China News Service, Guiyang, January 21, Title: Taiwan Youth Creates Cross-Strait Fusion Cuisine
Author Zhou Yanling Pu Wensi
When Taiwanese cuisine meets Guizhou cuisine, what kind of taste will they create?
Qiu Zhiliang, a Taiwanese chef who is committed to integrating cross-strait cuisine, is combining Taiwanese flavors with Guizhou ingredients and Guizhou tastes to create spicy, spicy and fragrant fusion creative dishes.
The picture shows Qiu Zhiliang’s new restaurant in Taiqing.
Photo by Zhou Yanling
On January 21, Qiu Zhiliang's "Baodao Grandma" Taiwan private cuisine restaurant opened in Guiyang was transformed into "Liangshu Youqian" fusion creative cuisine restaurant and began its trial operation.
"The area of the new store is 200 square meters larger than the original one, with a better location and a richer menu." Qiu Zhiliang said that traditional Taiwanese food is relatively light and sweet, while Guizhou people like to eat hot and sour food, so the restaurant has introduced Taiwanese fusion creativity The dish reduces the sweetness and appropriately incorporates the hot and sour elements.
Taiwanese hot and sour soup, spicy duck blood sausage tofu pot, spicy shrimps, Taiwanese stir-fried shansu, Taiwanese braised pork with dried bamboo shoots, ancient five-flavored fish, Hsinchu fried rice noodles...Qiu Zhiliang's new restaurant is not only suitable for Guizhou There are fusion creative dishes that suit your taste, as well as many traditional Taiwanese dishes.
"I also want to fuse Taiwanese ingredients with Guizhou's taste. For example, the tofu fish is made into spicy tofu fish, but it is made with sea fish, so it has a different taste." Qiu Zhiliang said that he is also trying to use Guizhou's Zheer root. Combine it with Taiwanese tastes to create new dishes that are acceptable to the public.
On January 21, spicy shrimps prepared by Qiu Zhiliang’s new restaurant in Taiqing.
Photo by Zhou Yanling
In Qiu Zhiliang’s view, only through integrated development will the road become wider and wider.
2024 is Qiu Zhiliang's 14th year in Guiyang. At first, he and his family were engaged in the clothing trade. Because his mother was good at cooking, he and his mother opened the "Baodao Grandma" restaurant 7 years ago. Because the dishes are unique and authentic, Not only has it gained a group of "foodie" fans, it has also become a "canteen" for Taiwanese youth working hard in the local area.
Due to development needs, Qiu Zhiliang began to select a location to open a new store in 2023, and finally he determined the location of the new store in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang City.
"When I first came to Guiyang, it was still a piece of loess. Now it is one of the busiest areas in Guiyang. I moved here from a small shop in the old city and followed the progress and development of Guiyang."
The picture shows a platter of Taiwanese sausages made from Guizhou Leishan Black Pig and Alishan Salted Pork.
Photo by Zhou Yanling
In order to open the new store smoothly, Qiu Zhiliang specially hired Taiwanese celebrity chef Qiu Yiwan as the restaurant's chef to develop creative fusion dishes from Taiwan and Guizhou.
In addition, he hired the head chef of the store from Taiwan, hoping to let more people taste the "Taiwanese taste."
In addition to opening restaurants, Qiu Zhiliang also actively promotes Guizhou's "mountain products".
Currently, he is combining Guizhou's original black-haired pigs with Taiwanese craftsmanship to make Taiwanese sausages and Alishan salted pork, promoting the production of "Guizhou products".
Having started his own business in the mainland for more than ten years, Qiu Zhiliang has not only witnessed the development of the mainland, but also enjoyed the convenience of life and support for entrepreneurship brought by many policies that benefit Taiwan.
In 2022, he received Guizhou's first business license for individual industrial and commercial households from Taiwan residents. "With it, I can open branches so that more people can eat Taiwanese food."
Qiu Zhiliang said that the mainland's implementation of equal treatment for Taiwan compatriots will not only bring development opportunities to Taiwanese youth, but also allow Taiwanese youth to better integrate into the mainland and take root.
Today, Qiu Zhiliang has settled his family in Guiyang, and his two children are also studying in Guiyang.
"People will unconsciously find places similar to their hometown to stay. The mountain city of Guiyang is very similar to my hometown of Miaoli, Taiwan, and it often reminds me of my childhood memories."
From "Treasure Island Grandma" to "Good Uncle Has Guizhou", from Taiwan private cuisine to Guizhou-Taiwan fusion creative cuisine, Qiu Zhiliang hopes to build a communication bridge between Taiwan and Guizhou through food.
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