Jingzhou specialties include: Jingzhou Fish Cake, Thousand Sheets of Buckle Meat, Winter Melon Turtle Skirt Soup, Deep Fried Lotus Root Balls, Jingzhou Eight Treasures Rice, and Morning Glory Noodles.

1, Jingzhou fish cake

Fish cake as the Jingzhou region's eight famous dishes its long history. "Jingzhou fish cake" is made of white fish, can be used to fry red fish balls, and chicken, pork waist, pork belly braised vegetables, become a famous dish in Jingzhou banquet.

2, a thousand sheets of buckled meat

This dish to both fat and lean pork as raw materials, after cooking and frying, on the brown sugar color, cut into thin slices, steamed in a bowl buckle, due to the meat is as thin as paper, shaped like a shuttle, the number of slices, so the name of a thousand sheets of buckled meat, also known as comb meat.

3, winter melon turtle skirt soup

The winter melon turtle skirt soup is a kind of soup simmered with the turtle's skirt and young winter melon.

4, deep-fried lotus root balls

Legend has it that when Emperor Qianlong passed through Honghu on his three trips to the south of the Yangtze River, the local state officials asked the chefs to come up with the best skills to make the emperor eat lotus root without seeing it. Chefs looking for their own specialty, one of the chef remembered the famine years to lotus root hunger, the lotus root mashed to do lotus root pills to eat things, so the five flavors combined, fine cooking. Emperor Qianlong ate, the dragon's face, back to the capital will be fried lotus root balls as the imperial meal.

5, Jingzhou eight treasures of rice

Jingzhou eight treasures of rice was originally from the Qing Dynasty, an imperial chef out of the palace, to Jingzhou City to open a restaurant passed down. This eight treasures rice with red dates, lotus seeds, coix seed, Gui Yuan Nei, honey cherries, honey melon strips, sugar osmanthus and glutinous rice steamed into a blank, and then add sugar, lard scattered braised and become. It is also called "Eight Treasures in Scattered Braising". Eat in the mouth, feel the lubrication dissolution, sweet through the flavor, oil but not greasy, sweet but not tired.

6, morning noodles

Morning noodles is a famous traditional breakfast in Shashi City, has a hundred years of history. Legend has it that the owner of the local noodle shop used to make this kind of noodles with thick oil and fat, fresh soup and beautiful taste according to the characteristics of the dock workers who like to eat heavy food because of their physical labor. As dock workers more in the early hours of the morning to the noodle shop to eat noodles after work, so get this name.