🍽️ Xiangzhou Beef Offal

Spicy beef offal with noodles.

The Xiangzhou Beef Offal is a late-night specialty of Xiangzhou county in Laibin, central Guangxi, known for sour-spicy offal with rice noodles. Beef tripe, intestine, heart and omasum are cleaned, sliced and simmered with sour bamboo shoot, chili and tomato in a tangy broth, poured over rice noodles. The offal is crisp and chewy, the broth sour-spicy and more savory the longer it cooks, the noodles slippery and soup-soaked. Xiangzhou, in central Guangxi, has a strong offal-eating culture, and night-market stalls buzz after dark. Locals gather over a pot of offal noodles with beer as a standard night out. Part of Guangxi's beef-offal family alongside Yulin brisket and Nanning offal, it emphasizes sour-spicy crispness. Visitors find this bracing bowl at Xiangzhou night markets, tasting the smoke of central Guangxi's late-night food.