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A Brief Introduction to the Delicacies in Sanya

 

Sanya is the main tourist city in Hainan and it's of course the place where you can enjoy the most delicious and the most various Hainan delicacies.

 

The Four Famous Dishes in Hainan

 

You can taste Wenchang chicken, Jiaji duck, Dongshan mutton and Hele crab here.

 

Famous Seafood

 

One thing that you can't miss in Sanya is the seafood. Fish, shrimps, shells and crabs are definitely worth a shot. The popular seafood cuisines are steamed sea-urchins, steamed seaweeds, small abalones, lobsters (eating them rare), porridge with sea crabs, deep-fried edible mantis shrimp with spicy salt, steamed sea bass and steamed humphead wrasse.

 

Tropical Fruits Banquet

 

Tropical fruits are available all the year round in Sanya at cheap prices. You just have to pay 3-5 RMB for a coconut and then you can drink your fill by holding it in your hands. Mangos, papayas, durians, wax apples, mini bananas, dragon fruits, jackfruits, litchis and mangosteens can be found everywhere. In Sanya, you can drink more these fruits juice because they are definitely the best drinks for quenching your thirst.

 

The Delicacies of the Li and Miao Minority Group

 

Bamboo-steamed rice of the Li ethnic minority and five-color steamed rice of the Miao ethnic minority.

 

There are three flavors of the bamboo-steamed rice: salty steamed rice, steamed rice with black beans and game steamed rice. The strongly recommended one is the game steamed rice, among which the steamed rice with meat preserved in fragrant wine is the most scrumptious. The Miao people dye the rice corns with the black, red, green and yellow coloring matters that are made from mulberry leaves and then steam them together with the white rice.

 

The Nanshan Vegetable Dishes

 

As the special food in the Nanshan Culture Tourist District, the Nanshan vegetable dishes are quite famous. Its famous dishes are deep-fried slices of eels in sesame oil, braising weever and sautéed funguses. The best place for you to enjoy vegetable dishes is Chanyue Yuan. The environment there is rather comfortable.