ZhengzhouTravel Budget Guide

Founded in 1950, Heji specializes in halal lamb huimian noodle soup and was recognized by MOFCOM as a second-batch China Time-Honored Brand in 2011.

Founded in the early Republic era, Geji is celebrated for its claypot-braised pork rice-cake technique, designated a second-batch MOFCOM China Time-Honored Brand in 2011 and a Henan provincial ICH the same year.

Zhengzhou's most iconic staple: hand-pulled wide noodles simmered in rich lamb-bone broth with kelp, glass noodles, and tofu strips.

Originating in Xiaoyao Town, Xihua County (national ICH 2021), this peppery beef-and-gluten morning soup is ubiquitous on Zhengzhou breakfast streets, making the city the dish's largest daily market.

Rice-flour cakes braised under a lid with claypot-slow-cooked pork, a uniquely Zhengzhou comfort food with roots in the early Republican era.

Founded in 1919 by imperial chef Cai Shijun, known for its semi-leavened steamed dumplings and chicken broth, awarded China Famous Snack title in 1997 and one of Zhengzhou's celebrated 'Three Ji' establishments.

Noodles cooked in fermented mung-bean sour broth with celery and peanuts, a distinctively Central Plains fermented staple popular throughout Zhengzhou.

Thumb-sized flour lumps simmered in a vegetable broth, a humble everyday breakfast staple of Zhengzhou households and Central Plains villages.

The traditional opera form of Henan Province, inscribed on the first national ICH list in 2006 (No. Ⅳ-23); the Henan Yuju Opera House based in Zhengzhou is the primary national-level carrier.

Annual ancestral worship ceremony held at Yellow Emperor's Hometown in Xinzheng on the third day of the third lunar month; inscribed on the second national ICH list in 2008 (No. Ⅹ-32). Xinzheng is administered by Zhengzhou.

A 1500-year-old court wind-and-reed tradition preserved at Chaohua Temple in Xinmi; inscribed on the second national ICH list in 2008, dubbed a 'living fossil of ancient music'. Xinmi is administered by Zhengzhou.

A traditional lion dance from Xiaoxiang Village, Gongyi, with roots in the late Ming dynasty and peak flourishing in the Qing Jiaqing era; inscribed as an extension project of the second national ICH list in 2008. Gongyi is administered by Zhengzhou.

A martial art founded by Zhengzhou-area native Chang Naizhu (1724–1783) of Sihe, Xingyang, with its theoretical basis in the 'Theory of Central Qi'; inscribed on the second national ICH list in 2008 (No. Ⅵ-34). Xingyang is administered by Zhengzhou.

Inkstones crafted from fine Yellow River silt collected in Zhengzhou's Huiji District, fired using a distinctive kiln technique; inscribed on the first Henan provincial ICH list in 2007.