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  • Zhangjiajie Sweet Wine

    Zhangjiajie Sweet Wine

    Sweet Wine is a special kind of wine brewed with sticky rice and distiller’s yeast in China. It is a mixture of sour and sweet taste and is popular in ZJJ. You can easily find Sweet Wine sold in supermarkets here. In the past time, ZJJ people are only able to have it in the end of year for celebration of Spring Festival. Now, it is easy to have it all year due to improvement of living condition.
    Food 2012-12-19 22:59 View:2526
  • Hunan Spicy Salted Duck(Jiangban Duck)

    Hunan Spicy Salted Duck(Jiangban Duck)

    Spicy Salted Duck, I promise, is gourmet you have never tasted in any other counties if it’s your first time to China. It tastes quite spicy with a distinctive flavor. Many people fervently like it. It is originally made by Changde people and now branches of Spicy Salted Duck are nearly spread all over China.
    Food 2012-12-19 22:55 View:2880
  • Zhangjiajie Mildewed Tofu

    Zhangjiajie Mildewed Tofu

    Zhangjiajie Food-Mildewed Tofu is ZJJ people’s daily dish. It looks ugly but tastes good and is appetizing. In springs and winters, people would like to make it. And its making process is quite dainty. The first step is to slice tofu into pieces of about 2cm wide and 3cm long. Then, boil it in clear water, drain it and put it in a barrel in which it will mildew. Take it out when mucedine grows as long as about 3cm. Later, soak the tofu in cold oil soup and add salt in a jar,Sichuanpeppercorn, ginger slice, pepper ends and a small amount of white spirit. In the end, seal the jar up. 7 days later, you can open the jar and eat it. It tastes quite savoury, spicy, numb and appetizing
    Food 2012-12-14 13:59 View:2478
  • Ways of Making Tujia Acid Long Bean

    Ways of Making Tujia Acid Long Bean

    add some water, pepper and salt into a pot and boil them, then cool it. Next, select and wash up defined amount of long beans, and cut them into chunks. Next, you can use a towel or put them in the air in order to dry them. (if there is a big jar, you can also not cut the long beans)
    Food 2012-12-13 13:54 View:2143
  • On Methods of Making Tomato Cakes

    On Methods of Making Tomato Cakes

    Wash tomatoes clean. Then, steam them in steamer.Whisk eggs and add milk, a small amout of salt, soft sugar and gourmet powder.Peel the steamed tomatoes and crumb them.Pour mixed milk-egg juice into crumbed tomato and add proper amount of flour and stir them up with great strength.Make stirred tomato into cake shape and roast those tomato cakes on pan on soft fire to make sure cakes’ color beautiful.Cooked tomato cakes , tasty and beautiful
    Food 2012-12-11 23:17 View:2186
  • Spring Festival Cuisine-Smoked Pig Head

    Spring Festival Cuisine-Smoked Pig Head

    Smoked Pig Head is Tujia people’s special food which is served as the biggest dish during spring festival. And washing pig head has become a custom of Tujia people. Every year, on the twelfth month of the lunar year, every family would clear dust and shave pig hair of the smoked pig head which has been hung on the beam of house and steam it in the evening.
    Food 2012-12-09 14:49 View:6015
  • Tujia Honeydew Braised Pork

    Tujia Honeydew Braised Pork

    The practice of tujia braised pork is all use pork, after boiled, Fried, steamed up in honey and so much multichannel process. On the table, we can see below the meat there will be dry pickles. Although it is made by fat meat, the taste is not greasy, only very fresh and tender.
    Food 2012-12-08 14:55 View:3855
  • Zhangjiajie Cili Silver Fish

    Zhangjiajie Cili Silver Fish

    In 1918, silver fish was listed as one of the world famous specialties on World Specialties Exhibition held in Panama. Jiangya silver fish comes from the well-known scenic spot--Jiangya Reservoir, which is located in Zhangjiajie Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. In other word, the pure lake water there breeds this special specialty.
    Food 2012-12-08 13:47 View:3825