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Manzu is good at
barbecue in cooking and like to eat soybean paste, wild vegetables
and various fungi. They particularly like to eat pork boiled
in plain water, which is called ＾ white zhurou￣. Roast whole
sheep are often eaten at grand feast, but they don¨t eat dog
meat and everything made of dogs is forbidden to use, for Manzu¨s
ancestor is said to have been saved by a dog, so they have special
affection for dogs. Wheat flour and rice is their main food
and it is cooked in various ways, and the following food are
their representative staples:
Xiaoroufan: also called ＾yangzifan￣, is cooked in a covered
vessel with little pieces of fried pork and sorghum.
Longhudou: cooked in a covered vessel with rice, millet and
xiaodou .
Husked Sorghum Shuifan: first boil the husked sorghum in water,
after it is done dredge it up from the water and put it into
cold water. This kind of food is often eaten in summer.
Bobo: a necessary oblation at sacrificial rites, still the best
food for Manzu to use in treating guests. It is cooked in different
ways with the season. Doumian bobo is made in spring of glutinous
millet covered with a layer of fried soybean flour, which is
in the colour of golden yellow, sticky and savory. Suye bobo
is eaten in summer, which is made of sticky sorghum flour and
xiaodou covered with suye. Suye is grown by farmers with delicate
fragrance. Niangao bobo is also made of glutinous millet with
xiaodou mud in it, which is eaten with sugar and sometimes fried
in oil.
People of Manzu are used to eating plain meat, xuechang, pork
and sour cabbage with starch noodles. At festival, they like
to eat Jiaozi and Shouparou is definitely eaten on the eve of
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