Beizheng Street, which was once a prosperous business street, is now only about 200 meters long. But after urban renewal, it has become a home to dozens of  time-honored restaurants and internet-famous food shops.

Time-honored brands

1. Yuloudong Restaurant

Yuloudong Restaurant with a hundred years of history is the only one special class national restaurant and one of the national top ten restaurants. Six traditional Hunan cuisine cooked by it, including spicy chick, shredded beef tripe, pork legs in soy sauce, Dongting turtle and mutton, mandarin fish with shredded winter bamboo shoots, and steamed multiple preserved hams, were listed as Changsha city-level intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Yuloudong Restaurant is the most representative of traditional flavors for Changsha people.

2. Shuangyanlou Restaurant

With full stuffing and delicious soup, wonton in Shuangyanlou Restaurant is the first choice for breakfast. The chopped leaf mustard in it will not get stuck between teeth. Customers will feel much more energetic after eating a bowl of wonton. There are many kinds of breakfast and staple food worth eating for customers who can’t handle spicy food.

3. Mafusheng Fried Food

Covering an area of 500 square meters, Mafusheng Fried Food wins a high reputation among Changsha people. In 1888, Ma Fusheng, born in Changsha, started his career as a fried food cooker. Since then, Changsha City has been filled with the taste of Mafusheng fired food at New Year or other festivals. At present, there are still many customers come here to buy fired food, looking for the taste of childhood.

Internet-famous Shops

1. Duoyangtianshe Dessert Shop

There are glutinous rice cakes wrapped in deep-fried dough stick and a variety of desserts, such as waffles ice-lolly, cheese rice cakes, and Ovaltine.

2. Mr.Zhou’s Sauced Meat and Fried Food

If you want to find the fried foods of your childhood, you should not miss this shop. Its retro decoration can take you to the classroom in your childhood. Eating a bowl of mixed vermicelli with lard and a mouth of fried foods can bring you happiness.

3. Haohisen Oyster Shop

With a cheap price and delicious taste, this oyster shop sells oysters with different tastes, such as original and spicy.  

Edited by Li Ling