Liuzhou Food revisited

Thankyou for the beuatiful and mouth-watering pictures! Having lived in Guangzhou I am hard to offend, but I think I would pass on the intestines. The duck jaws look delicious! I know that Ya is duck - does Xiaba simply mean "jaws", or does it reveal anyting about cooking method, spices or the like? Again, thankyou for an enjoyable blog!

Xiaba (下巴）means 'lower jaw'.

Thank you for your kind comments

Hello Louzhou. I'm a Louzhouer but not living in louzhou. One year ago I have argued with you about the sense of presenting a "Guancai" as a gift. Do you remenber that? It made me sad that your blog was blocked for a long period. I'm really happy when I finded I can open the web again (your site is always in my "my favorites"). I really love your essays. They are insightful and humourous. These pictures make me feel that I am starving.

One thing, regarding "Qicun", you explained it as "something". You don't know it or you are not willing to tell it? If it is the first, I will tell you :-)

Go on! Tell us then!

I was told that "Qicun" is rectum. That is the final portion of the intestine.

Commonly pigs'.

Thanks! I've eaten worse.

Should point out that the literal translation of "Qicun" is "seven inches"! And they say size doesn't matter?

Can this story really be true?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7003032.ece

It seems hugely unlikely given that dog meat is the staple meat in parts of Guangxi and Guizhou. Besides, I would have thought the plight of dogs in China is pretty insignificant relative the (hundreds of) millions of pigs spending their entire lives in tiny sties next to outdoor toilets. It would be tragic if this entirely reasonable source of meat were banned presumably just to imply progress to a certain type of Western audience or, worse still, those dreadful urban Chinese who live their lives like some horrible Parisian cliché carrying around their ratty little dogs bedecked in absurd dog clothes.

Or is it just one of those draft laws put before the People's Congress to make a point rather than because it has any hope of becoming law? Hopefully. I may have to eat one of the vicious bull terriers from my local London park in protest, but I'm worried I may find its stomach full of nappy left over from its last meal.