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The best Hunan dishes

The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Steamed fish head with chopped chillies · Mao's red-braised pork · Stir-fried pork with chillies. (Updated Apr 16, 2021.)

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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    Steamed fish head with chopped chillies

    Steamed fish head under chopped salted chillies, Hunan's signature.

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    Mao's red-braised pork

    Chairman Mao's red-braised pork from Shaoshan, made without soy sauce.

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    Stir-fried pork with chillies

    Green chillies stir-fried with pork belly, the most homely Hunan dish.

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    Stir-fried yellow beef

    Tender beef flash-fried with bird's-eye chilli and celery.

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    Steamed cured meats

    Cured pork, chicken and fish steamed together.

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    Dong'an chicken

    Sour-spicy tender chicken from Dong'an county, a classic.

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    Spicy crayfish

    Changsha's spicy crayfish, a late-night favourite.

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    Changsha stinky tofu

    Black fried stinky tofu with chilli sauce.

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    Yongzhou blood duck

    Yongzhou duck stir-fried with its own blood.

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    Sour and spicy chicken giblets

    Chicken gizzards and livers stir-fried with pickled chillies.

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    Grandma's pickled greens

    Dried pickled greens from western Hunan, perfect with rice.

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    Hair-thin beef tripe

    Beef tripe cut as fine as hair, sour, spicy and crunchy.

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    Rock-sugar lotus seeds

    Xiangtan lotus seeds stewed with rock sugar.

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