Good times always pass quickly, our shuttle bus is at 11 o'clock in the morning, it takes about 20 minutes from the hotel to the bus station, and at 9 o'clock we start our journey to the city in search of the famous local snack "bait". The wife chose a snack bar with a very high public comment and took a taxi directly.
Dali bait silk is a famous snack in western Yunnan, and it is as famous as the rice noodles across the bridge. The traditional method is to mix a certain proportion of glutinous rice and japonica rice together, first soak in water for a period of time, then steam it in a steamer, and then mash the rice in the stone mortar and wooden mallet used in the rice, make it into a flatbread and dry it, cut into pieces is called bait, and the one cut into silk is called bait. The bait blocks and bait wires have now been machine-made, as if raw rice went in, and soon the finished product came out.
Bait blocks are generally roasted with fire, fried, stir-fried and other methods, is the daily breakfast and common dishes eaten in Kunming, Yunnan, known as the "great rescue driver" in Tengchong, it is said that the former Emperor of the Southern Ming Evaded the Qing Army, fled to Tengchong, the local villagers used bait blocks to entertain, feel delicious and give the name. Most of the methods of shredded bait are the same as boiling noodles, which are cooked in water and eaten. Most people in Yunnan like to eat rice noodles, only people around Dali like to eat bait silk, especially "grilled meat bait silk", the pork is cooked very cooked, you can easily play with chopsticks, etc., stir some meat shreds with some fat meat and meat skin, put into the cooked bait wire, add local sauerkraut, coriander, onions, etc. to become the grilled meat bait.
The bus from Dali to the hometown is a small minibus that can only sit seventeen or eighteen people, and it is all full during the Spring Festival, and it is all some returnees who are like arrows. The vehicle from Dali all the way to Nanjian is still very smooth, at more than one o'clock in the afternoon, the vehicle is still parked in a ravine two or three kilometers away from Nanjian Tianqiao Garden to eat. This small shop, in the past five or six years I have walked through many times, or see the boss lady who sells cold mixed rice noodles, this time the good villain has made some changes, made innovations, added a project of fried potatoes, and the plastic vat that originally saved engine oil has disappeared.
Roadside shop
The hill next to the shop (where are the birds)
Next to the hotel is a small river with very little flowing water, and on one side of the river is a steep mountain, at least 200 meters high from the river valley. The bare mountain top has been like this for many years, and I have the impression that when I was still in junior high school, I went to Kunming with my father for the first time from my hometown, and it was also through this valley that the situation on the mountain did not change much now, and these trees did not grow up, still lying quietly on the slope of the mountain.
All the way to the traffic jam, almost to the roadside where there is a small village will be blocked by traffic, to 6:30 p.m., after almost 8 hours of trekking, finally arrived at the hometown county. At this time, the eldest nephew was waiting at the station to pick us up and go to the famous Feng Dexing Restaurant in Jingdong. Waiting for us is a sumptuous hometown feast, there are countless mountain ham, papaya boiled chicken, a hundred flowers fried broad beans, fried sausages and other special dishes, if you do not consider weight control, really want to eat, unfortunately fish and bear paws can not have both, can only control their own restless heart for food.
In the evening, I returned to my hometown and saw my old mother, whom I had not seen for several months. My mother seemed much more energetic under the careful care of the eldest brother, and when she saw me return home, she was very happy and quickly greeted me to see the return of the wanderer from afar.