Here follows a random selection of dishes found in various Liuzhou restaurants.

Bottom - Stewed Chestnuts with Cherries

Top - Stewed Pig's Knuckle

Celery and Cashews

Steamed Chicken

Squid with Picked Chillies

Shredded Donkey with Chillies

Thinly sliced beef, sliced lungs, boiled eggs and a random foot, The beef and lungs were good. The chilli sauce on the side was killer!

Xinjiang Mixed Noodles

Lamb Soup with Vermicelli Noodles and Torn Arab Style Bread - Yang Rou Pao Mo - served with pickled garlic and harissa.

A speciality of Xi'an- home of the Terracotta Warriors

Monk's Fruit and Pear Soup

Eight Treasure Noodles

Supposedly, there are eight ingredients other than the basic noodles in soup. These vary from restaurant to restaurant. This one included pig's liver, pig's stomach' pig's lungs, quail eggs, meatballs, fish balls, squid and something else unidentifiable. Treasure indeed.

Ding Ding Noodles

“Through the Oil" Noodles with Soy Sauce and Sesame Oil

Shui Zhu Yu Pian - Spicy Sichuan Style Fish Stew

Pig's Lung and Fig Soup

Hunan Style Goose Intestines

Grilled Scallops with Garlic and Vermicelli

Hot and Sour Soup

(In Chinese it is Sour and Hot Soup! And it was both. Lovely.)

Cold Hand Torn Chicken

Steamed chicken torn into slivers and dressed with a sesame seeds, green and red chillis, garlic, peanuts and sesame oil. Delicious!

Barbecued Beef

Bamboo

Chayote Shoots

Cantonese Style "Sichuan" Roast Ostrich

Spicy Rabbit

Smooth, slippery Xi Shi tofu.

Xi Shi was one of the four legendary beauties of Chinese history and she liked this dish. Maybe! Or maybe the tofu is equally beautiful.

What I need right now is four Chinese beauties!

A Bowl of Rice

Thai Flavour Crispy Oyster

Wonderful "Paper Bag Fish"

A taste of heaven!

Bitter Melon and Preserved Egg Soup

Roast Chicken and Chives Sprayed with Oil

Roast Fish

Under that pile of bean sprouts lurks a whole roasted carp.

Hunan Style Smoked Bacon

Chicken Giblet Fried Noodles

Braised Tilapia

Yulin Style Beef Viscera and Tendons - Bits of the cow you would rather not think about stir fried with pickled chillies, bamboo and peas.

Yulin is another city in Guangxi.

Roast Goose

Yunnan Wild Mushroom Soup

Cold Dressed Stewed Duck's Intestines

Cold Dressed Stewed Jellyfish

Muslim Style Lamb with Leeks

Tiger Skin Chillies

Frog with "Towel Gourd"

San Xian Tang

"Three Flavour Soup" containing Squid, Pork, Pig's Liver, Tofu, Lettuce and Bean Thread Noodles. The three flavours are seafood, meat and vegetable.

"Korean" Spicy Octopus

Yesterday, I went to a new Korean Restaurant here in Liuzhou. The food was tasty, but not what I call spicy.

Crayfish. Very little meat but tasty.

Perfection! Hong Kong style Egg Custard Tart from Cherries Bakery in Liuzhou

Turtle Soup

Xinjiang Beef

Sweet Bean Paste Steamed Buns

Bone Marrow and Radish Soup

Grilled Mussels

Grilled Oysters

Lanzhou La Mian - North-west China Handmade Noodles.

Spicy Lamb in Arab Style Bread

Spicy Lamb in Arab Style Bread

Stir Fried Frog with Pickled Chillies

"Big Plate Chicken" from Xinjiang in China's far west.

Delicious free range chicken and potato in a spicy sauce with chillies, Sichuan pepper, ginger, garlic, star anise, cloves, broad beans, caoguo (false cardamom), tomato, red and green chillies - served on hand made noodles which are cut directly from a lump of dough into the boiling water (known as knife cut noodles.)

Two of us tried to eat this (and we were hungry), but could only manage half. The other half is in the fridge for tomorrow's lunch. They weren't joking when they called it Big Plate Chicken (although this is the small version).

Clam and Mustard Greens Soup

Ma La Fish

Ma means numb - from Sichuan Peppercorns
La means hot - from chillies
Fish means fish!

West Lake Thick Beef Soup - Beef, Tofu, Coriander, Spring Onion, Egg white, thickened by starch.

Yu Xiang Rou Si 鱼香肉丝

"Fish Fragrant Pork"

Doesn't taste of fish! It just means that the dish uses flavourings more usually used with fish.

Pork slivers, Wood Ear Fungus, Carrot, Green and Red Chilli Peppers, Sichuan peppercorns, Vinegar, Chilli Oil, Garlic and Ginger.

Stir Fried Peanut Sprouts with Pork

Spicy Weever Fish Hotpot (very hot!)

Dry Spicy Chicken Hotpot

Egg, Pork and Seaweed Soup

Sweet and Sour Fish