When it comes to the Hunan cuisine, what we all have in mind must be one adjective word --pungent ,then do you know the origin why Hunan cuisine is so hot?
Firstly ,let's see what delicious food we have in Dongting Lake. As we all know , Dongting Lake teems with lotus,so one of the characteristics [?k?rikt??ristiks] of food in Dongting Lake is that the food is made of lotus and lotus seed. [sid]
Coming to the Xiangjiang River Basin , delicious snacks you can't miss most is bean curd with odor in the provincial capital Changsha, as well as shrimps.Of course,rice noddles of Changsha in breakfast time is the the most popular food, while cake with syrup ,simply made of sugar oil and flour [fla?r],if not more than, is as toothsome as rice noodles.
As for another city besides Xiangjiang river-Xiangtan,where Chairman Mao were born, you can eat bouilli which Chairman Mao deeply falls in love with; you can enjoy stir fry head with chopped hot chili, making you not be able to say anything after eating for its peppery taste;you can also have Dong Zi An Chicken with long history, which among the best 8 in Hunan cuisine .
Finally, let's appreciate the food in beautiful western Hunan's mountainous. As Hunan people prefer waxed meat, the special cuisine in this area called Steamed Multiple P reserved Hams contains preserved fish, waxed meat and preserved chicken. Duck blood can always make people have an endless savor . The mountainous not only have excellent food, but also
it posses special food material,like rice tofu,grandmothers' vegetable made of various potherbs
So many delicious food in Hunan that i can't cite one by one, hope you can come to Hunan yourself and enjoy foods.
Then do you know more about Hunan cuisine? I will introduce the most well-known and most delicious Hunan cuisine to you.