"Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" Guangxi is a magical place with strange mountains and rivers and outstanding people.
The unique geographical environment has nurtured simple and brave Guangxi people, and also brewed unique Guangxi cuisine.
People in Guangxi especially like to eat sour food. Outsiders call it the "Sour Food Province". No matter what you eat, you should add some sour food.
Of course, Guangxi is not only sour, but also has various other flavors.
Now I will introduce to you 5 dishes that you must eat when you go to Guangxi. Each dish is the "soul of Guicai". Let's take a look. Which of them have you tried?
1. Guangxi Sour Bamboo Shoot Fish Guangxi Sour Bamboo Shoot Fish is a unique local delicacy in the Guiliu area of ??Guangxi and is the favorite home-cooked dish of Guangxi people.
It smells stinky, similar to snail noodles, but tastes salty, sour and spicy, and goes very well with rice.
Its main raw materials are stewed with fresh fish and local sour bamboo shoots.
The stewed fish with sour bamboo shoots has a light white and fresh fish soup with looming fish meat floating in the fish soup. It looks very refreshing. If you come to Guangxi, you must try this dish.
2. Beans with sand crab sauce. Beans with sand crab sauce is one of the top ten classic dishes in Guangxi. It comes from Beihai, Guangxi, a coastal city.
Sand crab is a unique seafood in Beihai, Guangxi. It has many shells and basically no meat, so Beihai fishermen catch it to brew the fragrant sand crab juice.
Green beans in sand crab sauce is made by simmering green beans and sand crab juice together.
After being catalyzed by the fire, the sand crab juice completely penetrated into the beans.
The combination of the soft, tender and sweet taste of the beans and the salty and rich flavor of the sand crab sauce makes this dish shine. Once you eat it, you will remember this special taste deeply.
3. Huangtian Braised Pork Huangtian Braised Pork is a special delicacy in Hezhou, Guangxi. In Hezhou, you will see this dish during every year and festival.
When Guangxi people eat braised pork, they eat thick meat. This kind of meat tastes delicious and satisfying.
There is also a local proverb: "No matter how good the delicacies are, they are not as salty as half a piece of pork."
Its main raw materials are taro and pork belly. The pork belly and taro are steamed together in a pot.
The steamed pork belly is shiny with oil and full of juice. When placed on a disc, it exudes a burst of aroma and looks very tempting.
It tastes sweet, soft and glutinous, fat but not greasy, and goes very well with rice.
4. Wuzhou Paper-wrapped Chicken Wuzhou Paper-wrapped Chicken is a unique business card of Wuzhou, Guangxi. It previously won the title of "China's Best" in a national cooking and food competition and has since become famous throughout the country.
There is a Chinese saying that "no feast can be complete without chicken." Chicken appears in banquets of all sizes in China, and in Guangxi this is the Wuzhou paper-wrapped chicken dish.
The method is relatively complex, which particularly tests the chef's skills.
Generally, the marinated chicken is wrapped in jade-button paper and then fixed with toothpicks, then put into a frying pan and fried.
The fried paper-wrapped chicken is tender, chewy and not greasy, leaving you with endless aftertaste after eating it.
5. Lingma catfish Lingma catfish is a special delicacy in Lingma Town, Wuming District, Nanning, Guangxi. It is also called braised catfish with tofu and is a unique dish in Guangxi.
Basically every household in Guangxi will make this dish. This dish has a lighter taste and is especially suitable for friends who cannot eat spicy food.
The method is very simple, just stew the catfish and water tofu together in a pot. The stewed Lingma catfish and green onions look extremely delicious on the outside.
The delicate pale white fish meat is mixed with small pieces of tofu on the plate. Once you take a bite, the fish meat is tender and silky, and the tofu is fragrant and delicious. The more you eat, the more you want to eat.