🍽️ Dongshan Goat

Hill-grazed goat, mild with herbal note.

Dongshan Goat is the black goat raised on the rocky slopes of Dongshan Ridge in Wanning, Hainan, and ranks among Hainan's four famous dishes alongside Wenchang chicken, Hele crab and Jiaji duck. Grazing year-round on wild grasses and local tea plants, the meat is firm and tender with almost no gamey smell, carrying a faint herbal fragrance. It is classically served either sliced poached, dipped in mandarin-orange juice and soy sauce to show off the natural sweetness, or slowly braised with bean curd sticks and water chestnuts until melting. Silky-skinned and rich without being greasy, it is both a banquet centrepiece of Hainan and an essential taste of Wanning's highlands.