Street food & snacks 街头小吃

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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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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Scraped Mung-Bean Jelly Noodles 刮凉粉

Soft mung-bean jelly is scraped into long strips and dressed with soy, vinegar, garlic, sesame and chilli.

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Xiangxiang Baked Rice Cake 湘乡烘糕

Xiangxiang Baked Rice Cake (湘乡烘糕) is a thin, crisp rice cake from Xiangxiang (湘乡) in Xiangtan, Hunan.

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Lamp-Wick Rice Cake Sticks 灯芯糕

Lamp-Wick Rice Cake Sticks (灯芯糕) are a sweet pastry that Chinese Wikipedia lists as a speciality of two places: Xiangtan (湘潭) in Hunan and Guixi (贵溪) in Jiangxi.

Changning Creeping Fig Jelly 常宁凉粉

Changning Creeping Fig Jelly (常宁凉粉) is a clear jelly made from the seeds of liangfen fruit (凉粉果), the local name for creeping fig. In Changning (常宁), it is remembered as a small-bowl treat for hot summer evenings.

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Huarong Filled Rice Dumplings 华容团子

Huarong rice dumplings wrap savoury tofu, pork, lotus seeds, chilli and garlic in a soft white rice skin.

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Kudzu Root Starch 葛根粉

Kudzu Root Starch (葛根粉) is made in Sangzhi (桑植), Zhangjiajie (张家界), by extracting and settling starch from mature kudzu roots.

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Zixing Rice-Flour Goose 资兴米粉鹅

Zixing Rice-Flour Goose (资兴米粉鹅) combines goose with hand-ground rice flour and a little pork belly.

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Hongjiang Duck with Blood Rice Cakes 洪江血粑鸭

Hongjiang Duck with Blood Rice Cakes (洪江血粑鸭) is young duck stir-fried with Hongjiang sweet bean paste and braised with fried cakes of glutinous rice and duck blood, the dish the old merchant town of Hongjiang (洪江) in Huaihua (怀化), Hunan, serves to honoured guests.

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Xinhua Steamed Rice Cup Cakes 新化杯子糕

Small sweet rice cakes steamed in cups, with a white or golden colour and either a domed porous or a denser indented form.

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Yongshun Rice Tofu 永顺米豆腐

Yongshun Rice Tofu (永顺米豆腐) is the rice tofu of Yongshun County (永顺县) in the north of Xiangxi (湘西) prefecture, Hunan.

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