What the Miao Eat

The food of the Miao people is mainly rice, supplemented by grains such as bulgur, millet, sorghum, wheat and potatoes. The Miao people are most fond of glutinous rice. By-products mainly include melons, beans, vegetables, and chili peppers, green onions and garlic as condiments. Meat includes pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish. The Hmong in most areas eat three meals a day, with rice as the main food. Deep-fried food is most common in the form of deep-fried poi.

The Miao people's tastes are mainly sour and spicy, and they are especially fond of chili peppers. Daily dishes are mainly sour and spicy soup dishes. Sauerkraut is tasty and easy to make, and can be eaten raw or cooked. Usually eat fresh vegetables or beans, Miao family also mixed with some pickles or sour soup. This will increase your appetite. In addition, the Miao fish cooked in sour soup is a flavorful dish, the practice of sour soup with water, salt and boil, take fresh fish to remove the bitter gall, into the sour soup cooked into this dish meat tender soup fresh, fragrant and delicious, can be done all year round. The food preservation of the Miao people, the general use of pickling method, vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, meat like pickled into the sour flavor. Almost every Hmong family has an altar for pickled food, collectively known as sour altar. Chili pepper as the main condiment, some areas even have "no spicy dishes" said. Miao dishes are varied, common vegetables are beans, melons and greens, radish, most of the Miao people are good at making soy products.