Local Specialifies from Kaifeng

One of the dishes high up on the menu in Kaifeng is the boneless chicke, duck, dove, and quail, one in another.

Bianliang is famous for watermelon, with thin skin, rich juice, mushy pulp, less seeds, and high content of sugar. It is know as the King of Fruits in Summer. The best species of watermelon is the one without seeds.

Other local snacks in Kaifeng include noodles with carp, Dongpo pork soup, mashed sweet potato, fried bean noodles, boiled pear with sugar, peanut cakes, and fried eight-treasure rice with sugar.

The steamed dumpling prepared by the No. 1 Restaurant in Kaifeng is small and exquisite in size, and elegant in shape, some resembling to lanterns, others resembling to chrysanthemum, with thin, transparent skin.

Kaifeng has long been famous for night fairs, with a great variety of goods and local snacks, such as peanut cakes, pear with ice sugar, hot mutton soup, spices rabit meat, spiced bean sauce, flour fried in beef fat with sugar and sesame, and fried bean noodles.