Anhui cuisine is the most famous in Anhui, but it depends on the local area. Local specialties are different. However, in general, Anhui people are very particular about eating. The basic meals are all complete with soup and meat. Naturally, some people like to drink soup.

There are more than 1000 traditional varieties of Anhui cuisine, and their flavors include the characteristics of the three local dishes in southern Anhui, along the Yangtze River and along the Huaihe River. Southern Anhui, represented by Anhui cuisine, is the mainstream and birthplace of Anhui cuisine. Its main feature is that it likes to use ham as seasoning and the rock sugar is fresh. He is good at maintaining the original flavor and true taste of raw materials. The taste is mainly salty, fresh and fragrant, but sugar is not sweet.

The flavor along the Yangtze River is popular in Wuhu, Anqing and Chaohu. He is good at cooking seafood and poultry, paying attention to knife skills and shapes, being good at seasoning with sugar, and being good at cooking, stewing, steaming and smoking. Its dishes are refreshing, crisp and mellow. The dishes along the Huaihe River are represented by the local dishes of Bengbu, Suxian and Fuyang in the Yellow River Basin. They are good at cooking techniques such as burning, frying and frying, and they like to use wanluo and pepper to flavor and match colors. Their flavor features are salty, fresh, crisp, slightly spicy and refreshing, and they are rarely flavored with sugar.