Changsha is the capital city of Hunan Province, with superior geography, in the center of the region, convenient transportation, and numerous natural and humanistic landscapes in the city, making it a popular city for tourism. Changsha is famous for its food, and when you visit Changsha, you must try the special food and snacks such as stinky tofu, flavored shrimp, sugar oil poop and chopped pepper fish head, but be careful, Changsha food tastes spicy, and those with a weak stomach need to eat in moderation.

The well-known stinky tofu has a history of nearly 1,000 years, and its most popular era can be traced back to the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty, when the Empress Dowager Cixi gave it the name of "Qingfang," which made it immediately famous throughout the world, and, according to historical evidence, the Empress Dowager Cixi was also addicted to eating stinky tofu in Shaoxing, which she also listed as a dish for the imperial family. Changsha stinky tofu smells bad and tastes good, some people stay away from it, some people will eat it as a hobby. We have to mention the century-old Huogong Palace, where Mao Zedong had a special meal of stinky tofu when he visited Changsha in 1958. In addition to Huogong Palace, many individual stalls scattered in folk alleys also taste quite good.

Flavor shrimp: flavor shrimp is a few years ago in Changsha education street, the south door and other places of the special snacks, and later spread to the whole city and even the province, so far thriving. Taste shrimp colorful, soup thick, heavy taste, spicy, by the taste of Changsha people love. At first, taste shrimp in the form of late-night snacks on the table, and now in the whole of Changsha has a lot of specialty restaurants specializing in taste shrimp, the more well-known South Gate of the "four ___", under the Bayi Bridge, "Shengji", "Meiyuan "

Strictly speaking, chopped pepper fish head is not a traditional Hunan dish, and it should be considered as an innovative Hunan dish, which was created and became popular in recent years. However, it is undoubtedly one of the hottest Hunan dishes on the table today, and a signature representative of Hunan cuisine. Wash the fat fish head, chopped open, a small amount of vegetable oil and cooking wine, ginger sprinkled on the fish head, evenly into the Hunan chopped peppers, into the steamer basket, high-fire steaming for 10 minutes, out of the pot, sprinkled with small green onions, sour, spicy, fresh and smooth. Especially this spicy, let you spicy addictive, incidentally can be tasted out of the fresh fish, especially the juice of the chopped pepper seeped into the fish head, simply wonderful. Chopped pepper fish head is basically available in any restaurant in Changsha, the key is to see how much spice you accept.

Sisters Dumplings: Sisters Dumplings originated in the early 1920s, when a pair of sisters surnamed Jiang sold dumplings in the pueblo of Huogong Palace, and their dumplings were both good-looking and tasty, with a porcelain-white color, small and exquisite, the sweetness of the sugar filling was not greasy, and the meat filling was fresh and tasty, and the outside skin was sticky and soft, and the Sisters Dumplings have become famous ever since.

Sugar oil poop

Changsha snacks in the most famous, sugar oil poop to be counted one. Walking along the streets of Changsha, you can always smell the refreshing aroma of sugar oil poop and see the stalls frying sugar oil poop. All you need is a stove, a pot, a cart and a wooden stand. Although sugar-oil panda is cheap and the main ingredients are white flour and cane sugar, its manufacturing process is delicate and has a special manufacturing process. And must be eaten while hot, to not change the hardness of the taste is lost, so eat sugar oil poop must not be afraid of hot, and because in the sugar oil fried, the taste of children sweet, but not greasy, but diabetics should be careful to eat, coupled with glutinous rice made of intestines and stomach people need to moderate.

Yang Yuxing noodles: Yang Yuxing noodles are soft and tender, and the noodles are cooked in a wide broth, clear water and boiling; the soup is made of pig bone and hen stew; from the popular local people love to order noodles with shredded meat, hot and sour noodles to the high-grade crab roe, scallop noodles, all in one place, with plenty of fresh ingredients. There are a lot of guests eating noodles in Yang Yuxing Noodle House from morning to night.