Guangxi Cuisine is also known as Gui Cuisine (Note: Gui is short for Guangxi). The eating habits here integrate those of all other regions.

Gui Cuisine incorporates cuisines of Guangdong, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian provinces. It is famous for the cooking method of delicacies from the wild, and the fresh flavor is remained after they are cooked.

Featuring fresh and a little spicy, sour and sweet, Guangxi Cuisine could stimulate one’s appetite, which is most prominently represented by rice noodles, a traditional snack in Guangxi. You’d better not leave without tasting the delicious rice noodles, which can be boiled, stirred and fried!

Laoyou (Note: Laoyou means old friends) Noodles, also called Hot and Sour Noodles, is a local snack of Nanning, which was originated from 1939, when the cook made it specially for a regular customer who had caught a cold. The symptoms were relieved after the customer ate the noodles, and he was so moved to name the noodles as “Laoyou Noodles” to treat the cook as a friend.

The Laoyou Noodles is cooked with chewy noodles with eggs in broth, fitted with fermented black soybean sauce, chili, pickled bamboo shoots, meshed garlic, sesame oil, pepper and chopped beef. It is not only a delicious snack, but also could dispel cold, stimulate the circulation of qi, raise appetite, help sweat and refresh oneself.

As the snack could relieve summer heat, warm the body in winter and relieve the symptoms of a cold, it is favored by customers and served the whole year in some given restaurants.

Rice powder dumpling is another traditional snack of Nanning.The materials include japonica rice and a small amount of glutinous rice. After being soaked and milled, added with right amount of starch, it is stirred and boiled to 70%-80% of maturity, and kneaded into dough. Then it is rolled into a thin skin, stuffed with a paste of water chestnut, pork, shrimp, and mushrooms, and molded into a dumpling with ten ruffles before being steamed. It is served with sesame oil, Chinese wampee fruit sauce, and a small bowl of broth.

Guangxi Cuisine is called Gui Cuisine. Since the ancient time, Guangxi has been a place where government officials and businessmen frequented. Therefore, the eating habits here integrate those of all other regions.