Are you looking for the good food to eat when you travel to Zhangjiajie? This Zhangjiajie food list has the top Zhangjiajie dishes and snacks and recommended restaurants to find them in. Zhangjiajie cuisine is a blend of traditional Hunan cuisine (also known as Xiang cuisine) and local Tujia minority cuisine. It is featured with sour and spicy flavors.

Famous Food in Zhangjiajie
Sanxiaguo
It is a classic Zhangjiajie local dish and it should be your first meal in Zhangjiajie. It is a kind of Tujia ethnic hotpot. It is so named because it was originally cooked with three ingredients together, bacon, tofu and radish. Nowadays, more ingredients are added, such as fat intestine, tripe of pork, beef belly, lamb belly ox and sheep and other ingredient.

Sour and Salted Fish
The main cooking technique of this dish is frying. It has a crispy outer skin and the meat inside is beautifully cooked and tender, thanks to all that deep frying goodness! It will surely refresh you on a fatigued hot day due to its sourness.

Smoked Blood Tofu
This is a classic Zhangjiajie dish. It is a mix of tofu, pork, pork blood and some seasonings such as pepper, chili, and salt. The mix is made into chunks and then smoked for over a month. It is delicious to have all flavors of tofu, bacon pork, and blood.

Tujia Steamed Pork Belly
This dish is tricky and time-consuming to create. Take pork belly as raw material, cut into large slices, then steam with some preserved mustard and seasoning in a steamer for 1.5 hours to 2 hours.

The Fried Sweet Dumplings
It is common to eat sweet dumplings, but have you eaten fried sweet dumplings? The sweet dumplings are wrapped in flour and cheese powder, and deep fried in the oil for two minutes. Then fry the dumplings with shallot and pepper.

Where to Eat in Zhangjiajie
Xiang Li Ren Jia Restaurant
Xiang Li Ren Jia Restaurant is one of the best dinning places in Zhangjiajie. Fish dishes here are the best. Tofu taste good too. It is composed of a large hall and many balconies which can entertain 500 guests at one time. Of course this restaurant cooks local dishes. But, it as well provides food of every where of China.

Lao Wu Yu Tou Restaurant
Lao Wu Yu Tou Restaurant is an old restaurant. Fish Head Hotpot is the signature dish in this place. Other dishes like Ribs Steamed Pork Ribs with Taro, Steamed Sausage and Stewed Native Tujia Chicken are highly recommended too.