Changchun’s Wangji Spare Rib Restaurant is a very popular local restaurant, which at its most glorious time, occupied an entire street in a busy area of the city. Spare ribs in soy sauce is a nutritious and flavorful dish, which gives tourists a taste of Northeast China’s hearty eating and drinking culture.

There are two types of pork bone in this dish: the chine and the rib. You eat meat off the chine and suck marrow from the ribs. Many restaurants in Changchun make a potato sauce from the bone soup, giving it a distinctive local taste.