Dining Overview

In some places, like Wuzhou, Cantonese style food is in dominant. But the local Guangxi cuisine still offers several great delicacies, including the Guilin rice-flour noodles with horse meat (Marou mifen), "zongzi" - pyramid shaped meat dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves, and "fried earthworm-shaped" noodles. Guangxi cuisine is light, but not as light as Cantonese food; it is spicy, but not as spicy as Sichuan cuisine. Guangxi cuisine combines the virtues of other Chinese cuisines and is most renowned for its unique treatment of venison and game meat. It also includes snake, mountain tortoise and pigeon - some of these animals belong to rare and endangered species. Luckily, you can also find local dim sum as well as noodles and delicious dumplings. Special dog hot-pot is also available in some cities such as Guilin, Liuzhou and Nanning.