Hunan cuisine is characterized by heavy oil and heavy color, mainly spicy and sour, and the representative role of pepper is the top famous morning pepper. If you are in a local restaurant in Hunan and tell the boss that the food is not spicy, the boss will usually tell you that it can't be done. However, when Hunan cuisine comes to Beijing, most of them will be improved. Take Ma Kai Restaurant, the earliest Hunan restaurant in Beijing, for example. It abandons the spicy flavor of Hunan cuisine, caters to the characteristics of Beijingers who love sesame sauce and food, and improves it into a unique Beijing Hunan cuisine. Generally, Hunan people in Beijing don't go to this restaurant, but Beijing locals love it, and it is rated as the first in the taste list of Hunan cuisine in Beijing by public comments. Hunan people will have a feeling of crying and laughing when they see such dishes as "sesame sauce shepherd's purse roll" on the menu of a restaurant known as Hunan cuisine.
However, not all Hunan dishes that come to Beijing will cater to the tastes of the north and be improved. Many Hunan restaurants still feature spicy food. As a Hunan native drifting north, it is actually Hunan cuisine that eats the most when going out to eat.
Take Hunan cuisine in Sanlitun area as an example
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Affordable and delicious Xiaoxiang Pavilion
Per capita: 65
This Hunan cuisine has almost become half of my canteen, and I will have a meal when I think about it from time to time. This is a Hunan restaurant recommended by word of mouth, and I didn't know it until I was led by my friend. After eating once, I often go to eat.
The dishes in Xiaoxiangge basically maintain the spicy characteristics of Hunan cuisine, and all of them are fried with Chaotian pepper as the main side dish. Most of them are filled in large bowls, and one third of them are Chaotian pepper, ginger and garlic. Eating a meal is simply a big gathering of peppers. Hunan people's fiery personality may be half of the "credit" of the pepper. If you want to eat authentic Hunan food, Xiaoxiang Pavilion won't let you down.
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Hunan people all love Xiangchangxiang, who comes here for dinner.
Per capita: 95
This is also recommended by friends, mainly eating fat sausage hot pot, but there are also hot dishes. It is a typical Hunan restaurant with two floors, no decoration, and the dishes don't pay attention to setting and matching. But the taste is right, and the amount of food is still very large. Because I often go to eat, I have tried many dishes on the menu, and so far there is no dish that disappoints me.
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Yu Funan in nice clothes
Per capita: 135
This Hunan cuisine is more particular about site selection and decoration than the above two. In particular, the restaurant design, or with the heart, the restaurant as a brand to operate. The taste of the dish, slightly matched with some popular tastes in spicy taste, will not be too spicy. For the small fried meat that is often found in Hunan restaurants, the taste of the small fried meat is good. Generally, the fried meat in Hunan is not blended and marinated with starch, but is directly fried by fire. Therefore, the taste of Hunan small fried meat is generally burnt. This family cuts the net into small strips, which is more fragrant and delicious. The taste of the dry pot is also very good, not too spicy, which is not used to spicy food and can be accepted for the first time.
The price is about twice as expensive as the above two, but the environment is more comfortable.
In Beijing, which is the best Hunan food you have ever eaten?