Xiangtan cuisine includes: boiled live fish, crispy roasted fish, Mao Shi braised pork, crystal sugar xianglian, beer duck, wick cake, xiangli bacon, purple oil ginger, xiangxiang baked cake, brain rolls, silver silk rolls and so on. Xiangtan boiled live fish: it is a classic home-cooked dish in Xiangtan. Boiled live fish mainly made of bighead carp, in its heyday, the motorcades lined up in long lines to grab the table for dinner, which set off a fever of boiled live fish in Xiangtan and became a frequent visitor on the table. It is also a famous dish in Hunan cuisine, which is found in almost all large Hunan restaurants all over the country.

Fried fish: It is a traditional food in Xiangtan and belongs to Hunan cuisine. Fire-baked fish is a fish made by removing the viscera from fresh small fish, then baking it in a pot on the fire and smoking it after cooling, so that the fish tastes more delicious.

Mao Shi Braised Pork: There is a famous food in Xiangtan called Maojia Braised Pork. This dish is made of pork belly with five layers and three flowers. First, the pork belly with five layers and three flowers is steamed with rock sugar, star anise and other ingredients, then fried in an oil pan, and then added with lobster sauce. This method is quite complicated and exquisite, and the finished product is golden and shiny in color, fragrant but not greasy, with endless aftertaste.

rock sugar xianglian: it is a dessert in Xiangtan, Hunan province. Since the Western Han Dynasty, white lotus was used to pay tribute to Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, so Xianglian is also called Gonglian. Xianglian is mainly produced in Dongting Lake area, and Xiangtan is a famous producing area. Huashi and Zhonglupu produce the most in the city, and the quality is also the best. There are red lotus and white lotus, among which white lotus is round and white, and it is the first in the country.