Henan or Yu cuisine refers to the cooking styles of the Henan province in China. Being landlocked on all sides, the influence of localized culinary styles is plentiful in Henan cuisine, such as blending styles from Jiangsu and Beijing. Henan cuisine is known for its taste variety, including a blend of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty. There are a wide variety of Henan dishes, including carp with fried noodles in sweet and sour sauce, grilled head and tail of black carp, Bianjing roasted duck, stewed noodles with mutton, and spicy soup.[1] Henan cuisine is known for inducing a very moderate and balanced mix of flavours in its dishes, and has one of China's oldest and most traditional cooking styles.