# The best Hunan dishes

Hunan cuisine, one of China's eight great cuisines, is known for its fragrant heat, sour-spicy flavours and smoked cured meats. The signature dishes from Wikipedia's article on Xiang cuisine.

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- Apr 16, 2021 · 杨思雨
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## Top 13

1. **Steamed fish head with chopped chillies** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Steamed fish head under chopped salted chillies, Hunan's signature.
2. **Mao's red-braised pork** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chairman Mao's red-braised pork from Shaoshan, made without soy sauce.
3. **Stir-fried pork with chillies** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Green chillies stir-fried with pork belly, the most homely Hunan dish.
4. **Stir-fried yellow beef** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tender beef flash-fried with bird's-eye chilli and celery.
5. **Steamed cured meats** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cured pork, chicken and fish steamed together.
6. **Dong'an chicken** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sour-spicy tender chicken from Dong'an county, a classic.
7. **Spicy crayfish** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Changsha's spicy crayfish, a late-night favourite.
8. **Changsha stinky tofu** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Black fried stinky tofu with chilli sauce.
9. **Yongzhou blood duck** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yongzhou duck stir-fried with its own blood.
10. **Sour and spicy chicken giblets** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chicken gizzards and livers stir-fried with pickled chillies.
11. **Grandma's pickled greens** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dried pickled greens from western Hunan, perfect with rice.
12. **Hair-thin beef tripe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Beef tripe cut as fine as hair, sour, spicy and crunchy.
13. **Rock-sugar lotus seeds** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Xiangtan lotus seeds stewed with rock sugar.

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