The delicacies of Phoenix in Hunan is fastidious about color, flavor, and taste as a whole. The most prominent feature of the Phoenix food is parched hot and sour, colorful, flavorous, and tasteful varieties. If you are going to Phoenix, remember to try these authentic native tasteful dining dainties.

Duck blood cake

Cooked duck blood cake is the most famous feature of the Phoenix local dish, both rich in taste and flavor, tenderness and scent, spicy and heavy to the mouth, giving an appetite, really a rare tasty.

Sour fish

In the Miao Village, a popular specialty dish commonly known is the glutinous rice salted fish. The glutinous rice salted fish can be parched, fried, grilled, steamed with small red pepper. But the fried tastes the best. The salted glutinous rice fish has very high nutritional value, is the superior Miao hospitality delicacy.

Guanguan mushroom （Porcini mushroom）

Guanguan mushroom, also known as Rohan mushroom, also known as bovine stomach mushroom, generally growing on shady slopes in the alpine area of Lar mountain, like sun light. Guanguan mushroom contain protein and vitamins B, good for  human health, harvest time usually in the late summer and early autumn during high sun, also in September and October, after plucked and processed manually, left dry under the sun, carefully stored to preserve its color and flavor. Cooking mostly is with water, with the stewed tastes the best. Guanguan mushroom contains high nutrition, it is the local Lar mountain native specialty.

湖南鳳凰人在飲食方面十分講究精粹，注重色香味全。鳳凰菜的最大特色是以辣酸為主，以炒功為上乘，烹任出各種色香味全的美味佳肴。如果你去鳳凰鎮，一定不能錯過這些最著民族特色,且風味兼融的民間美食。

血粑鴨子

鴨子煮血粑是鳳凰最著特色的地方菜，鴨子煮血粑既有鴨肉的鮮美味濃，又有血粑的清香糯柔，吃起來到口香濃，食欲大增，真是稀有的人間美味佳肴。

酸魚

在苗寨，是最常用和盛行的一種名菜是糯米俺酸魚。糯米腌酸魚有幾種吃法，即可以炒吃、油炸煎吃、火烤蒸吃、小炒紅椒吃等。但尤以油炸煎吃最佳。糯米俺酸魚，營養價值極高，是苗家待客的上乘美味佳肴。

罐罐菌

罐罐菌，又名羅漢菇，也叫牛肚子菇。盛產在高寒山區臘爾山一帶。罐罐菌喜陽光，一般生長在背陰山坡上。罐罐菌含有高蛋白和維生素B，對人體的健康有十分好處。罐罐菌收檢時間多在夏末初秋的高溫天氣，九、十月份也生長。收檢后的罐罐菌通過人工加工以后，曬干晾，認真收藏，可保鮮色美味。吃罐罐菌有幾種吃法，即煮吃，尤以拌豬肉燉吃為最佳。罐罐菌營養價值極高，它是當地臘爾山臺地的一種土特產。