The location of the photos in this posting don't line up correctly with the text and I couldn't figure out how to adjust it while in the internet cafe with limited time, so this will be a test of your reasoning abilities. Click on any photo to enlarge it.
I would guess that every locality has some favorite food or snack. The national soup "Pho" in Vietnam is a good example. Often these take the form of "midnight snacks", especially in Asia. I have had incredible fried fish (herring?) on a stick in Nanjing after midnight at a little hole-in-the-wall stand offering only that snack barbequed on the spot.
In this case, we enjoyed roast lamb on a stick in Shenzhen after midnight at an outside barbeque stand. 
We washed it down with large bottles of beer, of course.
In Guilin, the local midnight snack was a wonderful metal bowl of al dente noodles coated in oil and spices supplemented with meat bits. 
This is called Mi Fun.
Here is the cooking facility.
In the daytime in Guilin, similar establishments offer similar bowls of noodles -- in this case in a soup of all kinds of floating meat. These stands offer only about 4 different but soup-based items. You order what you want at the front stand and they hand you a little token to take to the kitchen window where you trade it for the bowl of what you ordered. This is Mi Fun with soup. As you can see, we always enjoy the local beer with these snacks.
Here is the place in Guilin and this is where you order
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This is the line to pick up the mi fun, and this is Hien enjoying it:
All of the metal bowls in these establishments in Guilin get the bowls daily from a central source that washes them, sterilizes them, and stamps them with a blue marker so you can tell if they have been rewashed locally.
In the Dongwan region north of Shenzhen, we enjoyed a Chu-Chou snack of their specialized Juk, or rice soup. Their version is much richer with a variety of meats thrown in. In this case we were serenaded by a couple of local girls singing Chu-Chou songs.
Please excuse the mis-spelling of these Chinese names since I am phonetically translating them from my wife's pronunciation.
