Guilin rice
noodles with horse meat, one of the best foods in Guilin, may be comparable
with the beautiful scenery. It is a must-eat food for tourists in Guilin.
Traditionally,
the horse meat for the rice noodles can be processed by many ways like salting,
preserving, spicing, and seasoning, and salting and preserving are most popular
now. Salted horse meat is sweeter in flavor while preserved one is more appetizing.
Generally speaking, you may cut the horse meat into strips and mix them with sauces,
and keep them in a vat for 3 to 5 days, then rinse them in boiled water and dry
for about 10 days in a cold and dry day. You may clean the dust on the meat with
warm water before cooking, and remove the oil and slice it before eating. By these
ways, the horse meat will present an agate color. Besides, it is not greasy and
tastes tender, just like ham. The fatter the horse is, the better the flavor
will be.
Moreover, the
rice noodles are also specially-made. Guilin rice noodles are famous for the quality
and taste. The rice noodles for Guilin Rice Noodles with Horse Meat are
superior in flexibility and characterized by whiter color. A dish of Guilin Rice
Noodles with Horse Meat can only have 1 line of rice noodle with more than 1
meter in length and is wrapped into agglomerate by hand. Therefore, it leads to
a 4-8 times higher in cost than other rice noodles.
The soup for
the noodles is made by horse bone that continually boiled for 4 hours, which is
very tasty.
How to make the noodles: first cook the agglomerate rice noodles with boiled horse-bone
soup, and serve them in a bowl with the soup, and then add horse meat, chopped green
onion, parsley, some peanut oil, chili sauce and sliced garlic. Heat the rice
noodles before eating, which is tastier.
By tradition,
the bowl for the noodles is also specially-made, which is very small. A bowl of
rice noodles is only 15 grams. Eating 10-20 bowls can you call yourself a
gourmet.
Besides
horse meat, other ingredients are horse liver, lung and intestine. They are
more delicious and more expensive.
