A Maoming tilapia promotion meeting was held recently in Nanchang, Jiangxi province.

The Maoming tilapia (Nanchang) promotion meeting. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

The event was centered on the promotion of the Maoming tilapia brand, with tilapia as the main material to produce innovative dishes with Jiangxi and Guangdong flavors. It featured culinary exchanges and an online live broadcast, which helped Jiangxi residents learn more about Maoming tilapia, as well as guided tilapia-related enterprises to cooperate with local aquatic markets, catering enterprises, and business associations.

In the Jiangxi and Guangdong cuisine innovation tasting session, culinary masters cooked a variety of tilapia pieces, fish fillets, and other delicacies through various cooking methods like frying, deep-frying, roasting, boiling, as well as stewing, creating a gourmet feast showcasing fresh, fragrant, crisp, and tender tilapia.

People taste Jiangxi and Guangdong dishes that showcase Maoming tilapia. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

Maoming is known as the "Tilapia Capital of China," due to having a breeding area of 260,000 mu (17,333 hectares) and an annual output of 235,000 metric tons, accounting for one-eighth of the national tilapia output and one-twelfth of the global output, making it the core production area of the world's tilapia industry. Maoming tilapia has long been exported to the United States, the European Union, Russia, and many other countries.