Zhuzhou Culinary Tourism Route

Route Name: Shennong Blessed Land, Discovering Zhuzhou Through Food

Reasons for Recommendation:
Zhuzhou, located in eastern Hunan, boasts a long history and a rich culinary culture. Here you'll find the time-honored Zu'an family cuisine, distinctive courtyard dining, the delicious Youxian smoked bean curd, spicy and savory Liling fried rice noodles, and uniquely flavored Hakka delicacies. Welcome to explore the flavors of Zhuzhou!

Route Planning:
Fantawild Adventure — Zhuzhou Courtyard Restaurants: Gengshi Academy, Qingxi Manor, Banshan Courtyard, Yinxi Bieyuan Restaurant— Liling Ceramic Valley — the Savor of Liling: Liling Stir-fried Pork, Liling Fried Rice Noodles, Stir-fried Duckling with Bitter Melon — Youxian Jiuxian Lake — Tongxin Lake Hotel: Youxian Dried Pork, Youxian Smoked Bean Curd, Youxian Braised Duck — Chaling Huahu Valley — Chaling Zu'an Family Cuisine Main Restaurant: Chaling Eight Beef Treasures, Chaling Flower Rolls, Chaling Hula — Yanling Shennong Valley — Affection for Yanling: Yanling Fried Pork with Cloud-mist Bamboo Shoots, Yanling Mugwort Rice Cakes, Yanling Hakka Stuffed Tofu

Scenic Spots Along the Route:
Fantawild Adventure: Located in Shifeng District, it is a national 4A-level tourist attraction. The park's biggest features are sci-fi experiences and extreme challenges. Themed projects like Interstellar Adventure, Conch Bay, Mount Vesuvius, and Fire Meteor enable you to challenge extreme thrills through a blend of reality and virtual, experiencing the passionate collision of modern technology and the sci-fi world.

Fantawild Adventure

Liling-China Ceramic Valley: Located in Liling City, it features the largest complex of uniquely shaped ceramic buildings in China. Visit the Ceramic Museum to learn about the past and present of underglaze five-colored porcelain, browse the dazzling array of cultural creative products at TR Gallery, and encounter a brilliant fireworks display at Taozi Lake, capturing a moment of romance here.

Liling-China Ceramic Valley

Jiuxian Lake: Located in Youxian County, the lake is surrounded by majestic mountains with layered peaks and lush forests, showcasing greenery in all seasons. Immersing yourself here, you instantly feel far from the hustle and bustle, relaxed and joyful. Enjoy flowers in spring, water in summer, camping in autumn, and leisure in winter. This is a tranquil, harmonious, and beautiful haven for the soul throughout the year, allowing you to truly return to nature and enjoy the scenic landscape alone.

Jiuxian Lake

Huahu Valley: Located in Chaling County, it consists of expansive flower seas, large lakes, and grand canyons. Over ten featured gardens, including the Crape Myrtle Garden, Sweet Osmanthus Garden, and Azalea Garden, create a vast floral expanse that blooms throughout the four seasons. Besides flower viewing and photography, various entertainment facilities like the colorful glass water slide, super trampoline, and high-altitude rope nets offer breathtaking excitement, letting all your worries fade away.

Huahu Valley

Shennong Valley: Located in Yanling County, the scenic area features mountains, water, rocks, and forests, combining elegance, interest, uniqueness, and peril. With its high concentration of negative oxygen ions in the air, it is Asia's premier natural oxygen bar, boasting magical and enchanting natural landscapes. Small bridges over flowing streams, withered vines and ancient trees, along with the crowing of roosters and barking of dogs, and wisps of cooking smoke, create a scene of serene tranquility and harmony, exactly presenting the idyllic paradise described by Tao Yuanming.

Shennong Valley

Dining:

Zhuzhou Courtyard Restaurants: Gengshi Academy, Qingxi Manor, Banshan Courtyard, and Yinxi Bieyuan Restaurant

Gengshi Town-Gengshi Academy is located in the core scenic area of the Xianyu Ridge Scenic Spot, adjacent to the Xianyu Taoist Temple and close to the Wenchang Pagoda. Built along the valley's terraced terrain from bottom to top, it features functional areas and supporting landscapes including the farming area, farming-reading area, and heart-cultivation area, creating an Eastern scroll depicting an agrarian and Zen lifestyle. It encompasses businesses such as dining, guesthouses, meditation, study tours, traditional Chinese medicine, conferences, agricultural products, and Serenity Garden (Zen living, light meals, venues), guarding a rare piece of tranquility for you amidst the noisy city.

Gengshi Academy

Qingxi Manor: Amidst the clamor of urban areas, Qingxi has consistently strived to build the humanistic sentiments embodying the beauty of Chinese culture into a unique Eastern courtyard. Using this as a theme, it delivers healthy and delicious food, along with the Chinese life attitude of honesty, diligence, humility, courtesy, elegance, and joy, to all who love beauty.

Qingxi Manor

Liling Stir-fried Pork: a dish with broth remaining original flavor

Liling Fried Rice Noodles

Stir-fried Duckling with Bitter Melon: delicious taste, sweetness after bitterness, and refreshing

Youxian Dried Pork: a taste of home

Youxian Smoked Bean Curd: a domestically renowned intangible cultural heritage ingredient

Youxian Braised Duck with Blood: Youxian specialty, a must-try for visitors

Chaling Eight Beef Treasures: delicious taste, rich texture, and high nutritional value

Chaling Flower Rolls: the grand finale pastry for guest banquets

Chaling Hula: a traditional delicacy from Chaling County

Yanling Fried Pork with Cloud-Mist Bamboo Shoots

Yanling Mugwort Rice Cakes

Yanling Hakka Stuffed Tofu

Accommodation:

Hotel near Fantawild Adventure: Eastwinn Hotel at Fantawild;

Hotels near Liling-China Ceramic Valley: Turandot Hotel, Liling Xiyun Shuju Hotel; Hotels or homestays near Jiuxian Lake: Tongxin Lake Hotel and Longquan Mountain Villa;

Hotels or homestays near Huahu Valley: Chaling Zijinghua Hotel, Wolong Mountain Villa; and, 

Hotels or homestays near Shennong Valley: Shennongwan Holiday Villa Hotel, Fanjian Xiaoyuan Homestay, and Mihua Ecological Garden.

Chinese source: zhuzhou.gov.cn