Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province, is a popular tourist city with superior geographical environment, convenient transportation and numerous natural and cultural landscapes. The food in Changsha is very famous. When visiting Changsha, you must try some special snacks, such as stinky tofu, fresh shrimp, sugar and oil Baba and fish head with chopped pepper. However, it should be noted that the food in Changsha is spicy, and people with bad stomachs need to eat it in moderation.

Stinky Tofu The well-known stinky tofu has a history of nearly a thousand years, and its most beautiful time can be traced back to the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty. Empress Dowager Cixi named it "Fang Qing", which made stinky tofu immediately famous all over the world. According to historical research, Empress Dowager Cixi also had a hobby of eating Shaoxing stinky tofu and listed it as a royal dish. Changsha stinky tofu smells bad and tastes delicious. Some people stay away from it, while others regard it as a hobby. I have to mention the century-old fire palace. 1958, when Mao Zedong visited Changsha, he went to the Fire Palace to eat stinky tofu. In addition to the fire palace, many individual stalls scattered in folk alleys taste quite good.

Tasty shrimp: Tasty shrimp is a special snack that emerged in Jiaoyu Street and South Gate of Changsha a few years ago, and later spread to the whole city and even the whole province, and it has been prosperous ever since. Tasty shrimp has bright color, thick soup and extremely spicy taste, which is deeply loved by Changsha people with heavy taste. At first, fresh shrimp appeared on the dining table in the form of midnight snack. Now there are many special restaurants specializing in fresh shrimp in Changsha, such as "Si _ _" in the south gate, "Shengji" and "Meiyuan" under the Bayi Bridge.

Fish head with chopped peppers Strictly speaking, fish head with chopped peppers is not a traditional Hunan cuisine, but an innovative Hunan cuisine that has only been created and flourished in recent years. But there is no doubt that it is indeed the hottest Hunan cuisine on the table today, and it is also the signature representative of Hunan cuisine. Wash and chop the fat fish head, sprinkle a small amount of vegetable oil, cooking wine and shredded ginger on the fish head, evenly add Hunan chopped pepper, put it in a steamer, steam for 10 minute, and sprinkle chopped green onion on the pan, which is sour, hot and fresh. Especially this spicy taste makes you spicy enough. By the way, you can taste fresh fish, especially the juice of chopped pepper seeping into the fish head. It's great. Fish heads with chopped peppers can basically be eaten in any restaurant in Changsha. The key is to see your acceptance of spicy food.

Sister jiaozi: Sister jiaozi originated in the early 1920s. A pair of sisters, surnamed Jiang, are selling jiaozi in the market of the Fire Palace. The jiaozi they wrapped was beautiful and delicious. The color is China white, small and exquisite, the sugar stuffing is sweet but not greasy, the meat stuffing is tender and delicious, and the skin outside is waxy and soft, so the sister jiaozi is famous far and wide.

Sugar and oil Baba is the most famous snack in Changsha, and sugar and oil Baba is one of them. Walking in the streets of Changsha, you can smell the refreshing taste of sugar and oil at any time, and you can also see the stalls of fried sugar and oil. There is only a stove, a pot, a cart and a wooden bracket. Although the cost of sugar oil Baba is low, the main raw materials are white flour and sucrose, but its production process is exquisite and has a special production process. And be sure to eat it while it is hot, otherwise it will lose its flavor when it hardens, so don't be afraid of burning it when eating sugar and oil Baba. Because it is fried with sugar and oil, it tastes sweet but not greasy, but diabetics should be careful to eat it, and people with bad stomachs need proper amount.

Yang Yuxing noodles: Yang Yuxing noodles are flexible in taste, and pay attention to wide soup, clear water and rolling away when cooking noodles; The soup is made of pig bones and old hens. From local favorite shredded pork noodles and hot and sour noodles to high-grade crab roe and Yao cylindrical surface, everything is available, and the ingredients are delicious. Yang Yuxing noodle restaurant has many customers who eat noodles from morning till night.