SanyaTravel Budget Guide

The health-wine brand of Hainan Yedao Group, recognised in the third batch of China Time-Honoured Brands in 2024 and a signature product of Hainan province.

Hainan's classic cooling dessert, a coconut-milk or coconut-water base loaded with red and mung beans, job's-tears, coconut flesh and watermelon, the most beloved summer sweet of tropical Hainan.

The first of Hainan's "four great dishes," free-ranged under coconut groves for tender, silky meat, best tasted plainly poached, the soul of any Hainan banquet.

The "progenitor" of Hainan's rice-noodle family, fine noodles dressed with a dozen condiments, also called yanfen, the first of Hainan's "four great noodles".

A famed Hainan noodle that originated in the Ming dynasty at Baoluo town in Wenchang, thicker and translucent, served in soup or dressed; one of Hainan's "four great noodles".

A wild-shrub herbal tea unique to Hainan, its leaves tied with coconut palm into rosary-like beads, clearing heat and summer damp, the everyday wellness drink of Hainan's farming households.

A traditional dance rooted in the funerary customs of the Li people of old Yazhou, its rhythm struck on wooden poles as dancers leap between them, one of the oldest Li dance forms; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.

A brocade-weaving tradition over three thousand years old, called a "living fossil" of textiles, a first-batch national ICH item from 2006 and moved onto the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2024.

One of Hainan's oldest folk-song traditions, orally transmitted around old Yazhou in Sanya, shaped by Buddhist chant and Tang poetry; a first-batch national ICH item from 2006.