Anshun cuisine focuses on spicy and hot flavors, blending sour and fresh flavors to form a unique regional culinary culture. As a representative dish, Tunbao soup filled pig trotters are selected as one of the "Top Ten Landmark Dishes in Guizhou" in 2024 through dehydration, defatting, deep frying, and broth soaking techniques, innovatively paired with fried pig trotters and tendons. In the street snack system, rolls are wrapped with rice skin to wrap the sour and spicy sauce, crispy buns are known for their layered outer skin, and small pots of cold noodles are cooked in a clay pot to maintain temperature, all reflecting the common characteristics of "freshly made and eaten". Hot pot culture has its own system, with spicy and sour meat slices hot pot highlighting the level of sourness and spiciness, bamboo skewers serving rice and tofu in Duoduofen hot pot, and Liuma dog meat clay pot powder emphasizing dipping and mixing with water. Chongchong cake continues the century old process of glutinous rice and lotus root powder, with fruit icing powder added to seasonal fresh fruits to relieve spiciness.
Tunbao Guantang Pig trotters （屯堡灌汤猪蹄） is a famous intangible cultural heritage specialty dish in Tunbao Village. Guantang Zhujiao belongs to the Tunpu cuisine, which is now popular in the Anshun urban area and Tunpu villages near the city. Pig feet undergo multiple dehydration, defatting, and deep frying processes during the production process, allowing them to be stored for a long time. When used, soaking pig feet in broth makes them easily flavorful, and after degreasing, they become fat but not greasy. They melt in the mouth and leave a fragrant aftertaste. In March 2022, it was included in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects in Xixiu District. There are various flavors of soup filled pork feet nowadays, such as green pepper, rattan pepper, sour soup, clear soup, etc. Diners can choose the soup base according to their own taste, and soup filled pork feet should be eaten with fried pork trotters. Pig feet taste oily but not greasy, refreshing and soft, while pig trotters have a strong chewiness, making it a perfect match.
