Xiang Cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in the country, which stands out for its heavy oil and thick color, and is especially famous for its sourness, spiciness, fragrance, freshness and wax. Changsha is the center of Hunan cuisine and is known as the city of food. Changsha people are famous for their love of food and their ability to eat.
Changsha's more famous flavor of Hunan cuisine is mainly spicy chicken, three layers of chicken, Changsha Ma Ren crispy duck, mushrooms, no yellow eggs, mushroom soup belly, hairy 100 pages, preserved meat and steam, and so on. Liuyang River in some farmers opened a restaurant, you can eat the taste of simple "countryside dishes", usually not eaten in the city sweet potato poop, sweet potato stalks, taro stalks and other coarse grains can be tasted here.
Restaurant Recommendations
Fire Palace: If you want to try Changsha's flavorful snacks, you can go to Fire Palace, where there are many varieties of snacks, such as deep-fried stinky tofu, deep-fried noodle cake with salt and pepper, sister dumplings, and white pellets, etc., all of which are very good.
Address: Pozi Street, near Jiefang West Road; Wuyi Road, 93 Wuyi Avenue, Furong District.
Chili Fried Meat Restaurant: Don't look at the name simple and inconspicuous, but the good business, as well as consistently focusing on the "chili fried meat" of the signature dish of the spirit of Changsha gourmets and foreign diners are enough to make them scramble to visit.
Address: Furong Middle Road, near Puyuan Yuan.
Flavored dishes restaurants: Flavored dishes are a kind of cooking style that has become popular in the city in recent years, and are loved by Changsha people who are addicted to spicy dishes with their "strong ingredients and heavy taste". The old several flavors of the dishes are basically hidden in the inconspicuous, and even some of the ragged residential buildings, especially under the Liu Cheng Bridge, "Zhao Ji", "Qian Si" and "Li flavor" and other famous The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea to go back to the old days of the old days.
In addition, Changsha also has a number of large-scale, long-lasting reputation of large restaurants and dining areas, the more famous are the Second Ring Road, Youyi Xincun area (all the way auspicious, Bodhi Tree and other large restaurants), the east bank of the Xiangjiang River Scenic Zone (with the Emperor's Restaurant, good food on the board of the large restaurants), the Jinxiu Plaza, and the Radio and Television Center near the so-called China's largest landscape-type restaurant --West Lake House.
(Zhangjiajie food)
Zhangjiajie's Tujia cuisine has a strong ethnic characteristics, but also a blend of the essence of Hunan cuisine. Spicy is a specialty of Hunan cuisine, and Tujia cuisine is no exception. In addition to spicy, the Tujia people are particularly fond of wax, sour, pickled dishes, unique flavor. Specialties include preserved pig's head, "Lunar New Year's dish", blood tofu, hejiazhuang, sour fish, loach drilling tofu, chicken tianma soup, etc.; snacks include social rice, pig's blood and rice. Also, don't miss the following recommended dishes.
Eat in the scenic area
Eating in hotels near the Zhangjiajie scenic area is very expensive, vegetables are more than 15 yuan, dishes with meat are more than 30 yuan per portion, and game dishes are more than 80 yuan, such as wild boar, bamboo chicken, fir mushrooms and so on. If you live in the scenic area in the farmhouse hostel, you can ask for a meal package, usually breakfast 5 yuan / person, 12 yuan / person in the middle and dinner, the conditions are average but quite tasty.
But kudzu fried bacon, rock ear, sour corn scrambled eggs, these dishes are very local characteristics, it is worth tasting, in the guesthouse and farmhouse can be eaten. In addition, by car from the water around the four gates to the Yellow Dragon Cave about 10 minutes, there is a "Yindu Tujia Restaurant" taste very good, especially fried wild bee pupae, stone chicken, gold whip fish is very delicious.
In short, in the scenic area around the consumption, one should be prepared for expensive ideas, two is never forget to bargain.
Eat in the city
In the city of Zhangjiajie, there are a lot of good food, and the price is very cheap. If your stomach is full of aggravation in the scenic area, you can completely let go here!
Breakfast
You can try the downtown chain of "Xueyun Dabao", 50 cents a very large, there are many varieties, recommended mushrooms, bamboo shoots and meat chili buns, spicy and juicy. And a hot cup of soy milk, at 1 yuan per cup, is enough to get you going for a hike.
Lunch/Dinner
First of all, we recommend Zhangjiajie's specialties - three pots. The so-called "Sanxia Nabe" is a hot pot made of three main ingredients and stewed without soup. The most prestigious is the Fengwan Bridge near the "Hu master three pots" (10 bus can be reached), 15 yuan a, two or three people the most affordable economy is to point 30 yuan portion. Specialties are dry-fried intestines and dry-fried walnut meat, which can be stewed in a pot, the flavor is superb. By the way, order a pickled radish, crunchy and sour, let people drool.
Like fish head? Then head to Triangle Ping, where you'll find Laowu Fish Head Hot Pot Restaurant (accessible by bus 7). The soup is stewed with small cherry tomatoes locally produced in Zhangjiajie and is delicious. The fish head is 15 yuan a catty and comes with a plate of vegetables and a plate of noodles. You can have a comfortable meal for less than 30 yuan per person.
If your wallet is more bulging, you can corrupt a hand, eat some wild game. Recommended tasteless restaurant (in the Dayong Bridge to the scenic road, from Dayong Bridge Park is very close, need to call the past, within 15 yuan), the name is a little crowded, the taste is still good. There are wild boar meat, Ba Mou Mouse, suede meat, bacon, etc., especially recommended local specialties Huang Zi meat, also known as Miao sour meat.
In addition, the city's North Main Street a road past, there are many good places to eat, such as Master Li crispy solo (light taste), military brother intestines Museum, Le Koufu, Wulong cottage, Music Kitchen, etc., you may want to make a special trip over to taste it.
Late night snacks
At night, the downtown area is full of street stalls, and for 50 yuan you can get a good meal for four people. The most concentrated is near the People's Cinema, the night market a road lined up, bustling. The most concentrated is near the People's Movie Theater, where the night market is lined up, bustling with people.
In addition, recognize the movie theater across the door of the stall selling pickles, where the pickled cucumber and pickled radish is crisp and flavorful. With conversation and wine, a plate of small dishes soon bottoms out.
(Xiangxi Cuisine)
Xiangxi cuisine is an important branch of Hunan cuisine. Xiangxi cuisine is long in the production of a variety of mountain treasures, wild game, smoked bacon and a variety of cured meats, flavors focused on salty, sour and spicy, often using wood charcoal as fuel; cured meat method is also very special, most of the salted after salting. Xiangxi's specialties are Qianzhou duck, lichen, fern, back to the pot of meat, canned mushrooms, tofu dregs, pickled vegetable soup, a large number of delicious and inexpensive.
Tujia hot pot is unique, from tableware, seating, dishes are so, have the opportunity to personally taste. Qianzhou Duck Hot Pot and Longshan Maoping Spicy Chicken Hot Pot are famous local hot pots, and there are countless stores with this name, so ask the locals who tastes the best and their opinion is the most authoritative.
Rice Tofu, Glutinous Rice Paste, Oil Paste, and Sugar Paste are some of the most common street snacks in western Hunan's Tujia and Miao families. Among them, rice tofu is the most famous snack in western Hunan, and it is said that the most authentic one is near the pagoda in Furong Town, which is the same rice tofu store in the movie "Furong Town".
Specialty food places
Jishou: In front of the cinema in Jishou, there is a street called "Yummy Street" (which means gluttony). A variety of snack stalls gathered, delicious, and very cheap. In addition, there are a few specialty eateries worth going to, such as Xiongjia duck store, country house, the old bowl of head, specialty lamb museum, and so on, looking for locals to ask.
Phoenix: Phoenix County can be found everywhere in the county fast-food restaurants, cheap, 3-5 yuan will be able to get a meal, but also a unique flavor of spicy hot pot, rice noodles and other snacks, as well as the Miao family sour fish, sour roti and so on. Evening from the county post office to the east gate of the street there are many stalls, mostly spicy hot, baked and other snacks, the flavor is spicy enough, a lot of delicious and inexpensive. "Ambassador Hotel" in Phoenix is very famous, sour cabbage, lichen, bacon, fried pine oil mushrooms, canned mushrooms fried meat and other dishes are very local characteristics, 4 people more than 30 yuan will be enough. There is also a folk crafts on the street "old street restaurant" can also go. (Yueyang food)
Yueyang is located on the shore of the Dongting Lake, Xiangshui waterfront, to come here naturally want to savor the Dongting Lake aquatic products. Dongting Lake fish are freshwater fish, compared to the seashore fish taste is different, its varieties, a variety of flavors.
Yueyang's restaurants are very good at cooking fish, the local "Baling whole fish seat" is quite distinctive, all the dishes on the seat are made of fish, but all have their own flavors, there are squirrel guppies, through the silk of silverfish, frozen fish gelatin, steamed fish in bamboo tubes, steamed fish, butterflies across the sea (raw materials are blackfish), eel with pine seeds, and so on. In addition, the local famous Junshan Silver Needle Sliced Chicken is not to be missed, see Specialties.
Furthermore, Yueyang's various snacks are also unique.
(Shaoshan food)
You can't miss the Mao Family Braised Pork in Shaoshan. Mao Family cuisine is famous for being Chairman Mao's hometown, and Mao Family Braised Pork is even praised by Chairman Mao. Authentic Mao family restaurant is located in Xiangtan Shaoshan Chong, where the braised pork is selected five brisket, the five layers of three flowers of the belly meat with rock sugar, star anise and cinnamon first steamed and then fried into the pot to put edamame as a material, the practice is very sophisticated and complex. Do a good job of the Mao family braised pork golden color, fat and not greasy, very fragrant and delicious.
Shaoshan is located in the hills of Xiangzhong, bounded by Xiangtan, Xiangxiang, Ningxiang, between the three euphonies, people's tastes have obvious characteristics of the mountain people, and take the four neighboring counties of the long, after thousands of years of brewing, and the formation of many flavors of snacks. Shaoshan snacks can be divided into small dishes series, wild fruit and wild mushrooms and wild aquatic and other major series. Shaoshan small dishes for the daily necessities of farmers, and seasonal differences, characterized by explaining the natural color, aroma and taste. Such as the spring of the dry vegetable shoots, picking fresh cabbage shoots with boiling water soak flooded, sun-dried, deposited in the altar, or chopped with salt, beans steamed and dried, there is a light fragrance, but also has a natural fresh flavor. The prolific season of small vegetables is summer and fall.
(Huaihua cuisine)
Huaihua's diet is very local color, especially the Dong diet is the most distinctive, to the pungent, sour and spicy and pickled, smoked and waxed food is famous, eating rituals and rules are also very formal.
The famous Channel Haplong rice ceremony is very grand, usually set up during major festivals or to do all kinds of happy events. Dining table, chairs, bowls and chopsticks, dishes are collected from each household in the village, and then the dining table together, set into a long, and then collected dishes on the long table, set up bowls and chopsticks, chairs placed on both sides of the long table. The dishes of Hualong Rice are mainly sour fish, sour meat and sour vegetables, and the food is glutinous rice, one for each guest, and is placed on both sides of the long table with leaves as the base, and a string of fresh meat and tofu is placed on each glutinous rice. After the guests are seated, there is a collective drinking order and a ceremony before the meal begins.
Of course, when you come to Huaihua, you can't miss the popular Zhijiang Duck in western Hunan, as well as the unique flavor of Dongjia cured meat in the channel, which you will regret if you don't eat it!
(Hengshan Cuisine)
As a famous Buddhist mountain, Nanyue's cuisine is naturally vegetarian. Nanyue vegetarian diet began in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, more than a thousand years, the skills are becoming more sophisticated, has developed from the general vegetarian diet to high-level fasting banquets, major temples, restaurants are good at making.
Nanyue's fasting, there is "a product of incense, two plum (mold), three fresh soup, four seasons green, five lamps (stew) will be six, six children even, seven floors, eight bowls, nine, as expected, ten kinds of scenery," said.
A pint of incense - a single plate of vegetarian dishes.
The second degree of plum - moldy beans and curd.
The first step in the process is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what is going on in the world.
Four Seasons Green - four different kinds of green vegetables.
Five Lantern Club - five kinds of stew.
Six Zilian - usually refers to roasted eggplant, stir-fried bamboo shoots, stewed mushrooms, oil chili, dried bean seeds, and lotus root balls.
Seven Layers - Fake meat, meatballs, steamed buns, sub gluten, vegetable heart, yucca slices, mushrooms and other seven kinds of layers, like a family portrait or lion's head in meat dishes.
Eight bowls - eight kinds of vegetarian dishes imitation meat banquet organized into a banquet.
Nine Ruyi - the actual meal, according to the seasonal different, more or less guests with food, can make the guests eat satisfied that line, so it is also called "Ruyi meal".
Ten kinds of scenery - roughly there are two kinds: one is ten scenes of vegetarian braising, called "small ten kinds of scenery", that is, by the yucca slices, red radish, white radish, lily, cabbage heart, mushrooms, water chestnuts, potatoes, bean shoots skin, son of the noodle plate tendon and other braised stew and become. One of the magnolia pieces, red and white radish, water chestnuts, potatoes, but also carved into a variety of flower-shaped, very beautiful;
Another is ten kinds of dishes into the banquet, usually refers to the sea plants, pearl rice, oil bundled chicken, oil bean shoots, roasted eggplant, rock sugar Xianglian, seven-layer, eight treasures of the rice, roasted mushrooms, soup and greens, there is also a full imitation of the meat banquet into the top ten bowls of the bowl. Ten kinds of King with a variety of materials, production of fine, sweet and sour, soft and crispy all ready, land and water vegetarian food, food can enjoy all the flavors of the fasting seat.
Nanyue Lent, there is a strong local flavor of tofu, tofu, chili, bamboo shoots, mushrooms and other dozens of dishes to eat, another flavor.
Vegetarian fasting tasting locations recommended:
Zhu Sheng Temple: Tel 0734-5662260;
Suilian Cave Scenic Area's Vegetarian Hall: Tel 0734-5672718;
Shangfeng Temple: 0734-5663009
Fuyen Temple: 0734-5662677
Nantai Temple: 0734-5662193
Eat in the scenic area
Hengshan scenic area of the restaurants and eateries to the Mid-levels Pavilion area is the most centralized, which Yanshou Village's most affordable, the location of the hotel in the Grinding Mirror Terrace in front of the 100 meters or so. Because most of the local villagers opened, small business, so the price is moderate, you can discount, taste is also good!
Reminder: Hengshan people cooking vegetables put oil especially much, so the taste of light if you want to declare in advance.
Eat in the city
Nanyue District is the most prosperous Zhu Rong North Road, dining, shopping, the most concentrated, more people, the price of food is cheaper than the mountains.
In addition, in the city to taste the night snacks there are two places to go: one is Duxiu Middle Road and Duxiu kindergarten in front of the barbecue street, the price is quite cheap: the second is the Nanyue Wanshou Plaza's night snacks square.
(Zhuzhou cuisine)
Although Zhuzhou is not a key geographical area of the Xiangcai district characteristics, but still has its own characteristics in food. Due to its unique geographical location, at the crossroads of northern Hubei, southern Guangdong, eastern Zhejiang and western Guizhou, Zhuzhou cuisine takes the four flavors of the four neighboring places as its body, and appropriately integrates them into the local dietary habits, thus creating the Zhuzhou flavor of the Hubei, Guangdong, Huaiyang and Guizhou cuisines.
(Changde Cuisine)
Changde Rice Vermicelli has a long history and is famous in Hunan. You should try it when you are in Changde. The main raw material of Changde Rice Vermicelli is rice, which is made into white, round, thin and elastic vermicelli through a special process, and can be eaten as long as it is scalded with boiling water and added with ingredients, which is lubricious and delicious with unique flavor.
(Chenzhou Cuisine)
If you want to eat local dishes, you can go to Four Seasons Restaurant on Jiefang Road near the Railway Station Square, where Guiyang Blood Duck, Rice Vermicelli Duck, Roasted Chicken, Roasted Duck, and other local dishes will whet your appetite.
Some of the things you must eat in Chenzhou are as follows: Guiyang altar meat, originated in the Three Kingdoms period, is said to be especially loved by Zhao Zilong. It is made of fresh pork and local specialty five-clawed chili pepper refined with folk recipes, flavorful and spicy; Yulan slices, made of young asparagus not yet out of the ground, the meat is crispy and tender, which can not be compared to the spring bamboo shoots. Cut into thin slices and fried meat to eat, fresh and fragrant; Dongjiang fish, Dongjiang River, also known as South Dongting, clear water, cold and clean, living in which the Dongjiang fish meat tender, sweet, is generally freshwater fish can not be reached.
The local specialty restaurants are mainly Chenzhou Multi-flavored Chicken Hotel, King Fish City, San Gen Cao Winery, Imperial Raw Seafood Restaurant, Changsha Steamed Vegetable Restaurant and so on.
(Cuisine of Yongzhou)
Yongzhou cooking takes a wide range of materials, tastes varied, fresh, mellow and thick flavors and make good use of spicy, a variety of dishes, a hundred dishes a hundred flavors. Some people say "eat in Yongzhou", not much money out of pocket, can be in the streets and alleys at the end of the snack bar full of good food, so people do not get tired of eating.
Dong'an Chicken, Ningyuan Duck, Zuling Drinking Snail, Daozhou Za Pork, etc. are the delicious dishes that must be tasted in Yongzhou. Dong'an Chicken, which is the first of the eight Hunan dishes, is spicy and fragrant, and Zuling Lotus Pork, which is full of aroma, has a peculiar shape, which makes people never get tired of eating it.
Yongzhou's restaurants are numerous, all districts and counties have a lot of restaurants, to Yongzhou travelers do not worry about finding a place to eat.
Recommended Restaurants
Lengshuitan Hedong: Jiu Zi Spicy Crab, Duo Xi Lai Bakery Lengshuitan Hedong Store and 2 Stores, Urban Delicious Eatery
Lengshuitan Hedong: Spicy Woman Spicy Shabu Shabu, Yongzhou Pizzeria
Lengshuitan North Railway Station: Quhe Fish & Wine North Railway Station Store
Zuoling Bus Station: Jinxin Restaurant
Zuoling District, Nanjin Middle Road: Huifang Restaurant, Liwei Restaurant