In the spring of 2012, I went to the food city in front of Kunming Harmony Century Community to find a noodle restaurant, and "happened to" the storefront of Shimonoseki Lee's grilled brine.
The Harmony Century Community is very large, with high-rise buildings, and a few kilometers or even more than ten kilometers in all directions are all kinds of residential areas. Li's roasted brine has been famous in Dali Xiaguan for decades, and Dali people are a large group of people who take root in Kunming or make a living. Originally thought that Li's roasted brine "eastward" was the joy of the heavens and places and the people, but I did not expect to look for it again soon after, and people had already gone to the empty building.
I came to the "Harmony Century" community food city to find noodle restaurants
Encounter "Shimonoseki Lee's Grilled Brine"
After remembering it, he wanted to feast on it, and he had closed the door
In the middle of winter 2019, I was looking for food and drink on kunming Huguo Road as usual, and the signboard of "Dali Look back at the cold chicken rice noodles" was like a peach blossom blooming early, unexpectedly mixed with a bright eye. After the news was released, many friends inquired about the address, and a picture of rubbing their fists. A classmate immediately took action, ate a bowl of cold chicken rice noodles with me in the winter, and wrote an article called "Looking Back at the Chicken Cold Rice Noodles from Dali to Kunming, Hoping that It Is a Big Green Tree" (https://www.toutiao.com/i6858902716530459140/).
Kunming Protector Road "Looking Back"
Excited to write an article
The storefront of the cold chicken rice noodles is not large, and later it has been visited several times, and its popularity seems to be getting more and more prosperous, often with a Dali accent. Eating hometown snacks in other places is a seemingly small but difficult idea, so I sincerely hope that the cold chicken rice noodle shop "Tuodong" will succeed and gain a firm foothold in Kunming. At that time, the situation looked very optimistic.
Unfortunately, after not going for a while, one afternoon in the summer of 2021, the sign of cold chicken rice noodles was no longer seen. The lost soul and the lost dog are somewhat exaggerated, and the regret and loss is the true feeling of that moment.
The spicy shell chicken noodles are the storefronts that "look back" before
With the lessons of Li's roasted brine, I once worried and appealed in "Looking Back at the Chicken Cold Rice Noodles from Dali to Kunming, Hoping it is a Big Green Tree": "The boss's prosperous business is the happiness of diners, and the closure of the restaurant is also a kind of lost love", but I did not expect to become a "crow's mouth".
In addition to disappointment, I thought about the reasons for the setback of Dali snacks "going east". Although it is difficult to reconcile the crowd and do not recognize the presence of Li's roast brine and "looking back at the cold chicken and rice noodles", it cannot be denied that both companies have a high reputation in Dali. Rice noodles are the heart of Yunnan people, Kunming is the most economically developed and densely populated in Yunnan, that is, the place where the demand for rice noodles is the most vigorous, why are the two famous stores "returning home"? On the contrary, the "unknown" small shops with Dali elements such as Xizhou rice dumplings, Dali roasted milk fans, rake meat bait shreds, and even papaya water and rice cold shrimp have blossomed and stood everywhere in Kunming and even the whole of Yunnan!
Xizhou Cangcang store near Jinbi Road in Kunming
The milk fan and Sachima worked together to sell well. It is located in the north city of Kunming.
Rice cold shrimp
The reason is frustrating. Li's grilled brine and "look back at the cold chicken rice noodles" are all a combination of cold rice noodles and grilled meat or brine, laying the foreshadowing of "success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He". Cold rice noodles are all over Yunnan, and the sweet soy sauce preferred by Kunming people is regarded as heretical by Dali flavor, in addition to dali's hometown, the risk of "water and soil dissatisfaction" is not small once you arrive in Kunming. Dali's barbecue and marinated meat are not famous in Yunnan, and even no place in the whole of Yunnan can "stand out from the flock", which also makes this feature a "chicken rib".
Because the selling point of "cold rice noodles + meat" is difficult to highlight, it highlights the corresponding shortcomings - there are not many varieties, or there is a lack of highlights in addition. Yunnan people's rice noodles are the same as the noodles in the north, and the variety of eating methods is one of the sources of exuberant vitality. Although the two stores also have other rice noodle bait methods, as well as other snacks, the most famous cold rice noodles have raised diners to "nothing to eat" subconsciously.
Wenshan also had some fame in Kunming earlier
Bridge rice noodles are becoming more and more fashionable
This mushroom cold rice noodle is also menacing
In addition, Kunming's Jianxin Garden and Honghe's Qiaoxiang Garden are famous in Yunnan, which is not only based on rice noodles, but also has a variety of snacks, which has become a major obstacle to the "eastward" of Dali snacks. Think about the Kunming people's love for Deshengqiao bean flower rice noodles, ponder those who stand at the entrance of the new garden on Baoshan Street in the summer, squatting and eating rice noodles, and the increasing number of Honghe Maitreya brine chicken rice noodle shops, short soldiers, needle tips on Mai Mang's competitive pressure makes Dali snacks have a few points less chance of winning.
Bridge Fragrant Garden next to Kunming Golden Horse Fang
There are often queues and people standing to eat at the Jianxinyuan Baoshan Street store
Look at this black signboard to know that The Small Pot of Duanshi is deeply loved by the people of Kunming
On the other hand, those chicken feather shops that are "invisible to everyone" and do not have the aura of "old brands" and "old shops" seem to be easier to complete the great cause of "Tuodong". For example, the grilled milk fan that only needs a charcoal fire shelf is open, often mixed with papaya water and rice cold shrimp sold in snack bars and barbecue stalls, and Xizhou rice dumplings hidden in several wet markets. The most seen is the rake bait shop, which can be called the main force of Dali snack "Tuodong". In the past ten years, A "Weishan Flavor Garden" that I have not cared about has four or five branches in Kunming, which is one of the "Tuodong" heroes in Dali snacks.