What are the specialties of Zhuang cuisine

The traditional specialties of the Zhuang people include: five-color glutinous rice, bamboo rice, rice dumplings, lotus hair cake, blood sausage, and Long Horn Long Horn chicken of the Zhuang family. The Zhuang, the most populous ethnic minority in China, live in areas where rice is grown, so the Zhuang people enjoy eating rice and rice porridge, food made of glutinous rice, pig, cow, chicken, duck and fish, drinking wine and being hospitable.

1, five-color glutinous rice

Five-color glutinous rice, also known as "Wu rice", is the traditional snacks of the Buyei and Zhuang regions, because the glutinous rice has black, red, yellow, purple, white five colors and named. Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar or the Qingming Festival, Guangxi people will do, Zhuang people see the five colors of glutinous rice as a symbol of good luck.

2, bamboo rice

Bamboo rice is also one of the traditional dishes of the Zhuang people, using fresh bamboo cut into two, leaving the middle part, open the lid on the top, put the meat, glutinous rice and other ingredients, and then sealed with a lid, put into a pot to steam, the flavor is very fresh.

3, dumplings

Dumplings in the Zhuang region belongs to the food to welcome guests, whenever the family came to the guests will use the dumplings to entertain, the Zhuang people will be dumplings as a symbol of the grain harvest.

4, lotus flower cake

Lotus flower cake is the Nanning people to worship ancestor rituals essential specialty food. Lotus flower cake has three colors: burnt yellow, mud yellow and snow white, and the burnt yellow cake is the most traditional and authentic practice.

5, blood sausage

Blood sausage is a traditional food of the Zhuang people, when the pig is killed with a pot of salt water to catch the blood, and then stir it so that it does not coagulate, mixed with chopped lard and minced onion, salt, ginger, pepper and other seasonings, then enema, tied tightly into a pot and boiled into.

6, Long Horn Miao Chicken

Long Horn Miao Chicken is a unique traditional specialty dish of the Zhuang people in Guangnan County, Wenshan Prefecture, which is known as "Yunnan's best".