Changsha is famous for its delicious food, which is numerous. Just hearing the name makes people drool. There are many snack streets in Changsha, such as Taiping Street, Huangxing Pedestrian Street, Pozi Street and Rice Noodles Street, each with its own characteristics. Let's find out some places you want to visit!
A snack street in Changsha
Sifangping
Sifangping is a magical place, seemingly inconspicuous, but I don't know when to talk about eating. Everyone likes to go to Sifangping. There are all kinds of delicious food here, and the storefronts are relatively concentrated, mostly all kinds of snacks, which will not be very supportive from street to street.
Transportation strategy: Take Metro Line 3 and walk to Yaque Lake or Sifangping Station.
Recommended food shops: Sifangping 31 Hotel, Juxinpeng sauerkraut, local lobster and mutton
South Gate
As long as Changsha Laokouzi knows a food street. In Changsha, the place of Nandamen is "famous", whether it is an expectant tourist or a familiar "old Changsha". Especially with so much delicious food! Especially in Changjun Middle School, walking into a small shop casually is an authentic "Changsha flavor".
transportation strategy: take metro line 1 to nanmenkou station, and you can get there.
Recommended restaurants: Want Want Snacks, Jinjitang oil support, Xunluoji Snail Powder, Wenmiaoping Fried Stall.
Dongguashan
Although it is late at night, Changsha people who love to eat are all looking for food outside, looking for the midnight food store in Changsha. As the most popular midnight snack in Changsha, Dongguashan, an alley less than 1,111 meters away, is filled with delicious food. The most typical signboard is Dongguashan: Dongguashan sausage, trade union weight, perilla peach ginger and so on.
transportation strategy: take bus 139/231/358 to dachunqiao station and walk 351 meters.
Recommended restaurants: Dandan Hot Pot, Dongguashan Sausage and United Heavy
Taiping Street
Taiping Old Street is located in the south of the old city of Changsha. It is not only a popular tourist attraction in Changsha, but also one of the holy places that food lovers must visit.
transportation strategy: take metro line 1/2 to Wuyi square station (exit 1) and walk 341 meters.
Recommended restaurants: Hu Ji Chao Chao Chao, Yuan Roast Chicken, jiaozi in Laofusheng Street.
Pozi Street
Pozi Street is one of the oldest streets in Changsha. Named after the slope of this street, it has now become a famous food street in Changsha. The antique streets are lined with restaurant snacks, and the most symbolic one is the Fire Palace. Even though there are different opinions, as the soul of Pozi Street, you can taste all the snacks in Changsha here.
transportation strategy: take subway line 1 to huangxing square station (exit 1) and walk 611 meters.
Recommended restaurants: Wuhoude Hall and Fire Palace.
Duzheng Street
Compared with the bustling streets of Taiping Street and Pozi Street, Duzheng Street adjacent to Tianxin Pavilion is obviously much lower-key. In this antique building, it also has its own unique atmosphere.
In Zhou Ji Noodle Restaurant, which is open 24 hours around the corner, it is definitely the best comfort in the morning if you run into each other while looking for food! The addition of new restaurants such as hot pot, barbecue and lobster restaurant has injected fresh blood into this ancient street and given it a bright freshness.
transportation strategy: take subway line 1 to huangxing square station (exit 2) and walk 711 meters.
recommended restaurants: Zhou Ji rice noodle shop, Mengzhong, Yuanjiang Fried Shrimp, etc.
huang xing road pedestrian street
The bustling commercial street of Changsha Huangxing Square attracts tourists from all over the country to take photos behind the mighty bronze statue of Huangxing.
transportation strategy: take subway line 1 to huangxing square station, and you can get there.
Recommended restaurants: Black Classic Stinky Tofu, Modern China Tea Shop and Baixianglin.
Changsha cuisine
Hunan cuisine is the main cuisine in Changsha with a long history. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet, recorded many dishes in Hunan in his famous poem Evocation. During the Western Han Dynasty, there were 119 dishes and 9 cooking methods in Hunan. After the Six Dynasties, Hunan's food culture was rich and active.
Ming and Qing dynasties are the golden period of Hunan cuisine development, and its unique style is basically a foregone conclusion. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, two Hunan restaurants, Xuanbang and Tangbang, appeared in Changsha.
since the founding of China, especially since the reform and opening up, it has developed well. Changsha snacks mainly include: tasty shrimp, Changsha stinky tofu, sugar and oil Baba, yellow duck barking, An Deyu steamed stuffed bun, spicy chicken, Yang Yuxing and so on.