"Cow yak" is actually gastric juices
Chinese culinary masters, Guizhou Province, vice president of the Food Culture Research Association, Guizhou cuisine expert Wu Maozhao, said the cow is a ruminant, ruminant is what we call backward chewing, the cow in the eating after a period of time, will be half-digested food back to the mouth to chew again, "Cattle generally eat grass, most of which is not fully chewed into what we call" honeycomb belly "and the food by the backward vomiting back into what we call" honeycomb belly. "Cattle generally eat grass, most of which are not fully chewed and swallowed, into what we call "honeycomb belly", in the food by the reverse vomiting back into the mouth will be mixed with saliva and gastric juices, the local people also known as 'grass soup'! ".
He also said, "cow yakuza hot pot" is a very peculiar food in Qiandongnan region, many outsiders find it difficult to accept, in fact, is hygiene, science, tasty dishes. The so-called "cow yakuza" is not a part of the cow, but to take the cow's esophagus and "honeycomb belly" between the liquid extracted from those incompletely digested, and then mixed with some fresh mountain spices for cooking, because of the unique taste, in the Qiandongnan area Still relatively common, "cooked cow yak is yellowish green, more bitter in the mouth, eat too much if many people are not adapted.