Hunan's top ten specialties: 1. Stinky tofu Shaoxing stinky tofu can be said to have a long history, which can be traced back to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Kangxi became so poetic after eating Wang Zhihe stinky tofu that he wrote the word "Qingfang"
, making Shaoxing stinky tofu famous all over the world.
The old tofu is soaked in amaranth stem juice. The stinky tofu made can be steamed or fried, mainly fried.
Smell the stinky food and dip it in some sweet chili sauce for even more flavor.
2. Flavored shrimp Flavored shrimp, also called spicy crayfish and spicy crayfish, is a Hunan specialty snack.
It emerged in Changsha Education Street, Nanmenmen and other places in the past few years, and later spread to the whole city and even the province, and it continues to flourish to this day.
3. Sugar-oiled Baba Sugar-oiled Baba is a long-lasting folk snack in Changsha.
Its main raw materials are white flour and cane sugar, but the heat and the amount of sugar must be accurately controlled, otherwise the taste will be affected.
The freshly baked sugar-oil cake is golden, crisp and tender, sweet but not rich, oily but not greasy, and has an attractive color and fragrance.
4. Salted duck with spicy sauce. Hunan salted duck with spicy sauce is a famous dish in Hunan. It is made by soaking more than 30 kinds of precious Chinese medicines, more than 10 kinds of spices, and going through 15 processes including air-drying and roasting. The finished product is deep red in color and the skin and meat are crispy and fragrant.
, rich sauce aroma and long taste.
5. Changdejin Rice Noodles Changdejin Rice Noodles are a special snack produced in Jin City, Changde City, Hunan Province.
It is one of the three major rice noodles in China, with 5,000 branches in Beijing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an and other cities. Among them, Jinshi beef noodles are national geographical indication protected products.
6. Fish head with chopped peppers Fish head with chopped peppers is a very famous dish in Hunan cuisine.
Red pepper, green coriander, black black soybean, white chopped green onion, yellow minced ginger, fragrant minced garlic, paired with a big-mouthed fish head, it is absolutely gorgeous and appetizing.
7. Scrape jelly. In summer, there must be a queue in front of the jelly stall. The boss uses a scraper to scrape off the slender vermicelli on the snow-white crystal jelly mounds, then mix it with chili oil, vinegar, salt and MSG, and sprinkle
Add peanuts, diced radish, chopped green onion, and coriander, and a bowl of spicy and sour jelly is ready to go.
8. Solo local snacks.
Also known as "drinking snails".
When eating, just tap the opening of the snail, and you can eat the delicious snail meat and the sauce that seeps into the shell.
9. 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.
10. Sister dumplings Sister dumplings originated in the early 1920s. There was a pair of sisters named Jiang who sold dumplings in the polder market of Huogong Palace. The dumplings they made were both beautiful and delicious. They were porcelain white in color, small and exquisite, and the sweetness of the sugar filling was not greasy.
, the meat filling is tender and delicious, and the skin is glutinous and soft on the outside. The sister dumplings have become famous since then.