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Hunan cuisine

Hunan cuisine has recently come into the spotlight as the fifth cuisine after the four major Chinese cuisines (Beijing, Shanghai, Cantonese, and Sichuan). Although included in Sichuan cuisine in the broadest sense, Hunan cuisine is said to be even hotter and spicier than Sichuan cuisine.
It is a cuisine that practices the "medicine and food share the same origin," which is said to be the origin of food, in daily life.Because the Hunan region does not face the sea, the food is characterized by savory, hot, and sour flavors, such as pickles and hot and spicy seasonings that help preserve ingredients.
Hunan is also famous as the birthplace of the late President Mao Zedong.