After returning from Yunnan, I felt that the seven or eight days in Yunnan had passed in the blink of an eye, and some of them were sloppy and unfinished.
Yunnan is famous for its beauty, abundance and magic, so the food culture is also relatively developed. When we went to Yunnan, we naturally tasted the food of Yunnan one by one.
I'm sure tofu is the best in Yunnan. It is really hemp, spicy, tender, fresh, smooth, and melts in the mouth. Yunnan's tofu is delicious, derived from high-quality beans, tropical Yulin climate, colorful geographical features and dry and wet three-dimensional climate, fertile soil, these high-quality conditions, extremely conducive to plant growth and reserve nutrients. We order tofu for a few days at almost every meal, and it is not greasy to eat for a long time, spicy tofu, sour and spicy tofu, loach tofu, roasted tofu, fish fragrant tofu, stinky tofu is said to be very famous in the local area, but I still don't like that stinky taste.
Yunnan cuisine is known for its ability to cook mountain treasures, freshwater fish and vegetables, and has the characteristics of fresh and tender and sweet, sour and spicy, heavy oil and thick taste, which is also in line with the taste of our northerners.
Dai cuisine is uniquely renowned in Yunnan cuisine, Dai cuisine is based on glutinous rice, sour and baked meat, aquatic food, mostly using wild cultivated plants as spices, with a unique national flavor. Unique ingredients provide a rich source for cooking.
Yunnan flavor snacks across the bridge rice noodles, the north also has, almost can be fake real, but Yunnan spices more types, and then add a variety of wild fungi, the taste is another kind. Bridge rice noodles are famous for their refining. Phaseolus vulgaris, cake, sour and spicy chicken, buckwheat powder, and su red beans are all local specialties. Zhaotong's bait can be regarded as the best way to eat bait in Yunnan, and you can only experience it in person if you are on the spot. The sand pot fish and sour and spicy fish in the Dali area must be eaten, the meat is tender and has fewer thorns. Lijiang's Lijiang rice dumplings and eight bowls should also be tasted. Midu's curly hooves, wind blowing liver, Tengxing's big rescue, stir-fried bait, all kinds of cold mixed wild vegetables, pine tips, pine pollen, etc. are all very local colors.
Jackfruit rice, open the lid of jackfruit, the fragrance will fill the dining table, dig a spoonful, send it to the mouth, the fragrance of the fruit, sweet, the glutinous, sticky all have, people have a moment of hesitation, do not know whether to swallow a mouthful, and then eat the second bite, or in the mouth for a while, retain the fragrance, reluctant to swallow, but eager to eat the second bite.
Usually I never eat all kinds of skins, chicken skin, pig skin... When I saw the tour guide demonstrately pick up a piece of fried pork skin with his hand, dip a little juice, and send it into his mouth, I also learned to pick up a piece of pork skin, dip it in the sauce, take a bite, and the taste is not bad! Crispy, crispy and chewy. Speaking of sauce, Yunnan people have to dip everything they eat with sauce, and even eat cakes will be dipped in sauce. This sauce is made with a variety of spices to make the "dipping water", sour and spicy.
The Browns have a saying that "if you don't eat barbecue, you don't have tasted the meat". So bake a lot of stuff. There are grilled mountain rat meat, spotted dove meat, fish, pork, beef, in addition, there are pebble fresh fish soup, crab pine, crab meat chopped raw, fried flower spider, cicada sauce, steamed fresh fish, sour meat, sour fish, sour shoots and so on. The roast meat has the characteristics of gold color, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, as well as the flavor of smoke and caramel, and the taste is very good. The meat is tender, spicy and fragrant, and the cumin flavor is strong.
I heard that Guangdong people eat everything, I suspect that Yunnan people are also, the land is too fertile, as long as there are seeds, it will sprout and grow, the so-called wild vegetables, should be everywhere grass. Seeing that the tall tree on the side of the road had a fruit like a bean carob, I suspected that it was also a Yunnan dish, but unfortunately I did not taste it, nor did I inquire about whether it was the same as I guessed.
All kinds of tropical yulin fruits, shipped to the north taste is not the same, grapefruit, jackfruit, green dates, coconuts, a variety of fruits, at home the taste is far from the local taste. It is said that the corn cobs in Xishuangbanna are not as delicious as those cooked in other places.
At night, while tasting the flavor of the cuisine, while watching the night view of the ancient city, under the colorful lights, the inexhaustible food makes people feel endlessly evocative.
Written in 2013