Guilin Cuisine, also named Guicai 桂菜 in Chinese, known as Guangxi cuisine, refers to a general term for dishes made mainly from raw materials in Guangxi region and using local cooking techniques, which have a rich cultural heritage of Guangxi cuisine. Guicai is divided into four flavors: Guibei, Guixi, Guidongnan, and Binhai, with a total of 139 representative dishes. Guicai has formed the main characteristics of "natural ecology and original flavor", as well as the dietary cultural characteristics of "based on rice food, original flavor, multi-ethnic integration, and sour taste". Among them, "based on rice food" is an important feature that distinguishes Guangxi cuisine from other cuisines.
What to eat ?
As a representative kind of Guilin rice noodle, the essence of Guilin pickled vegetable noodles lies in brine. The brine is made from pig bones, spices, fermented bean curd milk, siraitia grosvenorii and other raw materials through boiling and filtering. Fermented bean curd and siraitia grosvenorii are well-known products in Guilin, which follow the local characteristics of Guangxi.
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Yangshuo Fish Cooked With Beer | Lipu Taro Braised Pork |
Where to eat?
1. Yangshuo West Street Food Street
Yangshuo West Street is one of the important tourist attractions in Yangshuo, mainly focused on food and accommodation. West Street is a gathering place for foreigners, and the main dining options are Chinese and Western restaurants. But in the food street, you can eat various local specialty foods and snacks.
In Yangshuo, there are indeed some snacks worth trying. If you don't want to have dinner, you can stroll to the west street entrance. There is also a famous snack street, which is full of snacks, such as oil tea, rice dumpling, stewed chicken cups, sweet wine eggs, bean tea, Yangshuo Baba, lotus seed soup and so on. It's delicious and inexpensive. You can hold a bowl and taste it slowly in the night, like a real Yangshuo person, appetizing and happy.
2. Yongning Night Market (Bali Street)： This night market has two streets, one dedicated to selling delicious food, and the other with many fruit and pastry stalls. Horseshoe cake is one of Guilin's specialties, sold very cheaply here, only 1 yuan each. There are also taro cakes, fragrant braised dishes, grilled oysters, corn sauce, etc. Strolling around here, you will smell the creamy aroma of the streets.
3. Guilin Golden Street (High tech Wanda): This can only be considered as a snack stall set up at night. There are not many stalls on the entire Golden Street, but the variety is still relatively rich, and they will probably close around 22:30 along with the mall.