The producers of "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" say that once they thought long and hard about what they needed and decided to go to an alley in Peking and capture the noisy sounds of the food vendors walking about and hawking their delicacies. They thought it would be interesting to play it for the special guests and have them guess what it was.
華視＜江山萬里情＞製作單位舉例說，原本想得好好的，到北京胡同拍大街小巷叫賣小吃的聲音，在節目中讓來賓，猜是賣何種小吃，一定很有趣。