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Snout & Seek photo gallery showcasing authentic real-life moments, culture, and culinary inspiration from around the world.

Many mason jars filled with fermenting green plums to be used for drinks or seasoning.

Fermented Plums for Drinks and Seasoning

A shifu uses a bamboo stick to stir a large ceramic urn filled with doubanjiang on a stone patio, next to other urns fermenting.

Doubanjiang Requires Daily Care

A stainless steel wok is alit with bright orange fire as the chef flambés the dish in a professional kitchen.

Flambé in Chinese Cooking

Rows of soy sauce urns sit on a tiled patio, their lids replaced with a white mesh to keep out insects while the contents aerate.

Traditional Techniques with a Modern Approach

A close up photo of the red doubanjiang dish in a giant urn.

Doubanjiang Is a Time Capsule

A local expert in Luzhou speaks to Chef Arnold about the key ingredient to baijiu - sorghum - as show holds an enamel-sealed specimen for him to look at.

Learning About Baijiu and Sorghum

Large bamboo baskets filled with giant spring ginger sit on a market floor, ready to be purchased.

Spring Ginger in a Local Sichuan Market

Round golden-red dough balls soaked in oil sit in a sieve as they fry in a large fire-heated wok.

Chinese Donut in Southwest China

Two European white males stand next to a 10-foot large stack of giant bamboo steamer baskets in a storage area.

Giant Steamer Baskets in Luzhou

Mother Brine of Sichuan Paocai

Sunshine over red coffee cherries

Sunshine over red coffee cherries

The basket used to collect coffee cherries

The basket used to collect coffee cherries

Coffee cherries at different stages of sun-drying

Coffee cherries at different stages of sun-drying

Local coffee farmers are benefiting from growing coffee

Local coffee farmers are benefiting from growing coffee

Sun-drying coffee fruit on the ground in Yunnan

Sun-drying coffee fruit on the ground in Yunnan

Separating Pu’er tea leaves for brewing

Separating Pu’er tea leaves for brewing

Daily offering for the Buddha in Jingmai

Daily offering for the Buddha in Jingmai

A basket of Gu Niang Guo (Ground Cherry)

A basket of Gu Niang Guo (Ground Cherry)