With its predilection for dog meat and chillies, Guizhou's cuisine comes under the Western Chinese cooking umbrella, and the capital has some good places to eat local food. Nondescript restaurants on Zhonghua Zhong Lu and intersecting streets all serve staples such as hot-spiced chicken, pork, vegetables and dumplings through the day, with snack stalls along Heqing Lu running from 6pm to 4am. One speciality are thin crêpes , which you stuff from a selection of pickled and fresh vegetables to resemble an uncooked spring roll, with the best places just outside Qiangling Shan Park. Hotpots are a Guizhou institution offered everywhere, consisting of a table centred round a bubbling pot of slightly sour, spicy stock, in which you cook your own food after buying individual plates of vegetables, meat or fish - the stock is drunk as a soup at the end of the meal. Dog is a winter dish, usually stir-fried with noodles, soya-braised or part of a hotpot - the area east of the train station along Shazhong Bei Lu has the best. Good tea houses include Jiaxiu Lou, and upstairs at the renovated Taoist temple on Zhonghua Lu.