Sichuan and Hunan cuisine has always been more popular with the public, there are similarities between the two, but there are differences, Hunan and Sichuan cuisine are also famous for spicy, often there are not senior diners will be confused with the two, today I would like to give you a general popularization of the difference between Hunan and Sichuan cuisine.

Xiang cuisine originated in the Hunan region, as early as the Han Dynasty has formed a unique system, spicy, fresh, mainly. And the development to the present blame especially fond of sour and spicy flavor. If you say the most can eat spicy place, then Hunan is definitely ranked in the top three, the production of Hunan cuisine can not be separated from the chili, especially the most famous millet spicy. The most famous chili pepper is millet chili, which is a very hot type of chili pepper.

Chopped Pepper Fish Head

In Hunan cuisine on behalf of the dishes are: chopped pepper fish head and small fried pork You, crispy radish skin for the famous, between the two is the choice of chili pepper as the main flavor, after cooking to achieve the ingredients and auxiliary materials to complement each other.

And in the Hunan countryside we can see that every family has to do the crispy radish skin, crispy radish skin inside the chopped chili, cut into dices and chopped chili stir-fried, that special rice.

Crispy radish skin

And in the cooking techniques Hunan cuisine to simmer, stew, wax, steam, fried mainly, practice varied, the flavor is naturally also varied.

Returning to the pot of meat

Sichuan and Hunan cuisine are both spicy, so most of our friends can not tell what is Sichuan, what is Hunan cuisine, and even once some diners to the chopped pepper fish head in the category of Sichuan cuisine.

In fact, Sichuan cuisine is not what we always think of as spicy, Sichuan cuisine is characterized by spicy and fresh, while Hunan cuisine is almost invisible peppercorns, because the people of Hunan basically will not adapt to peppercorns as a seasoning.

But pepper is a very important seasoning in Sichuan cuisine, whether it's the famous Mapo Tofu, husband and wife lung slices or ordinary home cooking, pepper occupies an extremely important position.

Husband and wife's lung slices

In terms of flavor, Sichuan cuisine has a wide variety of flavors, and there has always been a saying that one dish has a style and one dish has a hundred flavors.

Overall this said that the biggest difference between Sichuan and Hunan cuisine, Hunan cuisine does not put pepper, Sichuan put pepper, Sichuan cuisine to eat more hot pot, while Hunan cuisine is mainly to small fry.

Hot pot

Development to the present, in the end, is Hunan cuisine is better or Sichuan cuisine? Today's diners feel that Szechuan cuisine is too concerned about seasoning, eating dishes like instant noodles, more and more diners point the direction of Hunan cuisine