Eating in Guilin

　Not only the mountains and waters are the finest under heaven in Guilin, even local table delicacies win universal praise, local dish of Guilin comprehensive Cuisine sour of Hunan and hot and Cuisine clear and fresh of Guangdong, form one's own unique flavor. The street snack of Guilin is a special skill even more and the lotus leaf which the polished glutinous rice chicken gives out is fragrant that the full street is drifting. Guilin vermicelli must taste, have romaine lettuce powder, sirloin powder, three kinds of delicacies powder, original soup powder, steamed dish powder, sour hot powder, horse meat vermicelli ,etc., hundreds of vermicelli shops in the whole city, every family's taste is not the same, some even open all night.

　We suggest you to try tea cuisine in Guilin , as it could not be found in Northern part of China . There is a tea restaurant for Tea Banquet, which is getting famous after former American President Clinton has been there for tea drinking when he paid a visit to Guilin at 1998.

Tea Banquet in Guilin

　In traditional Chinese cuisine, a wide variety of spices and flavors are used to deter peculiar smells of, add flavors to or highlight the original tastes of the ingredients that crawls, flies and swims or just grows in the fields, forests and mountains. But at this Guilin Tea Banquet Restaurant, chefs use different teas instead to prepare and cook food. Tea is modest, unthreatening and not overwhelming and it "silently highlights the taste without covering the original flavor of the food." Tea can be divided into five different types according to their nature - cold, cool, plain, warm and hot. For example, green tea is cold, black tea is hot, Oolong tea is warm.

　At the restaurant, all food has been prepared, marinated and cooked with different types of tea, in accordance with the nature of the food. For example the beef is not conventionally prepared with the red soy sauce. Instead, chefs use a kind of black tea, hot in nature, to cook the beef, also hot in nature. To strike a Yin-Yang balance, the chef adds some orange skin which is cold in nature.

　One interesting food was a congee called "Taiji Biluochun." The congee was a pellet mixture of bean curd, yellow croaker and water chestnuts. One the surface was sprayed a design of Taiji with a mixture of vegetable juice and Biluochun tea powder.

　The snack in the restaurant was two lotus cakes fried to an attractive gold color. They were presented with lotus flowers carved out of onions. The cake was made of lotus root with pellets of chicken, shrimp and pork and invariably tea. It was very tasty.

　Highly recommended was the fried noodle. Having been marinated into a mixture juice of vegetable and tea juice, the noodles took the color of light green. It was fried with thin shredded pork that was pink and celery that was green. Free from too much oil, the noodle was very delicious.

　The tea food is very healthy and a kind of green food here, you eat it just like you drink tea, and it could make you to have a long life. You could try it and know China ' tea culture.

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