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Hunan snacks

Hunan's special snacks include Changsha stinky tofu, sugar and oil Baba, Laba bean, pepper radish, Hunan beef rice noodles and so on.

1, Changsha stinky tofu

Changsha stinky tofu is a traditional snack in Changsha, Hunan Province, which belongs to Hunan cuisine. Changsha stinky tofu is cooked with stinky tofu and other ingredients. It is dark in color, tender outside, fresh and spicy, crisp but not sticky, tender but not greasy, smells bad at first, and is fragrant and attractive.

2, sugar and oil Baba

Sugar and oil Baba is a traditional dish in Changsha, Hunan Province, which belongs to Hunan cuisine. Its cost is low. The main raw materials are glutinous rice flour and sugar, but its production technology is exquisite and has special production technology.

Although it can't be elegant and can't compete with delicacies, shark's fin and bear's paw, it is precisely because of its cheap status that it can enter and leave ordinary people's homes, be deeply loved by the people and become a snack that people often never tire of eating.

3. Labadu

Labadou is one of the local traditional snacks in Hunan Province. This is the traditional food of Laba Festival. It is made of soybean, pepper, salt and so on. It has a history of hundreds of years. Most people start pickling after beginning of winter every year and eat it after the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, so it is called Laba bean.

Its finished product has a special flavor and is extremely delicious, so it is very popular with people. However, since ancient times, it has always been a family or small workshop-style production, and it cannot be a food that consumers can enjoy all year round due to seasonal restrictions.

4, pepper radish

Pepper radish is a famous snack in Changsha, Hunan. It is made of pickled local radish mixed with chopped pepper. It can be a dish at a banquet or an appetizer at home. In rural Hunan, every household has the habit of cooking peppers and radishes in winter. If the guests come, the host will definitely serve a bowl of red pepper and radish.

5. Hunan beef rice noodles

Hunan beef rice noodle is a special snack in Hunan. The main ingredient is beef rice noodles, and the auxiliary materials are oil, salt, aniseed, cinnamon, fragrant leaves, dried tangerine peel, clove, fennel, Hunan Chili sauce, soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine, chicken essence, coriander and chopped green onion.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Changsha Stinky Tofu.