Snout & Seek - Discover Culinary Wonders
Snout & Seek - Discover Culinary Wonders
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Snout & Seek

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Six hands holding out baijiu shot glasses clinking them together as a group.
Education

Baijiu: The Moving Banquet

Learn about the foundations of baijiu and the culture that surrounds it to better understand dining in China.
A Chinese woman holding a microphone in front of a 6 foot tall bamboo steaming basket
Series

Chengdu City Walk: The Truly Delicious Small Eateries Around Kuanzhai Alley

Follow ZhuangZhuang as she guides us through a Chengdu City Walk to explore hole-in-the-wall eateries in Kuanzhai Alley.
A white plate with stirfried meat and green vegetables in an orange-brown sauce.
Education

24 Flavors of Sichuan - Home Style Flavor (Jiachang wei)

Next in our 24 Flavors of Sichuan - Home Style Flavor. Otherwise known as, Jiachang wei.
Guizhou fish hotpot being cooked on a portable gas stove.
Culture

From Mountain Necessity to City Craving: The Story of Guizhou Sour Soup

Follow the story of Guizhou's famous sour soup throughout China.
Sour Soup Fish Hotpot - A Guizhou Staple

Sour Soup Fish Hotpot - A Guizhou Staple

If you think eating the fish is the whole point of sour soup fish, you would be mistaken.
Two black cooking woks sit on a stove, one empty, and the other filled near to the brim with red sour soup.

Cooking Red Sour Soup in a Miao Family

Almost every household in Guizhou keeps some form of sour soup base at home.
Green mountains with brown wooden houses nestled in the middle, as smoke rises from cooking fires.

Miao Community in Danzhai, Guizhou

Guizhou is defined by its mountains. Around 92.5% of the province is made up of mountainous and hilly terrain.
A spoon taking out fermenting tomatoes from a brown ceramic urn.

Sour Soup Fermentation in Ceramic Urns

Guizhou sour soup is made from remarkably simple ingredients, yet the flavor it produces is powerful and memorable.
A Chinese female - ZhuangZhuang - sitting with a microphone, edited next to her is a plate of dumplings with spicy sauce.
Series

The Chengdu Way of Eating Dumplings

Come and learn the authentic Chengdu way of eating China's most famous food - dumplings.
A bowl of noodles, topped with minced pork sits next to two bowls of se shui sauce - a clear, glass-like looking sweet cold sauce.
Foods

Yunnan Rice Noodles, Served Cold

Have you ever tried cold rice noodles before? Join us in Yunnan to try these special noodles.
A young Chinese woman walks down a steel hillside in the mountains of Guizhou, carrying a bamboo basket and the plants she picked for food.

Mountains Offer Both Resources and Inspiration for Food

In Guizhou, mountains once meant isolation, where difficult terrain makes travel and communication challenging.
A large concrete storeroom stores racks containing wooden cask barrels with craft beer. In the center of the room, three 1-story tall wooden barrels sit on stilts.

Guizhou Is Gifted for Fermentation

Guizhou’s cool, humid climate has long made it an ideal place for fermentation.
A restaurant serving window sits in a residential building, with customers lined up outside.

A Popular Restaurant Hidden in a Residential Building

You can tell food plays an important role in Guizhou when you come across a long line in the middle of a residential building.
A series of red heat lamps warms trays of different flavored potato chips.

Potato Chips Are Everywhere

Guizhou is known for food that feels distinct from much of China, bold, sour, spicy, and full of character.
A hand holding a paper bowl with a potato dish above many stainless steel pots with condiments.

Welcome to the Kingdom of Potatoes: Guizhou

If there is one ingredient that defines Guizhou street food, it is the potato.
Three clear shot glasses with wide thick bottoms that taper to a narrower top sit on a wood serving tray, each filled with different aged baijiu

Baijiu at Different Aging Stages

An indistinguishable sight - the difference in year-to-year aging of baijiu.
A Chinese worker tends to soy sauce fermentation casks by scooping out the existing soy sauce and pouring it back over the beans it was extracted from, amongst many rows of open casks.

Traditional Soy Sauce in the Making

If you think putting soybeans into a jar with salt and water is enough to make soy sauce, it’s really just the beginning.
ZhuangZhuang sits holding a microphone next to Chongqing hotpot and assorted ingredient dishes.
Series

Experiencing Authentic Sichuan Hotpot Like a Local

Eat like a local in Chengdu - learn all about authentic hotpot, China's most enjoyed food.