Changchun is famous for its fertile soil and abundant resources with various delicacies providing rich sources for gourmet Changchun dining. What interest travelers most are the game dishes, as they are found in no other part of China, though Changchun dining still presents other cuisines of China. I can assure you that whenever you come to Changchun your mouth will water upon seeing the variety of foods and dishes available here.

Famous traditional dishes:
Changbai Zhen Yan (Changbai Banquet with Rare Products)
There are in total six dishes that make up Changbai Zhen Yan. All the ingredients are both natural and rare products of Changbai Mountain including ginseng, deer antler, bear's paw and snow toad and the adjective ‘sumptuous' well describes the banquet. It will not only meet your eating desires but is also very good for your health.

Ginseng and Chicken Cooked with Maotai Wine
One distinctive characteristic of this dish is that it uses Maotai, famed Chinese liquor as one of its main ingredients. Just as its name implies, this dish mixes chicken, ginseng and Maotai together to present you a delicacy. The whole dish will appeal to you with eye catching color, beautiful shape and alluring aroma.

Braised Deer's Tail
Deer's tail is always a rare and precious cook meat. Braised Deer's Tail is honored as ‘uniqueness of dishes' due to its flamboyant color and intoxicating aftertaste.

Ginseng Chicken
Ginseng is one of the three treasures of Dongbei (northeast of China) and valuable tonic produced only in Jilin Province. It is made from ginseng and a hen of less than one-year-old with the Ginseng being placed inside the hen that then lies in a soup, both attractive and nourishing.

Recommended sits for enjoying those delicacies:

Changchun Restaurant
Established in 1934, Changchun Restaurant is time-honored with more than 70 years' of experience. You can taste the most original Changbai Zhen Yan here.
Address: Chongqing Lu

Tianma Restaurant
It is famous for its dishes with a special Jilin flavor. Here you can enjoy Changbai Zhen Yan and other delicacies.
Address: Xinmin Dajie (west side of Changbaishan Hotel)

Besides those sumptuous banquets and valuable dishes, you can still find many good-flavor snacks, an essential part of Changchun dining culture. Usually enjoying snacks can allow you the opportunity to know a place and people there as well. Guilin Lu and Changqing Lu are two of the most famous snack streets in Changchun which will make you never want to leave.

Representative snacks:

Xueyi Dousha (Snow Sweetened Bean Paste)
Xueyi Dousha, a tasty snack with a romantic name, has had hundreds of years of history in Changchun. It is one of most popular snacks for tourists here. Red beans, eggs and white sugar are the main ingredients. White sugar will be scattered all over the round dousha balls. Therefore the name Xueyi Dousha (sweetened bean paste with snow-white clothes) is formed.

Chaoxian lengmian (Korea Cold Noodle)
Lengmian (cold noodle) is a snack with a Korean flavor. Wheat flour, buckwheat flour and amylum are main ingredients. The cooled hard-boiled noodles are put into cooling beef or chicken soup with piccalilli, sesame oil, and slices of beef, bolus of chicken, apple slices and egg as seasonings. Especially suitable during the hot summer, you will feel extremely refreshed after enjoying this delicious snack.

Li Liangui Xunrou Dabing (Li Liangui Bacon and Cake)
The history of Li Liangui Xunrou Dabing (initiated by Li Liangui) can be traced back to 1894. To date, there are already more than 70 branches having been opened all over China. Xunrou (bacon) is made of top-grade fresh pork boiled in soup which is mixed with dozens of rare traditional Chinese medicine. Dabing (cake) comes from flour blended with the soup in which pork is boiled. It is like a golden full moon.

Piccalilli
Piccalilli is one of the most important dishes for almost every Korean family. Chilli, garlic and ginger are three essential flavorings. However, pear and apple pieces, slices of green radish and monosodium glutamate are also needed. Piccalilli is richer in nutrition than traditional pickled vegetables.

Dagao
Dagao is the most famous traditional food of Korea. It is thumped by wooden gavel in a trough; therefore its name is formed. There are two kinds of Dagao, white Dagao made of sticky rice and yellow Dagao made of glutinous millet.

Recommended snack restaurants:

Xiangyang Tun
Specialties: authentic Dongbei Nongjia Cai (typical northeast farmhouse dishes), like Jiang Gutou, Paigu Dun Doujiao (chop braised with kidney bean)
Address: No.433, Dong Chaoyang Lu

Wangji Jiang Gutou (Xi Minzhu branch)
Specialties: authentic Dongbei Cai, such as Jiang Gutou, Tudou Ni (mashed boiled potato)
Address: No.1059, Xi Minzhu Dajie

Li Liangui Fengwei Da Jiulou (Li Liangui Flavor Restaurant)
Specialties: Xunrou Dabing (bacon and cake)
Address: No.2788, Jianshe Jie, Chaoyang Districk

The above restaurants mainly serve Dongbei Cai (dishes in northeast part of China), there are still many other cuisines, like Sichuan Cuisine, vegetables, Korea food, western-style food, etc., for you to enjoy.

Tiaotiao Yu
Specialties: Sichuan cuisine, especially fish
Address: No.5, Dong Chaoyang Lu

Meizhou Dongpo Jiulou
Specialties: Sichuan cuisine
Address: No.488, Jianshe Jie

Mama Shou
Specialties: Korean dishes
Address: No.1668, Gongnong Dalu

Papa's (Tongguang Lu branch)
Specialties: Korean dishes
Address: No.16, Fengshun Jie, Tongguang Lu

Pizza Hut
Address: No.2, Liaoning Lu, Kuancheng District

Maxvourt Hotel Western Food Restaurant
Address: No.823, Xi'an Dalu

Tianhe Sushi Ju (Tianhe maigre restaurant)
Address: 2-F, No.79, Qingming Jie