Generally speaking, food and accommodation in Fenghuang are really good and cheap. Vegetarian dishes are 3-6 yuan, meat dishes are 6-15 yuan, glutinous rice balls are 1 yuan per bowl (more than 20 yuan), canned mushroom fried meat (10 yuan), and blood soup.

Baked duck (20-40 yuan) and pickled fish are some of the more famous dishes.

Snacks include ice rice shrimp (1 yuan), jelly (0.5-1 yuan), fried crayfish (1 yuan each), Miaojia pickles (1 yuan), etc., all of which are very distinctive local flavors; in summer, there are also

You can eat iced glutinous rice balls here (0.5-1 yuan/bowl), which are sweet and sour and delicious.

Snacks: There are pickled radish, ginger candies, and the night market in the evening.

The most delicious pickled radish is at the stall at the entrance of Wenchangge Primary School.

Jiang Tang was going to the store at the end of the alley where Shen Congwen’s former residence was.

Restaurants: Two on the old street.

Fangzheng Restaurant, the Old Street Restaurant below, the Grand Turnpan Ancient City Hotel, and the fresh fish shop below.

I recommend Founder Restaurant because you can meet some of the old calligraphers, painters, and folk artists from Phoenix there from time to time, and listen to them talk about Phoenix.

Fenghuang’s four dishes, one soup and one meal: community rice, blood cake duck, spicy and sour fish, spicy and sour glutinous rice cubes, steamed bacon, pickled cabbage and tofu soup. Fenghuang’s specialties include blood rake duck, bracken, twice-cooked pork, sour fish, and canned food.

Canned mushrooms, tofu dregs, and pickled cabbage soup are plentiful, delicious and cheap.

Fast food restaurants can be found everywhere in the county. The prices are cheap and you can get a meal for 3-5 yuan. They also have unique snacks such as spicy hotpot and rice noodles, as well as Miaojia sour fish, sour radish, etc.

In the evening, there are many night market stalls in Yongfengqiao Pedestrian Street (the street in front of Hongqiao), where you can eat stir-fry dishes. Meat dishes are 5 yuan, and vegetarian dishes are 2-3 yuan. A meal for several people can be done for 20-30 yuan. It tastes very good. It is recommended to eat there.

The most distinctive specialty of Fenghuang is the beef skewers, which cost only a dime per skewer (the portion is small). It tastes good, so you can try it.

There are also a lot of fried skewers, including fish, crabs, etc., which cost from 50 cents to 1 yuan. As long as you are not afraid of spicy food, you can try it every day. Walk about 5 minutes south of Hongqiao. In the evening, there is a barbecue street, with all kinds of barbecue, rice dumplings made with wine.

Wontons, dumplings, and hot pots are all available. Mutton skewers are 5 yuan for 50 skewers, but don’t be fooled by 50 skewers. They are very small skewers and can be eliminated.

Rice dumplings made with rice wine are one yuan a bowl. They are stuffed with sesame seeds and are delicious.

Chaos Liangyuan is like Shanghai's Little Chaos, but with less meat.

The place is open regardless of rain or shine (plastic sheets are hung up when it rains). Breakfast is mainly fried dough sticks, chaos, dumplings, and rice noodles.

The rice noodles here are thicker and wider than those in Guangdong. Some are made from mung beans, you can try them.

This is the origin of kiwis and oranges.

Although it is a bit past the peak period at this time, the prices are still quite cheap. Kiwi fruit is 1-1.5 yuan/catty (the cheapest is 0.5 yuan), and oranges are 0.8 yuan/catty. Go ahead and eat it.

Ding Xin Gao is a small stall on the stone street in Fenghuang Ancient City. The owners are a couple in their 50s. They set up a table in front of their house and turned it into a cake stall.

The powdery substance of the steamed cake is put in a bamboo dustpan. It looks like rice flour, but it is yellow. I don't know if something else is added or it is dyed this color.

Already steamed and half cooked.

Customers come in, and the stall owner prepares and sells the food now.

Use a small spoon to scoop rice noodles into a bamboo tube and stuff it tightly.

The bamboo tube looks a bit long, but in fact it is divided into two by a bamboo joint in the middle. Only a small section on the top is used to stuff rice noodles. I think this is the origin of the name of the dim sum.

The stuffed bamboo tubes were put into the steamer, and the stall owner fanned the fire vigorously with a cattail leaf fan, causing blue flames to shoot up.

While waiting, the stall owner kept looking for some topics to talk about, and within a few minutes we were familiar with it.

The pastry that comes out of the cage is not yet the finished product.

The stall owner uses a small spoon to scoop out honey and pour it onto the top of the cake. After the honey is fully penetrated, he hands it to the customer.

The fragrance of rice is mixed with the sweetness of honey and the freshness of bamboo. I ate two of them in one go.

Two cents each.

Kimchi In my impression, kimchi must be sour and spicy.

The trip to Phoenix completely changed this notion.

Any store that sells food and drinks must have kimchi.

It is usually placed on a low table at the door. Some are served in porcelain basins, and some are served in large glass bottles. Most of them are radish, white radish cut into pieces or strips.

The skin of the radish is white and the inside is red. When you eat it, it tastes sour and sweet, and very sweet.

Generally speaking, pickled radish is free and guests can eat as much as they like.

Fried Fruit It was noon when we arrived in Phoenix, and I was a little hungry.

I accidentally entered an alley selling vegetables. At the end of the alley, someone set up a frying pan to sell fried food.

When I got closer, I saw that it was a fried fruit, round and about the size of a Lantern Festival.

The fruits in the pot are rolled in hot oil. After frying, they are clamped to the iron rack on the pot with a large iron clamp. The oil is dripped dry. The outer shell is golden brown. They are skewered with a bamboo skewer, one by one.

dime.

The taste of glutinous rice and fragrant sweet fruit can be tasted in the mouth.

I used to eat something similar when I was a kid in my hometown.

It will be even more fragrant if it is wrapped with sesame seeds.

Ginger candy is said to be a specialty of Phoenix.

You can buy it at any grocery store on the street.

Packed in plastic bags, like the pagoda candy we ate when we were kids, it comes in two colors, yellow and white, and is pagoda-shaped.

The taste in your mouth is the same, with a hint of ginger spiciness.

After the sugar has dissolved, there are often a few ginger strands left on the tongue.

I like this candy so much that I buy two bags every time I go out.

The night before I left Phoenix, I bought a few bags to take away.

The snack street in Fenghuang is on the edge of the ancient city and is only set up after dinner.

There are all kinds of food stalls on the whole street next to each other, and the street is packed with slanderous people.

The fragrance can be smelled dozens of meters away.