Snout & Seek - Discover Culinary Wonders
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Snout & Seek

Snout & Seek

Compound soy sauce in a white dish on a wooden cutting board surrounded by its raw ingredients.
Recipe

Sichuan Compound Soy Sauce (复制酱油)

An understated sauce that will transform and elevate the flavours to come out of your kitchen.
A hand holds glutinous rice crops that have dried in the sun.

Glutinous rice stored in a Dong family granary

Stored glutinous rice in a Dong community in Guizhou.
Two elder Dong women walk along a stone path, one carrying a baby Dong on her back wearing traditional attire.

Traditional clothing in a Dong community

Two Dong women catch up along a village path, one carrying her grandchild on her back, both dressed in traditional clothing.
Traditional Dong rice wine distillation vat shrouded in brick.

Rice wine distillation in Dong community, a harvest and celebration.

Community rice wine production in a Dong village in Guizhou.
A small Dong woman carrying two baskets of soil and manure along a creekside path.

The women who keep the village going

A senior Dong woman carrying soil and manure along the mountain paths to work on the family farmland.
A hand pulls out a handful of glutinous rice seed from a green plastic burlap bag.

Rice as staple food, but also family treasure

Glutinous rice has historically been an important staple food for Dong communities in Guizhou.
Giacomo Lorandi pouring out soy sauce in Luzhou.
Profile

Giacomo Lorandi: “I am as concerned about fermentation as I am in love with it”

Meet Giacomo Lorandi, a fermentation researcher from Italy exploring the world of fermentation, food, and culture.
Grilled Prawn Skewers with Mango Achcharu
Recipe

Grilled Prawn Skewers with Mango Achcharu

Follow along with Chef Arnold Kuiper as he makes Grilled Prawn Skewers with Mango Achcharu.
A Yin Yang with KFC on one half and kale on the other.
Opinion

The Yin and Yang of Appetite

Balancing comfort, curiosity, and the way we eat. Welcome to the Yin and Yang of appetite.
Shanghai Scallion Oil Noodles - light golden brown noodles with crispy scallion shoots on top
Recipe

Shanghai Scallion Oil Noodles (葱油拌面)

Follow Chloe as she takes us through a simple yet wildly delicious bowl of Shanghai scallion noodles.
A morning market eatery is packed with local Miao people eating from bowls.

A Morning Gathering at a Guizhou Market

At the weekly or bi-weekly morning markets in Guizhou, people come not only to buy groceries and clothing, but also to catch up with family and friends.
A Miao woman in traditional charcoal dress and silver jewelry sits on the roadside selling her produce from plastic bags.

Miao Woman Selling Herbs and Vegetables at a Market

One of the best things about visiting a farmers’ market is seeing people from all walks of life in their natural environment.
Row by row of tall brown clay urns covered with plastic wrap and red cloth contain sour soup in a blue and green warehouse.

Industrialized Production of Sour Soup

To meet the growing demand for Guizhou sour soup, producers quickly realized that small-scale production alone could no longer keep up.
A brown clay teapot-like pot with a wide open top is filled with clear liquid - Guizhou rice wine.

Guizhou Local Rice Wine

Throughout our journey in the mountains of Guizhou, one thing remained remarkably consistent: almost every household made its own rice wine.
A wooden table with a portable stove next to a plate of fried rice made with fermented vegetables

A New Take on Fried Rice

Are you tired of the usual fried rice with eggs and fresh vegetables? Delicious as it is, it can sometimes lack a bit of character.
A clay bowl with a mixed assortment of green and red - chopped vegetables.

The Dipping Sauce for Sour Soup Fish

Dipping sauces vary dramatically across China, especially for hotpot-style meals, where everyone has their own preferred combination.
A close up of a basket of red capped mushrooms with white stems and underbellies.
Education

Mushroom Season: Yunnan’s Poem of Place

Explore the wonderful, mysterious, delicious, and sometimes poisonous world of Yunnan mushrooms along with MuHui.
A small loose pyramid stack of white tofu cubes on a cutting board.
Story

The Accidental Delicacy

Chloe shares her thoughts and opinions on the concept of delicacies in our modern era.