The delicacies in Xiangyin County include salted mandarin fish, preserved fish, bacon, Chinese mitten-handed crab, spicy wild duck, colorful soft-shelled turtle in Xiangyin and the first one in Xiangyin.
1, salt and pepper mandarin fish: Dongting Lake area is rich in mandarin fish, which has less thorns and thicker meat, more garlic cloves and tender and tender meat. Steamed, dry-baked, sweet and sour and Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish are all great. Soup is as white as milk, thick but not greasy, better than chicken soup and duck soup. Put the whole mandarin fish in a large pot and fry it in oil, then dip it in the special salt and pepper of Xiangyin people, and you will be amazed and intoxicated.
2, preserved fish, preserved meat: Xiangyin County is a land of fish and rice, rich in products. Besides vegetables in four seasons, home-cooked dishes like pickled fish and bacon best. They are all cured by traditional methods, and the cured bacon tastes delicious after long-term storage. When I came to Xiangyin County, it was also these preserved fish and bacon that were not worth the candle.
3. Eriocheir sinensis: Eriocheir sinensis has tender meat, delicious taste and high nutritional value. Distributed in lakes, rivers and other waters in the lakeside area, it is a migratory crustacean, which breeds in the salty and fresh water in the estuary, grows in fresh water and likes to make holes. The head, chest and nails are particularly developed, the back, head and nails are dark green, the abdomen is gray, and there are four pairs of abdominal limbs. The head has a pair of specially developed claws, which are covered with many hairs, and the abdomen (navel) is flat, close to the ventral surface of the head and chest. The umbilical cord of female crab is round, while that of male crab is triangular.
4. Spicy wild duck: Spicy wild duck is a famous dish in Xiangyin. The practice is to wash the duck and cut it into pieces, and the red pepper is seeded and cut into filaments. When the pot is heated to 70% by adding proper amount of oil, put the duck strips in the oil for a while, remove and drain the oil.
5. Colorful soft-shelled turtle in Xiangyin: Located in Xiangyin County, south of Dongting Lake, it has the title of land of fish and rice, and is rich in aquatic products. Xiangyin is rich in colorful soft-shelled turtles. Its meat is tender and delicious, and it is rich in seven amino acids needed by human body. It has the effects of nourishing yin and blood, tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi, and has high edible value and medicinal value.
6. Shantou in Xiangyin: Xiangyin is known as the "hometown of Shantou". Shantou has cultivated in Xiangyin for nearly a thousand years and is a traditional industry in Xiangyin. Welsh onion has a unique flavor, and has health care functions such as invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, stopping diarrhea and relieving pain. And pickled green onion products are "the best ganoderma lucidum in dishes and table foods" in the Japanese market.