Diningin Lushan Mountain

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2011-10-28

Lushan Mountain is famous for "Lushan three Stones", namely Lushan Stone Chicken, Stone Mushroom, and Stone Fish. Visitors to Lushan Mountain must not miss the opportunity to try them.

The Stone Chicken is actually a kind of edible frog living in caves, or among rocks. The Stone Fish lives in the waterfalls or springs around Lushan Mountain and builds its nest in stone crevices. Its meat tastes very tender. The Stone Mushroom, which looks like a human ear, is a type of wild fungus that grows on steep cliffs. The famous dishes prepared with the above three ingredients mainly include "Stewed Stone Chicken", "Three-cup Chicken", "Stone Fish and Scrambled Egg", Crispy Roast Stone Fish Roll and Ruyi Stone Mushroom.

Restaurant: Sunshine Home Restaurant, at No 437, Lushan Road, with famous dishes Stewed Stone Chicken and Crispy Roast Stone Fish Roll.

Sunshine Home Restaurant

Tourists visiting Lushan Mountain usually have meals in the hotel where they stay overnight. Alternatively, they may also eat in restaurants in town. In the garden near the road junction, there are many farm restaurants, such as: Rock Bull Restaurant (recommended by many netizens), Four-Season Local Restaurant and Red Apple Restaurant. The farm dishes are served in roadside restaurants at the junction between Hexi Road and Xiangshan Road in Guling town are not bad and are worth trying.

Tourists may also dine in farm restaurants near Lushan Mountain. For example, after walking down Wulao Peaks and before Sandie Spring, you may walk about 100m from Sandie Spring Car Park towards the direction of the five peaks and then turn left. You will find many farm restaurants and the dishes that taste good (warning: sometimes, people sell newly picked tea there at a price of about 600 yuan/kg, more expensive than those sold in town).