1, wick cake

"Dragon brand soy sauce wick cake" in the "wick cake" is a traditional food specialty of Xiangtan. It is not only shaped like a wick, white and soft, with sweet and spicy flavor, cool and fragrant, bending into a circle without stopping, but also can be lit with fire, emitting pure Yu Gui flavor.

2, inch three lotus

"inch three" white lotus produced in Xiangtan County, Yangtang area. The so-called inch three lotus, that is, because of the lotus seed large, three lotus seeds connected with an inch long and so named. "The seeds are large and full, white and rounded, with a delicate texture, fragrant and sweet, and easy to stew. Inch three lotus, also known as "Xianglian", ancient tribute for the court. After dozens of generations of efforts, it has become a pillar industry in Xiangtan City and is exported to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Europe and America. Xiangtan's reputation as the "Lotus City" has also spread far and wide.

3, countryside preserved vegetables ?

Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Shaoshan have the habit of smoking preserved vegetables. Method is generally after the winter solstice to take fresh meat cut into strips, salted for two or three days, dry, to chaff shells, shavings, wood shavings, peanut shells, etc. Smoking, into a wax yellow color into. Because of the lunar calendar in December (waxing month) smoked the best, it is called winter bacon, flavorful and delicious, and not as greasy as fresh meat, many people like to eat, popular with consumers.

4, Mao's braised pork

Red bright and slightly spicy, rich flavor of Mao's braised pork, because of Chairman Mao's love and make this dish become one of the representative dishes of Hunan cuisine. Mao's Braised Pork is made with very delicate ingredients, using half-fat and half-lean five-layer, three-flower pork belly, which is then evenly cut into pieces and burned in top-quality soy sauce with a small amount of sugar.

5, Mao A-Pao sauce duck

In Beijing had to eat Peking duck, and in Xiangtan had to eat duck sauce, and Mao A-Pao sauce duck is the most famous. Mao A-Pao soy sauce duck using spices soaked in water to taste, adding pure sesame oil, deep red color, rich aroma of the sauce, can be eaten directly, is a good wine with food and a good gift.

6, Xianglian

Xiangtan is known as the hometown of Xianglian, Xianglian production in the country accounted for 63%, and the quality are superior, and "inch three lotus" is most famous. Xianglian net lotus meat contains eighteen indispensable trace elements, known as "ginseng" in southern China.