The snacks in Yichang, Hubei Province are very local and delicious. If you travel to Yichang, I recommend you to try some delicious snacks, such as Xiakou tofu pudding, chilli shrimp, peach blossom fish with chicken paste, fat fish, cold cakes and so on. Come and have a look!

1. Xiakou Tofu

Tofu (also known as tofu) is a unique dish and delicious snack in Xiling Gorge of the Yangtze River. Because of its excellent water quality and fine production, its tofu is famous for its whiteness, delicacy and cream.

It belongs to the same family as tofu, but there are some differences, that is, tofu is a solidified body, while tofu is a semi-solidified liquid. The production process of tofu is very particular. Grind tofu into tofu with a stone mill, soak it in clear water after peeling, take it out after it swells and turns white, add clear water, grind it into fine soybean milk with a stone mill, filter the soybean milk with a coarse white cloth bag, take out the bean dregs, pour the filtered slurry into a large iron pot, boil it with strong fire, chisel it into a special wooden bucket, wooden basin or clay pot, pour the cooked gypsum into hot soybean milk with clear water, and stir it with a wooden spoon for about five times.

2. Spicy shrimp Xiangji pot-stewed dishes

I feel very good in Yichang. The place is not big. You may be able to walk on the main street without a map. Restaurants are not available in every street, but concentrated in several streets. It is strongly recommended not to eat in the night market near Jiang Yan Road, because the price is unfair and the taste is not good. Or eat at Hongxing Road. The price is cheap and the quantity is sufficient. The key is overeating.

3. Peach blossom fish with chicken paste

Peach blossom color is the essence of this soup, but peach blossom fish is not a fish, but a transparent body of algae. Peach Blossom Fish was born in Yiling Canyon and Xiangxi River. It lives and dies with the peach blossom. When peach blossoms are in full bloom, they also appear in the rippling blue waves. I saw that it resembled petals of peach blossom, some were white and flawless, some were lightly painted with red makeup, and some were milky yellow. It rises and falls with the clear water waves, and it is in harmony with the Danxia-like peach blossoms on both sides of Xiangxi River, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. After the peach blossom disappeared, the peach blossom fish disappeared and returned to the mysterious nature.

4. Fat Fish

This is a traditional famous dish, which is made of fat fish (huiguo fish) from Huyatan to Nanjinguan and steamed with fat. The fish is fresh and tender, the fish soup is delicious, and the dishes are light and original, which is deeply loved by Chinese and foreign diners. On this basis, there are country ball fat fish and peony pearl fat fish.

5. Flavor bacon

Flavor bacon takes fresh pork as raw material, adopts the combination of traditional formula and modern scientific formula, inherits the ancient Tujia craft, and is baked with pine and cypress branches, shavings and charcoal. It has Tujia flavor, pure color and unique fragrance.

6. Radish jiaozi

Yichang famous snack. The main raw materials are rice, soybeans and radishes. Its method is: soak 9% rice and 1% soybean for 4-5 hours and grind them into slurry. Shredding radish, mixing with spices such as Chili powder, pepper powder, garlic (onion) seedlings, refined salt, etc. When frying, first put the base pulp into a special meniscus iron spoon, then add shredded radish as stuffing, then cover the pulp and fry in an oil pan until golden brown. Crispy outside and soft inside, spicy but not stinging, delicious.

7. Dried sweet potatoes

Yichang is called "Zizania latifolia" locally. The specific method is to cook (steam) sweet potatoes, cut them into strips, and then dry them in the sun before they can be eaten. You can also use clean coarse sand to bake in an iron pan. After the sand becomes brittle, it can be filtered by a sieve. The color is orange, crisp and delicious.

8. Cold cake

Grind polished rice into slurry, and add sugar, soda ash, gypsum plaster, raw rice wine, alkali and other auxiliary materials to make slurry. Leave it for 4-5 hours, put it on a plate, steam it in a cage, and cut it into prisms after coming out of the cage. It is a good summer product.

9. Crispy oil

Crispy oil is one of the snacks with Yichang flavor. It is steamed with glutinous rice, wrapped with white sugar and sesame stuffing, made into a prismatic shape, and fried into golden brown. Crispy outside and soft inside, sweet and delicious.