Qingcheng Houshan
Farmhouse valley of waterfalls and caves where locals stew ginkgo nuts with mountain chicken.
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This guide to Qingcheng Houshan in Chengdu opens on a farmhouse tradition behind the mountain's crowded Taoist temples, where families still cure a strip of pork for as long as five years above the hearth. It follows the trail downhill to the farmhouses ringing Tai'an old town, where cooks crack wild ginkgo nuts each autumn and simmer the kernels for hours with a mountain chicken, a recipe now recognized as intangible cultural heritage. You'll hear how herders and wandering Taoist hermits once ate the same dish after climbing this mountain. Order a bowl near the trailhead into Feiquan Gully, where the waterfalls and caves begin.
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