Before coming to Dali, I heard many friends say that if you think that Dali Ancient City is too lively and Shuanglang Ancient Town is too commercial, then come to Xizhou Ancient Town, where there are not only net red corner towers and splendid tie-dye, but also the legendary Yan family compound, and the Xilin Garden with different scenery throughout the year.
If you're hungry, you can try local snacks along the way, or sit down at an alley restaurant and savor the local Bai specialties. Choose a century-old building with local characteristics, the location is next to the net red corner building. It is called the Companion Round House Ancient Courtyard Restaurant.
The wall at the entrance of the restaurant is very Bai architectural style, the cobblestone wall is painted with a lot of flower patterns, into the door, the first thing that catches the eye is the wood carving, through the fan shape can see the little sister wearing Bai costumes.
Staying in the entrance corridor, you can see that the sides are covered with photos and relevant written records about this room from a hundred years ago, allowing us to have a historic dialogue with the century-old courtyard. Entering the courtyard, you can find that its architecture is the most common style of Xizhou Bai people's houses - "three squares and one wall", and the ground of the main room is higher than the ear rooms on both sides, reflecting the orderly etiquette system of the elder and the young. Illuminating the wall can not only block the wind, but also reflect the light, which is conducive to improving the light of the living room, and also has the meaning of auspiciousness.
Recommended dishes
Sour and spicy casserole fish
Dali Bai ethnic sour and spicy fish belongs to Yun Gui cuisine, the main raw material is crucian carp, the taste is sour and spicy and delicious, after adding tender tofu, boiling with a fierce fire, and then slow cooking with low heat. The fish soup is thick and salty, sour and spicy in the mouth, there is no fishy smell, there is a fresh and sweet aftertaste, and it is a delicious dish of Bai hospitality.
Mushroom steam pot chicken
Steam pot chicken, selected is just slaughtered castrated chicken, with Jianshui purple pottery boiled for several hours of broth, under the attack of water and fire, wait until the soup turns into steam, through the steaming of the pottery pipe into the pot, and then liquefyed into soup, repeated cycle until the meat steak bone away, its color is as bright as a mirror, clear as water, it can be served on the table.
Steam pot chicken, while pursuing the original taste of food, can also apply the cooking technology and ancient cooking utensils to the extreme, and combines the Dian culture and food culture to become the dishes of the state banquet table.
Other dishes
In addition to the stone pot fish and the gas pot chicken, we also ordered teppanyaki tofu and teppanyaki beef, which tasted quite good, and the tofu was fried until golden brown, and then poured with soup, which made people salivate
The teppanyaki beef is made with fresh beef, fried with onions, and then placed on tin foil paper so that the taste of the whole dish is still very different from ordinary stir-fried beef.
Restaurant information
| name: Companion Round House Ancient Courtyard Restaurant
| opening hours: 9:00
| detailed address: Xizhou Town East Road corner tower