Lijiang Ancient City is one of the "four ancient cities" in China, founded in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan, located on the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the northwest plateau of Yunnan, the middle reaches of the Jinsha River, the local population here is not much, the Naxi ethnic group accounts for 58% of the total population, therefore, the local Naxi diet is very ethnic. The Naxi people here are good at raising horses, do not eat horse meat, and the meat they eat is mainly pigs and cattle. There are many vegetables grown, and the cooking method is influenced by the Bai and Han ethnic groups, which is colorful.
Soon it is the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, many friends, if you go to Lijiang to eat and drink, may wish to try these Naxi flavor of the special food.
The population of Lijiang City is only 1.1 million, and 99% of the ancient city of Lijiang is a foreign population, so don't expect to eat authentic Naxi flavor in Lijiang Ancient City, if you have time to go to Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, you can eat authentic Naxi delicacies in Yulong County.
Chicken bean cold powder
Chicken bean cold powder, using chicken beans (also known as chicken peas) taken from the Lijiang area, grinding noodles and filtering pulp, make chicken bean cold powder into a kind of cold powder snack. Chicken beans are rich in melanin, and the appearance of chicken bean cold powder is black, so people call it "black cool powder". The Chronicle of Lijiang Province, compiled during the Qianlong dynasty, is called "black tofu".
The streets and alleys of the new and old town of Lijiang City, chicken bean cold powder for hundreds of years are an enduring flavor snack, eating cold in summer and hot in winter. Cold to eat, mixed with sour vinegar, soy sauce, green onion, minced garlic, sesame oil seasoning, can cool off the heat and appetize, stop motion sickness. If eaten hot, the cold powder is fried on both sides in sesame oil in a pan, accompanied by seasoning, and eaten hot, or dried and fried. Although the chicken bean cold powder is not proud of its appearance, it has a delicate texture and a smooth and delicious taste, and it is a good dish for rice and wine.
Lijiang
Lijiang folk proverb Yun: "Lijiang Canghe Qingjiu." Indeed, the traditional food of the Naxi people, Lijiang Rice Dumpling and Heqing Wine, is famous in Yunnan, and Is best known for Its Rice Dumplings in Lijiang. Lijiang rice dumplings are a unique flavor food of the Naxi people, with a long history, originally just a kind of noodle cake refined by Naxi women and brought to their husbands when they went out, and became a famous snack because of their delicious taste. The main raw materials of Lijiang rice dumplings are fine wheat noodles and ham. Cooked over low heat, golden in color, salty and sweet.
Hemp supplementation
Hemp supplement, chinese called rice enema, or rice intestine. Fresh pig intestines, steamed until semi-cooked rice or glutinous rice are mixed with blood or egg whites while hot, and various spices are poured into the large intestine, sealed and steamed to eat. Because of the different production methods, the black hemp supplement with blood, the white hemp supplement with egg whites, the pig that is killed every winter, and the family is filled with hemp to entertain relatives and friends. Relatives and friends can't get home, and the next day they need to send a section of hemp and fresh meat to show respect.
Fill pig lungs
Fresh pork lungs, blowing lungs, pouring small powder or mustard noodles and spices into the batter from the lung tube, gently patting until filled, cooking slices or frying.
Blow pork liver
Blowing pork liver, Dali Heqing is the most famous, but Lijiang Naxi ethnic group is also good. In winter, the fresh liver is blown and dried, cooked when used, cut into slices and mixed with sour vinegar, spicy seeds, coriander, etc. to make a cold dish.
Tender corn cake
Tender corn cake, called Zengnian twist in Naxi. Generally used in the feast, suitable for all ages, with seasonal characteristics, the method will be just ripe green and tender corn cob with a knife, the corn kernels scraped, pick up impurities, grinded, mixed with brown sugar and kneaded well, spoon two or two corn pulp noodles for a cake into a cake into one or two pieces of fresh corn wrapped leaves, scooped into a number of cakes, steamed to eat.
Butter tea
Glutinous rice dumplings, Naxi juice. There are two methods: one is to shake the glutinous rice noodles with water, add fennel tips, one is rice wine, water mixed with glutinous rice noodles, kneaded into a cake shape of about 3 cm, oil refining, frying the cake into the oil, the juice foaming, golden brown, fished with a colander, two cakes with sugar, put into the plate to eat. It is mostly used during festivals or hospitality, especially on the first day of the Chinese New Year and the must-use of sacrifices in the Qing Dynasty.
candied
Candied fruit, Naxi rice crystal, has a long history. After being boiled into various fruits with homemade maltose or brown sugar, it can be stored for a long time in clay pots. Every New Year's Festival or to build a house, marry a woman to invite guests, you need to bring your own desserts, in addition to making a variety of fruits, commonly used carrots, ginger, lotus, pumpkin and so on.
Butter tea, called Malang in Naxi. Naxi folk drinks are often served with breakfast and lunch. Lijiang is located in the alpine mountains, the climate is cold, and butter tea is characterized by hardiness, hunger resistance, thirst resistance, is a drinkable oil tea all year round. Generally, it is a water stew under the butter tea tea, and then fried on a plate of fried potatoes or other dishes, which is very delicious.
Copper hot pot
Copper hot pot is a traditional Naxi dish. The preparation method is to put green vegetables, pickled pork ribs, vermicelli, powder skin, tofu blocks, water fungus, shiitake mushrooms, potatoes, fresh yam on the bottom, and then put bone castrated chicken pieces, ham slices, crispy meat, boneless pork foot pieces, meatballs, and then use carrots carved into 5 small flowers on the noodles, injected into the broth, and lit the fire. When boiling, add ginger, grass and fruit noodles, and then use salt, salty soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, pepper oil, garlic paste, and coriander to make a dipping sauce.
Chicken pecking at tofu
Chicken pecking tofu, Naxi Ambajiu, Naxi folk traditional dish. Cut the chicken into small pieces, sauté with fat ham, boil in water until seven ripe, add salt, add lean ham, tender tofu, and add shallots.
Naxi grilled meat
Naxi Grilled Meat is a traditional horse gang dish on the Lijiang Tea Horse Ancient Road, also known as tile roast meat, the main ingredient is pork belly marinated with spices, and then placed in a homemade oven and grilled with the local chestnut charcoal flame. It can be directly roasted and eaten or stored after roasting and half cooking, and when it is eaten, it can be fried in mint and charred.
Steamed rainbow trout
Rainbow trout and salmon look very similar, growing in the stream under the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, the Naxi people use tempeh to steam rainbow trout, the taste is fat and tender and delicious.
The Naxi people of Lijiang are an ancient people, a branch of the ancient Qiang people, with their own culture, writing, religion, music, and their own diet. Therefore, if you travel to Lijiang, other aspects can not be well understood, but if you eat, you still have to taste the flavor of the Naxi people!
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