What's delicious in Yunnan?

Yunnan, located in the southwest border, is a magical land. Yunnan is definitely the most unique place for food culture. Its unique climate, numerous ethnic minorities, different tastes and sweet and sour dishes are all characteristics. What's delicious in Yunnan?

Compared with Sichuan cuisine and Cantonese cuisine, Yunnan cuisine is characterized by freshness. The cooking methods of Yunnan cuisine are rough, not exquisite, and not so varied. But why do people who have tasted Yunnan cuisine never forget it? The essence of Yunnan cuisine is local ingredients, and the most basic feature is freshness, not just bright, but natural freshness without any seasoning. Yunnan ingredients should have the most primitive taste, while Yunnan cuisine is more light, pure and original. So it is difficult for Yunnan people in other places to eat authentic hometown dishes, because those ingredients are not available outside Yunnan, such as wild mushrooms, Dai spices, wild vegetables and so on.

Yunnan steamed chicken

China people like to eat chicken very much, and there are many ways to eat it in different places, such as Guangdong brine chicken, Sichuan style chicken, Changshu beggar chicken, Dezhou braised chicken ... but the most unique way to eat it is Yunnan steamed chicken, and Yunnan Jianshui steamed chicken is the most authentic and delicious.

Steamed fish

Besides steamed chicken, there are steamed fish. Bian Xiao tasted this delicious food in Zhaojiagou near Goddess Bay in Lugu Lake. This steamer is different from Jianshui's. This is a stone pot. Clean the live fish, add onion, ginger, garlic and other auxiliary materials and water, cover the straw hat, and the steam will be all on fire. The temperature is as high as 180 degrees. After 3 minutes, the steam can be turned off, and some ingredients such as tofu can be put in the middle.

The lightness, purity and emphasis on the original flavor of Yunnan cuisine are also reflected in various steamed dishes, and there are special steamed restaurants everywhere in the streets and alleys of Kunming.

Crossing the bridge rice noodles is the biggest sign of Yunnan cuisine.

Why is crossing the bridge rice noodles the biggest sign in Yunnan? Because many people have never been to Yunnan, but they have all eaten cross-bridge rice noodles. Crossing the bridge rice noodles is actually just a kind of Yunnan rice noodles. There are at least 12 ways to eat rice noodles in Yunnan 16 places.

Crossing the bridge rice noodles is a unique snack in southern Yunnan, Yunnan, which originated in Mengzi. It consists of rice noodles, soup, seasoning, pork tenderloin slices, chicken breast slices, mullet slices, pork tenderloin slices, steamed squid slices, and auxiliary materials such as pea tip, leek, coriander, shredded onion, shredded grass, shredded ginger and magnolia flower slices.

Cross-bridge rice noodles are very popular in other places, but many Yunnan locals think that cross-bridge rice noodles are not as delicious as small pots, small pots, crispy noodles, eel, tofu pudding and braised rice noodles.

Gourmet tofu

There must be a place for tofu on the dining table in Yunnan.

Yunnan's gourmet tofu counts as one. A stinky tofu with Mao Mao fascinates Kunming people, who call it stinky tofu.

Speaking of tofu, the most famous tofu in Yunnan is Jianshui tofu.

Jianshui Tofu, also known as Lin 'an Tofu, has become famous since the publication of China on the Tip of the Tongue. Tofu stalls in Shuicheng Street, food market and night market have become a beautiful landscape in the ancient city.

Tofu in Lin 'an enjoyed a high reputation as early as the Qing Dynasty. It is carefully selected and carefully processed. It is made of big round white soybeans and well water from Dabanjing outside the city. Tofu is white and tender, and it doesn't turn black after burning.

When burning, put the lit charcoal in the brazier, put a kang welded with iron bars on it, put sesame oil on it, put tofu on it, and turn it over while baking. Tofu swells up, dipped in sweet and salty soy sauce, pepper powder, garlic paste, monosodium glutamate, millet spicy and other seasonings, and you can eat it. It smells bad and tastes delicious.

Wild fungi

Seafood is too far away, and food is in front of us. Yunnan people will eat mushrooms even if they die!

Speaking of Yunnan cuisine, you should think of wild mushrooms. There are many kinds of wild mushrooms in Yunnan, including chicken liver, dried fungus, boletus, chicken oil fungus, green fungus, red fungus and miscellaneous bacteria. There is a saying that people in Yunnan eat without fear. Every July and August, after the rain, there are many wild mushrooms, and many people begin to look for mushrooms and try to eat delicious food.

At this time of the year, mobile phones will receive SMS reminders to guard against wild mushroom poisoning. Although many people in Kunming are poisoned by wild mushrooms every year, there are also many illusions of little people dancing. However, this still can't stop Yunnan people from pursuing and trying this delicious wild fungus tirelessly.

Although Yunnan cuisine is not one of the eight major cuisines in China, Yunnan is definitely the most unique place in food culture, so it is not a unique cuisine, because Yunnan cuisine is very miscellaneous, with many ethnic minorities and different tastes. All cuisines are unique, and no dish can truly represent Yunnan.

Saltwater fish, copper pot fish and other delicacies in Jiangchuan, Yuxi City are all special delicacies in Yuxi City. Jiangchuan salt water fish

Zhanyi spicy chicken

The representative works of Yunnan cuisine, the propaganda business cards of Qujing and Zhanyi, have a history of 100 years, and are famous all over the world for their exquisite selection of materials, complicated production order and spicy and refreshing taste.

Steamed Bait Silk is the original work of Qujing. Qujing steamed bait silk has rich and exquisite ingredients. Cooked Qujing steamed bait is soft and chewy, which can be called cold.

Grilled fish with citronella is the most famous food in Xishuangbanna, and everyone who goes to Banna must try it.

Clean up the fish first, put the seasoning into the fish belly, close the fish belly, tie it with two or three citronella leaves, clip it with bamboo slices, spread lard on it and bake it on charcoal fire. This kind of grilled fish is fragrant, crisp and crisp.

Pineapple purple rice is also a famous glutinous food in Banna. Soak the purple glutinous rice, wash it, remove the pineapple heart, stir the purple glutinous rice and chopped pork evenly, and steam it in a steamer until it gives off an attractive fragrance.

Dehong Dai Lamian Noodles is a traditional food loved by local people. The main raw material is tripe, which has a special taste. There is a kind of weeds mixed with the fragrance of earth. Many foreign tourists feel unique after eating it.

Bashang chicken is a unique traditional dish in Guangnan County, Wenshan Prefecture, and is called "a must in Yunnan".

Deng Chuan milk fan, fan-shaped dairy products, is divided into milky white and milky yellow. High nutritional value, mellow and delicious, it is an excellent dish for local Bai people in Deng Chuan to entertain guests.

Lijiang Baba is a unique flavor food of Naxi nationality. It is made of high-quality wheat flour produced in Lijiang, mixed with the spring water flowing from Yulong Snow Mountain, wrapped with sesame seeds, walnut kernels and other condiments, and then cooked and fried in a pot with slow fire. One of its characteristics is its excellent color, fragrance and taste.

Do people in Yunnan like to eat bugs? People in Yunnan like to eat bugs, which is actually a kind of inheritance. In ancient times, Yunnan was full of forests and mountains, and food was very precious. Insects are an important food source for Yunnan people and an important way to obtain protein. This memory has long been engraved in the genes, so Yunnan people have never forgotten to taste this delicious food until today.

In fact, on the territory of China, Yunnan is not the only province that eats all kinds of insects. People around North China eat cicadas, while people in Northeast China eat grasshoppers. The most famous in Xishuangbanna are fried bamboo worms and fried bee pupae. Grasshoppers, cicadas, flying ants, etc. You can eat it fried, while crickets are eaten with sauce. Roasted spider is a dish that foreigners can hardly imagine, and it is a national specialty diet in southern Yunnan and other places.

Bait is a traditional flavor food in Yunnan.

Rice has been finely processed into bait fragments for at least 3500 years. There are many kinds of bait in Yunnan, including braised bait in Kunming, shredded pork bait in Weishan, and shredded ham and chicken. The most famous is "Great Rescue".

"Save", a very strange name, thought it had something to do with the emperor, but it really had something to do with the emperor. In the early Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui led the Qing army into Kunming, and Ming Taizu Li Yong fled to western Yunnan. After Li Dingguo, the leader of the peasant uprising army, escorted Li Yong to Tengchong, he found a place to rest, and his master fried a plate of bait pieces for him. After Li Yong ate it, he said with great praise, "Fried bait saved my hand." Since then, the bait-frying block in Tengchong area of Baoshan has been renamed as "Great Rescue". The practice is to cut the bait into small pieces and add ham, eggs, meat, radish, tomatoes and so on. , stir fry together in the pot.

Weishan barbecue bait silk. In the ancient city of Weishan, Dali, the most attractive snack is bait silk. At first glance, the soup is white and thick, and the meat is fat but not greasy. When served, it was steaming and fragrant.

Xuanwei ham, shaped like a pipa, has a thin skin and thick flesh, moderate fat and rich aroma, and its quality is good enough to represent Yunnan ham, so it is often called "cloud leg".

In fact, Xuanwei ham has the strictest requirements from ingredients to final shaping, and it must be made with Wujin pig, a local specialty, because this pig is rich in fat and tight in lean meat, which is the most suitable pig breed among toads in caves. A good Xuanwei ham should go through six processes: setting, curing, rolling, washing and baking, air drying and fermentation. It takes two years to make it.

Some people say that Yunnan cuisine is so delicious, why are there so few Yunnan restaurants all over the country? Even if there is, it is not Yunnan flavor, because of the composition problem. Yunnan restaurants in other places are inseparable from Yunnan ingredients, and it is difficult to make the same taste even by the same method.