Author:丨Kundong foodie 丨
There are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan, so there are various types of special banquets, but all the dishes that appear on the banquet must be exquisite. Insect feast, hundred flowers feast, green leaf feast... But how many kinds of such a strange feast have you eaten?
NO.1 Long Street Feast
The Onmatu Festival is a festival for the Hani people to worship the gods of the village, worship the dragon and pray for rain, and is also the most grand festival of the Hani people as a cropper.
During the three-day celebration, Hani men, women and children, dressed in traditional national costumes, each household made nearly 40 kinds of Hani-style dishes such as yellow glutinous rice, three-colored eggs, pigs, chickens, fish, duck meat, beef jerky, dried chamois, meat pine, peanut rice, etc., prepared wine, carried to the designated street center to be placed, one to two tables, each household table was placed along the street, arranged into a street heart banquet of several hundred meters long (locally known as long dragon feast or street wine).
At this longest banquet in China, everyone worked hard for a year and gathered together, eating and drinking, singing and dancing to help, and the atmosphere was very warm.
NO.2 Insect feast
Among the eighteen monsters in Yunnan, one of them is "grasshoppers are currently wine dishes". This grasshopper, which we often call the locust, is such an ordinary insect that can no longer be ordinary, and it is called "jumping vegetables" in Yunnan.
Insect eating method, mostly take the frying, so that the bugs out of the mouth is not only crispy, but also without the fishy smell of insects, it is really a good dish to drink. In recent years, chefs in Yunnan have been constantly innovating, whimsically, and cooking bugs in a more and more varied way. Soup, frying, stewing, stir-frying, and medicinal food cover almost the entire Yunnan cuisine.
In fact, putting aside the shadow of its insects, the Yunnan insect feast is still encounterable and unattainable. After all, the goal of the foodie is to stand at the highest point of the biological chain with Beiye.
NO.3 Hand pilaf
Hand pilaf is a delicious feast of the Jingpo and Lisu ethnic groups in Dehong Prefecture, where relatives and friends come to visit, the host will use bamboo dustpans to put a wealth of dishes and rice, please grab food with your hands. Hand grasp the fragrant rice and delicious dishes to knead into a ball, and a return to the original flavor of nature hits the heart.
Yunnan pilaf is usually filled with corn rice, purple rice and white rice in a large dustpan symbolizing the great harvest and great unity, and then placed roast pork, roast beef, roasted quail, grilled bearded fish, ghost eggs, bamboo tube meat, dried dried ba, dried bamboo shoots, coriander and other special dishes in an orderly manner, and mellow rice wine, which is hearty but not greasy, making people have a great appetite at a glance.
A table of people gathered around and grabbed the most characteristic Jingpo dishes with their hands, thinking that it was all beautiful, not to mention that this table feast was still so beautiful.
NO.4 Mushroom feast
In Yunnan, in addition to a variety of wild animals, the so-called mountain treasures also include delicious and strange fungi.
As soon as the rainy season arrives, the good days of eating mushrooms arrive. Eating mushrooms in Yunnan is a great enjoyment, and it is difficult to experience the fun without personal experience. Yunnan people are dismissive of the artificially cultivated family mushrooms, pay attention to fresh mushrooms to eat, stay in the dry season to eat the fungi, more with vegetable oil fried, even the oil with the fungus together to preserve, when eaten is still soft as ever, the fresh fragrance is still the same.
Yunnan people eat mushrooms, there are conventions and regulations, which kind of bacteria with leeks, which kind of bacteria with green shell spicy, which kind of bacteria with ham, never confused. When you go to the restaurant to order, you don't have to remind, you certainly can't make a mistake.
There are too many types of fungi, and outsiders in Yunnan often look dazzled and do not know which one to eat. There is only one way, eat more, taste, there must be something you like, maybe you will eat addictive Oh ~ ~
NO.5 Pig slaughter feast
As one of the highlights of each year, the pig killing feast has been put on the daily life of Yunnan people. Pig-killing rice is also known as "pig-killing". Every year after entering the Waxing Moon, the harvest people who have been busy for a year, slaughter the head of the pig at the end of the year, and invite relatives and friends to eat a lively pig-killing meal, which is a major traditional custom in the rural areas of Yunnan.
Generally speaking, Yunnan's "pig-killing rice" is composed of six special series: "head knife dish", "pig-killing dish", "white three princes", "palace burst meat tendon", "old bacon", and "pig's foot boiled green vegetables". The hearty slaughtered pig rice is eaten with the people's own vegetables and freshly killed local pork, although it is not as exquisite as the hotel meal, but it is absolutely original.
Song of the Yi people killing pigs
Kill a pig without killing a soul You walk the soul to rely on
In Elysium you have a new master
In the pig's nest on earth, you walk away for a long time
Kill one head today and there are ninety-nine
NO.6 Flower feast
The term "beautiful and delicious" is often used to describe a delicate and beautiful woman who is very cute, but it is unlikely that you really want to have a full meal. However, if you come to Yunnan, "beautiful and delicious" has become very practical, very satisfying, and very convenient, because Yunnan was quite popular in ancient times, and now it is even more popular.
The scenery of the four hours is different, and the flowers of the four hours are different, and you can see different colors of flowers in Yunnan every season. Rape flowers, bitter thorn flowers, pomegranate flowers, climbing branches flowers, sea cauliflower, etc., each flower has a unique fragrance and delicious taste. Cooking methods have always been eclectic, can be made dim sum, hot stir-fried, soup, can also be used as a spice, produce a variety of light taste; cold mix, stir-fry, fry, fry, fry, steam, a hundred kinds of flowers can have a thousand ways to eat.
The flowers eaten in Yunnan are never attached to elegance, simple and simple, a small dish, selling poorly but beautiful and fresh, street alleys, or their own random stir-frying, never exquisite, but never less than not hurried, lips and teeth left fragrant leisure.
NO.7 Leaf Feast
The Green Leaf Feast is a famous banquet that is both quaint and a little wild in the Dehong Jingpo Cottage in Yunnan. Based on the abundant local mountain vegetables and game game, it is cooked in traditional ways such as roasting, boiling, frying, and pickling, and the meals are wrapped with fat leaves or banana leaves, and the leaves are folded into spoons and pots for soup, so named because they are full of emerald green and do not use bowls and chopsticks.
Open the "green packets" one by one: there are fragrant sticky rice, there are delicious houttuynia cordata, there are bee pupa poached eggs, as well as flying ant pancakes, roasted green doves, parchmented sauerkraut fish, etc., I really don't know what to eat first.
There is no bowl, no spoon, no iron wine utensils, rice is bamboo tube roasted, vegetables are basketed, vegetables are green banana leaves, soup spoons are folded into leaves, even wine glasses are made of bamboo knots, from the content to the form, from the visual to the taste, are far from the concept of modern diet, this is the real original ecology.