Chenzhou City is located in a hilly area with diverse climate resources. The food, vegetables, agricultural products and other ingredients here are very rich, and a large number of Dongjiang fish, Linwu duck and other gourmet brands with Chenzhou regional characteristics have been cultivated. The host city, Jiahe, is one of the top ten Hunan cuisine industry bases in Hunan Province and one of the top ten Hunan cuisine counties in Hunan Province. It has the reputation of "the whole country eats in Guangzhou, and Hunan eats in Jiahe".
At the event, the village chefs showed off their eighteen cooking skills of stir-frying, stewing, frying, steaming and boiling, and carefully prepared nearly 50 country food feasts with excellent color, fragrance and flavor. Among them, the pig made by the inheritor of Jiahe intangible cultural heritage "Blood Enema" with smooth and tender skin and crispy skin; "Lingyun Tofu" with an "81-year-old" appearance and "18-year-old" inside; "Yunwu Free Range Chicken" with rich regional characteristics in Beihu District; one of the top ten famous dishes in Guiyang The local delicacies "Guiyang Hot and Sour Chicken", "Guiyang Touwan" which symbolizes family reunion, etc. were full of praise from the judges and the audience. At the event, the individual works of village chefs were also displayed and selected. The dishes they produced, together with the dishes of the village chef team, presented a gourmet matrix of hundreds of kitchens, hundreds of bowls and hundreds of dishes in Chenzhou City, allowing tourists to taste Chenzhou’s delicious food in one stop. Wishes come true on the stage of the village chef. The contestants from Chenzhou presented a lively and delicious food show with strong Hunan cuisine background and color, making the first audition stop of the Hunan Provincial Village Chef Competition full of passion and surprises.
There were also wonderful intangible cultural heritage performances at the event, including Jiahe County's national intangible cultural heritage "Wedding Song", which is well-known at home and abroad, and the provincial intangible cultural heritage "Jiahe Lantern Show", etc. The village chef competition focused on rural revitalization The theme highlights the charm of intangible cultural heritage, deeply cultivates the culture of nostalgia, looks forward to the beautiful vision of rural life, and presents a rich feast of rural culture to the local people.
