A bamboo basket is heaped with sticky rice in five colours, red, yellow, purple, white and black, a bowl beside it holds oil tea, a bowl of rice noodles and dishes of pickles stand nearby, and a hand scoops up some rice.
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Rice noodles and oil tea
Introduction
The regional cooking of Guangxi, known for rice noodles, glutinous rice and oil tea.
Guangxi cuisine is the regional cooking of Guangxi, where the Zhuang, Han, Yao, Dong and other peoples live. Rice noodles are an everyday staple across Guangxi. The Zhuang dye glutinous rice five colours with plant juices for the Third Day of the Third Month, and five-colour rice is also offered at the Cattle Soul Festival. Favourite traditional foods of the Dong include glutinous rice, oil tea, pickled sour foods and fish; in many places oil tea is eaten at breakfast, and there is a sour feast. Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County holds an oil-tea festival.