''Tuotuorou'' () is a dish of the Yi people of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and

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provinces of

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. It is often served to guests in Yi households, along with buckwheat pancakes (known as ''mgefu'' or ''mgamo''),

garlic Garlic (''Allium sativum'') is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus ''Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, Allium fistulosum, Welsh onion and Allium chinense, Chinese onion. It is native to South A ...

soup and unpeeled boiled

potatoes The potato is a starchy food, a tuber of the plant ''Solanum tuberosum'' and is a root vegetable native to the Americas. The plant is a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Wild potato species can be found from the southern United ...

. It consists of tender chunks of pork taken from young pigs of less than in weight. This is seasoned with local

herbs In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal ...

. These are served in traditional Yi wooden dishes, and eaten with long-handled spoons instead of

chopsticks Chopsticks ( or ; Pinyin: ''kuaizi'' or ''zhu'') are shaped pairs of equal-length sticks of China, Chinese origin that have been used as Kitchen utensil, kitchen and List of eating utensils, eating utensils in most of East Asia, East and Southe ...

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* ''China Quarterly'', "Ethnic Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Identity: A Case Study Among the Liangshan Yi (Nuosu) in China", on p. 421 of article by Thomas Heberer

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