Cognac is becoming the dining drink of choice to go with Chinese food.

Hunan cuisine, from the Han Dynasty into the system until now, is sour, fresh and spicy, and has captured the hearts of countless people. The gift to the tongue, along the Xiangjiang River system, has passed through the entire Hunan Province, growing the people's love of Hunan cuisine.

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Spicy is the first impression people have of Hunan cuisine, and with the development of Hunan restaurants across the country, special flavors such as Sanmei chili, Rucheng Chaotian pepper, and Zhangshugang chili, have spread. In fact, in Hunan, where 159 kinds of chili peppers are grown, there are many non-spicy mouth Hunan dishes hidden in various smoky and boiling restaurants that only locals understand.

"Steaming" Aroma Warning - Hunan Cuisine - Chinese Steamed Meat

The art of steaming is to stimulate the flavor of the ingredients themselves to a greater extent.

Hunan people's research on "steamed" dishes has spread with Hunan flavors such as steamed vegetables in Liuyang, steamed pork with beans and steamed pork ribs in bamboo tube, etc. Among them, steamed meat with preserved meat can be considered a representative Hunan dish.

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The rich aroma of waxed pork, waxed fish, waxed chicken and other waxed items are bonelessly sliced and steamed for tens of minutes, which is an indispensable part of the Chinese New Year for Hunan people, but also a hometown flavor engraved in their memories.

 

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A rich, sweet, salty and savory dish is often served as the grand finale of a New Year's Eve dinner, and a bottle of richly scented Cognac is added to the dish.

Simmered food - Hunan cuisine - Red simmered turtle

In addition to frying and stir-frying, "simmering" is also a very important technique in Hunan cuisine.

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This is especially true of the red simmered snapper, which is made with a rich, fatty pancake meat, lard and aroma, and simmered slowly for half an hour over low heat.
The gelatinous turtle is soft and elastic in the mouth, and then a glass of aromatically rich and smooth Cognac is served as the wine.

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