Hunan's food culture has a distinct personality, perhaps because it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the "lowly and wet land" of water, it is necessary to sweat and get rid of dampness, and eating spicy and sour food has become a dietary custom of Hunan people. Hunan cuisine, also known as Hunan cuisine, is one of the eight major cuisines, bearing a thousand years of culture and has a long history. There is a saying in "Songs of the South": "Bitter and salty, sweet and sweet", which makes the taste of Hunan cuisine "sweet and sour" leap from the paper.

The author traveled to Yueyang, Hunan last year, and stopped by a friend's house. At noon, he had a big home-cooked meal. There is a kind of fried pork belly with sour radish, which I like very much. The sour radish is crisp and sweet, and the shredded pork belly is delicious and chewy. Stir-fried two dishes together, crispy, sweet and sour, refreshing. The author almost occupied the whole dish by himself. And fried shrimps with green peppers. Basically, the ratio of pepper to dried shrimps is 1: 1, which is spicy and delicious, masking the fishy smell of dried shrimps, but the umami taste of dried shrimps is still very strong, which also makes the author believe what my friend's grandmother said: "Eat more, son. This pepper covers the taste, but it won't cover the taste of shrimp. Very delicious. " Later, the author gradually fell in love with Hunan cuisine, and saw a saying about the classics of Hunan cuisine once said by Professor Nie, the late culinary master: Hunan cuisine masters are good at using peppers to "hide the taste without grabbing the taste", which strengthened the author's idea of wanting to taste more Hunan cuisine.

Besides two unforgettable home-cooked dishes, I also fell in love with Hunan spicy salted duck at first sight. Salted duck with strong sauce flavor has a crispy taste. Because it is air-dried, it is chewy, dense and delicate, and very tasty. It is an essential artifact for heating and killing time in winter! At that time, the author was eating a dried salted duck while watching TV at my cousin's house, and unconsciously ate a whole one by himself. Yes, I also ate super Q-bomb, soft duck's paw tendon and a dish called "Pouring Pepper and Pouring Preserved Eggs" (that is, pepper is made into tiger skin and preserved eggs, mashed with seasoning), which is super ripe.

Besides these, fish heads with chopped peppers, ants on trees, marinated rice tofu, fried bacon with garlic seedlings and Flammulina velutipes with chopped peppers are all very good. Of course, Changsha stinky tofu has to be mentioned.

There are so many delicious foods in Hunan that many of them like them. The sauced duck, sauced fish and snacks in the sauce board series include stinky tofu from the Fire Palace, sugar and oil Baba, noodles made in Yang Yuxing, nameless powder, and of course delicious shrimp, snails and brix pills from the No.3 pier in Yuanjiang, Yiyang, which are also very good. The most common one in the streets and lanes is betel nut. How many people in Hunan remember cooking broth rice when they were young? Of course, Peng Chu is the first choice. Let's talk about that first

Spicy salted duck

The finished product is dark red in color, crisp and fragrant in meat, rich in sauce flavor and long in aftertaste. Has the effects of promoting blood circulation, promoting qi circulation, invigorating spleen, nourishing stomach and beauty beauty. It is a kind of flavor food that is popular in the north and south of the river, and it is also a good gift with wine. The foodies will not let go.

Stinky tofu

Needless to say. How many people are tortured by the smell of "smelly", only those who have the courage can enjoy the happiness of "delicious".

Taste shrimp

It won the hearts of Changsha people with its sister-like hotness. It's a kind of hot from skull to toe, so hot that your tongue sticks out straight, which makes you scream.

From the network

1, after reading so much, no one said Ningxiang food! Ningxiang is a county-level city in Changsha, except for rice noodles and delicious shrimp that everyone likes. The food in Ningxiang is authentic and delicious! Because there are many towns and villages in Ningxiang, each country has its own special cuisine. CCTV also specially recorded a section of Ningxiang New Year's food. First of all, many people come for the snake meat of Dacheng Bridge. Fresh snake meat, make it taste like a snake!

2. The most classic place to eat snakes in Dacheng Bridge is Jianming Snake Pavilion. In fact, Ningxiang people think that the snake meat of Dacheng Bridge is delicious, and the price is much better than that of Jianming Snake Museum. If you want to go, there are ducks in the hometown of Grey Soup Duck Hot Spring. The meat is delicious! And nutritious stew and braised pork are delicious.

3. Liushahe pork is famous all over the country. If you want to eat ready-made broth, it is not too much to eat three bowls of rice. It is said that the vegetables here are airlifted to high-end restaurants in Beijing every day, and there are farmhouses to eat a meal here!

Finally, every household in rural areas has boiled Zizyphus jujuba, perilla of sesame and sweet potato, and sweet potato (dried sweet potato). The boutique dried sweet potatoes in the supermarket have complete ingredients. I don't know how to eat well, and there are sweet sticky jujube granules. The Zizyphus jujuba granules that my family picked up from the jujube tree came back, and after complicated processing, they were made into sour and sweet, soft and waxy Zizyphus jujuba granules. I can't get enough of it anyway.