You must hear much about Guilin for its beautiful sceneries before you come, but you will be also deeply impressed by the traditional dishes in Guilin before you leave.
Top 1 Lipu Taro Looped Meet (Lipu yu kou rou) Lipu Taro Looped Meea is a famous traditional dish of Guilin. It is made of taro from Lipu, streaky pork with skin, pepper, mashed onion, preserved bean-curd of Guilin, cooking wine, sugar etc.
Top 2 Steamed Mandarin Fish from Li River (Qingzheng Lijiang yu)
The most important feature of Steamed Li River fish is its tenderness. When you put the fish in your mouth, you don’t even have to chew because it will melt itself and give you the best taste of fish you’ve ever eaten. Accompanied with special sweet sauce, the steamed fish appears to be the best choice for people who prefer light flavour food.
Top 3 Gingko Stewed with Old Duck (Baiguo Dun Laoya)
It is one of the most popular dishes in Guilin and it appears on family dinner tables often. The most important ingredients are old duck and baiguo (Gingko) which is famous Chinese medicine. Stewing makes the final soup tasty and nutritious.
Top 4 Yangshuo beer fish (Yangshuo Pijiu yu)
Fish from Li river is cooked he local beer is the most popular Yangshuo. The fish is cooked in beer with some local vegetables. The fish can contain bones but the meat tastes delicious.
Top 5 Guilin Rice Noodle (Mifen)
The most famous local snack in Guilin, mifen is pliable but strong, fragrant and mellow, and cheap (0.25 dollar for a bowl). Guilin Rice Noodles are a favorite snack for local residents. Rice noodles, gravy, fried peanuts or soybeans, chopped scallions and thin slides of different kinds of meat are added for various versions of this renowned and tasty dish.
Top 6 Stuffed Li River Snails (Yangshuo Liang tianluo)
The snails are stuffed with minced pork and a small amount of vegetables and mint and the cooked in a light sauce... They’re a little spicy.
Top 7 Sponge Cake (Fa Gao)
It is a traditional snack in Guilin. They are usually eaten at happy events to show the wish and the blessing for a happy life. The main material of the sponge cake is sticky rice and polished japonica rice. They are soft and delicious with pleasant fragrant.
Top 8 Waternut Cake (Mati Gao)The shape is like a horse’s hoof, and is made of waternut flour with sugar, milk and coco as dressing. They are usually sold in the cool season.
Top 9 Bowl Cake (Wan Gao)
It is mainly made of sticky rice flour, polished japonica rice flour and brown sugar. The color is bright. It’s like a flower at the top of the cake.
Top 10 Pickled Vegetable (Pao Cai)
The Pickled Chinese cabbages are made of selected vegetable, pickled with vinegar and sugar. It tastes sour and sweet.
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