Yuxi, the third largest city in Yunnan Province, is located in the central part of Yunnan Province, and its territory includes both the mountainous Pingba, which is full of spring, and the valley known as the "natural greenhouse".
Yuxi has a lot of vegetables such as snails, stone mussels, ant eggs and the like, as well as melon fish in The Yuanjiang River, dried yellow eel, and wild flowers and vegetables such as beet flowers, houttuynia cordata, sweet bracken and other dishes, the taste of the dishes is sour, but these raw materials are definitely pollution-free green food, much more nutritious than the greenhouse vegetables eaten in the city, not only that, Yuxi's local alley food is also a must.
Pea flour
The method of pea flour is to use dried pea grains, grind the flaves and peel them, soak them with water, mix them with water and grind them into a pulp, filter it, boil it into a paste, and condense it back after cooling. Yuxi's pea flour is obviously different from the cold powder eaten in Sichuan, at first glance, always think that there is a special color processing, in fact, it is made of dried peas, the texture is delicate and smooth, the color is turmeric, the taste has the special aroma of peas, and it can be eaten hot or cold after being cooked by knife work.
Sweet white wine
Every year in the middle of the waxing moon, each family uses glutinous rice to brew sweet white wine, which is white and sweet and has a strong aroma of wine, which will be intoxicating to eat more. During the Spring Festival, guests must eat sweet liquor, and intimate guests are served with sweet liquor boiled eggs.
Crystal preserves
According to legend, the production of candied fruit in Yuxi began in the late Ming Dynasty (after 1573 AD), and in the early Republic of China (after 1921 AD), Tang Jiarong of Fengxiangzhai, a pastry workshop in Zhoucheng, added a new variety of crystal candied fruit on the basis of making traditional "amber preserves". Its production method is to select high-quality winter melon, cut into pieces and soaked in lime water, rinsed many times, to show a transparent state, the above white sugar water soaked, re-boiled to make.
Lotus powder
Chengjiang lotus has a long history, according to the "Chengjiang Fu Zhi" recorded: "Chengjiang is warm in the clouds (that is, Kunming), cold is second, extremely hot in the summer, rain is cool, frost and snow are cold, a sunny is wet, there is a rumor of 'spring at four o'clock', producing rice lotus." Chengjiang lotus root is popular with people for its fatness, powder and strong taste. Chengjiang lotus flour, which is processed with fresh lotus root as raw material, is a traditional special food with local characteristics. Its texture is pure, transparent as crystals after blending, the mellow and sweet fragrance of the food, delicate and lubricated, making people feel comfortable.
Rice noodle feast
Rice noodles are not only a business card of Yunnan cuisine, but also a spiritual belief of Yuxi people. The Yuxi Rice Noodle Cultural Festival has a history of hundreds of years since the Yuan Dynasty and is a delicacy with local characteristics. The 81-day Rice Noodle Festival in Yuxi was once recognized by the World Records Association as "the longest festival in the world." ”
Xingzhong hemp tablets
"Clear spring water, ingenious craftsmanship, crisp hemp flakes, beautiful taste" People praised the famous Xingzhong hemp film throughout the country. Xingzhong hemp flakes are made of fine white sesame seeds, high-grade white sugar, glucose liquid, and essential oils. The finished hemp flakes are lustrous in color, bright yellow and white, uniformly formed, thin and clear, sweet and crisp to eat, and full of aroma.
Ice porridge
Yuxi's famous ice porridge is made of porridge cooked with locally selected glutinous rice, adding ice cubes, brown sugar thin, sesame seeds, red dates, red and green silk, as well as Yuxi local specialty preserves, some shops will also add fruit, stirred and eaten, glutinous rice soft plus the sweetness of the ingredients, cold feeling is very suitable for summer eating, cool and cool, suitable for all ages.
In the land of Yuxi, not only is there a variety of magical delicacies, but also the beautiful Fuxian Lake, which is the largest deep-water freshwater lake in China, and it is also a north-south fault dissolving lake, which is the largest lake at the source of the Pearl River. It is shaped like an inverted gourd and is placed horizontally between the three counties of Chengjiang, Jiangchuan and Huaning.
According to the old saying, there are two kinds of Fuxian Lake: One is said to be recorded in the "Chronicle of Chengjiang Province": "The mountains in the southeast of the lake, the rocks and ravines and phosphorus sounds, the hanging Dou Ling, there are stones and Xiao Erxian, standing shoulder to shoulder, and the flat boat looks at the distance, if looming." ”
According to legend, the Jade Emperor of the Heavenly Palace, looking at the world one day, found a pearl shaped like a gourd, embedded in the clouds and mist of ten thousand mountains, blue and clear, beautiful to the extreme. The Jade Emperor fell for it, and Xiao and Shi Erxian immediately went down to the mortal world to depict this earthly beauty and bring it back to the Heavenly Palace. Xiao and Shi Erxian hurriedly floated into the clouds and landed in the southeast direction of the pearl. Take a closer look, the illusory beauty unfolds in front of you, and the two immortals are intoxicated by this, so that they linger. Over time, it became two stone people's mountains standing in the southeast of Fuxian Lake, holding hands and shoulders, looking down at the pearl. Because of this immortal relic, the name of Fuxian Lake comes from this; another is because the "Jianshan Mountain" on the west side of the lake is uprooted flat, shaped like a jade shoot, straight into the clouds, and like a tall immortal standing on the shore of the lake, reaching out to touch the water of the lake, so it is called Fuxian Lake.
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