Friends who have been to Chenzhou know that every hotel will have hot and sour fish heads. Fish heads are generally selected male fish heads, sprinkled with a layer of hot and sour chopped pepper and added with lobster sauce. The whole dish is bright in color, spicy but not dry, fresh but not fishy, and has the function of appetizing, making people feel fresh, sour and crisp, and their appetite is wide open.
Blood duck, also called plasma duck, is a special method of frying ducks. Fresh and tender ducks that have just been slaughtered are scalded in boiling water, fried in oil, seasoned with wine, and added with ginger, onion, star anise, dried pepper, red pepper and green pepper. When they are almost cooked, duck blood is poured on them. The fried duck is dark, fragrant, salty and spicy, and very delicious.
Martin's tofu is very particular about making it. The tofu is mellow and delicate, white and tender, or fried or boiled, with seasonings such as shallots, peppers and sesame oil, which is fragrant and sweet. Ma Tian tofu is a delicious dish at the banquet and is very popular among tourists.
Jiahe dog meat, "smell Jiahe dog meat, the fairy jumps over the wall." Braised dog meat is a famous dish of Jiahe. Braised dog meat is the best food on the table, whether it is on holidays, family reunion or entertaining guests at ordinary times. Jiahe braised dog meat is fragrant, pure, nourishing, not fishy, not greasy, spicy and delicious, with endless aftertaste, and is deeply favored by people.
There are the following must-eat foods in Chenzhou: Guiyang jar meat, which originated in the Three Kingdoms period, is said to be particularly popular in Zhao Zilong. Made of fresh pork and local specialty five-claw pepper with folk formula, it tastes spicy; Magnolia slices are made of tender winter bamboo shoots that have not been unearthed. They are crisp and tender, which is incomparable to bamboo shoots. Sliced fried meat to eat, delicious; Dongjiang fish, also known as Nandongting, is clear, cool and clean, and the meat of Dongjiang fish living in it is tender and sweet, which is beyond the reach of ordinary freshwater fish.
The local specialty restaurants mainly include Chenzhou Multiflavor Chicken Hotel, Fish King City, Sangen Grass Winery, Huangcheng Shengmeng Seafood Restaurant and Changsha Steamed Restaurant. If you want to eat local food, you can go to the Four Seasons Restaurant on Jiefang Road near the railway station square. The Guiyang blood duck, rice noodle duck, roast chicken, roast duck and other local delicacies cooked here will make people's appetite open.