The invention relates to a food smoking fuel and the making method thereof, adding charcoal powder, adhesive, combustion-supporting agent, moisture keeping agent, water, etc, in the traditional food smoking plant fuel powder, mixing uniformly and compressing the mixture into uniform-density specified shape to meet charge standard and fix quantity, and it can be fired uniformly in the specified shape for long time, more convenient to smoke food and able to reduce fuel quantity, and reducing dust and harmful fume production. And the method is simple and only need uniformly mix plant fuel powder and charcoal powder of a certain size with adhesive, combustion supporting agent, moisture keeping agent, water, etc, and then compression-moulds the mixture in a specified mould to make it.