When I first listened to the song "Happy Lahu", I was deeply attracted by the music of the Lahu people, and when I came to Lancang and walked into Lao Dabao, I found that any villager in this village would play and sing, play reeds, and play guitar, and they all used their own language to arrange and write songs. You can pick up the guitar and sing a song after a day's farm work, and every time the melody of happy lahu sounds, you will feel the beauty of everything in this world.
The gourd is the "totem" of the Lahu people, and the large buildings on the streets of the village, the decoration of the home, the patterns on the clothes, accessories and small handicrafts all have the original shape and pattern of the gourd.
Every year from April 8th to 10th is the annual Hulu Festival of the Lahu people, and in previous years, the festivals were celebrated by the whole Lancang County, with songs and dances, but it was lively. This year, everyone just spends a simple holiday in the small village where they live.
Olives chopped raw
Among the Lahu cuisine, I was most impressed by the chopping of olives. I used to hear my grandmother say that when they were young, they didn't have enough to eat, and went to the mountains to eat all the bark, while in Lancang, olive bark was used as a kind of "mountain treasure" on the street and at the table.
Olive scientific name: oleifera /Yunnan olive, we eat the most is its fruit, the entrance is sour, chewed two bites and then specially sweet. It also has a certain effect on throat inflammation and coughing.
Do not take the layer of gray on the surface of the bark, only take the layer of green in the middle, eat it directly is also bitter with sweetness, soak it in rice soup water many times and wash it dry for later.
Pork belly marinated and roasted, plus processed bark, ginger, garlic, millet spicy, old Burmese coriander, skimmer root, pepper and salt and other spices chopped, if it is killed in winter, some fresh pig blood will be added...
There are many olive growing methods, and each village will have some differences. However, the dish of pig blood is something I dare not try so far. The olives are chopped raw, the caramelized aroma of the meat and the condiments are fused together, and the sweetness of the olive bark is truly an irreplaceable and unique taste... This is also an appetizer of the Lahu people.
Lahu chicken
This should be a delicacy that all people who have been to Lancang will taste. To use their own breeding of chickens, the meat is firm and delicate, full of flavor. After plucking the hair in boiling water, use the high heat to remove the unclean fluff, cut the chicken after washing, cut the small pieces, do not add oil after the pot is hot, fry the moisture of the chicken, slightly oil it is good...
After cooking, the lard is cooked, dried chili peppers, peppercorns, grass fruits, star anise stir-fried with chicken, then add salt msg and pepper powder and stir-fry until the chicken is soft. It seems like a simple approach, but the taste is really a must... That soup rice, I can eat five bowls.
Lahu
Unlike us, sesame seeds are only used as a condiment, while they are directly scooped and glutinous rice scooped together and are full of flavor.
There is also their special bubble skin meat, which I have learned, and I will shoot it separately for everyone later.
Although each ethnic minority especially likes to sing and dance, each ethnic group has its own characteristics, and the Lahu people's love for lusheng and guitar is vividly expressed in their original songs.
In the Lahu village, an aunt in her 40s who has never studied music can hold a guitar and sing a few of their songs... They have an irreplaceable fanaticism for music in their bones.
If you can, you must come to Lancang once, how delicious is their food? I stayed in Lancang for a month, gained 12 pounds, not only me, but every little friend in the team was fat... Also be sure to come to Lao Dabao once to listen to their "Happy Lahu"...