The style of Yichang cuisine is "original juice, salty and spicy", and the "Laojiu Bowl" banquet has the local characteristics of Yichang. The dishes on the table are composed of nine dishes, such as the head of the chop suey, the fried butterfly, the fried spring rolls, the fish cake balls, the squid bamboo shoots, the hammer bowl of lotus seeds, the white belly, the fragrant mushroom chicken and the pearl balls, all of which are served in large bowls.

Yichang's famous dishes mainly include white brake fat fish, Xiakou Mingzhu soup, basket full of orange red, yipin eel, Sanyou Shenxian chicken, Babao Shuiji, osmanthus water chestnut pill, lotus egg, three-silk kidney flower, shredded chicken with silver needle, soft-fried fish cake, crispy lotus rice duck, ladle tofu, Shouxing cabbage, konjac tofu and cold salad.