ZJJ Long-xia-hua Tea is one of the very special kinds of tea here: It is a mixture of a kind of precious flower ingredient and tea. The name “Long Xia Hua Cha” means “Tea of lobster flower”. Why? Just take a look at this kind of tea: It is a little bigger than usually how big tea leaves are, and it just looks like one special flower growing in zhanjaijie–lobster flower.What’s more the making process of this kind of tea is really careful and complicated:1.This tea is collected only in April every year to make sure that everything is in its best situation.2.There are many requirements for what leaves can be selected, Such as: They should be the top 1 or 2 leaves of the brunch, they should be about 3cm long…3.The producing process is complicated: Dry, Clean, Select, fry…With the quality guaranteed many travelers bring home as a kind of health-benefit gift for their friend.Translated by Sophia

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Generally speaking, mandarin orange contains various nutritional ingredients, such as sugar, vitamin C, protein and carotene and so on. What’s more, its content of vitamin C is 6-20 times as that of apple.Orange can even be cooked with other vegetables, so that a unique dish is present. Therefore, mandarin orange becomes one of the most popular fruits in Zhangjiajie.

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Among all kinds of local flavors in western Hunan, rice tofu may be regarded as one of the most representative snacks. Similar to rice noodle, rice tofu is also welcomed by almost every family in Zhangjiajie, no matter eating breakfast, or lunch. Since the process of making rice tofu is somewhat simple, cost is cheap and eating is convenient, every family is able to do rice tofu in western Hunan.

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Cold Noodle is a delicious and popular snack in Zhangjiajie. I recommend it to you mainly for 3 reasons. Firstly, it’s convenient to get it in streets and alleys. Secondly, it’s quite cheap. Spending 3yuan can make you have a full dish. Thirdly, it’s delicious and spicy which caters for the taste of Zhangjiejie people.

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August Melon whose scientific name is Holboellia latifolia is the fruit of akebiaquinata and Akebia trifoliate. It is named August Melon because the fruit cracks when getting ripe. It shapes like banana and is rich in saccharides, Vitamin C, 12 kinds of amino acid, methionine, ILE, PHE, Lys etc. which can’t be synthesized artificially. It is pollution free green fruit with tasty and appetizing taste. Many scatter inTianziMountain. Now, it, as the superb wild fruit, is being listed as key exploiting project by related department.

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First step: select fresh red peppers of high quality, clean them with clear water and then dry them (make sure no raw water on pepper);Second step: chop clean and dried peppers into pieces. You’d better chop by hand to avoid the fiber of peppers being broken down by mechanical equipment and to keep peppers fresh and to make it taste good.Third step: you can add ingredients like salt, ginger, garlic,Sichuanpeppercorn etc. according to your personal likes. PuttingSichuanpeppercorn can make preserve time long enough about 2 to 3 years.Fourth step: store sealed in glass pot. Ten days later, you could have it. If better flavor required, sealed storage should be over a month.Fifth step: when you are to open the glass pot to have it, you should let gas leak out slowly to avoid your eyes being hurt by ejective pepper because of the high gas pressure.By Brenda

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Straw-hat noodle is sold by the boss who always sells noodles with a straw hat on his head. His noodles are hand-made by himself and ingredients added in noodles are quite appetizing. However, the boss is very strange that he only sells a fixed amount every day. It’s more strange before that he only sold noodles at nine o’clock in the evening on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Moreover, if want to have his noodles, you sometimes have to book in advance and whether he wants to sell depends on his mood. Thus, the boss and his noodles are full of mysteries.

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ZJJ Tujia Sour Bean-residue which is also called Lazy Tofu,It is a kind of special food of special taste. This kind of food is originally made before Tujia people’s emancipation. At that time, people were suffering from lack of food. They made full use of everything could be eaten. Thus they didn’t throw away residue of bean in process of making tofu. To people’s surprise, it tasted special and delicious especially when it turned sour after being put in air for several days. Though life is getting better, people still like it very much not only because of its delicious taste but also because of it being a memory of Tujia people.

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