snack in Dandong, Liaoning, and has a very long history.

It uses chicken as the main ingredient and the cooking method is mainly smoked vegetables.

It is made using traditional production methods.

The smoked chicken produced is bright, evenly salty, fragrant and delicious, the meat is tender, moderately soft and hard, and is suitable for home and travel.

Dandong Specialty 2: Dandong Chestnut Chestnut has a cultivation history of two to three thousand years. The cultivation of chestnut trees in Liaoning Province began in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty.

Chestnuts can be eaten raw, fried with sugar, roasted, canned, ground into cakes, or cooked with a spoon.

It contains sugar, protein, fat and vitamins and has high nutritional and economic value.

Dandong Specialty 3: Dandong Strawberry Dandong strawberry is a specialty fruit of Dandong, Liaoning. It was planted in 2009.

Dandong has a very advantageous geographical environment, with flat terrain, loose soil, rich organic matter content, convenient drainage and irrigation, and sufficient sunlight, which is very suitable for the growth of strawberries.

The strawberries produced are beautiful in appearance, bright in color, rich in fragrance, sweet and sour.

Dandong Specialty Four: Fengcheng Laojiao Fengcheng Laojiao, a famous brand in Liaoning, one of the top ten cultural wines in China, and the first wine in Liaodong.

It is famous for its bran koji sauce and pure taste.

Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, visited Fenghuang Mountain and smelled the aroma of wine when passing by a pot roaster.

The owners of the wine toasted each other with fine wine. Emperor Taizong Li Shimin was very happy after drinking it.

Then the dongshao pot was collected every year as a special tribute to the imperial court.

At present, Fengcheng Laojiao has more than 70 varieties in four series: sauce-flavor, mixed-flavor, strong-flavor and health-care.

Dandong Specialty Five: Dried yellow clams and dried astragalus are Dandong’s specialties.

Made from Astragalus membranaceus grown at the junction of the Yalu River and the Yellow Sea.

It is high in protein and low in fat, contains a variety of trace elements, has a good taste, is rich in nutrients and is delicious.

Dried astragalus seeds can be eaten directly or used in stews.