Meihua Road in Xiameilin is a new food street, which brings together delicious foods that Shenzhen people like, such as spicy crabs and little sheep. Recently, a restaurant named Xiang Baoqing brought authentic Hunan local dishes there.

Baoqing is a well-known county in Hunan's history. Baoqing House is located in Shaoyang City today, which governs today's Shaoyang, Lianyuan, Loudi, Longhui, Shuangfeng, Lengshuijiang, Xinhua and other areas. Baoqing is rich in fish and rice, rich in things and rich in treasures. Its long history has accumulated a food culture with local characteristics. Xiangbaoqing local restaurant is a Baoqing local dish with unique local flavor and historical characteristics, which has retained the coming and going urbanites. In just over a month, it has become a thriving food stronghold on Meihua Road. Xiangbaoqing local restaurant is not large in area, but the carefully decorated storefront is clean and elegant, and the old hemp fiber and bamboo hat specially purchased from the countryside embellish the simple Hunan peasant style. Looking at the recipes there is even more shocking. It is hard to imagine that such a small shop can accommodate more than 1 kinds of food.

The thick menu includes Wugang Plasma Duck, Chestnut Stewed Yellow Chicken, Xinhua Three-in-One Soup, Braised Chicken in Dry Pot, King of Tripe on Ping, Cured Pig Blood Yuanzi, a jar of incense and other local famous delicious dishes. Moreover, 8% of the raw materials, chefs and waiters in local restaurants come from Baoqing rural area. So the flavor here tastes completely different from the big restaurants in the city. Take the dish of hand-torn griddle chicken as an example. Hunan native chicken is selected, with small legs and claws. After steaming, it is marinated until the chicken is fragrant and soft. Then, the chicken bones are pulled out, torn into strips along the natural growth direction of chicken fiber and fried in the griddle. The delicate cooking process brings the unique aroma of the native chicken to the extreme, and the taste is incomparable to any kind of chicken in the supermarket. Sufficient weight and peasant flavor are probably the main reasons why urbanites love Xiangbaoqing local dishes. (Lili)