Southeast Guizhou specialties

When people travel to a place, they will always look for local special snacks. This is also a way to best represent the local culture. So when you arrive in Qiandongnan area, you must eat spicy chicken and drink white wine. These are the most famous local special snacks, especially spicy chicken. This delicacy tastes a bit spicy, very appetizing, and has good color, aroma and taste.

This dish requires the chicken to be cooked with spices made from a variety of Chinese herbs. The requirement is that the chicken is boneless inside, but the outer shape remains unchanged and it is golden yellow. When eating, it is chopped into small pieces and mixed with special condiments that are mainly numbing and spicy. Generally, the condiments are added first when eating. After one or two hours, when the flavor has been fully integrated into the chicken, it can be served. This dish is best paired with the following liquors, especially sauce-flavored liquors (such as Moutai and Langjiu).

As time goes by, Gulin spicy chicken has branched out into many schools from the original Niedundun. There is the traditional improved spicy chicken with a stronger Chinese herbal flavor, eaten with condiments. There is also a type of chicken that does not use any Chinese herbal spices, but is stewed in clear water, finally mixed with condiments and marinated for two or three hours, which was later called "white-cut chicken". There is also a type of chicken that adds a lot of chicken soup to the condiments, beats the chicken with a wooden stick to squeeze out the chicken oil, and then soaks it thoroughly, which was later called "bang bang chicken".

However, no matter what, spicy chicken has always been a must-have food for Gulin people to entertain relatives and friends.

Gulin Spicy Chicken is a local snack in Gulin County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. It is a braised snack developed by Gulin people from generation to generation. It is famous for its freshness, fragrance and spiciness. During festivals, every household in Gulin prepares a big rooster, braised it with homemade brine, and then adds their own special dipping sauce and invites their relatives to taste it together. Later, the Gulin pepper and spicy chicken and Gulin spicy chicken with strange tastes were developed and were called by later generations: the most popular flavor is spicy, and the most weird flavor is pepper and spicy.

Huangba has golden color, rich aroma and sweet taste. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that the wrapping material is galangal leaves, and the fragrance of Huangba comes from the aromatic oil contained in the galangal leaves.

Main ingredients: high-quality glutinous rice, rice, brown sugar or white sugar, and galangal leaves.

Method: 1. First, beat some washed rice and glutinous rice into mixed rice milk.

2. Wash the remaining glutinous rice and steam it in a traditional wooden steamer until it is 70% to 80% cooked.

3. Pour the beaten rice milk and steamed glutinous rice into a large wooden basin and mix them. Add a small amount of brown sugar or white sugar according to your taste.

4. When the moisture in the rice paste is completely absorbed by the glutinous rice, you can rub the glutinous rice into large rice balls and beat them into shape.

5. Use the washed and dried ginger leaves to tie up the formed glutinous rice balls one by one, and then put them all into a large wooden steamer and steam them.

How to eat: The freshly steamed Huangba is fragrant and can be eaten directly;

After cooling, you can slice it and fry it in oil, or boil it in glutinous rice water for a unique flavor.