Sour Fish Soup

Sour Fish Soup [Photo provided to guiyang.gov.cn]

Sour Fish Soup, a dish unique to the Miao ethnic group, is sour and spicy. Often, it is prepared in a pan with tomato as well as pickled chili pepper (originating from Yunnan and Guizhou), local Chinese herbes, and finally the fish. The sour soup is made from boiled rice water. The best sour soup should be white. As the white soup is sour and fragrant yet slightly less mellow, the red soup made with tomatoes improves the final taste, and is even more special in flavor with the addition of some bean sprouts, bamboo shoots and green onions.

Originally, the soup was made of rice liquor and then became hot rice soup through natural fermentation.The microflora in the sour soup, coming from the microbial fermentation process, has been proved to be good for health.