Being a city that imports and creates delicious food, Guiyang has transformed other regional cuisines into its own alternative way to cook and eat though in fact the flavor tastes similar with Chuan and Xiang cuisines. Of the characteristics of Guiyang’s restaurants, a number of them occupy every corner through the city, as a popular joke said by locals: Don’t be worry about getting lost in Guiyang at least you can eat a meal whenever and wherever you want. The night markets in several important roads stay up until very late for continuing to offer snacks or dim sums. There are a few of flavorful dishes on the markets: BBQ, porcelain pot mung bean noodle, boiling-water noodle, gravy food, quick-fried crawfish, spirals and fresh water crabs, as well as some desserts such as
eight delicacies rice and sweet dumplings, just to name a few. Sour soup fish in Guizhou gaining a huge reputation outside Guizhou province win gourmets’ appetite better than the producer.
Famous for the Miao mountain sour soup fish, Fengxiyanglang braised chicken and dry pot chicken, and all the food-offering places are food stalls. Among these, Laokaili Sour Soup Fish has the best-known fame above other stalls of the same level in the Caijiajie Food Street. The price turns out to be reasonable very well if the fish is chosen to be carp (other choices prove more expensive but worthy of trying too). Further recommendation includes potato rice and Baogu rice.
Dingguancheng Restaurant is near the airport where the transportation is no longer handy at all though the house is crowded in every part which makes you long for jumping in line. But this partly unveils the fact that how much popular this place is. The best of the stream of sour soup fishes has to be yellow fish-based matter which is considered decent compared with other varieties. With the exquisite dealing with sour soup of the Miao nationality, however much the soup you drink, the teeth feel no uncomfortable, on the contrary it helps your oral health more or less. Besides the food here, what is more worth mentioning is that all the servants are accommodating and acknowledged girls in the cloth of the Miao who are able to speak the local language with no hardness.