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6)Kui Pomelo Orchard Kui Pomelo Orchard in Kuizhou, today's Baidi City, popularly know as Big Vegetable Garden, is a small place with a famous name. Big Vegetable Garden is said to be the site of one of the great poet Du Fu's dwellings. It is also famous for its Kui pomelo. Du Fu's dwelling is nowhere to be found now. But many tourists still come here hopefully to find traces of it, to pay respect to the poet and to admire the old Kui pomelo orchard. Kui pomelo has been grown in Kuizhou for at least 1,200-2,000 years.
According to the Annals of Shu of the Han Dynasty, "Even the pomelos
of Yangzhou cannot compare with those of Kuizhou." A famous variety,
it enjoys a good market. This egg-shaped fruit grows to 20-30 centimeters
in diameter. It has a thin skin and is succulent and refreshingly sweet
to the taste. When placed in a room, it permeates the room with a delicate
fragrance. The best variety comes from Kui Pomelo Orchard. A seventy-year-old
man at the orchard, whose family has cultivated the pomelo trees for
generations, recalled that at his great grandfather's time, the Kui
Pomelo was already delivered as a tribute to the emperor and had been
awarded an inscribed board by the emperor. The present orchard is almost
two hundred years old. 7)Guanggan Guanggan is one of the best kinds of Chinese oranges. Those from the Three Gorges region are highly productive and have many varieties. Generally speaking, the best varieties of guanggan are bright in color, fragrant, tasty, sweet, juicy, and slightly sour. The following varieties sell well both at home and abroad. 8)Goose-egg orange
Goose-egg orange - So named because of its shape resembling a goose egg. Rich in citric acid; slightly sour; and bigger and likely to stay fresh longer than other varieties. 9)Cattle-gut Hotpot Hotpots are the traditional famous course of Sichuan,of which Chongqing hotpot is specially noted.Characterised by hotness,heavy flavours and dense soup,Chongqing hotpot's materials include cattle guts,cattle waists,beef and other vegetables,being a real self-help course.Hotpot enjoys an age-old history in China,for example,Chongqing hotpot stemmed from the early middle of Qing Dynasty,boasting an history of over 100 years. 10)Wansheng Tea Leaves Wansheng has excellent natural conditions and benign entironment, being a suitable place for planting tea leaves.Wansheng is the base of tea-leaf production as well as the production area of famous and excellent tea leaves in Chongqing.Wansheng tea-leaf plantation covers an area of over 1200 mus, with an annual yield of near 1000 tons. ¡¡¡¡Having an age-old history, Wansheng tea leaves boasts a great number of varieties,such as Chong Tea-leaf,Chuan Tea-leaf,Yun Tea-leaf,etc.The processing tea leaves include Green Tea, Jasmine Tea , Red Fannings, Oolong, etc.,of which Jingxing Verdure Tea, Yunwu Maofeng , Mum Spring, Clear and Bright Tea, White Flower Silver Pin are most well known all over the country. ¡¡¡¡Wansheng Tea Leaves are very popular thanks to their fancy casing, good quality and unique style.Of them Jingxing Verdure Tea is most famous for verdure and smoothness in color and lustre, tender and green sprouts as well as faint scent.
The name is gained thanks to its production in Baishiyi Town of Ba County. Boasting its history of over 100 years, the food enjoys an unique salted technics, tastes delicious, smells sweet and looks nice in color. ¡¡¡¡ 12)Ruyi Sausage¡¡¡¡ Produced by Dazu Food Corp,the product's main material is the selected pork.The making process: firstly, infuse the selected pork into pig intestines together with supplement materials, and then bake them smokelessly.The sauseage looks oily, tastes good and feels flexible. 13)Shuangjiangpian Xiong Duck¡¡¡¡ Set up by Xiong Hanjiang in Shawan, Jiangbai District, Chongqing, the food product is being produced by Xiongyazi Factory of Chongqing Jiangbai Food Co Ltd. Its main materials include Guangnianyang and selected young duck. Salted by tens of rare Chinese traditional medicines, baked with slow fire and braised for 30 minutes before eating, the course tastes fine and tender,smells sweet and looks nice in colors. 14)Sanjiang Hechuan Peach Slice¡¡¡¡ With a long history of over 140 years, the food is made of top-class sticky rice.Chuan white sugar,gingeli oil,lard,nucleolus,roses,etc.It tastes sweet,soft and loose,having the functions of nourishing kidney,profiting lung and curing cough. 15) Changxi Snow Pear¡¡ ¡¡Changxi Snow Pear looks like calabash, characterised by crispness,tenderness,sweetness,rich juice and small stone. 16)Chongqing Beer¡¡¡¡ Chongqing Beer, the famous brand in its kind, is brewed with high quality wheat, rice and excellent Xingjiang hops.The beer is transparent, tastes pure,smells sweet and rich in foam. 17)Chinese Gooseberry Liquor¡¡ ¡¡The liquor is brewed with high quality Chinese Gooseberry, and smells sweet, looks soft in color and tastes pure. In addition, it contains rich nutrition components, frequent drinking is beneficial to health. 18)Folding Fan Folding fan is not only a folk handicraft used to keep cool in summer, but also a industrial artworks, meanwhile, it is an important prop used for the performances of play and dancing. Folding fan was introduced into China from Korea in North Song Dynasty and became an industry in Era of Rongle in Ming Dynasty. |