There are various special dishes and local delicacies in Wutai Mountain, including: sauté mushrooms with pork slices (ingredients are the local mushrooms), sauté mushrooms, stewed chickens with mushrooms, stewed pork with mushrooms and sauté pork balls with mushrooms. They are all scrumptious and greaseless. The various vegetable dishes are must-haves while visiting as they’re very healthy.
Special snacks are as followed: steamed pork, fried potatoes, dumplings, tofu balls and stewed vegetables.
Places of local delicacies: You can taste local delicacies in the restaurants in Taihuai County. You can also taste the home-cooked dishes in family hotels.
Tips:
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As Wutai Mountain is a pilgrimage site for the Buddhists, it’s strictly forbidden to have or show any meat in public in the temples. However, you can have meat on your way to Wutai Mountain. The food you bring with you is supposed have high caloric value and are easy to carry. You need to bring the food that will support your trip.
Once you go to Shanxi, one thing that you can’t miss is the local wheat-based food. You are suggested to taste the wheat-based food in the stores where there are various seasonings.
