Dong people's diet is mainly rice, Pingba area is mainly japonica rice, and mountainous areas eat more glutinous rice. Generally like to eat Chili and sour. Self-processed "fermented fish" and "fermented meat" will not go bad after being stored for more than ten years. It is the hospitality habit of Dong people to entertain guests with camellia oleifera. The villages of the Dong nationality are surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the southern region is the most distinctive. There are many ancient trees at the end of the village, and the stream crosses the "wind and rain bridge". There are four fish ponds in the village. According to the surname, the Drum Tower stands among them. Live in a "dry fence" house, live upstairs, raise livestock, and pile up debris downstairs.
There are three eclipses in most areas, and four eclipses in some places, that is, two teas and two meals. Second tea refers to the unique camellia oleifera of Dong nationality. Camellia oleifera is a thin soup made of tea, flowers, fried peanuts (or crisp soybeans), glutinous rice, meat or pig water, salt and chopped green onion. (There are spinach and Artemisia in some places), which can quench thirst and satisfy hunger, so it is often called "eating camellia oleifera".
Daily vegetables are very rich, except fresh pumpkins, bitter melons and leeks, most of which are pickled into sauerkraut. Such as: sour cucumber, sour radish, sour sword bean, sour bracken, etc. The daily dishes of Dong people are mainly sour. There are not only sour soup, but also all kinds of sauerkraut, sour meat, sour fish, sour chicken and sour duck made from sour soup. According to legend, pickled sauerkraut began in the Song Dynasty.
There are two kinds of sauerkraut: cylinder system and cylinder system. Tanning refers to putting rice washing water into a jar, heating it with fire, fermenting it to make sour soup, and then cooking fish, shrimp and vegetables with sour soup as the most common daily dishes.
The shrimp paste that people often eat is also made of cans. Braised fish, braised pork chops, steaks and braised chickens and ducks are mainly made in test tubes. There are two kinds of wooden barrels: wooden barrels and bamboo barrels. It is best to cook pickled fish in winter. The longer the curing time, the more mellow the taste. Fish and shrimp are often eaten fresh except for many sour foods.
Dong adult men generally like to drink, and most of them drink their own brewed rice wine, which is not high in degree, light and mellow.