When it comes to the comfortable and livable cities in southwest China, the first thing that comes to mind is always Chongqing, Chengdu, Xishuangbanna...
But few people can think of this long-neglected pearl of the sea - Guiyang.
"The sky is clear, the ground is not three feet flat", the whole of Guizhou is filled with mountains and hills.
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"Eight mountains, one water and one field", the rugged geographical environment and the rainy and sunny weather made Guizhou, which has few mountains and fields and is difficult to travel by land, extremely difficult in ancient times when it relied on farming.
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For the ancient Guizhou people, the other end of the mountain was still a mountain, and it was an endless mountain, and Guizhou even became a place of exile. Wang Yangming was once demoted to Guizhou Longchang, and in Longchang he realized that "knowledge and action are one".
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Today, the rapid development of infrastructure has allowed Guizhou to occupy half of the world's highest bridge, and the capital, Guiyang, is also becoming a high-speed rail hub.
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In Guizhou, the city is built in the mountains, with high-rise buildings and green mountains. Fortunately, the mountains and rivers add difficulties and troubles to the people of Guizhou to communicate with the outside world, and at the same time, they also give the relatively "besieged city" and self-contained characteristics here.
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After the traffic problem is solved, the temperature advantage brought by the altitude makes Guizhou better, and the refreshing Guiyang has become a summer paradise outside the coastal cities. In August 2007, Guiyang won the honor of "Summer Capital of China".
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Guiyang, which is always flexible between the cities, also brings together a large number of delicacies in Guizhou, and even snacks can be eaten for 30 days without repeating! Even just one city can hold up a whole ten episodes of a food documentary!
Three days without eating acid, walking and jumping, in addition to the spicy universal characteristics of the southwest region, acid is the life of Guizhou people!
Acids in Guiyang also have different forms.
In Our country, the most ordinary tofu is replaced by sour soup in the hands of Guiyang people. Sour soup tofu has a refreshing acidity in the bean flavor, and has evolved into the initial form of dozens of tofu peripheral cuisines.
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Sour soup tofu with spices to grasp and knead into mushrooms, ball into small pieces of high temperature fried, crispy on the outside, tough on the inside, fluffy hollow to suck the most essence of the pepper dipped in water, is the fresh flavor of tofu balls.
After charcoal fire baking sour soup tofu flakes, the shell is brown and crispy, the inside of the soy milk is diffuse, the middle is cut and then wrapped in water, Guiyang's famous snack love tofu fruit is completed.
Is cut into a bite of sized tofu small square, baked until golden brown, with a pinch of soy milk will burst out, and then rolled on a layer of secret dipping sauce, tofu is originally rich plus dipping aroma, is a mouthful of popcorn small tofu that does not want to stop.
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In the breakfast lake of Guiyang, there is always a place for flour and noodles.
Hardcore intestinal noodles are the first choice of many Guiyang people! Soft and sticky fat sausages, tender pig's blood, lard residue plus version of crisp whistle and crispy whole egg noodles are the best partners, poured with bean sprouts, green onions, red oil, accompanied by bean sand nest in a soup, bass all day long.
Large noodles and intestinal noodles are always inseparable brothers in the noodle shop, first fried and then brine a whole piece of pork chops covered on the noodles, a mouthful of rich gravy plus elastic noodles, a day of ritual begins.
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With such noodles and flour, Guizhou people can pronounce a whole dish name in the morning: the boss comes to bowl intestinal noodles, spicy chicken noodles, fat intestine noodles, meat foam noodles, rib noodles, crisp whistle noodles, soft whistle noodles, large row noodles, bean flower noodles, pig's foot noodles...
No matter how much inner volume there is in the Guizhou breakfast industry, sour powder is always the breakfast star of Guiyang C.
Chopsticks are generally round and rolling coarse powder, smell a little sour, eat but soft and fragrant sour powder, is the nostalgia of Guiyang people, not to mention outsiders, even people in other cities in Guizhou often eat unaccustomed.
Minced meat sour powder, weird purr powder, crisp whistle sour powder, spicy chicken sour powder... There are many kinds of sour powder, only the vegetarian powder maximizes the original taste, simply poured with red oil pepper, let the sour radish diced, kohlrabi foam, bean sprouts and onion icing on the cake, a few peanuts and rice as a companion will not steal the limelight of the sour powder.
Unfortunately, this most authentic touch of Guiyang acid is difficult to eat out of Guizhou.
Commissioner tips: Eat beef powder to choose sour powder, eat lamb powder must choose fine powder
As the first city in China to eat chili peppers, Guizhou people's control of spicy is also unique in the legend of spicy province.
Do not seek a mouthful of fire into the throat to burst, but to seek a strong fragrance but spicy and not fierce, choose the peppers produced in Huaxi or Zunyi, and stimulate the taste buds with a steady stream of softness.
It is difficult to do business in Guizhou spicy is not right, but if the spicy taste is right, it is like divine help. The national goddess Lao Gan Ma made a living by food stalls in the early years, because the chili sauce was particularly delicious out of the circle, and only then did she have the taste of Guizhou that went to the world.
The dish that best reflects the charm of Guizhou peppers is none other than spicy chicken.
Spicy chicken is directly stir-fried with rice chili peppers when cooking, the color is bright red, the skin is crispy and sticky, and the chicken is better flavored.
Each family has different ways of driving chili peppers, and the secret of deliciousness is also different, once in the winter, they will eat spicy chicken hot pot; whenever the children go out, the mother will also make a few cans of spicy chicken to bring, and the bibimbap and bibimbap noodles are full of home flavor.
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When it comes to the city that loves to eat hot pot the most, the subconscious mind always feels that it is Sichuan and Chongqing, but big data tells us that Guiyang is the city with the highest hot pot restaurant per capita in the country!
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The first Guizhou hot pot must be the hot pot of spicy fruits, rice soup, and bad peppers boiled into a super appetizing sour soup.
What is even more amazing is that in Guiyang, there is also a light and delicious representative of bean rice hot pot.
Kidney beans are boiled with soft sticky sticky sand, plus bacon, soft whistles, side dishes, etc., and the umami flavor of the soup and the aroma of beans and rice are intertwined. The original soup is rich, the sour soup is sour and appetizing, more suitable for summer, no spicy friends can use dipping water and buff, eating to the end and then using hot pot soup to brew a bowl of rice, is a delicious taste that people do not want to put down chopsticks.
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If you still don't know what to eat, try the pan!
Just like eating hot pot, you can eat the most kinds of Guizhou ingredients in the pan, the pan pot also has its own advantages, bijie's pot is bulging in the middle and low, the six plates of water are in the middle of the pot with grooves, and there is a flat pan. Slowly burning various ingredients on the pot is best for chatting and eating wine with friends after work without rush.
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The silk doll that has been on the "Tip of the Tongue 2" is also a daily snack of Guiyang people, although the crust is small, it can wrap up a variety of small dishes, pour a few spoonfuls of secret dipping water, roll into the right size and take a bite, fresh and crisp.
Pig's trotters, which are more haunting than the town itself, can now be tasted all over Guizhou. Pork knuckles are soft and sticky without being fatty, dipped in double flower vinegar dipping sauce, which can offset the grease of pig's trotters, sour and refreshing, and more appetizing.
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There are thousands of ways to eat chicken, and barbecue is the most favorite way for Guizhou people to eat chicken in the night market.
After the chicken is marinated in a secret sauce, combined with the charcoal fire, the hot flame makes the outer skin quickly tighten and become crisp, and the inside is tightly locked in the gravy tender and unchained, the aroma cracks like a spark, and the hungry people swallow the saliva.
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Through the fireworks of food, we can feel the most local life. Guiyang, this snack training camp, is a food highland where you don't want to lose weight when you come!
How to eat when you get to Guiyang? These gourmet collection shops should be put away:
1. Aunt He tempeh hot pot, new daxin bean rice hot pot, tufeng bean rice hot pot, one day three flavor tempeh hot pot
2. Aunt Ding of Qingzhen, Ding's pot of ding, aunt Zuo's jar of ding sour soup
3. Aunt Lan's lamb powder, old Guiyang beef powder, Qingyan sour powder, Tian Fuji duck block noodles
4. Danjia fragrant crispy duck, Qingyan pig's feet, Jiefangqiao three brother roast chicken
5. Dingxin sticky rice
(Clues provided by The Good People He Dazhuang and Liang Boyan, the Food Commissioners of the Front of the Budget Tour)
If you want to get a Guiyang without prejudice, how about not eating!
This article is reproduced from Wang XIV Poor Travel Network