We have an identity crisis at The Yangshuo Bike Festival.
Yangshuo Bike Festival
It started out being about bikes, but increasingly the bikes are about getting us in amidst the food…the Guilin Mifen aka the worlds best noodles. These are found as the name suggests in Guilin and its surrounds: Yangshuo!
Chinese farmers know where the best noodles are at – usually down a little pathway, through a pomelo orchard, past a beer-fish pond, and then into a tiny village market for the freshest, most piquant, clear broth- full-umami noodles you’ll ever taste.
Mifen translates to rice noodles – which in Yangshuo and Guilin are made fresh daily.
Its like the Pho from neighbouring northern Vietnam but with a pork bone stock, noodles that are al-dente and shaved roasted pork – and then garnished with pickled vegetables, roasted peanuts, and chilli paste and chilli flakes and then self souped-up from a self service soup-samovar to your own liquid liking.
If you want to read about Yangshuo Cuisine (and the festival) from a real foodie – check out Cycling Yangshuo, Guilin and Longji by Lillian Chou in the very prestigious Travel and Leisure South East Asia magazine. Lillian describes the very foodie nature of last years festival in a sumptuous and mouth watering way for which we are grateful.
http://www.travelandleisureasia.com/features/2989849/cycling_in_yangshuo_longji_and_guilin.html
Its now just seven weeks to the Yangshuo Bike Festival May 24-26 and as you can see from the above sketch we are ahead of the game with the all important T-shirt.
This year we are sticking with food as a major part of the festivities.
Its also a musical ride.
If you’ve got a play-list you think is worthy of the stunning landscapes we’ll be riding through, bring it along.
Unusual genres are welcome.
A limited number of DJ slots will be allocated. if you think you are DJ material drop us a note.
Important dates to note down are :
21st – 24th May – Pre Festival Ride from Guilin to Yangshuo via Daxu and Xing Ping.
24th – 26th May – Yangshuo Bike Festival (easy riding and campy disco de wheels)
Train tickets to Yangshuo and Guilin are online.
Book sooner rather than later on www.trip.com/trains.
Even if you’re not quite committed book your train tickets. They have an excellent and one click refund button through trip.com
Enjoy these Mifen photos until you get to taste the real thing in seven weeks.
Book with me: bruce@bikeaways.com
Guilin mifen is the signature breakfast of Guangxi, if not the signature dish.
