Changsha's stinky tofu is most famous for its century-old fire palace. Anyone who enters the fire palace will not eat stinky tofu. 1958, when Mao Zedong visited Changsha, he also went to the Fire Palace to eat stinky tofu. The stinky tofu in Huogong Palace is made of high-quality Liuyang douchi and brine, with winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms and koji wine. The fried stinky tofu is crispy outside and tender inside, and then poured with spices such as Chili oil, sesame oil and soy sauce, which is very delicious. In addition to the Fire Palace, many individual stalls scattered in folk alleys taste quite good, such as the "May _ _" in the south gate, and the team that buys stinky tofu often has to queue for a long time.
2. Delicious shrimp
Tasty shrimp is a special snack that rose in Education Street and South Gate of Changsha a few years ago, and then spread to the whole city and even the whole province, and flourished from then on. Delicious shrimp is brightly colored, and the soup is thick, heavy and spicy, which is very popular among Changsha people. At first, delicious shrimp was served in the form of midnight snack. Now there are many special restaurants in Changsha that specialize in delicious shrimp, such as "Si _ _" in the south gate, "Shengji" and "Meiyuan" under Bayi Bridge. Delicious shrimp won the hearts of Changsha people with the hotness of Changsha sister. It's a kind of hot from skull to toe, so hot that your tongue sticks out straight, which makes you scream. After drinking a glass of cold beer, I will continue to fight immediately, for fear that I won't be able to eat enough shrimp on such a dark night and suffer losses. Taste shrimp also has its bright color and fragrance, red shrimp shell, white shrimp meat, chicken soup floating in a few pieces of onion and perilla. Pick up a fat red shrimp from the basin, tear it open with both hands, tear off two shrimp pliers, and then gently open the shrimp shell to reveal the crescent-shaped shrimp meat. Diners who are not afraid of spicy food can also stick some soup. Unlike Shanghainese who pick crabs with toothpicks, Changsha people eat shrimp with heroic flavor. No wonder it is said in the street that this delicious shrimp also has the effect of "aphrodisiac".
3. Salted duck
The salted duck in Du Xiang is fragrant, thin and thin. A duckling can weigh up to a catty on the scale, but the meat is dry but not tough. In the vernacular, it is chewy and toothless. It tastes salty and a little spicy (if you don't eat spicy, it's spicy). You just feel a little delicious when you eat it. Eating all the way, I can't wait to swallow my belt bones. Banel Brick and his colleagues recommended that the best food is duck neck. Some people say it's duck skin, some people say it's a threat from ducks, and some people strongly recommend duck wings. Hehe, each has his own merits and different opinions. In fact, salted duck is not a specialty of Changsha, but Changsha people's love for salted duck should not be underestimated. Sauced duck is generally made of Chinese herbal medicine, spices, marinade and so on. And then drying and baking. Fortunately, salted duck can be packed and taken away! Therefore, tourists who have eaten delicious salted ducks can buy a few to go home, and there is no need to keep thinking about leaving Changsha and not eating them.
4.snails
The traditional food of Changsha, Thoreau, is popular in the south of the Yangtze River, and Changsha people also like to eat Thoreau. The reason why it is called snail is related to the action and sound when eating. When eating snails, veterans usually hold snails with their fingers or chopsticks. As soon as their mouths are closed, snail meat comes out, and then they bite it with their teeth and eat it with soup.
5, sugar and oil Baba
Changsha traditional food sugar oil Baba sugar oil Baba is a traditional snack in Changsha, which is made of glutinous rice, sweet and tender, crisp outside and tender inside, and can be bought in ordinary streets and alleys. When I was a child, some people had sugar and oil for breakfast. Although it was fried in oil and wrapped in syrup, it was not greasy at all. The famous temples in Gong Li are the Sugar and Oil Baba and the Palace of Fire.
6. Braised pork knuckle
Braised trotters, a traditional food in Changsha, is a favorite food of Changsha people. It can be used as a snack or a dish. Pig's feet contain collagen, which can be used for beauty, so you see that the girls in Changsha are full of water. The famous restaurants that eat pig's trotters in Changsha are chefs and so on, and Wu's pig's trotters are a rising star. Ingredients: Wash trotters, salad oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, soy sauce, sugar, white sugar, chopped green onion, ginger, onion stalk, cinnamon, star anise, whole dried Chili.
Method: (1) Chop pig's trotters and blanch them.
(2) Stir-fry ginger, scallion, cinnamon, star anise and dried chili, add pig's trotters, stir-fry to dry water, cook wine, sugar and soy sauce, stir-fry with water, adjust the flavor, and simmer until crisp and rotten.
(3) When eating, pick out ginger, onion and spices, put them in a bowl and sprinkle with chopped green onion.
7. Taste crabs
People in Changsha are as crazy about eating crabs as shrimp. Crab and shrimp are two dishes that Changsha people must order at the supper stand. Changsha's famous taste crab belongs to "Meiyuan Shrimp City". Its founder, Mr. Wang, first operated flavored shrimp in Changsha, and later developed a variety of flavored dishes such as flavored crab, flavored snail and flavored green mouth. Because the soup of fried crab is carefully developed by Mr. Wang after nearly ten years, adding more than ten kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, with a unique formula of chicken juice and plum garden, it has a plum garden flavor in taste. Meiyuan crab is a meat crab from Mekong River in Myanmar. It is not only spicy, but also more tender and delicious than the crab meat of ordinary river crabs. Diners are reluctant to put down their chopsticks after eating it.
8. Changsha barbecue
Changsha gourmet barbecue Every city's barbecue has its own characteristics, and so does Changsha's barbecue. The most important thing is that the barbecue in Changsha must be spicy enough, otherwise how can Changsha people who are not spicy and unhappy eat it? Summer is the best season to eat barbecue, and barbecue with beer is also a signature combination, not to mention the World Cup one month later. What is better than eating barbecue while watching the ball?
9. Changsha rice noodles
Changsha rice noodle is not as famous as Guilin rice noodle, but it has its own characteristics and is one of the favorite foods of Changsha citizens. People in Changsha like to eat rice noodles, which are divided into round noodles and flat noodles. Most Changsha citizens prefer flat powder, because the advantage of flat powder is that it is easier to taste than round powder. You know, rice noodles themselves are tasteless, and they are all seasoned with soup. So soup head is the key to a bowl of rice noodles. Strangely, many Changsha citizens eat rice noodles without drinking soup, but only fish them clean, and the soup is still intact. This has puzzled me for many years, because I am a person who loves soup, and I think it is really a waste to leave delicious soup without drinking it. Besides size, Changsha people call the side dishes placed in rice noodles size, which can be covered and fried. The so-called code-covering means to make the code in advance, and directly cover the finished code on it after the powder comes out; Fried code, as its name implies, is a side dish that is temporarily fried in a small pot when ordering powder, so the code is fresh and tastes better, so it is more expensive than the cover code. Generally, we often eat shredded pork, hot and sour, crisp pepper and sauce. Miscellaneous sauce and other Changsha rice noodles in a bowl, in pairs, standard configuration. But if you want more powder or more sizes, you can tell the store when you buy powder, and be selective.
10, Liuyang oil cake
Oil cake is a traditional product of Liuyang, which has a history of thousands of years and is well-known at home and abroad. Its production began in the Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin tasted it and became a tribute. On the basis of traditional technology and modern technology, Liuyang oil cake is more rigorous in production and more exquisite in materials. It is refined from more than ten kinds of spices such as local camellia oil, refined powder, sugar, osmanthus, lily powder, sesame and star anise. Liuyang oil cake has the characteristics of crisp, crisp, fragrant and sweet. It is unique in China food industry. 1. All the technical indexes have reached the national standards, and the products sell well at home and abroad. After the founding of New China, Chairman Mao and General Secretary Yaobang tasted it many times and spoke highly of it.