Yunnan cuisine is good at cooking delicious food, fresh freshwater fish and vegetables. Fresh and sweet, slightly sour and slightly spicy, with a strong heavy oil flavor. Suitable for the tastes of many ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Its unique and colorful geographical features and stereoscopic climate are extremely beneficial to the growth of animals and plants. It has unique raw materials and provides a rich source for cooking.
Yunnan cuisine consists of three famous local cuisines in Kunming. In northeastern Yunnan, the cooking methods and tastes are similar to those of Sichuan cuisine, while in southwestern Yunnan and western Yunnan, there are many ethnic minorities. In addition to the flavor of ethnic minorities, it is also influenced by Muslim cuisine, with the flavor of temple cuisine. In southern Yunnan, it is the birthplace of Yunnan Chinese cuisine.
Yunnan famous dishes include steamed chicken, fish in casserole, beef tendon with pickled peppers, citronella roast chicken, Tengchong rescue, boiled fish with sour bamboo shoots and so on, which are well-known at home and abroad. Yunnan-style snacks, such as crossing the bridge rice noodles, braised rice with cloud legs and beans, steamed cakes, bait pieces, Lijiang rake, butter tea, etc. It is very popular with tourists. To travel to Yunnan, we should eat local flavor from three aspects: region, season and grade.
Dining area
South Yunnan is represented by Tonghai and Mengzi. Mushroom buds in Jianshui, tofu degree in Shiping and rice noodles crossing the bridge in Mengzi are all famous for their exquisiteness. Northeast Yunnan is the only way for Yunnan to enter the Central Plains, with developed trade routes and relatively developed food culture. Tofu brain, even dregs, hot and sour chicken, buckwheat bean jelly, red beans and so on are all famous local specialties.
Zhaotong's bait is the best way to eat bait in Yunnan, and you can only experience it yourself. Casserole fish and hot and sour fish in Dali area of western Yunnan must be eaten. Lijiang Baba and eight bowls in Lijiang should also be tried. Midu's rolling pin, the wind blows the liver, the rescue, the bait frying, all kinds of cold wild vegetables, pine needles and pine pollen, all have local characteristics.
Eating season
Eating mountains in Yunnan is a famous saying summarized by many people who come to Yunnan. May to 10 is the growing period of all kinds of wild mushrooms in Yunnan. Don't miss the opportunity to eat mushroom dishes when you go to Yunnan. Dried fungus, chicken fir, boletus, auricularia auricula and cream fungus are all delicious, and the chicken fir culture has developed to an extremely fine level. In addition, the number of wild vegetables is the best, and tree flowers and seaweed are good green foods.
Eating level
Stir-fried Xuanwei ham with Anning onion, steamed chicken, whole sheep with Yunnan flavor and fried mullet are all famous. Lijiang Sanji water is one of the main dishes for Naxi people to welcome guests. There are 20 plates on the first base, which are filled with various snacks, such as peanuts, preserved fruits and snacks. And set up a table layer by layer, which is a snack for drinking tea and chatting.
There are also 20 plates on the second base, filled with all kinds of cold dishes and so on, which is the prelude to the banquet. There are 24 plates on the third base, filled with all kinds of Naxi-style cooking. After eating water, go out and run for 2 kilometers to help digestion. Medicinal food such as steamed chicken with panax notoginseng, cordyceps sinensis is also famous.
Bahang chicken of Miao and Zhuang nationalities in southern Yunnan, stone soup of Hani nationality (the stone is heated and put into a pot to cook hot food), pickled smoked chicken, pickled smoked fish, roasted dried chicken, citronella grilled fish and chicken bait of Dai nationality in southwestern Yunnan are all hanging dishes that can't be ignored.
Yi mutton soup pot with bait and flat wine (a local roasted corn wine); Wenshan meat, bloody rice noodles, pretzels, hanging hot pot; Pig baits in Weishan; Tofu burning in old areas, Mengzi, Jianshui and Shiping areas; Kunming folk Xuanwei ham and bean stew rice and fried green corn are also cheap and delicious delicacies.
Special tea and wine
Yunnan famous tea: Sancha tea and Tuocha tea in Dali, fried tea in western Yunnan and Shilixiang tea in Chenggong. Yunnan folk wine: Dai rice wine, Kunming rose wine and saffron wine are brewed with saffron as the main raw material through special techniques, which have curative effects in all aspects of health care and beauty. The price in Kunming is a bottle of 99 yuan RMB.