Hunan people love to eat chili peppers. Hunan people are very enthusiastic, and Hunan people are famous throughout the country for their love of eating and their ability to eat. Hunan snacks are characterized by their heavy oil and rich color, and are famous for their sour, spicy, fragrant and fresh flavors.
There are delicious restaurants all over the city. Some people say that you don’t need to visit the scenic spots in Hunan, but you must eat all the delicious snacks to make your trip to Hunan worthwhile.
Hunan people, especially those in Changsha, love snacks and are good at finding and making the art of eating. As more people eat, they also have many decent century-old restaurants and famous food stalls thousands of miles away, such as Fire Palace, Yang Yuxing, and Gan Changshun.
, Yuloudong, Deyuan, as well as Nanmenkou and Pozi Street snack streets.
There are more delicious places and more people who know how to eat. Gradually, a lively, sweet and spicy Hunan snack culture has formed.
1. Flavored shrimp Flavored shrimp is a specialty snack that emerged in Changsha Education Street, Nanmenkou and other places in the past few years. Later it spread to the whole city and even the province, and it continues to be popular today.
The shrimps are bright in color, soupy, thick, strong and spicy, and are deeply loved by Changsha people who have strong tastes.
2. Hunan stinky tofu Hunan stinky tofu products are different from stinky tofu in other places.
Judging from the color and smell, Changsha's stinky tofu fits the word "stinky tofu" very well.
Dark color, strange smell at first smell.
In fact, it is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, fragrant and delicious, strange and attractive, smelly and fragrant, fine workmanship and excellent taste.
3. Sisters’ dumplings In the early 1920s, the young and beautiful Jiang sisters set up a stall selling dumplings in the polder market of Changsha Fire Palace. The dumplings they made were both beautiful and delicious, and were praised by people.
This is why the sister dumplings got their name.
Its color is porcelain white, crystal clear, small and exquisite.
The sugar-filled dumplings are sweet but not greasy, and the meat-filled dumplings are tender and tasty.
Its taste is glutinous and soft, with a unique flavor.
4. Fish head with chopped pepper is Hunan’s signature dish.
Wash the fat fish head, chop it open, sprinkle a small amount of vegetable oil, cooking wine, and shredded ginger on the fish head, add Hunan chopped pepper evenly, put it in the steamer, steam over high heat for 10 minutes, take it out of the pot, sprinkle with chopped green onion, sour,
Spicy, fresh and smooth, especially this spicy one, it makes you enjoy the spicy food. You can also taste the freshness of the fish, especially when the juice from the chopped pepper seeps into the fish head, it is simply wonderful!
The basic characteristics are fresh and delicious, spicy and sweet.
5. Dragon fat pig blood Dragon fat pig blood is a traditional snack of the Han people in Changsha, Hunan. It is commonly known as sesame oil pig blood. According to books, dragon fat pig blood is the most famous.
The soup stock alone is enough to whet your appetite, including minced dried peppers, winter cabbage, chopped green onions, a few drops of sesame oil, and occasionally some pepper.
6. Fire Palace Stinky Tofu Hunan snack, water tofu made from soybeans, soaked in special brine for half a month, then fried with camellia oil and fried over a slow fire, served with sesame oil and spicy sauce.
It has the characteristics of "black as ink, fragrant as mellow, tender as crispy, and soft as velvet". It is named after its smell, which is different from other food stews that are fragrant.
It smells bad but tastes delicious, slightly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
7. The finished duck with soy sauce is deep red in color, the skin and meat are crispy, the sauce is rich, and the taste is long. It has the functions of promoting blood circulation, smoothing qi, strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach, and beautifying the skin. It is a Han nationality famous food popular in the north and south of the Yangtze River. It is
A perfect accompaniment to wine and delicacies, and a great gift.
Hunan Xiandu Hot Sauce Salted Duck is a famous dish in Hunan.
8. Dry-fried chicken and eight-treasure rice. Dry-fried chicken and eight-treasure rice is a traditional halal food that was exclusively produced by Changsha Xu Changxing Roast Duck Restaurant in the past.
Eight-treasure fruit rice was originally a popular dessert in Hunan. It can be served at banquets or as snacks.
The Fire Palace serves "Eight Treasures Glutinous Rice and Fruit Rice", which is very popular.
9. Ding potato cake Hunan has little cultivated land but many hills, so it is suitable to grow sweet potatoes as a staple food. Therefore, there is an old saying: "Sweet potatoes are half a year's food."
Therefore, they innovated and created various sweet potato foods, and sweet potato cake is one of them.
Crispy on the outside but soft on the inside, fragrant and sweet, you can buy one or two at street stalls and eat them while walking, which is quite pleasant.
10. Sugar-oiled Baba Changsha’s sugar-oiled cake is cheap and its main raw materials are white flour and caramel. However, its manufacturing process is exquisite and has a special manufacturing process.
Although it cannot be used in elegant halls, let alone be comparable to delicacies such as mountains and seas, shark's fins and bear's paws, it is precisely because of its cheap status that it can be found in ordinary people's homes and is loved by the people, becoming a snack that people can't get enough of.