China's Local Culinary Delights

China is transforming into a global pantry with its unique agricultural and culinary innovations. From Sichuan producing world-class caviar to Shanxi cultivating crabs, local specialties are challenging perceptions and reshaping the culinary world map. Many locals are unaware of these undiscovered culinary treasures in their own backyards. Chinese regions are surprising netizens with seafood like Australian lobsters and South American prawns bred in inland areas. In Tongren City, Guizhou, the world's largest single unit matcha workshop produces a quarter of China's total matcha production. These locally grown agricultural and culinary treasures, although originally imported, have become distinctively local and provide economic boosts to their respective regions.