Changsha’s special snacks:
South Gate: Barbeque vendors gathering place
The area near Xiaoyu Factory Ping next to the old Labor Theater used to be a place for barbecues and various productions A place where snack vendors can't go. Except for Si'ao's later grand opening on Huangxing South Road, and now Liu Ji's BBQ has rented a small place, other places in Changsha include the legendary Wang Granny's dumplings, the cold noodles, stews, stir-fried dishes, and five-legged dishes run by the confused Granny. The round belly bar seems to be nowhere to be found. There is also Yang Jiamen’s late night snack stall at the south gate, which has a certain reputation. The mute sugar-oiled dumplings at the Nanmenmen market down from the Labor Theater have a history of about five or six years. It is said that when they were placed in front of the Jinsha Supermarket, people loved their deliciousness and started queuing up.
Xuexue Street: Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs at Liu Ji’s Old Night Supper Shop
Xuexue Street once had a cultural cinema, which was quite popular. The late-night snack market has been in existence for more than ten years, serving cold dishes. famous for its discs. When Yulou Dongshang, the first brother in Changsha's catering industry, was operating prosperously in Wuyi Square, cold dishes once accounted for more than 70% of his operating income. Nowadays, cold dishes are almost ubiquitous in every store, and Xueyuan Street has become the most unique cold dish in more than ten years of development. For example, the sweet and sour pork ribs in Liuji’s old night snack restaurant are quite famous in Changsha. In addition, the dry noodles and dry powder sold in this street are also famous. There is also a small shop here that specializes in knife-cut noodles. Although the operation is a bit monotonous, it can still attract some customers by using the brand name of a retired chef from Xinhua Building. At the intersection of Xiaogudao Alley and Yanjiatang Heng Street across the street from the college, there is a spicy hotpot called Nayi, which attracts some young ladies to try it. They claim to have grown up eating the spicy hotpot here from junior high school to getting married and having children.
Pozi Street: Stinky Tofu in Fire Palace
Pozi Street has Fire Palace, which is known as the source of Hunan-style snacks and the main representative of Hunan cuisine. The Fire Palace, which was built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, is based on the "Fire Temple Culture", supplemented by famous vegetarian food. Its unique style has attracted celebrities from all over the ages to come here.
The Fire Palace is known as "Eight Snacks and Twelve Famous Dishes". The eight snacks are stinky tofu, dragon fat pig blood, boiled dumplings, eight-treasure fruit rice, sister dumplings, hollandaise powder, braised hoof flowers, and triangular tofu. In 1958, Mao Zedong inspected the Fire Palace and tasted the stinky tofu, which made the Fire Palace even more famous throughout the world. In March 2003, during the National "Two Sessions", Premier Zhu Rongji said when participating in the deliberation of the Hunan delegation: "I once salivated when I thought about the snacks in the Fire Palace. Food culture is very important to Changsha, and we must maintain the flavor of Changsha..." Guerrilla Ping:
Li Ao's Scallion Oil Baba
Li Ao's fried scallion oil dada with pepper next to the telephone pole in Guerrilla Ping on Jiefang West Road was rated as "" "The No. 1 Scallion Oil Baba in Changsha", Li Ao'en studied under an old colleague who ran a factory on Kazi 1st Street in Beizheng Street, and set up his own business around 1982. Li Ao'an said that there are certain tricks to deep-frying scallion oil dada, such as grinding rice milk into The fresh rice that is added must be half-cooked rice, etc. Her grinding work is completed at 4 o'clock in the morning, and she closes the stall after frying about 200 scallion oil cakes every day. And her skills may be lost due to the unwillingness of her son and daughter-in-law to take over. After all, it is hard work. The real taste lies among the people, and the quiet demise of delicious food is sometimes like a song that disappears in Guangling.
Huangxing North Road: Li Gongmiao’s Sugar and Oil Baba
Located diagonally opposite Xindaxin on Huangxing North Road, there is the most popular candy store in Changsha. Youbaba shop. At dusk last weekend, the reporter carefully counted and found that there were 41 people in the queue. The queue stretched from Li Gong Temple to Huangxing North Road. People usually use bento boxes to take it home to enjoy. Master Jin Bingyan, who makes fried sugar-oil cakes, started working as an apprentice in a catering company at the age of 13, then moved to a construction company and then to a factory. After being laid off, he returned to his old business when he entered the industry. He focused on using genuine materials and operating on a small profit but quick turnover basis. Its reputation is so great that it has attracted some Taiwanese and Hong Kong merchants who are active in the Wuyi Square business district to come and taste it. They say that traditional products like this, if they are well managed, must be protected by the government in Hong Kong and allocate free and Cheap facade to support and operate. When asked about Master Jin’s business tips, the answer is: do it with heart and be willing to invest money.
Naturally do well.
Cai'e North Road: Changqing Tangyuan Store
Changqing Tangyuan Store is a privately owned store with a history of a hundred years. The shop specializes in small glutinous rice balls. Handcrafted by ancestors, the powder is fine and tender. It has now been passed down to the fourth generation. The meat-filled glutinous rice balls sold in its store may be unique in Changsha. Not far from his store, there is another Jingying Tangyuan shop opened in 1985. The two stores are almost adjacent to each other and are quite competitive. In the competition, the two stores promoted each other and improved each other, and both became one of the most vibrant snack bars in Changsha. Both stores sell dozens or even dozens of varieties such as Dutch noodles, hot noodles, white pills, sesame oil pig blood, etc. Everyone has their own preferences for radish and cabbage. The existence of two stores may attract more customers to make their own choices. Unfortunately, a big red sign has been written on the facades of both stores, and the Jingying Tangyuan shop has temporarily moved to the noodle shop on the other side of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. To the south of the two small shops is Huanan Snack Bar, which has opened several chains. Mung bean paste and cold noodles are the most famous.
Lotus Pond: Wengbudao broad beans
Wengbudao broad beans are famous for their fried buttered broad beans. Its founder, Mr. Weng Guoliang, developed Weng's broad beans with unique color and aroma and put them into the market in 1997. Soon after they were launched, there was a rush to buy the beans with queues, tickets, and limited purchases. Become a legend in Changsha city. There is a time-honored store called Ma Fusheng on Xuegong Street across the nearby road, which is famous for selling knotted twists, rice crackers, etc.
Scallion oil dumplings in Youyiping
There is also a stall selling sugar and oil dumplings in the grain store on Cai'e North Road. At dusk, there are usually more than 20 people waiting in line here, which is Changsha Another most popular sugar and oil cake stall. There is also a nearby Tian'en Beer Shop on Erma Road, which sells sugar-cooked rice cakes. This winter, Changsha people have indeed started a trend of eating sweet and oily cakes.
Reviewing an old story: Eating sweet and oily cakes was popular in that winter
In that season when it was suddenly warm and then cold, the Spring Festival atmosphere was getting stronger day by day. When we were having a delicious banquet in a restaurant, I suddenly realized that, Changsha people are still inseparable from snacks. The traditional and modern snacks in the market still make Changsha people intoxicated. In order to comfort their lips, teeth and stomach with snacks, people even wait patiently in long queues on weekends.
In the streets and alleys of Star City, there are so many traditional snacks that people are waiting for; and how many trendy snacks that people look forward to. Eating in Changsha will make your mouth water, and "eating" will make you feel drunk.
The most convenient way to find traditional snacks in Changsha is to follow Huangxing North Road and turn to Cai'e Road, and basically follow the route of Bus No. 2 through the old city of Changsha. , Star City’s famous traditional snacks can basically be found in this line. After all, all traditional snacks have their origins. The old city has a profound cultural heritage, and the "娭毬 phenomenon" at the south gate is even more talked about.
Our journey of traditional snacks starts from south to north: It is almost 3 pm, please take a photo of Wang Wu'ao and his young son who are about to set up a stall. Looking at Wang Wu'ao's thick hands, you will feel inexplicably moved. There is a story behind every outstanding folk snack.
Labor Square is the starting point of Huangxing South Road: there is a new snack duck clavicle shop "Yijia Jiangji" nearby
This small shop was originally a roadside stall, but now it is nearby Four stores were opened, run by the eldest sister and two younger brothers of the Yi family. The reason why it is called Yijiajiangji is because the inventor of marinade is Jiang, the brother-in-law of the Yi brothers, and the real expansion of the business is the result of the unity of the Yi brothers and sisters.
Here, what I want to talk about is Wang Wu'ao's stinking son. Wu'a'en was once misrepresented as Gu'a'en in Changsha. Wu'a'en smiled and never explained, and his mistake lasted for many years. According to reports from local media and broadcast by China Central Television 4, a long queue formed in front of Wu'ao's stinky dry food stall. Now that Wu Ao has returned home to take care of his lover, Huang Daddy, who suffered a second stroke, he no longer goes to the stall to fry the stinky stems in person. Some young people waiting in line feel disappointed. The stinky stems are still the same, but they always feel that Wu Ao is missing. Ao'an is missing a flavor.
The stinky dry seeds of Wu'ao'an are definitely as rare as the morning stars in Changsha.
There are two stalls for Wu'ao's Smelly Ganzi: one was set up by him himself or together with his eldest son at a place close to the road next to Huangxing South Road, and the other stall was set up by his younger son on Shahe Street. Downhill. It is said that Wang Wu'ao's smelly dried seeds only sell 1,000 pieces every day. Starting from the opening of the stall at 3 pm, the stall will be sold out early and the stall will be sold out. No more than one piece will be sold. Her two bad traits are destined to flourish in Changsha. Because many small vendors in Changsha do not know how to make vegetarian brine, they adopt short-sighted and bad practices, soaking snail meat or clam shell meat to make it smelly and adding colorings to make meat-based brine. The meat-based brine has a bad taste. The unpleasant fishy odor, and because it contains botulinum toxin, is extremely harmful to the human body, making these smelly dried seeds very unappetizing. According to the records of the late gourmet Yu Runquan, most of the vegetarian brine in Changsha was thrown away during the "breaking of the four olds" in the early stage of the "Cultural Revolution". There are very few people in Changsha who know how to make or preserve vegetarian brine. .
Labor Square: Wang Wu'ao's stinky stems
China's thousand-year-old ancient culture includes food. Today, with the rapid development of modern civilization, food has become a region Or the city's landscape would be boring without it. The eight major cuisines are already yesterday's legends. Today, personality and style have become a theme, a symbol that transcends yesterday.
Hunan is a place famous for its Xiangchu culture since ancient times. Places with cultural origins naturally have more distinctive things, such as dishes and special tastes. In this way, as a traditional food-loving Chinese people all come here to enjoy the reputation.
The flavored snacks are one of the most attractive shining points of Hunan’s local characteristics. Not only diners from other places, but also locals are obsessed with the characteristics of the food.
From authentic Hunan cuisine, to local dishes, to steamed vegetables and pasta snacks, famous restaurants are full of guests, almost all seats are occupied. Sometimes you go late and have to wait for a seat. Do you have a good temper? You have to wait, just because the Hunan locals are so delicious. If you go to other famous restaurants, you will still have to wait.