Zhaotong is an important gateway for Yunnan Province to Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, an important channel for Central Plains culture to enter Yunnan, and one of the three cradles of Yunnan culture (Dali, Zhaotong and Kunming). South Silk Road? Rush is called. Lock the key in the south and the throat in the west? Known as. The following are Zhaotong specialties brought by Travel Network for your reference.

1, Zhaotong sauce

It was put in the first introduction because it almost became the symbol of Zhaotong, Yunnan. Come to Zhaotong, you haven't even eaten Zhaotong sauce, which means you are too? Food? Yes Eating baked potatoes in Zhaotong is an essential seasoning ~

2. Zhaotong Apple

Because of its low latitude and high altitude, it is called? The apple closest to the sun? .

The existence of Zhaotong apples strongly proves that there are not only tropical fruits, but also temperate fruits in Yunnan, and the quality is absolutely not lost to other places in the mainland! Do not believe, come and eat! Refuse to accept, to argue!

3. Zhaotong Gastrodia elata

The World Origin of Gastrodia elata

Zhaotong has a place called Yiliang, and Yiliang has a place called Xiaocaoba, which is the origin of gastrodia elata in the world.

How good is Xiaocaoba Gastrodia elata? The data can speak: the content of gastrodin in gastrodia elata in Xiaocaoba, Yiliang ranks first in the country!

According to the determination of gastrodin content in Gastrodia elata by Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the result is 1. 13%, which is obviously higher than that in other areas, 2. 1 times that in Hanzhong, Shaanxi and 4 times that in Enshi, Hubei.

For Gastrodia elata, Zhaotong people have developed many ways to eat it: stew chicken, stew meat, cook hot pot, stir-fry and steam.

4. Dictyophora Zhaotong

Seeing that many mainland friends were ecstatic, ecstatic and ecstatic when they tasted bamboo sun at high-end banquets, Yunnan friends, especially Zhaotong friends, expressed sympathy?

In Zhaotong, this stuff is everywhere, the key is that the price is very cheap ~ Zhaotong people's authentic practice is to cook bacon and black-bone chicken together. That's not enough. For the dry goods sold in the market, Zhaotong friends living in the countryside are not rare to eat. They want to eat, pick it now!

Fresh dictyophora, the taste is absolutely different from the dried dictyophora sold in the market! Want to eat? It's planned: Come to Zhaotong Farmhouse in May and June when Zhusun is listed every year!

5. Zhaotong oil cake

If you want to introduce me, I'd like to ask first, are our oil cakes in Zhaotong the same as those in mainland China? Oil cake? Are two different things. This is an oil cake from the mainland:

This is Zhaotong's oil cake:

After reading the picture, parents can see the difference! Yougao is a more authentic local breakfast in Zhaotong than rice noodles ~

Zhaotong fried cake has a special artifact? L-shaped flat spoon with straight handle;

First pass a layer of rice flour, fill it with mashed potatoes, then pour a layer of rice flour and put it in the oil pan. The rice flour was slightly burnt, and when the hand shook, the oil cake left the spoon and put it in the pot. When it is golden on both sides, you can eat it.

How to eat: The authentic way to eat the oil cake is to quickly put the oil cake just out of the pot into the thin bean powder, do you hear? Sting? Tell me, eat while it's hot. The dough of the oil cake is still crisp, but the potatoes inside are soft.

How to eat: cakes made of rice with bait are also very popular in Zhaotong ~

Step 6 cook potatoes

At present, this has gone out of Zhaotong, spread to all parts of Yunnan and radiated to neighboring provinces. There is no need to introduce too much. I hope it can go to the whole country, out of Asia and onto the world stage ~

Potatoes are called potatoes in Yunnan, and baked potatoes are baked potatoes. It is said that potatoes have high nutritional value, which is the most grounded way to eat potatoes in China ~ Burn a potato in cold weather, spread Zhaotong sauce, or add some Chili noodles, bite by bite, and suddenly feel so warm?

7. Ba Huang

The materials are simple: glutinous rice, glutinous rice, Qiaojia brown sugar (brown sugar made from sugarcane in Qiaojia County, Zhaotong), plus local flower leaves in Yunnan.

The production is complicated: firstly, glutinous rice and glutinous rice are cooked in a traditional wooden steamer until they are 70-80% mature, and then made into rice slurry, which is poured into a big wooden basin and mixed with Qiaojia brown sugar. Whether Ba Huang is delicious or not depends on this crucial step. After several times of stirring, the water in the rice slurry was completely absorbed by the rice balls. Then, wrap the cooked flower leaves and steam them. After a long 20 hours, Ba Huang is out of the pot, and the fragrance is emitted through the leaves of Zongzi.

Appearance: the color is yellow and moist, and it is crystal-like, and the taste is fragrant and soft.

How to eat: slice and steam, stir-fry or bake.

8. Pork belly

Keywords: cute, cute

Another classic waxy food in Zhaotong, Yunnan, is popular in Shuifu County, Yanjin County and Weixin County.

The appearance is super cute, and the freshly steamed pork chops are white and shiny, like pigs, hence the name.

In the old society, it was eaten every year when transplanting rice seedlings, which meant a good harvest for both grain and animal husbandry.

Pig gizzards are divided into salty stuffing and sweet stuffing.

The salty stuffing takes fresh pork, winter bamboo shoots, chives, monosodium glutamate and refined salt as raw materials;

The sweet stuffing is made of white sugar, residual oil, orange red, sweet-scented osmanthus sugar or rose sugar, sesame and so on.

However, Zhaotong people prefer salty.

9. Yanjin gouache

Gouache, also known as sweet potato powder: Gouache, also known as sweet potato powder: Yanjin, is a county town in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, also known as Yanjing Town. Gouache, handmade, will be a fast food after making. You can add seasoning after filtering the boiling water a little. After the production was successful, strip-shaped seeds appeared, the size of which was like Guilin rice noodles.

The gouache mentioned here is not a pigment for painting, but a classic food that looks like rice noodles in Yanjin County, Zhaotong. There is a saying in the gold actor: three days without powder is better than one day.

The raw material of gouache is sweet potato powder, and then it passes through? Cooked? Dry powder strips are made by manual process. Speaking of this, parents all know that this is the Yunnan version of vermicelli ~ Yes, in Yunnan, vermicelli can also be eaten in such varieties: Yanjin gouache includes stewed chicken gouache, ribs gouache, beef gouache, spicy gouache and clear soup gouache, depending on the soup. My mouth is watering already.

10, Daguan Matang

Keywords: sweet and crisp

There is a Shoushan Township in Daguan County, Zhaotong. Sesame candy is delicious.

Sesame candy is made of selected glutinous rice, sesame seeds and sugar as the main raw materials, with osmanthus flowers, kumquat cakes and other ingredients. It tastes crisp and sweet and has a long aftertaste.

1 1, aspongopus

Keywords: insect food

The internationally popular high-protein insect food is also found in Suijiang, Zhaotong.

Aspongopus is a specialty of Suijiang County, whose scientific name is stinkbug sting, and the locals call it spanking. It is as big as a nail, good at flying with compound wings, clumsy and at the mercy of others after landing, and it can make people thirsty to drink. Did Suijiang people move to eat aspongopus? Patents? . You see, it's easy to find aspongopus by turning over a stone in the sand beside the Jinsha River:

In fact, several surrounding counties have this Dongdong, but it may be due to water and soil. Not as delicious as Suijiang. Well, Suijiang's friends have the most say.

Sanjiao Tangyuan 12

Keywords: triangle dumplings

Tangyuan is round, but it is an exception in Zhenxiong County, Zhaotong, Yunnan. In fact, whether jiaozi is made into a triangle or an ordinary circle, it must be endowed with some beautiful meaning.

Zhenxiong is mountainous, and most people who have lived here for generations rely on mountains for food. In order to get good weather and rich products in mountainous areas, they often make triangular jiaozi as a sacrifice to mountain gods according to the shape of mountains during the Spring Festival. With the movement of the stars, triangular dumplings have also become a traditional snack in Zhenxiong.

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