During the National Day holiday, amid the lively atmosphere of the "Into the Xushui River · National Day Trendy Fun Parade Carnival," the third "Jiang Cuisine · Jiang Flavor" Culinary Skills Competition in Jiangxian County came to a successful conclusion after two days of intense competition, professional judging, and public tasting.
County Deputy Magistrate Wang Wenqi attended the event and delivered a speech. The competition closely followed the core theme of "focusing on the 'Three Bases, Four Cities' goal and building the 'Jiang Cuisine · Jiang Flavor' brand," deeply exploring Jiangxian's local culinary cultural heritage, and highlighting six signature regional foods: venison, rainbow trout, hawthorn, big plate chicken (stir-fried chicken), milky white lamb soup, and pan-fried buns. Using specialty ingredients as the foundation and skills competition as the medium, the event comprehensively showcased the charm of Jiangxian's distinctive cuisine and the new development landscape of its catering industry.
During the competition, 15 outstanding catering enterprises and individual vendors from across the county actively participated, with nearly 50 culinary talents competing and exchanging skills on the same stage. Contestants strictly adhered to competition rules, demonstrating their strengths and striving for excellence across five core dimensions: knife skills, cooking heat control, dish taste, color and presentation, and hygiene standards. With proficient cooking techniques and innovative dish ideas, they presented a feast of food that was a delight to the eyes and palate.
To broaden the event's reach and enhance public participation, the competition opened an online live broadcast channel throughout, attracting nearly 20,000 online viewers, with real-time interactions across the internet exceeding 100,000, and popularity continuing to rise. Meanwhile, the event's exclusive "Best Online Popularity Award" online voting activity was enthusiastically carried out, with over 10,000 people actively participating in the selection and voting, fully demonstrating the mass foundation of the "Jiang Cuisine · Jiang Flavor" brand and the strong appeal of local culinary culture, allowing more people to appreciate Jiangxian's culinary craftsmanship in the cloud.
This culinary skills competition was held in conjunction with the "Into the Xushui River" National Day Trendy Fun Carnival, mutually empowering each other. It was both a professional, high-level culinary competition and a down-to-earth, crowd-pleasing consumer promotion event. The competition displayed over 40 specialty dishes. The participating dishes not only adhered to traditional flavors and preserved the authentic essence of Jiangxian cuisine but also cleverly integrated new concepts such as health and wellness, national trend aesthetics, and creative cooking, bringing forth new ideas and highlights, and producing a batch of signature dishes with distinctive features, good reputation, and market potential, injecting fresh vitality into the innovative development of the local catering industry.
After three days of competition, Xushui Xiaocaiyuan won first prize; Jiangdu Yan and Junrong Banquet Hall received second prize; Zhenzhong Restaurant, Meishanfang, and Jiangxian Gujiang Town Fushun Dumpling House won third prize. The event site was bustling with people, as citizens and tourists immersed themselves in the carnival, savored authentic Jiang flavors, and admired culinary feats, experiencing the unique charm of Jiangxian's culinary culture up close, effectively stimulating National Day holiday catering consumption and driving the continued warming of the county's cultural tourism market.
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