Hengyang's specialty foods include Pailou glutinous rice balls, perilla snails, crispy moon cakes, pagoda waist, Changning bean jelly, Shi Mao sesame cakes, Hengdong local dishes, Leiyang jar dishes, Hengyang fish powder, spicy belly silk, pickled pepper rattle, wine, Yancheng Four Treasures, Qidong day lily and so on.

Pailou Tangyuan is a traditional snack in Hengyang, Hunan. The soup of this dish is clear and white, soft and slightly spicy.

Perilla snail is a local traditional snack in Hunan Province. The main ingredients are snails, perilla leaves, and a little pepper, garlic, lobster sauce and so on. Stir-frying snail with perilla leaves can not only remove the muddy smell of snail itself, but also bring out the fresh flavor of snail. At the entrance, you can taste a strange spicy and sweet taste.

Crispy and thin moon cakes are a traditional name in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, and have been produced in Hengyang for over 40 years. Exquisite ingredients, fine workmanship, unique flavor, crisp and delicious. It has a strong smell of hemp seed, rose and osmanthus, and it tastes sweet, crisp and not greasy.

Baota fragrant waist, also known as seven-story building and Yulin fragrant waist, is a traditional local dish in Hunan Province, which consists of seven different dishes. A long time ago, Hengyang had local small varieties such as fish balls, yellowbird meat and pot-cooked meatballs. Although they have a unique taste, they are not elegant.

Changning bean jelly has a history of 1300 years, and it is made of bean jelly rattan core produced in local mountainous areas. Bean jelly is crystal clear, holding a 3 cm thick powder block, and fingerprints can be seen through the powder, so it is called "six grains in the snow" and "crystal jelly".

Shi Mao sesame seed cake is a traditional snack in Shi Mao Town, Hengnan County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, with a history of 100 years. Shi Mao sesame seed cake is made finely, and the main raw materials are flour and sugar. First, mix flour and make candy bars, then pinch a small piece of mixed flour, wrap it in candy bars, press it into pie size with a round stick, and bake it in the oven for one or two minutes.

Hengdong local dishes are traditional local dishes in Hengdong County, Hengyang City, Hunan Province. Hengdong local dishes are mainly made from local soil and livestock products by traditional folk cooking methods. The local dishes in Hengdong include Shiwan crispy belly, yangqiao bran meat, ground and fried lean meat, perilla snail, shredded pork in Xintang, scrambled eggs with Monopterus albus, fried chicken with ginger, and stewed towel gourd with loach. Hengdong local dishes are delicious, fresh, spicy, beautiful and convenient.