1.Fish in Hot and Sour Soup
If you haven’t eaten fish in sour soup in Guizhou, you haven’t been there. The red sour soup bubbling with river fish, the sour taste is not mixed with vinegar, but the masterpiece of the Miao family’s grandmother using mountain spring water and glutinous rice soup to ferment naturally for 365 days. Pick up the snow-white fish meat and roll it in the dipping water. The wildness of the zheergen, the fragrance of the paste chili, and the numbness of the lichen explode in your mouth. The sourness makes your eyebrows dance, and the spiciness makes your nose sweat. The last bite of the sour soup with rice is a soul-stirring blow!
2.Intestine Noodles
At 6 o’clock in the morning on the streets of Guiyang, there is always a queue in front of the Changwang noodle stall. The alkaline noodles are chewy and springy, the blood soup is as tender as tofu, and the pig intestines are washed shiny and have a fatty aroma. The most amazing thing is the spoonful of red oil, which looks scary but is actually fragrant and not dry. Pour it on the crispy noodles. One sip and you will understand why Guizhou people are willing to get up early for it – this bowl of “red and black” combination is more refreshing than any alarm clock!
3.Silk Doll
Nine out of ten Guizhou girls know how to make shredded pork dumplings. The rice wrappers are as thin as a cicada’s wing and wrapped with 15 kinds of shredded vegetables. The shredded radish is crispy, the watercress is wild, and the sour radish is cute. Pour the hot and sour sauce on it and wrap it into a swaddling shape. When you take a bite, the refreshing vegetable juice mixed with the secret dipping sauce bursts in your mouth. Lose weight? Let’s talk about it tomorrow!
4.Huaxi Beef Rice Noodles
Don’t be fooled by the bland appearance of the soup! The beef soup, which has been cooked for eight hours, contains a lot of secrets, and the aroma of beef bones penetrates the pores of each rice noodle. After the translucent beef slices, the fragrant beef tendons, and the crispy fried peppers are swallowed up with the soup and noodles, and when the forehead is slightly sweaty, you will find that this bowl of seemingly gentle white moonlight is more powerful than Maotai!
5.Tofu dumplings
A miracle created by the shaking hands of the old lady of the Lei family a hundred years ago! The old tofu is kneaded into a ball and put into the oil pan, fried until golden and crispy like a hairy chestnut. Poke it open while it is still hot and pour the water of the Houttuynia cordata on it. The skin is crackling, but the inside is so tender that it flows like a heart. This contradictory taste makes countless people put it in their mouths while shouting that it is hot. After all, the delicious attack of “Tofu Xishi” is worth burning your lips!
6.Zunyi Lamb Rice Noodles
The morning of Zunyi people starts with a bowl of steaming mutton rice noodles. The thick soup made from mutton bones is as white as milk, the goat meat with skin is cut very thinly, and the rice noodles absorb the soup and become translucent. Sprinkle some coriander and scoop some mutton oil and chili, the red and white color is very beautiful. Don’t be reserved when slurping the noodles, you have to make a slurping sound, so that the hot and fresh fragrance warms your throat to the soles of your feet!
7.Pea flour
In the 40℃ summer, Guizhou ladies are rushing to buy pea powder! The emerald-colored jelly made with plant ash water is topped with tomato sour soup, chili oil, fried soybeans, and topped with crispy cucumber shreds. It is sour, spicy, refreshing, and has a light alkaline fragrance. It slides down your throat icy and cool, which is more addictive than eating ice cream!
8.Potato Cake
After school and after get off work, there are greedy cats squatting in front of every potato cake stall. Plateau potatoes are mashed into a paste, kneaded into pancakes and fried until both sides are golden brown. Bite open the golden shell, and the inside is as soft as a cloud. Dipping it in dried chili noodles is the classic way to eat it. If you are more particular, you can also add sour radish and zheergen. For three yuan, you can get double the joy of carbon water and chili!
These delicacies hidden in the streets and alleys are the real food codes of Guizhou people. From the hearty sour soup fish to the simple happiness of potato cake, every bite carries the aura of the mountains. Next time you come to Guizhou, don’t stare at Maotai and zheergen anymore. Eat according to this list, and I guarantee that you will have to hold on to the wall when you go in and out, and you will “fall in love with other delicacies” from then on!