KFC offers chicken in barrels. The Lin family also have rice in that size.
kaili villages around the Guizhou

We gather to eat. A pot in the middle and low chairs. First time I eat like this. The fella (male) who has his pants rolled up is Li Zhu Ren. The others are .. ..I will tell you later.

It's tofu, chicken and, for sure, chilli. Not seen in the PIC is, of course, liquor.

Ok, what do we have here. In the big wok, it's a geese. We city folks have long forgotten what fresh, non-frozen, geese meat tastes like. And upon realizing killing a geese is not something they can afford to do every day, week, or month, the geese tastes even sweeter. No MSG! 4x We also have, stir fried chilli & pork at 12 & 7 o'clock 3.5x, pig bone soup at 1 & 8 o'clock 4x, bowls of chilli at 2 & 9 1x (very hot) and salted duck egg at 4 & 10 4x.

There are also a few things not usually available elsewhere:

Postcards and picture books of the area, in stores or hawked by older women on the street
Chinese paintings of the local Karst scenery
T-shirts with Chinese characters with different slogans, such as "I have no money" or "Foreigner coming, Foreigner going"
Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts are common, but there is no Hard Rock in Yangshuo
Some places with great names — Red Capitalism Cafe, Outside Inn, Fawlty Towers — do not have T-shirts, unfortunately
Silver and embroidery pieces by local minorities.
Prices for large pieces are high, but some pieces may be worth them.
Small pieces, such as embroided Zhuang minority love balls, are also available
You should also bargain on these, of course.

Other interesting things
On Die Cui Lu about half a block from the river is Nature House selling various rocks. Some are interesting geological specimens; others are carved and/or painted. Fascinating.