Originated in Bijie County, Guizhou Province, Bijie dumpling is a popular local flavor with a history of 50 years. The white and fine flour is made of top-grade glutinous rice. The dumpling is made up of ham, sesame, peanut, rock candy, lard, etc. Characterized by small size, thin skin with much stuffing, it tastes soft, fragrant and delicious.

 

Siwawa (Silk Doll)

 

It gets its name because various kinds of "Shreds" are wrapped up like newborn infants in thin rice-flour pancakes. Put a handful of shreds of vegetables like kelp, radish, bean sprouts, cucumber, Zhe ergen (Houtturynia), fried soybeans and pasted chili in it. Then roll up the cake and put in some sour and hot sauce. Putting the roll into the mouth, you will find it a little bit hot, crisp, sour, tasty and refreshing.

 

 

As one of the popular snacks in Guiyang, love bean curd is a small piece of bean curd roasted on an oiled iron sheet or wire mesh over chaff fire. When roasted to be brownish, oily and swollen, it is cut open and stuffed with the sauce of hot pepper, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, chopped green scallion, mashed garlic and ginger. When eating it hot, you will find it very spicy, tender, tasty and delectable.

 

The snack night market on Hequn Road is very popular. There you can eat a lot of hygienic Guizhou special local snacks at reasonable prices, like barbecue, terrine noodles, Siwawa and fried field snails, etc. By the way, don't forget to eat the tasty Huaxi Wang beef noodles.