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A taste of Zhangjiajie

Weixiangyuan Tujia Private Kitchen

味湘源食府土家私房菜

The highest-rated Tujia private kitchen on Ctrip's Zhangjiajie list, in the city rather than at the park gate. Small, home-style and cooked to order, which makes it the best bet for an evening meal on the night you arrive or before an early train out.

¥50–70 per person≈ US$7.45Ctrip Zhangjiajie list No. 13Yongding District (永定区), Zhangjiajie city
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

No. 13 on Ctrip's Zhangjiajie must-visit food list, rated 4.9

The house favourites

What to order

Point at the Chinese. Staff will understand it even where the menu has no English at all.

  • Wind-cured Tujia pork (土家风味腊肉)
  • Three-in-one pot (三下锅)
  • Rock-ear mushroom stewed chicken (岩耳炖鸡)

What it actually tastes like

Rock ear is a cliff-grown fungus, slippery and black, prized locally and expensive — it tastes mostly of the broth. Cured pork is very salty. Sour-spicy throughout.

Allergens in this kitchen

soygluten/wheatsesame

This is the kitchen, not one dish. Woks, fryers, blanching water and utensils are shared in almost every Chinese restaurant, so for a serious allergy treat the whole premises as the unit rather than ordering around it.

Get to know the menu

Local specialities to try here

Three-in-One Pot 三下锅Fiercely chilli-hot, salty and intensely savoury; the dry version is the spicier of the two.Rock Ear Fungus Chicken Soup 岩耳炖鸡Clean and gently savoury with a mineral, almost mushroom-like depth; the fungus is slippery and crunchy at once.