Babao Town Dining
The local food are pollution-free and original. They must be healthy and favorable. Travelers can taste the featured Zhuang dishes and snacks to feel their food culture.
♦What to Eat in Babao Town
1.Zhuangs Five-color Glutinous Rice (壮家花糯米)
Zhuangs take paddy rice as the staple food. They are good at making glutinous food, among which five-color glutinous rice, puffed rice candy, and Kaofang (big glutinous dumpling) are delicacies in festive occasions. The colorful rice is dyed with the extract of plants with different colors, and then cooked. The glutinous dumpling has many varieties, and is big in size. It usually weighs about 1 kg each, in the shape of a pillow.
2.Bahang Chicken (岜夯鸡)
Bahang Chicken (岜夯鸡) is a local dish in Guangnan county, “Bahang” is the Zhuang language, which means cooking chicken with sour-soup. The recipe for Bahang Chicken is refined, elegant and the condiments is various.
3.Da (褡)
Da is the traditional food of Zhuang people. Coupled with sweetened bean paste and peanut, the rice flour is wrapped in leaves of Chinese banana. It is inviting, with the flavor of glutinous rice and leaves of Chinese banana.
4.Shagao (沙糕)
It is the traditional snacks of Zhuang. It is sweet and melts in the mouth. It has the functions of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, improving eyesight and clearing the liver.
5.Bacon Trotter Gear (腊猪脚)
Trotter gear is a supplement of rich, sticky pork stock used to enrich basically anything. It is made by simmering gelatinous pork trotters with aromatics, then straining the stock and adding the picked meat back into it. Once chilled, the trotter gear sets up like your aunt’s ring of jello. With copious gelatin and a delicious porkiness, a spoonful gives you viscosity and a cupful takes a thin stew and turns it into a luscious thick, sticky texture.
6.Guangnan Bamboo-tube Tea (广南竹筒茶)
Guangna Bamboo-tube tea(竹筒茶) also called Guniang Tea(姑娘茶). The tea produce by Diyu （底圩）in Guangnan county. A handful of fresh tender tea leaves is placed in a tube of the xiang zhu (fragrant bamboo) species, and roasted over an open charcoal fire. When the leaves shrink, a wooden stick is poked into the tube to press them tight, and new leaves are put in. This is repeated until there is no room in the tube for more leaves. When the roasting is finished, the tube is split open, and the tea leaves are retrieved. The host then breaks off a piece of tea from the tea column, puts it in a bowl, instills in boiling water from the brass kettle, brew it for a while and serve to the guests. The tea has a fresh aroma of bamboo.
♦Where to Eat in Babao Town
There are many featured local restaurants in Babao town, which provide popular and inviting local special dishes and snacks.
