What are the special snacks in Hengyang?

Pailou Tangyuan is a traditional snack in Hengyang, Hunan. This vegetable soup is clear and white, soft and slightly spicy.

2. Perilla snail

Perilla snail is a local traditional snack in Hunan Province. The main ingredients are snails, perilla leaves, and a little pepper, garlic, lobster sauce and so on. Stir-fried snail with perilla leaves can not only remove the muddy smell of snail itself, but also bring out the fresh flavor of snail. You can taste a spicy and sweet smell as soon as you enter.

3. Crispy moon cakes

Crispy and thin moon cakes are a traditional name in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, and have been made in Hengyang for over 40 years. Exquisite ingredients, fine workmanship, unique flavor, crisp and delicious. It has a strong smell of hemp seed, rose and osmanthus, and tastes sweet, crisp but not greasy.

4, pagoda incense waist

Baota fragrant waist, also known as seven-story building and Yulin fragrant waist, is a traditional local dish in Hunan Province, which consists of seven different dishes. A long time ago, Hengyang had local small varieties such as fish balls, yellowbird meat and pot-baked meatballs. Although they have a unique taste, they can't be elegant.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Peng Yulin, a native of Hengyang, was an official in the Ministry of War, and he is still obsessed with these small varieties in his hometown. One day, Peng hosted a banquet for court officials in his mansion and told the chef to try to put these small varieties into the bowl skillfully.

5. Changning bean jelly

Changning bean jelly has a history of 1300 years, and is made of bean jelly rattan cores produced in local mountainous areas. The bean jelly is crystal clear, and there is a 3 cm thick powder block in the hand. You can see the fingerprint through the powder block, so it is called "six children in the snow" and "crystal jelly".