摘要
Known for its spicy, stir-fried dishes, Hunan cuisine has enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years. But not everyone is happy about it.At 9 p.m. on April 1, half an hour before her train arrived in Beijing, food blogger “Zhengqi Kong” opened a food delivery app and ordered several dishes from Hunan restaurant Xiaoxiangge so that they would be waiting for her at her accommodation. Despite the late, spicy, and oily dinner going against everything she knows about maintaining a healthy diet, eating Hunan food when traveling in and out of Beijing, as well as frequenting the capital’s Hunan restaurants, has become something of a ritual for the 28-year-old over the last several years.