"Authentic" is the best footnote of this Hunan restaurant, and Hunan wanderers in Xi'an can always find local flavor here. Whether it is the cuisine, spiciness, ingredients and cooking methods, Jianhui Tu Restaurant adheres to the Hunan style and does not make too many improvements for Xi'an people. In 2004, Hunan Jianhui opened a Hunan restaurant, which has a home-cooked cuisine, authentic taste and is quite affordable, which has captured the love of Xi'an diners, and has gradually become an old restaurant with "hot business, spicy and affordable" in the mouth of regular customers. Today, Jianhui Hunan Tucai Restaurant has opened five branches, and it still continues its authentic taste and affordable price.
Jianhui Tucai Restaurant has a variety of dishes, such as small stir-fry, dry pot, steamed vegetables, cold dishes, soups, etc., among which the types of small fried are the most abundant, and the pickled products of Xiangxi support half of the small fried. Classic Hunan dishes such as chopped pepper fish head, farmhouse stir-fried pork, and stir-fried yellow beef are still the main staples of Jianhui Tucai Restaurant. There is no presentation at all, and it is difficult to say that it is exquisite and complicated, and it is the hot and salty aroma of home-cooked Hunan cuisine that conquers diners.
Hot and sour chicken offal is a representative of Hunan cuisine. Chicken liver and chicken intestines are rarely used in dishes, and many improved Hunan restaurants only use chicken gizzards as the main ingredient, while Jianhui Tu Restaurant follows the traditional preparation method and selects three kinds of chicken offal, the chicken liver is soft and glutinous, the chicken gizzard is crispy, and the chicken intestines are chewy and rich in taste. Due to the sufficient cleaning effort, the chicken offal has no fishy smell, and it is easier to absorb the flavor when chopped finely. Chicken offal is stir-fried with green and red peppers, ginger and garlic, etc., which is dry and fragrant, and it is really a good food to send rice. First-time diners may think that the sour taste is insufficient, but in fact, the local sour and spicy chicken offal in Hunan is not too sour, and the salty and spicy is better.
The price of Jianhui Tucai Restaurant is not high, but it is not ambiguous in the selection of ingredients, bacon is the core ingredient in the store, transported from rural Hunan, fat and lean meat are tightly organized and properly proportioned, oily and not greasy, golden in color, and exudes a rich fragrance. There are many fried choices of bacon series, Jianhui will change the pickled bacon into different flavors, radish dried fried bacon is sour and crispy, dry pot potato bacon is oily and powdery, smoked bamboo shoots fried bacon is fragrant and delicious, each has its own merits.
Jianhui's fried pork is mostly lean meat, the heat is properly controlled, the pot is heavy, the fat is crispy, but it will not go overboard to get the pork dry firewood, and it retains the tender meat while stir-frying the dry and fragrant. Its flaw lies in the instability of the production, which is sometimes too salty. Another signature dish is the classic Hunan dish chopped pepper fish head, which has an unsatisfactory taste. Most Hunan restaurants use bighead carp with a big head and more meat, less spines and less smooth and tender bighead carp to make chopped pepper fish head, while Jianhui Tu restaurant uses silver carp, which has a meaty quality and more fish bones, and has a poor taste. For diners looking for a higher taste, we recommend trying the deep-sea fish head, which is similar in recipe and taste to appetizer fish head, except that the silver carp head is changed to cod head, which has fewer bone spines and a firmer and smoother meat, and is served with a secret wild pepper, which is salty, spicy and delicious. However, deep-sea fish heads cost twice as much as appetizer fish heads.
Jianhui Tu Restaurant now has a total of five branches, and the most authentic taste in the hearts of regular customers still comes from the South Street store, which is the first branch. The environment of the South Street store is ordinary, the small store is full of tables and chairs, and the service is quite casual. In order to cope with the huge flow of customers, the restaurant also took down the security room next door. Even so, there are still many diners in the queue during the peak dining period, which shows the popularity. Diners with higher environmental requirements may wish to choose the high-tech restaurant, which has an elegant environment, adopts Chinese classical design, log structure, and loose layout. The high-tech store is slightly different from the South Street store in terms of dishes, in addition to the classic dishes, it also adds casserole goat, spicy jumping frog, etc.