In Chaibuxi, there is always a way to travel for you.
Food recommendation
Roast, black bean fried bacon, crisp pepper leaves, mushroom chicken hot pot, salted bacon, potato cake.
Chaixi cuisine belongs to Tujia flavor. If you want to experience the Tujia people's "home", you can go to Xiulou Tujia Restaurant, located at the observation deck of Dawankou Scenic Area in Chaibuxi. Xiulou is a typical wooden building with hanging feet of Tujia nationality. Its buildings are scattered in the mountains, its cloisters are circuitous, its trees are shaded and its environment is beautiful. Here, the classic Tujia cuisine is the main dish, which keeps the attention of Tujia cuisine to the original flavor of ingredients. The main specialties are stewed radish skin with pig's trotters, mushroom and chicken hot pot, fried bacon with lobster sauce and so on.
Xiulou local cookshop
If you want to experience Tujia farm food, I recommend Tangjia Courtyard near the gate of Dawankou Scenic Spot in Chaibuxi Grand Canyon. Tangjia Courtyard is the only large-scale original ecological farmhouse near Dawankou Scenic Area, which integrates catering, accommodation, shops and entertainment. The fruits and vegetables here are all planted in our own garden, which is green and pollution-free. Firewood cauldrons and stoves are full of farmers' characteristics, such as ten bowls and eight buckles, lattice lifting, wax pig feet and so on.
Tangjia yard
What delicious food can Tujia people not miss?
Plaid display is the highest standard feast for Tujia people to receive guests. I used to eat it when I killed pigs every year. Fresh ribs, pork belly, old pumpkin and corn flour are steamed on the grill, and the steamed meat is fragrant but not greasy, which melts in the mouth, has a long aftertaste and is extremely delicious.
Fried bacon with black beans. Flavor black beans are fermented and refined from local farm soybeans, accompanied by fat and fine bacon, and stir-fried slowly with slow fire, so that the rich flavor of black beans and bacon is completely integrated, which is an essential next meal on the Tujia table.
Salted bacon belongs to the ten bowls and eight buttons on the Tujia dining table. The bowls are neatly arranged, and the steamed meat is soaked in pickles. In this way, the meat is not greasy and delicious, and it is a classic buckle dish in Tujia cuisine.
Potato cake is equivalent to Han rice cake. Tujia people are good at cooking with potatoes. The cake made of potatoes has good color, smell and taste.
Crispy Zanthoxylum bungeanum leaves are the original Zanthoxylum bungeanum leaves picked back, wrapped in flour, mixed with water, and then fried with rapeseed. The golden yellow aroma comes to the nose and makes people have an appetite.
Pepper with bean paste
Every place will have some special food, even if it is out of the local water and soil, it is impossible to make the same taste in the same way, such as bacon, lobster sauce and Chili sauce in Chaibuxi.
Douchi is the treasure of the town shop here. Small soybeans produced by farmers are cooked and fermented for seven to ten days, and then mixed with spices such as pepper, Chili powder, ginger powder, garlic powder, salt and cinnamon powder. After sealing the jars for three days, open them and dry them until they are half dry. Fried meat, vegetarian fried beef, steamed fish, etc. It is an indispensable dish on Tujia dining table.
Chili sauce, also known as "rice disease", is made of local peppers produced by farmers, rinsed with clear water, dried in the sun, cut into pieces, and pickled with secret recipes such as ginger, garlic, salt, white wine, soy sauce and wild honey.
Chaibuxi Grand Canyon Scenic Area
Chaibuxi Grand Canyon is located in the east of Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei Province, with Wulingyuan in the south, Qingjiang in the north, Three Gorges in the east and Shanzhai in the west. It is a valley 30 kilometers long from east to west and 2 kilometers wide from north to south. Because of its rare karst landform and typical forest landscape in Gu Feng, it belongs to Wuling Mountain area with Zhangjiajie, and is known as "Zhangjiajie in the south and Chaibuxi in the north". It is a national-level forest with peculiar mountain shape, vertical and horizontal canyons, dense mountains and streams, rugged rocks, secluded peaks and caves, and refreshing water.