1. Jingzhou fish cake

Fish cake, one of the eight famous dishes in Jingzhou/Shashi area, has a long history. "Jingzhou fish cake" is made of white fish meat, which can be fried into fish balls with red fish meat, and stewed with chicken, pork kidneys, and pork belly. It has become a famous banquet dish in Jingzhou.

2. Qianzhang Braised Pork

This dish uses pork belly that is both fat and lean. It is boiled and fried, browned with brown sugar, cut into thin slices, and steamed in a bowl. , because the meat slices are as thin as paper, shaped like a shuttle, and have many slices, it is called Qianzhang Pork, also known as comb meat.

3. Winter Melon and Turtle Skirt Soup

Winter Melon and Turtle Skirt Soup is a kind of simmering the skirt of soft-shell turtle (also known as soft-shell turtle, turtle, and turtle) and tender winter melon. Soup. Its production method is exquisite and its materials are carefully selected. First, slaughter the turtles with fat skirts, remove the skirts and cut them into pieces, stir-fry over high heat, add chicken soup and seasonings and cook, then add tender winter melon pieces and stew until the turtle skirts are melted.

4. Fried lotus root balls

It is said that when Emperor Qianlong passed through Honghu Lake on his three trips to the south of the Yangtze River, the local state officials, in order to honor the emperor, asked the chefs to use special skills to make the emperor eat the lotus roots without seeing the lotus roots. . The chefs were thinking about their own specialties. One of the chefs remembered that he used lotus roots to satisfy his hunger during the famine years. He mashed the lotus roots and made lotus root balls to eat, so he blended the five flavors and cooked them carefully. Emperor Qianlong ate it and became very happy. After returning to Beijing, he designated fried lotus root balls as his royal meal.

5. Jingzhou Eight-treasure Rice

Jingzhou Eight-treasure Rice was originally passed down by an imperial chef in the Qing Dynasty who opened a restaurant in Jingzhou City after leaving the palace. This kind of eight-treasure rice is made by steaming red dates, lotus seeds, barley kernels, Guiyuan Nei, honey cherries, honey winter melon strips, sugar osmanthus and glutinous rice into a dough, and then adding sugar and lard to stew it. Therefore, it is also called "Eight Treasures in Powder". When you eat it, you will feel it is smooth and melting, sweet and translucent, oily but not greasy, sweet but not boring.

6. Morning noodles

Morning noodles are a famous traditional breakfast in Shashi with a history of a hundred years. As for the origin of Zaotang Noodles, a more convincing theory is that after Shashi opened as a port in 1895, a local restaurant owner made this oil-thick noodle based on the characteristics of the dock workers here who like to eat oily and watery foods due to their manual labor. Fat, soupy and delicious noodles. It got this name because dock workers usually go to noodle shops in the early morning to eat noodles before going to work.

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