Kaiyang County delicacies include red oil rice tofu, eight-treasure soft-shelled turtle, Kaiyang vegetable oil, Erkuanba, Zhuangyuan Hoof, etc.
1. Red oil rice tofu: Red oil rice tofu is one of the most popular special snacks in Guiyang and even Guizhou. It has soybean crisps, peanut brittle, tender rice tofu, sweet bean sprouts, rich black kohlrabi flavor, red oil and spicy food, which can relieve summer heat and relieve cravings.
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2. Eight-treasure turtle: Eight-treasure turtle is a special delicacy in Guiyang. The flesh of the turtle is fragrant, glutinous and crispy. The eight-treasure turtle has a fresh and mellow taste. It also has the effects of nourishing yin and cooling blood, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and nourishing the kidneys and strengthening essence.
3. Kaiyang rape oil: Kaiyang rape oil is a specialty of Kaiyang County, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province.
Kaiyang rapeseed oil is selected from Kaiyang, the hometown of selenium-rich agricultural products in China. It is refined using traditional pressing methods and combined with modern technology. It has a mellow taste and rich nutrition.
4. Erduoba: Since ancient times, farmers have selected the best stem rice and glutinous rice every year. They wash and soak them before steaming them. They pound them into mud and then knead them into rectangular, oval or oblate shapes while they are still hot.
After cooling, it becomes two pieces of cake.
The two-piece cake, which is a clever mixture of two types of rice, is refreshing and elastic, and becomes crystal clear and moist after being sliced.
If the original two-piece cake was still like a snack, now it has been developed into a special dish by the trend. Stir-fried with ham, it is fragrant but not greasy and full of appeal.
5. Zhuangyuan Hoof: also known as "Qingyan Braised Pig's Feet".
According to records, on April 2, 1886, when he was young, Zhao Yijiong, a Qingyan tribute scholar who won the top prize in the imperial examination in the Bingshu year of Guangxu, often went to Qingyan Beimen Street Night Market to eat braised pig trotters.
In memory of this historical celebrity, people in his hometown call braised pig's trotters the number one scholar's trotters.
Nowadays, visiting Qingyan Ancient Town and tasting Qingyan’s beautiful hoofs has become a local tourism and cultural phenomenon.
This dish is reddish-brown in color, has plump and moist skin, is fat but not greasy, and has a mellow taste.