These sausages were hand made by an amazing 95 year-old woman of the the Dong ethnic minority. She is illiterate and speaks only an unusual Dong dialect spoken by only around 20 similarly aged people. Her language has no written form. I can only communicate with her through her daughter who can speak her dialect, but not fluently. The daughter also speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, standard Dong, French and English (all fluently) and has a doctorate in anthropology (which she studied in French).
The mother is ferociously independent and still makes her own food and clothing, grows vegetables and slaughters pigs and chickens at the drop of a hat! And makes sausages. But, on rare visits to the city, refuses to use elevators or escalators - they are the work of the devil!
Like many of the older generations of some ethnic minorities she has a strong taboo against being photographed, so no picture. Sorry.
The sausages are pork with glutinous rice and are quite spicy.
