What are the specialties of Ningbo?

Myrica rubra is a famous and unique product in Cixi City, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. Cixi City is located on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay Bridge, facing Jiaxing Haiyan across Hangzhou Bay Bridge. Known as "the hometown of Myrica rubra in China", it has been cultivated artificially/kloc-0 for more than 300 years. Wild Myrica rubra has a history of more than 7000 years. Su Dongpo, a great writer in Song Dynasty, Ceng Yun said: "Litchi in Fujian and Guangxi, grapes in the west are cool, unlike bayberry in wuyue". Myrica rubra has good pharmacological effects. Myrica rubra contains a variety of trace elements, which is extremely beneficial to human body. It can also help digestion, diuresis and kidney. Eating a few bayberries in summer can relieve boredom. Its pharmacological action is recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica.

Red mud crab:

Red mud crab is a traditional snack in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, with bright red color, fresh, salty and tender. Put cold boiled water into a container, add salt, white wine, onion and ginger to the sauce, boil, cool and add rice vinegar to make a thick salty brine, then tie the onion, soak the ginger slices in cold boiled water, wash the crab with cold boiled water, remove the cover, remove the gills and feathers on the side and the sand sac in the crab cover, and finally take out a small hexagonal white lump in the middle of the crab abdominal cavity (see figure/. Red paste salted crabs are all made of wild Portunus trituberculatus in the East China Sea. They are strong, with red paste, and crabs have small holes in their back shells. You can see the red paste and the meat is full. Red mud crab is one of the most representative dishes in Ningbo.