| Travel Guide to Guilin, China |
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Often characterized by its sweetness and a touch of spice, the flavor of Guilin is indeed unique. Traditional ingredients of Guilin recipes include (somewhat to the horror of animal lovers) dog and turtle meats! However, the vast variety of local dishes here make it possible for one to sample the distinct flavor of Guilin without having to come into contact with those meats. The Guilin traditional dishes of fame are: steamed mandarin fish of the Lijiang River, red cooked meat slices with Lipu taro, fish cooked in bamboo tube, steamed pork with rice flour wrapped in lotus leaves and Guilin rice flour.
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Examples of Guilin's traditional dishes: |
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Lipu Taro looped Meat
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This famous dish is made of taro from Lipu combined with streaky pork with skin, pepper, mashed onion, preserved bean-curd of Guilin, cooking wine, sugar etc. The final product is golden and aromatic with taro's scent.
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The Gulin Rice Noodle
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The Guilin rice noodle is a local snack and the residents' favorite. The rice noodle is prepared with gravy, fried peanuts or soybeans, chopped scallions and slices of your choice of meat.
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Waternut Cake
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This cold season's snack is shaped like a horse’s hoof, and is made of watertnut flour with sugar, milk and coco as dressing.
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Glutinous Rice Dumpling
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The glutinous rice dumpling in Guilin is made of sticky rice with stuffing made of mungbean flour, Chinese chestnut, Lipu taro, peanuts, black bean, and pork. there are several shapes of dumplings such as triangle rice dumpling, wrap rice dumpling, pillow rice dumpling and cool rice dumpling.
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Bowl Cake
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The tasty bowl cake is a snack made of sticky rice flour, polished japonica rice flour and brown sugar.
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Pickled Vegetable
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The Chinese pickles are made of selected vegetable soaked in vinegar and sugar. It tastes sour and sweet and is used to accompany meat dishes.
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Oil-tea
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Every county of Guilin has the habit of drinking oil-tea, and the most famous one is Gongcheng oil-tea.
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This article is authored and copyrighted by
Royal Exclusive Travel
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