Tuan Nian Cai is a sort of hodgepodge. It is a necessary dish during New Year Festival. Every family of Tu Minority will cook the Tuan Nian Cai at that day. The Zhangjiajie Tu Minority people stew rabbit, bean curd, cabbage, shallot, pork and chili pepper all together in a pan. This dish is not only tasty but also has profound meanings. It stands for reuniting of the whole family members and good harvest in the next year.

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Talking about this dish-San Xia Guo, people in Zhangjiajie all know it and no people who have been to Zhangjiajie do not know it as well. It is said, San Xia Guo was originally from Ming Dynasty.

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Sweet potato noodles are made of fresh sweet potato or amylum of the sweet potato. The makings of sweet potato noodles can be divided into traditional process and modernize. Private workshops and private families of Zhangjiajie still follow the traditional methods of cooking the sweet potato noodles. Processing of the sweet potato noodles is complex and careful. Sweet potato noodles before eating need further cooking as they are dried ones. They will firstly need to marinate in pure water till they are soft. Then you can stir fry them with pignuts, capsicum sauce or chopped pork; or you can boiled them with spices and other ingredients.

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Black Bone Chicken is the meat of a sort of chook. This chook is white all over, dark in skin, bone, eyes, beak, toe, bowel and fat. It is a kind of show chicken and can be used for medicine. This chook was originally bred in China.

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The Huanan Staurois ricketti in Zhangjiajie is also named "Bang Bang" or "Shi Wa" by Zhangjiajie local people. It is a popular food among mountains areas of Zhangjiajie. Huanan Staurois Rickeeti often inhabit in deep pools or ghylls in mountains. Huanan Tuanwa is a sort of frog which is the master hands of catching water snakes. The frog featuring tender meat is nice material for cooing soup which is more delicious than chicken soup. As Huannan Staurois Ricketti containing abundant nutrition, it ranks as one of the costly food in Zhangjiajie.

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Suan Yu Zha Yu is a wonderful and rarely known dish among Tu and Miao Minorities. This food boasting unique local flavor is cooked by newly caught fish. After cleaning and washing the fresh fish, people would swathe the fish by rice powders. The rich powders are added salt before wrapping fish. Then the fish was kept in pot for 3-5 days. When the fish becomes a bit sour, it can be deep-fried into golden color. Such a kind of dish is vinegary and fragrant. As soon as you see the deep-fried Suan Yu Zha Yu, you will be full of mouth water. As the fish has been marinated by salt in pots, it is also edible without deep-frying. This food is appetitive and available in all four seasons.

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In Zhangjiajie, there are ten dishes for entertaining important and special guests from distance. These dishes are the best foods for common families of Tu minority. These ten best foods can not be eaten everyday.

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Zhangjiajie Tu Minority people specially love hot food as the hot ones can stimulate the appetite, strengthen spleen and also can improve assimilation. Men and women, children and old people all like eat hot and spicy dishes.

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As soon as people mentioned Tu Minority dishes, most Chinese people will think of bright red color and the hot taste. Tu Minority pickled vegetables are not only hot and red, but also have a kind of vinegary taste to make people mouth water.

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There is a famous dried salty tofu produced in Sangzhi County. The popularity of dried salty tofu in Sangzhi County was early from Qing Dynasty. Dried salty tofu still is rich in nutrition which is not less then milk. Dried salty tofu as well has the functions of expelling heat, eliminating the polyphagia and strengthening the middle warmer, etc.

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