Wick cake is a traditional non-staple food specialty in Xiangtan. It not only looks like a wick, white and soft, tastes sweet, spicy, cool and fragrant, and keeps turning, but also can be ignited by fire, emitting a pure osmanthus fragrance. Then open a box and eat it from beginning to end for 24 hours, no more or less. Xiangtan has been making wick cakes for more than 400 years.
2, sugar and oil Baba
Sugar Baba is a very popular snack in Changsha. Its main raw materials are white flour and sucrose, but the temperature and sugar content should be accurately controlled, otherwise the taste will be affected. The fresh sugar out of the pot is golden yellow, crisp and tender, sweet but not thick, oily but not greasy, and attractive in color. Burning your mouth when you are steaming and impatient.
3, salt and pepper prickly heat
Changsha has been making prickly heat for more than two thousand years. Prickly heat of pepper is made of white flour, salt and white pepper and fried. It is characterized by uniform silk thickness and crisp taste.
4. Orchids and radishes
Orchid radish, also known as coconut radish, is made of fresh radish with thin skin and tender meat, supplemented by Chili powder and salt. Dongting Lake area is rich in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. The improved radish is cut a few times or a whole piece. Mention it, just like an orchid in full bloom, named after the rain gear and hemp fiber of farmers in the past. It not only retains the traditional spicy flavor, but also has a crisp, tender and fragrant aftertaste; At the same time, it also helps digestion and increases appetite, and has been selling well in the northern Hunan market.
5. Shrimp cake
Shrimp cake is a snack in Yueyang, Hunan. It is fried with fresh shrimp mixed with sauce from Dongting Lake. It is fresh, fragrant, tender, crisp and fragrant.