Guizhou cuisine appetizers and street food in Guizhou cuisine: ' (Guiyang spring roll), love tofu (baked tofu stuffed with chili) and ' noodles (egg noodles with chili oil, pig's intestine and blood). Guizhou cuisine Guizhou cuisine, or Qian cuisine, consists of cooking traditions and dishes from Guizhou Province in southwestern China. Guizhou cuisine shares many features with Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine, especially in bringing the sensation of spiciness and pungency. What makes Guizhou cuisine unique is the emphasis of a mixed sour-and-spicy taste, as compared to the numbing-and-hot sensation () featured in Sichuan cuisine and the dry-hot taste () featured in
Jerk (cooking) Amerindians in the Caribbean. Nowadays, the smoky taste of the meat is achieved using various alternative cooking methods, including the use of modern wood burning ovens. The meat is normally, but not limited to, chicken or pork, and the main ingredients of the spicy jerk marinade sauce are allspice and Scotch bonnet peppers. Jerk cooking is popular in Caribbean/West Indian communities throughout North America and Western Europe. The word "jerk" is said to come from "charqui", a Spanish term of Quechua origin for jerked or dried meat, which eventually became the word "jerky" in English. "Jerk" is also derived from