Dong Nationality Making Oil Tea

        Guangxi Dong nationality is famous for its oil tea, serves guests with ‘making oil tea’. Oil tea is the most ordinary drinking in Dong family, it is made up of oil and tea, ‘making oil tea’ means the whole making process of oil tea, fries the tea yellow and delicious with oil, then grinds it with short crabstick slowly in the pan, boils it with water, sieves the tea-left, then gets the tea fluid, this is oil tea’s basis, then adds other flavoring as popcorn, fried bean, fried peanut in the small bowls respectively, then crushed into tea fluid, it could be sweet or salty, the most important characteristics of oil tea are sweet, dainty, it has oil’s faint scent, we will not bored with it for frequent drinking. It could warm stomach and get rid of dampness meantime, has the virtue of strengthening body.

Miaojia Bamboo Fish

         There are 423 thousand Miao nationality fellowmen and south bamboo all over the mountain and plains in Guangxi Guilin¡¯s high mountain and dangerous ranges. A story tells that a Miao fellowman went to the mountain to work, then found a river when rested, the water was so clear that he could see the bottom. He found alive and kicking fish in the water when he drank, he caught a few as lunch, but with what to cook fish? Then he found flourish bamboo forest, why not tried with bamboo? So he split the bamboo, then cooked fish in splitting bamboo with fire to roast, dainty came out ceaselessly. Miao family found out that roasting fish with bamboo, we not only retain fish flavor, but also append bamboo special faint scent. One told ten, ten told hundred, Miao family will split bamboo and catch fish to cook bamboo fish every time they work in the mountain.