Zhongxiang City is located in the central part of Hubei Province, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province, administered by Jingmen City. It is one of the important birthplaces of Chu culture, with a written history of more than 2700 years. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the city was called Ying, the capital of Chu, and was the capital of Chu in the later period. Zhongxiang cultural relics and monuments scattered, mountains, lakes and beautiful scenery, cultural landscape and natural landscape. Zhongxiang has a large population of longevity, and is the "World Longevity Hometown" certified by the United Nations Institute on Aging, as well as China's outstanding tourism city, with Dahong Mountain National Scenic Spot, Dakou National Forest Park, Mochou Lake National Wetland Park, three national ecological scenic spots.

Zhongxiang food culture has a long history. Zhongxiang dishes form thousands of dishes, dozens of feasts, especially "Jiajing Banquet" is famous. Jiajing eighteen years in March tour to zhongxiang, the imperial chef and local masters with local specialties cooked more than ten kinds of dishes feast tribute to the emperor, later known as "Jiajing Banquet", which is the most familiar when the number of coiled dragon dish, Demoiselle dried and kudzu powder, known as the "Zhongxiang three best", now! Let's take a look at Zhongxiang what are the specialties.

Beaulieu dish

Beaulieu dish is a traditional famous dish in Zhongxiang, known as one of the top ten classic dishes in Hubei, not only listed in the "Chinese Recipe", and even its production process is also included in the "Hubei Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage List" from the ingredients, lean meat, In terms of ingredients, lean meat, fish and eggs are not precious. Therefore, the quality of the dish depends on the skill of the chef. Pork, fish made into a paste to the final into the egg roll in the ingredients, each step is quite delicate. Once done, how the coiled vegetables are eaten is another test. Steamed, fried, stir-fried, distilled, shabu-shabu, etc., a variety of different ways to eat, has a different taste experience.

Wild Kudzu Powder

Zhongxiang Kudzu Powder is a specialty of Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province, and a National Geographical Indication product of China. Zhongxiang kudzu flour is rich in calcium, iron, zinc, copper and other trace elements, more than 20 kinds of amino acids and traditional Chinese medicine active ingredients Puerarin, Puerarin flavonoids and so on. Pueraria lobata soup, soup, cakes, buns, dumplings, noodles, vermicelli and other products made from it have the characteristics of strong flavor, crystal clear, delicate taste, rich nutrition, easy to eat and so on. Zhongxiang kudzu flour is also known at home and abroad for its uniform color, sweet taste, delicate texture, high viscosity, good molding degree.

Demoiselle Fragrance Dried

Shihpai Fragrance Dried Zi is made of high-quality soybeans as the main raw material, and refined with fine sauce, Chinese herbs, five spices, Sichuan peppercorns as the auxiliary materials, using the traditional workshop production method, and then high temperature, vacuum packaging and refined. Its flavor is fresh and nutritious. Demoiselle dried this dish to take dried with a knife cut double cross flower knife, pulled into a net shape, into the frying pan hot fried. Another frying pan with a little oil, into the onion and ginger, sautéed flavor, add soup, simmering for 10 minutes, so that the dried fragrance to absorb the marinade back to the soft taste, out of the pan into the plate. Characterized by its color tea red, chic shape, long fragrance. This dish is rich in plant protein, known as longevity food.

Rice Tea

Rice Tea is a local flavor snack in Zhongxiang, one of the intangible cultural heritages of Zhongxiang, Jingmen City. Fried by the rice, the flavor is slightly sweet but not light, slightly astringent but not bitter, can replace the rice, but also with the role of tea to quench their thirst. It is said that it is rice, and it has soup; it is said that it is soup, and it can do the main food.

Shortcake

Shortcake is a traditional deep for the people of Zhongxiang favorite popular food, Zhang set of shortcake body light yellow, looks very appetizing, tempting crispy aroma let people a few meters outside the store can be mouth-watering, greasy, melt in the mouth; shortcake is divided into sweet and savory flavors and so on a number of kinds of sweet flavor is particularly famous.

Preserved fish poop

"Appetizing delicacies of a thousand kinds, and then better than lousy poop", for thousands of years, Zhongxiang people love to eat lousy poop. According to their hobbies and different material conditions, lousousy sausage, lousy eggplant and cowpea, lousy fish and other series have been formed. For the production of such food, there is a folk saying: "The main material is cut fine and blown dry, half powder is added to the seasoning mix, the altar is sealed and marinated for a few days, and the food is fried in oil with sourness and spiciness". Preserved fat intestines and sausages is a specialty of Zhongxiang, which is made of fire noodles, pork, fat intestines, refined salt, vegetables and preserved vegetables, and does not contain any additives. When eating it, fry it repeatedly in oil over a light fire (so as not to produce burnt) until it is cooked, or you can fry it with a little bit of diced fat meat first according to your taste and then add the main ingredient to fry it. The first thing you need to do is to put a little chopped green onion in the pan to make it more flavorful.

Old mouth pear

Old mouth pear is produced in Zhongxiang old mouth town of a kind of pear, the national agricultural products geographical indications. Zhongxiang city old mouth town soil can be roughly divided into gray oil sandy soil, sandy loam, natural fertility and maturity are high, loose structure, good permeability. Water quality is clear, pure, is the ideal sand pear production water. The old mouth of the sand pear color uniformity and consistency, round, white flesh, smaller heart, tender and crunchy flesh, juicy, sweet taste.

Fenglehe Gyro Buns

Fenglehe Gyro Buns is a kind of gyroscopic small steamed buns, so it is also called gyro steamed buns. Its practice is special, skillful workmanship, the surface is very tight, tear out layer by layer, a thousand layers can be rotated to tear down, and chewy than the average steamed bread, and has a subtle sweet flavor of white flour.