Chinese Food 中国美食

Fenghuang duck with blood-rice cakes 凤凰血粑鸭

The dish is rich and savoury, with tender duck contrasting against firmer rice cakes. Chilli and aromatics vary by restaurant.

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Mao-Style Red-Braised Pork 毛氏红烧肉

Layered pork-belly cubes braised with caramel, pork stock, ginger and warming spices, following a documented Shaoshan preparation.

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Hair-Thin Stir-Fried Beef Tripe 发丝牛百叶

Hair-Thin Stir-Fried Beef Tripe (发丝牛百叶) is a Hunan (湖南) dish built around precise cutting and a rapid stir-fry over high heat.

Flower Shiitake with Yolkless Eggs 花菇无黄蛋

Flower Shiitake with Yolkless Eggs (花菇无黄蛋) is a traditional Hunan dish of eggs whose yolks are taken out: each egg is pierced, emptied, and refilled with its beaten white mixed with stock, then steamed in the shell.

Scalded Pork Tripe Tips in Broth 汤泡肚尖

Scalded Pork Tripe Tips in Broth (汤泡肚尖) is a clear soup of pork tripe from Yulou Dong (玉楼东), a Changsha (长沙) restaurant founded in 1904. Rednet's Changsha site presented it in 2021 as a speciality that only Yulou Dong makes.

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Red-Braised Double Seafood 红烧海双味

Red-Braised Double Seafood (红烧海双味) is listed among the local specialties of Hunan. 红烧 describes red-braising.

Numbing and Spicy Young Chicken 麻辣仔鸡

Numbing and Spicy Young Chicken (麻辣仔鸡) is a Hunan (湖南) dish associated with Yuloudong restaurant (玉楼东) in Changsha (长沙).

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Steamed Cured Meat Platter 腊味合蒸

Steamed Cured Meat Platter (腊味合蒸) is a Hunan dish of several kinds of cured meat steamed together in one bowl.

Red-Braised Soft-Shelled Turtle Skirt and Feet 红煨水鱼裙爪

Red-Braised Soft-Shelled Turtle Skirt and Feet (红煨水鱼裙爪) is listed among the local specialties of Hunan. The name includes 鱼 (fish). 煨 describes gentle simmering.

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Leigong Duck 雷公鸭

Leigong Duck (雷公鸭) is a traditional dish of Hunan cuisine (湘菜): a young duck is cured and air-dried, steamed, then braised, and served chopped into pieces. Leigong (雷公) is the Chinese god of thunder.

Spiced Pressed Duck 酱板鸭

Flattened duck roasted and then braised with soy and spices; this illustration follows the documented Changde version of jiangban ya.

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Fried Scallion Rice Rings 葱油粑粑

Fried Scallion Rice Rings (葱油粑粑) are a Changsha (长沙) street snack of fermented rice batter with salt and chopped scallion, fried in an iron ring mould so that each cake comes out with a hole in the middle.

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