China’s southern Guizhou isn’t so much out there as up there. It’s part of the Yun-Gui Plateau, the first of a series of steps that ascend higher and higher into the clouds until eventually you’re in the snowcaps of Tibet. It’s also where I spent a few weeks last summer. Invited by friends from aContinue reading “Guizhou: Rice paddy fish”
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鱼香肉丝 “fish-flavored, but not fish”
Yuxiang 鱼香 literally means “fish taste,” which is a mystery because this style of cooking has neither fish, nor fish taste, nor any other fishy credentials
Sour bamboo shoots and crispy pork belly
Lao style means pickled, and these were hot, sour and very aromatic.
Thomas David DuBois 