Hunan Cuisine

Hunan cuisine, also known as Xiang cuisine, is known for exquisite production, a wide range of ingredients, heavy use of oil, rich color as well as hot and spicy flavor.In terms of cooking method, it excels at stir-frying, simmering, curing-salting-drying and stewing.Geographically, Hunan cuisine has three subcategories: Xiangjiang dishes, Dongting Lake dishes and western Hunan dishes.Xiangjiang dishes are umamic, savory, sour and spicy; Dongting Lake dishes are known for cooking aquatic products; western Hunan is skilled at cooking woodland delicacies. This book selects some famous and representative dishes in Hunan cuisine and explains their origin, ingredient selection and cooking tips, in order to showcase merits of the cuisine while making sure readers can actually cook these dishes at home.It discusses in detail the features of dishes in terms of flavor, history, origin, ingredient selection, cooking technique, cooking method and eating method, etc.There are also comments of celebrity chefs from Hong Kong to help readers appreciate famous delicacies in an informed way, and offer advice for cooking and making at home.