What do Yao people like to eat? Yao's most distinctive ethnic snack?

Yao people take rice and corn as the staple food, supplemented by sweet potatoes, taro, wheat, millet, sorghum, cassava and other miscellaneous grains. Vegetables include white gourd, pumpkin, watermelon, radish, Chinese cabbage, mustard, pepper, eggplant, beans, amaranth, eyebrow beans and so on. Sometimes wild holly, wild fern, fungus, fragrant letter and bamboo shoots are collected for cooking. The source of meat mainly depends on raising chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and cattle. Yao men like hunting, and go up the mountain to hunt orioles, wild pigs, pheasants, rabbits and other game as a supplement to meat. In terms of diet, besides having the same habits as the Han people, they also have their own unique food.

Kang pork

Also known as roasted meat, this is the most common dish in the Yao family. On the eve of the Spring Festival, pigs and cows were slaughtered, and every household cooked barbecue. Besides pork, beef, yellow meat and goat meat are also used. Production method: cut the meat into long strips, marinate it with raw salt for 2-3 days, wash it with warm water, then string one end with bamboo sticks or rattan, hang it in the furnace cavity where the residual carbon is heated after cooking, cover the iron pot upside down on the furnace, bake it for 7- 10 night, barbecue it to dry, and then wrap it up and hang it in the smoke shed above the kitchen pond for smoking.

Pork sausage

Use pig blood, vermicelli, salt, chopped green onion, etc. Production method: Stir fresh pig blood, infiltrate a little rice slurry, mix in salt, chopped green onion and herbs unique to Yaoshan, then pour into pork sausage, tie the head and tail with a string every one foot, and put it in a pot and cook it with slow fire. Smooth but not greasy, with unique flavor.

Xiang Jing barbecue fan

Aromatic japonica rice is a specialty of Yaoshan, and its cooking is soft and mellow. Ingredients: fragrant rice, garlic sprout, salt, soy sauce, etc. Production method: first cut the barbecue into diced meat, add some ingredients such as garlic sprouts, stir-fry until half-cooked, and shovel it for use. When the fragrant japonica rice is boiled until the water is dry and the steam rises, pour the ingredients on the rice noodles and mix well after 10 minutes. The rice smells delicious.

Bamboo Rice

Lunch for Yao families when they are farming or logging in the wild. Ingredients: rice, pickles, barbecue, etc. Production: Cut the newly cut bamboo into a bamboo tube with one end as the bottom, wash it with clear water, then put the fully soaked rice and pickles into the bamboo tube, separate them with bamboo leaves or leaves, seal them with wet mud, put the rice into an open flame to cook until it is cooked, take out the bamboo tube and split it to make the rice soft and fragrant.