{"id":3620,"date":"2016-05-26T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2016-05-26T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:26:48","slug":"notes-from-changsha-hunan-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/notes-from-changsha-hunan-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Changsha, Hunan province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Changsha\">Changsha<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wangjianshuo.com\/personal\/places\/changsha\/changsha-houses-scenery.jpg\">ugliest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/highrise-residential-and-commercial-buildings-stand-in-changsha-hunan-picture-id148108010\">most ungainly<\/a> Chinese city I have seen, which is saying something. Nonetheless for a food pilgrimage it is a serious rival for #1 spot in the world, perhaps surpassing Chengdu for the quality and novelty of its dishes. Very little effort is required to do well, and some of my best courses I had at the Hunan restaurant in the Sheraton [Feast Hunan Flavours], also the only time I saw an English-language menu.<\/p>\n<p>Even at major hotels, hardly anyone speaks passable English, much less good English. But you can find many hanging portraits of Chairman Mao, who converted to communism in this city.<\/p>\n<p>Carry an iPad, so you can look up and communicate the Chinese characters for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com\/bphoto\/_4f6FiQhL6mSkcqZwXMkJQ\/o.jpg\">eggplant with orange chilies on top<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/05\/notes-from-changsa-hunan-province.html\"><em>Originally posted on Marginal Revolution<\/em> &#8211; click to see comments and suggestions.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/chef-tan\/\" title=\"Chef Tan\">Chef Tan<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/san-francisco-dining-2\/\" title=\"San Francisco dining\">San Francisco dining<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/chengdu-bleg\/\" title=\"Chengdu bleg\">Chengdu bleg<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/shenyang-bleg\/\" title=\"Shenyang bleg\">Shenyang bleg<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/nanjing-bleg\/\" title=\"Nanjing bleg\">Nanjing bleg<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changsha is the ugliest and most ungainly Chinese city I have seen, which is saying something. Nonetheless for a food pilgrimage it is a serious rival for #1 spot in the world, perhaps surpassing Chengdu for the quality and novelty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/notes-from-changsha-hunan-province\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,4],"tags":[1529,1380,606],"class_list":["post-3620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","tag-changsha","tag-china","tag-hunan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3622,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylercowensethnicdiningguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}