Officially opened in 2017, Phoenix Hunan Restaurant is one of the many young Hunan restaurants in Shanghai. With its high-end and elegant environment and strictly polished products, it has quickly accumulated a good reputation in just one year, and entered the Hunan cuisine industry in Shanghai as a dark horse.

Fenghuang Hunan restaurant covers an area of 500 square meters, with red and blue decoration colors, showing diners the atmosphere of the Huxiang family, changing the stereotype of the old-style Hunan restaurant to give people rough and bold, and not up the grade. The restaurant claims to insist on using non-polluting ingredients, not using out-of-season ingredients, and not adding auxiliary flavoring agents such as monosodium glutamate, and strives to reflect the most original taste of the ingredients.

When you come to Phoenix Xiangyu, you must order a dish is the phoenix king fish head, which is killed to order. After waiting for about half an hour after placing the order, the fish head will be served up in the posture of "head high", the fish surface is covered with bright red chopped peppers, and the dry ice continues to emerge through the round holes of the large plate, as if in a misty fairyland. For those who don't know how to eat a whole piece of fish, the waiter will use a knife and fork to divide the fish head piece by piece, and wait for the sauce to soak through the fish before serving. Since no monosodium glutamate is added, the freshness and spiciness, which comes from the original flavor of the fusion of the ingredients themselves, the meat is spicy and soft, without a trace of earthy smell. Finally, I poured a seven-ripe spinach juice noodle while it was hot, and the noodles soaked in the hot sauce were stained with the spicy flavor of chopped peppers, which was moderately soft and hard and still had a chewy texture.

In addition to this star fish head, there are many more authentic dishes for diners to choose from. The signature salt-and-pepper pork knuckle is made of the finest local pork, with a well-proportioned head and crispy skin. Bite into it while it's hot and feel the full collagen, the taste of salt and pepper well neutralizes the greasy feeling of the pig's feet, and the sauce is sweet and melts in your mouth, fat but not greasy. Although the black and red Yongzhou blood duck is not pleasing in appearance, after tasting a bite, you can feel the fresh aroma of the duck meat accompanied by fresh duck blood stir-fried, and the blood juice is rich and full, which makes people want to stop. In addition, the golden and sweet sugar and oil baba, the flavored black jelly soaked in chili oil and other gluttonous snacks do not have expensive ingredients and complex cooking methods, but they can make people eat aftertaste, and are deeply loved by Hunan villagers.

The restaurant is located in the Hongqiao Tiandi business district next to the Hongqiao high-speed rail station in Shanghai, which is a little deserted compared to the popular business district in the city, but there are also many diners who will drive there specifically to eat. The store is located in the sunken plaza of Hongqiao Tiandi, with a menu display at the entrance and a small stack of cherry tomatoes on the table for diners to taste for free. The front-runner will patiently answer the dishes, enthusiastically lead the seat, and take the elevator up to the second floor. As soon as I walked into the store, I saw a picture of a hundred birds and a phoenix, which vividly interpreted the ancient flavor of Phoenix. The restaurant has a lobby, a private room, and a bamboo pavilion with a view outside, which can be booked in advance. Most of the waiters in the restaurant are smiling, intimately asking about needs, as soon as they enter the table, they will give cucumbers, capers and other side dishes, and when they meet a table with children, they will give steamed eggs. There are more people at the weekend meal, and the managers and waiters are non-stop to serve the guests and respond to their needs. The overall dining experience is relatively relaxed and comfortable.