Whether you're staying in Kunming for a long time or taking a short trip to Spring City, these local dishes are worth a try. Today's article shares some local cuisine in Kunming that meets the tastes of the masses, no matter where you come from, and no matter how picky your taste buds are, there will always be one or several dishes that will satisfy you.
Welcome to Kunming
According to my understanding of the daily diet of relatives and friends in Kunming, I found that Kunming people are really not picky eaters, dare to eat anything, can eat anything, will eat anything, as long as they can manage full, dishes even if spicy, salty, oily, sweet is not important, can be accepted. Today's article will not introduce Kunming's alternative food culture dishes - ethnic minority insect feast, flower feast, etc., will only introduce popular tastes, home-cooked dishes. Then, the people in Shanghai and Sichuan eat sweet and spicy, hunan and Guizhou people eat salty and spicy, the northeast and the north of Shandong people eat salty and spicy, friends from these areas in Kunming life or tourism will not have any problems, at least in the diet, a second can adapt, Kunming local Dian cuisine has the characteristics of salty and spicy. However, people in other places may not be accustomed to eating, especially people in the Jiangnan area who prefer a light diet, and when they come to Kunming, they must find delicious dishes to fill their stomachs. Start serving...
Little Hemp Duck
Yiliang roast crispy duck
How can you come to Kunming without eating Yiliang roast duck? Compared with Beijing roast duck, it seems that this price is more close to the people, the taste is better, Yiliang roast duck is not as fat and greasy as Beijing roast duck, more is lean duck meat, the meat is tender and juicy, the skin is crisp and crisp. The origin of Yiliang roast duck is historical, it should be foreign dishes introduced to Yunnan, interested readers please search for the origin of "Yiliang roast duck" on the Internet. This article only introduces places to taste authentic Yiliang roast duck.
Yiliang Dog Street Roast Duck Shop
The place above is located about 240 meters northeast of the First People's Hospital of Yiliang County, and the reference price: crispy roast duck 25 yuan, small hemp duck 30 yuan.
If you think that there is no grade for eating roast duck in a small street shop, then go to Yiliang Xuecheng Hotel to ensure that it is tall in an instant! This hotel is very famous in the local area, and you can find it by asking a question, next to the section of 324 National Road in Yiliang County. Reference price: Xuecheng roast duck 50 yuan, Xuecheng roasted hemp duck 60 yuan, boutique slice Piran duck 118 yuan.
Wuli DonongBo Square
If you don't have time to go to Yiliang and just want to taste this dish in the center of Kunming, then go to Wuliduo Nongbo Square at the intersection of Civil Aviation Road and Wujing Road, a super-large farmers' market. I just tasted this duck shop pictured above, and it tastes good and is worth tasting. The latest price: crispy duck 30 yuan, small duck 35 yuan. Every afternoon it only sells until around 5 or 6 o'clock, so friends who want to taste it can try it!
After enjoying the Yiliang roast duck, followed by a taste of steam pot chicken, this dish is very high-grade, belongs to the yunnan local famous dish.
Steam pot chicken
Steam pot chicken is one of the famous dishes in Yunnan, as early as 200 years ago in southern Yunnan folk circulation, steam pot chicken tableware to use Jianshui clay steam pot, the taste is correct. The method of steam pot chicken is to wash the chicken and then cut it into small pieces, and put ginger, salt, green onions, grass fruits, etc. into the steam pot and cover it, put the steam pot on top of a soup pot filled with water, plug the gap with gauze to avoid leakage, and then put it on the fire to cook. After the water in the soup pot is boiled, the steam gradually steames the chicken through the nozzle in the middle of the steam pot (usually takes 3 to 4 hours). Since the soup is steam condensed, the umami taste of the chicken is less lost during the steaming process, so the original taste of the chicken is basically maintained. In Kunming, if you want to taste the most authentic steam pot chicken, you can go to Fuzhao Lou.
Fuzhao Building
FuzhaoLou Hotel
If you ask passers-by on Beijing Road in Kunming, you can find Fuzhao Lou, which has a number of chain stores and is easy to find. As for the price, because it is the consumption level of the hotel, it will naturally not be cheap; if you want to feel the taste of the steam pot chicken, and want to be close to the people, you can go to the Xiangyun Food City, Nanqiang Street, Dingxin Street, etc. not far away, where there are some small shops to provide steam pot chicken, the taste is not much worse, but the price is much cheaper.
Nanqiang Street Night Market
Kunming people's food culture is definitely indispensable to a staple food - rice noodles. We in Wuhan can think of it as a kind of fine rice noodles, but the Yunnan rice noodle condiments and ingredients are very rich and nutritious. Let's take a look at ordinary rice noodles.
Small pot of rice noodles
Rice noodles are gentle things, it is not as strong as alkali noodles, it is not as strong as the sweet potato flour, it is made of rice, it is gentle, soft and absorbent, suitable for all ages. Small pot of rice noodles, without much introduction, Kunming people must eat staple food every day, this household name, but also the most common and common varieties of rice noodles, no matter where you come from the country, what the taste requirements are, this bowl of small pot rice noodles should be able to eat habitually.
Bean blossom rice noodles
The picture above is also an ordinary rice noodle variety, bean blossom rice noodles is a traditional snack in Kunming, belonging to the Dian cuisine system; the main materials of the dish are rice noodles, tofu brain, etc., and the accessories are winter vegetables, monosodium glutamate, minced leeks, etc., and the taste is spicy. Because it is spicy and smooth, and the price is cheap, people jokingly call it unsatisfied food, and they want to eat it. I feel that the cold bean flower rice noodles are more delicious, and tourists from outside the country will also eat them habitually.
Bridge meter line
Yunnan Bridge Rice Noodles are local specialty snacks, the method is more special, and the ingredients are also very exquisite. The process of making rice noodles is relatively simple, and the taste is not as soft and sticky as the rice noodles across the bridge. If you want to eat authentic bridge rice noodles, I recommend Bridge Fragrant Garden and Jianxin Garden.
Bridge Incense Garden
After eating bridge rice noodles in Kunming, I am afraid that everyone will think of Qiao Xiang Garden. The rice noodles are white, the soup is very delicious, and the side dishes are "genuine". Qiao Xiangyuan crosses the bridge meter line, and there is one on Renmin East Road in the city center.
Build a new garden
Jianxin Garden was established in 1906 and was formerly known as Sanhechun. In 1952, after the establishment of the public-private partnership, it was renamed Jianxin Park, which enjoys a high reputation in the same industry, and is the most authentic one in the Yunnan rice noodle market so far, its unique flavor attracts many Chinese and foreign diners, century-old shops, this does not need to be introduced, please enter the store to taste it! Coming to Kunming without eating bridge rice noodles, it is considered to be white.
Kunming people like to eat meat, chicken and duck, pigs, beef and mutton love to eat, the following share a special flavor of meat dishes - thousand pieces of meat.
A thousand pieces of meat
The traditional Han traditional dish - "plum dish buckle meat" is very similar to the Dian flavor of thousands of pieces of meat, the Yunnan flavor of the thousand pieces of meat to choose cut pieces of skinned pork belly, the meat to be cut thin and even. After boiling water until seven or eight ripe pieces of meat are colored, after seasoning, the fried dried pickles are spread on the meat, and the basket is steamed for about 40 minutes on high heat, and a thousand pieces of meat are ready. Since plum vegetables are often eaten in Hubei, thousands of pieces of meat are naturally acceptable. I feel that the biggest difference between thousand pieces of meat and plum vegetable buckle meat is that the taste of thousand pieces of meat is sweet.
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Seven-step fragrant tofu feast
Seven Steps Village
Jinjia tofu feast
Golden Mill Tofu Feast
When it comes to tofu in Kunming, I have to mention one place - Qibuchang Village in Chenggong District. This urban village is located between Chenggong New District and Chenggong Old Town, and it is said that the seven-step field has been making tofu for more than 600 years, and the seven-step field has provided countless good tofu for the table of Kunming people for hundreds of years. Here you can taste water tofu (also known as tofu brain or bean flower), stinky tofu (also known as edamame tofu), roasted tofu, tofu dumplings and so on. Seven steps in the village at its peak, there are as many as 100 households making tofu, and now it is getting fewer and fewer, and the tofu banquets in several shops in the picture above have authentic tastes, so you can try it.
Guandu Ancient Town
Come to Kunming must go to Guandu Ancient Town to see, this place of eating, drinking and entertainment located in Guandu District, is the place where every foreign friend must punch in Kunming. Among them, the famous Guandu rice dumplings and fried potatoes can be tasted as snacks.
Guandu 粑粑
Guandu Candela is from Guandu Ancient Town and is a flavor snack with Yunnan characteristics. The rice dumpling contains sesame seeds, peanuts, walnuts and other ground nuts mixed with white sugar into the filling, soft and sweet, very delicious and happy, supplementing the necessary snacks for physical strength.
Fried potatoes
Potato, scientific name potato, also called potato. In the streets and alleys of many places in Kunming, fried potatoes can be seen everywhere. As a special flavor snack, it is widely circulated, and is divided into two flavors: spicy and sweet and sour, suitable for all ages, and is also an essential snack to supplement physical strength.
Now in the middle of summer, foreign friends who come to Kunming have a good mouth, because it is the rainy season in Kunming, and it is also the season to eat mushrooms - wild mushrooms. High-quality wild mushrooms are expensive and naturally delicious. The following introduces the place to eat mushrooms and buy mushrooms to foreign friends.
Wild mushroom restaurant
Guanshang Wild Mushroom Street is located in Guanxing Road, Guandu District, close to Kunming International Convention and Exhibition Center, and the traffic is very convenient. Off the wild mushroom street is the Guandu District Food Safety Demonstration Street, where dozens of restaurants specializing in cooking wild mushrooms are gathered here. Signs on both sides can be seen everywhere with the words "Wild Mushroom King", "15-year-old shop", "wild mushroom food" and so on. Whether it's miscellaneous bacteria, porcini mushrooms or matsutake mushrooms, you have it all here. Cooking techniques are also endless, including hot pot, frying, sautéing and so on. Choose the right restaurant for your economy!
Here's a look at one of the largest wholesale markets that source wild mushrooms on their own
Wood water splash wild mushroom trading center
Wood splash wild mushroom market
A wide variety of wild fungi
The Yunnan Mushuihua Wild Mushroom Trading Center in Kunming is the largest wild mushroom trading market in China, selling 257 species of wild mushrooms such as chicken fir, matsutake mushroom and dried bacillus. This is a wholesale market, the price is fair and reasonable, buy and buy according to your own needs!
Finally, it is best to choose a regular large restaurant to taste wild mushrooms in a restaurant, food safety is guaranteed; when you buy wild mushrooms, please choose the regular market to buy, and go home to process it must be cooked thoroughly before it can be eaten.
After a long hot summer, of course, in the summer in Kunming do not use the word "boiling", enjoy the cool summer! The first major festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, how can the mooncake be absent? Kunming has a unique taste of Dian-style mooncakes, this is worth tasting.
Cloud leg mooncake
Pan Xiangji
Auspicious
Dian-style mooncake originated and is popular in Yunnan and surrounding areas, different from other regions of various types of mooncakes, its main feature is that the filling uses Dian-style ham, the crust is loose, the filling is salty and sweet, there is a unique Dian-style ham aroma, ham generally chooses Xuanwei ham. In general, outsiders may choose to buy cloud leg mooncakes more often, and fewer people will choose flower cakes. It seems that there are few stores selling Dian-style mooncakes outside Yunnan Province, and there are no Dian-style mooncakes for sale in Wuhan anyway. So come to Kunming must try this salty and sweet and delicious cloud leg mooncake. Ji Qingxiang and Pan Xiangji, two old local brands in Yunnan, deserve their first choice, and their cloud leg mooncakes taste good.
Kunming
If you are only a short-term visit to Kunming, eating and drinking all outside to solve, see this article, may be helpful to you; if you live in Kunming for a long time like me, the various foods introduced in this article can only be used as a meal preparation, and can only be your occasional choice to relieve hunger and fight tooth sacrifices. Because you cook at home, cooking your own food is the king of life! Only by loving life can you enjoy life.
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