Various experts on food culture, tourism and cooking expressed their views and suggestions on building the “Yancheng Badawan” brand and dish cooking standards at the “Badawan” food culture expert symposium of Yancheng on Aug 26.
Yancheng “Badawan”, meaning Yancheng eight big bowls in Chinese, is a series of courses comprising of both soup and dishes, which is also said to date back to the Kingdom of Wu in the Three Kingdoms Period (220-265). The food materials mainly consist of chicken, fish, other meat and eggs, and all the dishes and soups are served in big bowls, referring back to the name. Courses include fried pork rinds, glutinous rice meat balls, stewed pork with brown sauce, and braised fish in brown sauce, mainly featured at local weddings, funerals and banquets. The dishes embody the Yancheng people’s plain quality and nostalgia for their hometown.
The symposium aims to better explore, summarize and promote local cuisine cultures in Yancheng, and build “Badawan” into Yancheng city’s name card. The trademark for “Badawan” is under application with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. Yancheng will also set up the “Yancheng Badawan” Food Cultural Research Center by the end of this year, which will hold regular food culture symposiums and enrich the food cultural connotations of the “Yancheng Badawan” brand.
