Yiling Spring Roll

The egg and flour are made into thin skin, which is mixed with a little stir-fried leek, bacon, dried bean curd, fragrant mushrooms (or mushrooms), and fried until golden brown. This dish is crispy and tender on the outside, soft and delicious, and is usually made by families themselves during the Lunar New Year.

Shrimp

With rice, corn, etc. as raw materials and brown sugar water as seasoning, it is cool and thirst-quenching. After being mixed with ice water in summer, it has a better flavor and is very popular among Yichang residents. It is run by roadside vendors, mostly made by families, and the price is about one yuan a cup. There is a "Zheng Xin Ji" on Zhixiang Road, which is a distinctive place for cold shrimp.

Houttuynia cordata Thunb.

Also known as Jiejiegen and Jieergen, it grows in Yichang, mostly in the wild, and is planted artificially. It is listed all year round (most in spring), especially those with tender stems. Mix with ginger, garlic paste, soy sauce, vinegar, onion, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.

Kang potato

It is said that it is also a traditional snack of Tujia people. "Kang" is a local dialect, which is a way of cooking besides frying and braising. "Potato" is potato. When the guests came, they presented a bowl as a stomach-pressing food before meals, which is an authentic flavor food.

step bean cake

step bean cake is a famous food in Yichang. At the end of every year, stepping on bean cakes has become a must-have for every household.

Xiakou bean curd

Bean curd (also called bean curd brain) is a unique dish and delicious snack in Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River. Because of its excellent water quality and fine production, its bean curd is white and delicate, like milk and fat.

Radish jiaozi

Yichang's famous snacks. The main raw materials are rice, soybeans and radishes. When the radish is cut into shreds, mixed with spices such as pepper noodles, pepper powder, garlic (onion) seedlings and refined salt, and fried, the bottom slurry is first put in a special meniscus iron spoon, and then the mixed shredded radish is put as stuffing, then covered with the slurry, and fried in an oil pan until golden brown. It's crispy outside and soft inside, spicy but not prickly, and delicious.

Tujia Fried Wide Pepper

Fried Wide Pepper can be said to be a necessary side dish for every family. It is sour, fragrant and delicious, and it can be either dry fried or made into soup. Fried peppers with bacon is a must for Tujia people.

Top-topping cake

Rice flour, glutinous rice flour and brown sugar are used as raw materials, put into a special wooden lattice, steam on the fire for 1 minutes, and then take out the cake with a wooden top. It is characterized by softness and waxy taste, and it is sweet and upright, which is most popular among the elderly and children.

Dried sweet potato

Yichang is called "sweet fruit" locally. The specific method is to cook (steam) the sweet potato, cut it into strips, and then dry it in the sun, so that it can be eaten. You can also put it in an iron pan with clean coarse sand and fry it. After it becomes brittle, you can filter the sand in the screen. The color is orange, crisp and delicious.

ice-cold cake

milled with polished rice, added with white sugar, soda, plaster of Paris, raw fermented grains (rice wine), alkali and other auxiliary materials, and kneaded into blank pulp. Put it for 4-5 hours, put it on a plate, steam it in a cage, and cut it into prisms after coming out of the cage. It is a good summer product.

crispy oil

crispy oil is one of Yichang-style snacks. It is made by steaming glutinous rice, filling it with white sugar and sesame seeds, making it into a prismatic shape, and frying it to golden brown. It's crispy outside and soft inside, sweet and delicious.