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 "Five Corners" in the south gate, where teams buying stinky tofu often have to queue up for a long time.

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 2, tasty 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 "Simian" 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. 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".

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 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.

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 4, Thoreau

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.

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 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.

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 6, braised pork feet

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 7. Taste crabs.

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 8, Changsha barbecue

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 9, Changsha rice noodles

Hunan Changsha gourmet snacks 10, Liuyang oil cake

Under the influence of many factors, such as the philosophy of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, Confucian ethics, the theory of TCM nutrition and health preservation, cultural and artistic achievements, aesthetic fashion of diet, national personality characteristics and so on, the working people have created China cooking skills that will go down in history, and formed a profound China food culture.

Historically, it can be traced back to the "alias: Jiang Ziya" in the late Shang Dynasty. China's food culture has lasted for more than 365,438+000 years, which is divided into five stages: raw food, cooked food, medicated diet, natural cooking and scientific cooking. It has introduced more than 60,000 kinds of traditional dishes, more than 20,000 kinds of industrial foods, colorful banquets and colorful flavor schools, and has become a "cooking kingdom".

From the connotation, China's food culture involves the development and utilization of food sources, the use and innovation of tableware, the production and consumption of food, the service and reception of catering, the operation and management of catering and food industry, the relationship between catering and national security, the relationship between catering and literature and art, and the relationship between catering and life realm, which is profound!

From the perspective of extension, China's food culture can be classified from the perspectives of times and technology, region and economy, nationality and religion, food and tableware, consumption and level, folk customs and functions, showing different cultural tastes and reflecting different use values.

Specifically, China's food culture highlights the theory of nutrition and health (mainly vegetarian, paying attention to medicinal diet and tonic) and the theory of harmonious realm of five flavors (unique flavor, delicious taste, and the reputation of "tongue food"), and the singularity is changing with each other? Cooking method (kitchen rules-based, flexible and changeable) and food concept (Wen Ya, food education) are four attributes, which are different from the natural beauty of overseas food culture.

China's food culture directly affects Korea, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Mongolia and other countries, and is the center of the oriental food culture circle. At the same time, it indirectly affects Europe, America, Africa and Oceania, such as vegetarian culture, tea culture, sauce and vinegar, pasta, medicated diet, ceramic tableware and soybeans in China, benefiting billions of people all over the world.

China's cooking is not only superb, but also has a tradition of paying attention to the aesthetic feeling of dishes and the harmony of color, fragrance, taste, shape and container of food. There are many ways to express the beauty of dishes. No matter carrots or cabbage hearts, they can be carved into various shapes and have a unique style, achieving a harmonious unity of color, fragrance, taste, shape and beauty, giving people a special enjoyment of a high degree of unity of spirit and material.

In a word, China's food culture is a regional culture with a long history, with broad vision, deep levels, many angles and high taste. It is the people of all ethnic groups in China who have created, accumulated and influenced the material wealth and spiritual wealth of neighboring countries and the world in the aspects of food source development, tableware development, food preparation, nutrition and health care, food aesthetics and so on in the production and life practice of more than 6,543,800 years.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Food