Mayang cuisine includes Mayang small-seed peanuts, Mayang oranges, Mayang kiwis, Mayang thorn grapes, Mayang sugar oranges, eighteen strange bacon and so on.
1, Kiwifruit in Mayang: Kiwifruit in Mayang is mostly a wild vine fruit tree, commonly known as vine fruit, which is mainly produced in mountainous areas such as Huang Xi Mountain, Woong San Mountain, Badou Mountain and Leidapo Mountain, with the highest yield and the best quality around Huang Xi.
2. Mayang Citrus: Mayang Citrus has a long history of cultivation. According to the county records, it has always been planted, and the varieties are mainly Zhu orange, wrinkled orange and lime; He also said that "Tang Wude set up the local indigenous Yao nationality in Mayang, and the military and civilians guarded the border for farming and developed the land in the mountains."
3. Mayang small-seed peanut: Peanut, also known as groundnut, is a high-quality grain and oil crop with high energy and rich high-quality protein. Mayang County has a long history of peanut planting, with the largest planting area in the late 1980s and early 1990s, reaching more than 40,000 mu in the highest year. The improved peanut high-yield cultivation technique won the second prize of Hunan Agricultural Harvest Award.
4. Mayang thorn grape: Mayang thorn grape belongs to East Asian population, mainly distributed in the upper mountainous area of Mayang, and has been cultivated in Mayang for more than 100 years. Through years of continuous breeding, local varieties with high quality and high yield suitable for local cultivation have been formed.
5. Mayang sugar orange: Mayang sugar orange, commonly known as rock sugar bag and ice sugar orange, is named after its high sugar content. It is a local excellent variety selected from 1965 seedling variation of common sweet orange in Qianyang County, Hunan Province. The fruit is round, straight, neat, smooth, yellow-red and gorgeous.
6, eighteen strange bacon: eighteen strange bacon is a specialty of Mayang County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province. The "eighteen eccentrics" bacon is smoked with sawdust and local tea shells, orange peels, bagasse and pine and cypress branches as fuel, and the bacon is orange.