Tasting Changsha Local Food
Hunan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China, with its heavy oil, strong color, especially with sour, spicy, fresh, and wax taste. Changsha is the center of Hunan cuisine and the famous city of food in China. Changsha people are famous for their love of spicy. There are so many kinds of delicacies, which constantly attracting tourists from all over the world to this city.
Stinky Tofu
The stinky tofu is a famous traditional food in Changsha. It is said that there are hundreds of stinky tofu shops in Changsha. After walking every twenty steps, you can see a stinky tofu stall. Stinky tofu smells bad but tastes good. The fried stinky tofu is scorched outside but tender inside. Pour on the mixed soy sauce and chili oil, and bite it down. It's super delicious!
Recommended Restaurant: Huo Gong Dian (Pozi Street Head Office)
Address: No. 127 Pozi Street, Tianxin DIstrict, Changsha
Recommended Reason: Starts from 1577, you can taste all the special Changhsa snacks here
Sugar Oil Baba
Baba doesn’t mean “Dad” in Changsha. It’s a kind of fried sticky rice cake. The Sugar Oil Baba fresh, which is just out of the pot, is golden, crisp and tender, sweet but not thick, oil but not greasy, soft but not sloughing, attracting people's appetite!
Recommended Restaurant: Jinji Sugar Oil Baba Shop
Address: No. 55 Xueyuan Street, Changsha
Recommended Reason: authentic Sugar Oil Baba, famous in Changsha
Spicy Shrimp
Changsha people are crazy about Spicy Shrimp. Summer is the best season to eat Spicy Shrimp, but luxury restaurant is not a best place to eat it. The store environment of authentic Spicy Shrimp is not good. Some of them are even on the side of the road. However, from famous hosts to ordinary people, they can't resist spicy shrimp and ice beer in summer.
Recommended Restaurant: Yikouxiang Shrimp (Head Office)
Address: East side of West Lake building, malanshan community, Wanjiali North Road, Kaifu District, Changsha
Recommended Reason: The taste is lighter than other shrimp stores, which is more suitable for first-try visitors.
