Manting Feast is a “Feast for Immortal” in legend. Today many hotels and restaurants around Manting Peak are serving Manting Feast again, which consists of 10 local appetizers like Wuyi Sunrise Cold Dishes, Preserved Pumpkin, Shredded Buds in Sour and Hot, Dried Eggplant, Pickled Wide Ferns Buds etc, main course specialties like Scholar’s Greeting, Langu Smoked Goose, Penzhu Cuisine, Four Treasures with Egg and Mushroom, Dragon and Phoenix, Colorful Shredded Elk Meat, and wild vegetables made dim sums like Shuqu (a herb called Gnaphalium Multiceps) Jiaozi, Bean Curd for Gods, Chinese Caterpiller Fungus and so on. In addition, there is also Shiyuebai Rice Wine brewed for years. While accompanied by the soft and elegant music, the tourists will feel just like the immortals touring around Mountain Wuyi.

Mountain Wuyi is also the kingdom of snake with varied kinds of snake feast. The outstanding snake dishes include Fried Dragon Chops, Fried Dragon Eggs, Stewed Dragon Pearl，Dragon Playing with Water, Stewed Snake & Wild Cat etc. The recommendation would be Dragon & Phoenix Soup that is made of Qi Snake (a special kind of snake of Mountain Wuyi) with spring chicken and several Chinese medicines put in the ceramic pot for stew, which is said to be clear, soft and fragrant, without any smell and grease, it is one of the best dishes in Wuyi Cuisine.

The Ba Gua (Eight Diagrams) Feast was invented by Zhuxi, the Zhucius Founder in Southern Song Dynasty, as an etiquette to entertain the guests. Its unique characteristics is that different dishes are arranged according to the Eight Diagrams by the following steps: making the Eight Diagrams drawing on the square table (Baxian Table，an ancient Chinese dinner table); in the middle of it, there is a “Taiji” that is around by divinatory symbols as Qian (heaven), Kun (earth), Zhen (thunder), Xun (wind), Gen (mountain), Kan (water), Li (fire), Dui (lake) in eight directions; one dish is on each symbol representing each philosophy. It is fantastic to see there are Jade Thick Soup on “Taiji”; Mixed Dumplings of Sky and Taiyi Yin-Yang Eggs implying One creating Two Poles; Buds & Dumplings, Lotus Root, Osmanthus Flower and Mushrooms representing spring, summer, autumn and winter season respectively, and also Fried Eel Shredded, Fragrant Phoenix Thigh, Mushrooms Brewed in Wine, Chicken Cubes with Peanuts & Chilli, Shredded Pork with Bamboo Shoot, Chicken Liver Rolls, Simple Fried Mushroom, Eight Treasures & Good Luck on eight divinatory symbols. It has been popular in the public of Mountain Wuyi for more than 800 years, and we should cherish it as the treasure of Chinese Cuisine.