Recommended dishes in Hengyang City
2024-05-09
Hengyang Fish Rice Noodles
Hengyang Fish Rice Noodles is one of Hengyang people’s must-eat foods in the morning. It’s mainly made of fresh fish and rice noodles, and different shredded or sliced vegetables or meat can be added to it. Good fish soup is the essence of fish rice noodles. The delicious fish soup makes the rice noodles more delicious and soft.
Hengyang Tutou Bowl
Hengyang Tutou Bowl has seven layers constituted by grass fish balls, sweet potato balls, yellow bird meat, pork kidney, red dates, fried boiled eggs and others. It embodies people’s wishes for promotion, wealth, reunion, harmony and happiness.
Fuzi Meat
Fuzi Meat
Fuzi Meat was often used as a gift to teachers in the old days. It is made of local high-quality black streaky pork, with red yeast rice powder added, making the meat taste unique and tender. It’s a delicacy for Hengyang people.
Braised Black Trotters with Day Lilies
Braised Black Trotters with Day Lilies
Qidong County in Hengyang City is the hometown of day lilies in China. Braised Black Trotters is a traditional Qidong feast dish cooked with day lilies. It becomes a local famous dish popular with diners.
Zhajiang Pig’s Head Meat
Zhajiang Pig’s Head Meat
It’s said that an empress of the Song Dynasty sought refuge in Hengyang but suffered from wind and cold, causing discomfort and loss of appetite. A famous chef in Zhajiang Town used pig’s head meat, along with star anise, cinnamon and Sichuan peppercorns to make soup. Then the sweet potato sheet jelly was added to the meat soup. After the empress ate, she sweat profusely and felt relaxed and comfortable.
Since then, Zhajiang Pig’s Head Meat has become famous.
Fried Day Lilies with Spiced Salt
Wrap the fresh day lilies washed with paste made of eggs, flour and cornstarch, and then fry them in hot oil until they turn golden yellow. Finally sprinkle spiced salt on them.
This dish changes the traditional way of eating day lilies as a soup ingredient.
Crispy Moon Cakes
It’s a traditional Han Chinese pastry in Hengyang City, with a history of over 140 years. It’s made with multiple processes. The fillings inside are sweet and delicious, leaving people an endless aftertaste.
