Sour Fish Soup HotpotA specialty coming out of Southeast Guizhou, Sour Fish Hot Pot is often regarded as a food foreigners will miss most once they leave Guizhou. The thick, sour broth is made from tomatoes and it permeates into whatever you put in the pot. Typically inside is a large river fish that soaks up the flavor and your selection of other ingredients, typically potatoes, tofu and cabbage. The hot pot can be eaten alone or with side dishes. Most locals will dip the food that comes out of the hotpot into a small bowl of liquid hot peppers.
Best Sour Fish Soup Hot Pot 1. Old Kaili Sour Fish Soup - Top ranked by locals with a nice atmosphere, this restaurant gives you exactly what you need. 2. Miao Village Restaurant - Great flavored Sour Hot Pot in a little bit more modest of a setting than Old Kaili |
Bean HotpotTourists and locals alike can fulfill their gustatory pleasures by indulging in another Guiyang favorite, bean hot pot, in which a smorgasbord of meats and vegetables are cooked in a boiling bean soup. Unlike famous hot pots in Chongqing and Sichuan, bean hot pot pot is devoid of the peppers and spices that typically set unsuspecting foreigners' mouths ablaze. However, bean hot pot provides the opportunity to season various combinations of meats and vegetables in its delicious and hearty bean broth. At their table patrons are provided with a large pot containing a bean soup which is placed over a hot plate (or fire, depending on the restaurant you choose to patronize). Customers are then given the option to select numerous types of meats and vegetables to place in the piping hot soup.
Best Bean Hot Pot 1. Tufeng Bean Hotpot (土风豆米火锅) with two locations on Bar street and a few more around town, this is the best middle class bean hot pot chain in town 2. Chaffy Dish - A local high-class chain of bean hot pot restaurants. Except to pay more, while sitting in a cleaner atmosphere. 3. Across from Guizhou Normal University main gate Dicos. A true hole-in-the-wall this restaurant has been a favorite of in-the-know foreigners for years. |
Guiyang Intestine Noodles (肠旺面 changwang mian)Guiyang intestine noodles are much mroe delicious than the translation would have you think. A local speicality these noodles are often ate as breakfast, lunch or a midnight snack. If you are looking for something quick, local and awesome, find Guiyang intestine noodles
Best Changwang Mian 1. Guiyang Intestine Noodle Soup 贵阳肠旺面 changwang mian 2. Youyi lu chang wang mian 3. Da shizi Chang wang mian - In a land where everyone says everything is famous, this noodle shop truely lives up to the word's meaning. Locals in the know all know this shop and the lines from morning until early afternoon always flow out the door. Highly recommended! |
Si WawaA local favorite right out of Guiyang, Siwawa is not only delicious, it is also vegetarian, and unlike a lot of other Chinese food contains very little oil. There are two types of Siwawa, one that is eaten at street stands and one that is eaten at a nicer restaurant. Eating Siwawa is simple, you choose the vegetables you and your eating partners wish to eat, you pick up a rice tortilla, then using Chopsticks take the vegetables you want, put it in, wrap it up and enjoy.
Best Siwawa 1. Qianling Park road: On the one way road that brings you to the enterance of Qianling Park there are numerous Siwawa street stands. 2. |