On the 1st of March, I met up with my Dad in Guangzhou to start on our search for our roots. It is not much of a search honestly, my Dad was the last of his 6 siblings to head back to the ancestral village and we had relatives that flew in from Hongkong to guide us along on our trip.
On this one week trip, we headed to Panyu - a place where many people believed that Guangzhou originated and grew from and Dongguan, famous for being the 'factory' of China. Panyu was easily accessible from a 2hr bus ride from the Guangzhou airport. A 2nd-3rd tier city, it was your typical run of the mill town littered with malls and shops.
We had streetside Beef Tripe ..
Spotted some unusual looking smelly doufu that we passed on. Luckily, we were told later that many of the street vendors felt that their 'smelly' doufu was not smelly enough so they used sewage water to make it smellier. Buyer Beware !
Found the best ... BEST sesame paste that we ever had. It was thick, slightly sweetened. It did not have the taste or consistency of the starch powder that people normally add to the sesame paste. We deliberately stayed an extra morning in Panyu to have it again. Tried all four, sesame, almond, walnut and peanut. But honestly, the sesame was the best, even though the rest ain't that bad.
Somehow the dessert in Panyu was good or even somewhat legendary, even for the ginger egg custard (姜汁撞奶) that our relatives brought us to, we spotted on the walls of Hongkong celebrities, cooking chefs (肥妈) and food critics trying it out.
Don't take my word for it, even the critics on Dianping are praising it endlessly.
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I can't really remember the shop name for the ginger egg custard. But here is the friendly Dianping to guide you along if you're ever in the area. Link to Old, Famous Desserts in Panyu
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