Feature: Thai chef finds taste of home in China's sour soup

NAMPA / Xinhua

2026-03-14

GUIYANG, March 14 (Xinhua) -- A bowl of sour and spicy fish soup bursting with flavor on the tongue, paired with colorful glutinous rice, made Thai chef Chumpol Jangprai feel right at home during his visit to southwest China's Guizhou Province. At Lianghuanzhai, a sour soup-themed restaurant in Kaili City in the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou, Chumpol learned the craft of making sour soup fish from Wu Duqin, an in......

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