Fish cake is a unique flavor in Jingzhou area, and it has the reputation of eating fish but not seeing fish. Fish contains meat, which is fragrant, fragrant, smooth and tender, and melts in the mouth. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty called it: "You can't see fish if you eat fish." The reputation of.
2. Babao rice
Legend has it that it was created by Dai Xiao, the chef of Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty. Dai Xiao, who lives in Jingzhou City, was invited by the owner of Juzhen Garden to teach her skills. Since then, Babao rice has become a famous dish in Jingzhou and spread all over the world. The main raw materials of eight-treasure rice are glutinous rice, red dates, lotus seeds, coix seed, longan pulp, candied melon strips, honey cherries, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar and so on. First steam it into a blank, then add sugar and lard. Bright color, oily but not greasy, sweet but not greasy, known as "a small spoon to taste carefully, a long aftertaste."
3. Jingsha turtle
Salty, fresh, mellow, smooth and refreshing nutritional value: Wild Carassius auratus contains a variety of special longevity factors and active immune substances, which have dietotherapy effects such as enhancing human immunity, preventing cancer, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, and are called nourishing nutrition with great vitality.
4. Paper pot block
It originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and tastes crisp and chewy. Nowadays, this snack is gradually disappearing.
5. The subtle study of the origin of Zongzi first appeared in Wu Yun, a A Liang writer in the Southern Dynasties, "The Story of Continued Qi": "On May 5, Qu Yuan died in Miluo, and the Chu people mourned it, so they stored rice in bamboo tubes and splashed it with water." In Jingzhou, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival is full of sacrificial culture to Qu Yuan. It can be seen that Jingzhou has a unique cultural background and plasticity in the industrialization of zongzi. Unfortunately, the local government's urban marketing concept is not strong, and it lacks the support and effective development of traditional resources including food culture, so that the industrialization of China Zongzi did not appear in Jingzhou, while Zhejiang Jiaxing Zongzi became famous all over the country.
6. Longfengpei
It is a traditional famous dish in Jingzhou area and one of the four famous dishes in Jingzhou. The eel is shaped like a dragon, the chicken is shaped like a phoenix, and the dragon and phoenix dance.
7. Winter melon and turtle skirt soup
It is a traditional famous dish in Jingzhou, stewed and braised. It tastes delicious, the turtle has high nutritional value and has the effect of strengthening the body and tonifying the kidney.
8. Thousands of braised pork
This dish is made of fat and thin pork belly. It is fried, fried, sliced and steamed in a bowl, because the meat slices are as thin as paper and look like shuttle slices.