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Changsha is capital of Hunan Province, It is located in south of Dongting Lake Area, a home of rice and fish with over 3,000 years history. There are lots of local snacks in the beautiful city, Here lists some top snacks of Changsha.

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Smelly Bean Curd
Smelly Bean Curd is made from bean curd, bittern, winter bamboo shoots as well as starter wine. And sesame oil, soy sauce and other seasonings are added when Smelly Bean Curd is fried. Crisp and tender, Smelly Bean Curds are very delicious.

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Sister’s rice balls

High quality glutinous rice is grounded into flour and made into balls with fillings like fresh meat, mushroom, gourmet powder and sesame oil.These round treats have an outer layer of smooth rice that is stuffed with either meat and vegetables or sweet fillings. The type of filling – salty or sweet – determines whether or not this is a staple food or a dessert. On happy occasions, one sweet ball and one salty one are presented side by side to symbolize harmony.

Xaingbin Chunjuan
Chun Juan is a traditional local snack in Changsha with a long history of about 1000 years. The perfect spring roll has a thin, crispy shell holding a trove of textures and flavors. The fillings can be prepared according to different tastes. They are usually filled with pork, onions, carrot, celery, shiitake mushrooms, napa cabbage, and glass noodles. For those of you that don't eat pork, ground chicken or crumbled firm tofu make fine substitutes. The fillings are usually stir-fried with pork slices combined with wine, soy sauce, salt, soup and vegetables.Chun Juan made by Xiangjiang Hotel is regarded as the best in Hunan for its delicate choice of ingredients and advanced techniques.

Changsha-style rice vermicelli 
Though not as popular as Guilin-style rice vermicelli, Changsha-style rice vermicelli is an indispensible part of Changsha people's life. Rice vermicelli can be used in breakfasts, lunches, afternoon tea, and dinner, whenever one wants. It can be divided into round and flat types. People prefer the latter because it is tastier. In fact, it doesn't have any taste of its own, instead, the key to a good bowl of rice vermicelli lies in the soup. However, the most astonishing part is that the Changsha people just eat the rice vermicelli without the soup.

Liuyang Huibing
By using the unique methods of being wrapped by sugar and baked by cylinder furnace, it is made through no less than 10 refined procedures composed of oiling the surface and inside, wrapping the crisp, filling the cake with different kinds of materials, modeling and baking, with diversified raw materials including flour, tea oil, sugar, malt sugar as a main ingredient and kumquat, little wormwood incense, cooked sesame seeds, the laurel blossoms oil and broken rocky sugar as accessories.  With a round and convex shape and golden light color, it is not only beautiful in its surface, but also delicious in taste. Thus, rich fillings and refreshing crisp will shock your taste bud when you have a taste of it!