"柳州"! The name of the place caught my attention! Lately, I have been translating the poems and essays of Liu Zongyuan into English. Liu Zongyuan was a Tang Dynasty poet and one of the "Eight Great Prose Masters of Tang and Song". Liuzhou was where he died. I watched your last episode and saw that you already tried the famous "Liuzhou river snail rice noodles". That was one of Liu Zongyuan's favorite food when he was in Liuzhou. *Are you planning to try frog meat?* According the Liu Zongyuan, the frog meat in Liuzhou was superb, and he even recommended that to Han Yu, another Tang Dynasty poet and the foremost of the "Eight Great Prose Masters of Tang and Song". *Whatever you plan to do, hope you enjoy your food tours in Liuzhou!*
Thanks for the support! But Liu zongyuan 柳宗元 actually has nothing to do with the rice noodle dish....he did promote another Liuzhou industry: coffin...