Guiyang holds provincial tourism, catering skills contest

Chefs decorate finished dishes at the competition. [Photo/China Daily]

The 2022 Guizhou Provincial Tourism and Catering Skills Competition kicked off on Dec 20 at Huaxi Park – located in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – and winds up on Dec 22.

After previous preliminary rounds, 27 teams from Guizhou's nine cities and prefectures have entered the finals of the competition and are competing on cooking, chef skills and catering service skills.

The competition will pick the top 10 dishes in traditional Guizhou cuisine, new-style Guizhou cuisine, fashionable Guizhou cuisine, street foods and counter meals, respectively. It will also award one first prize, three second prizes and six third prizes for best chefs and catering service staff, respectively.

Experts taste and grade the dishes. [Photo/China Daily]

The competition is expected to help improve the quality of Guizhou's culture and tourism services, showcase the city's specialties in catering, promote the high-quality development of the catering industry and assist Guizhou's publicity of winter tourism.

Since 2020, Guizhou has launched various competitions, issued coupons, promoted catering standards and encouraged its tourism association to develop new local cuisines.

To date, Guizhou has 82 provincial intangible cultural heritage items related to catering. Moreover, it has released 120 organic Guizhou cuisine standards, recognized 25 demonstration shops for organic Guizhou cuisine and 47 shops for customers to have a try of organic Guizhou cuisine.