Dulong is one of the ethnic minorities with a small population in China, mainly distributed in the valley of the Dulong River Basin in Yunnan, the Dulong people have their own unique food culture, of which the unique, more primitive and ancient cuisine is slate rice dumplings.
Slate rice is an ancient food of the Dulong people in Gongshan County. It is said that he is ancient, and he used a stone slab as a pot and spread the batter into the stone slab to make it. The finished product is sweet and delicious, unique flavor, rich in nutrients, this kind of slate is a kind of slate produced near the Qingla barrel in Chengzhongluo Township, Gongshan County, the fire is not broken, the water does not crack. Take it as a pot, put it on a tripod in the fire pond to eat it, without putting oil, the rice dumplings will not stick to the stone pot, and the steamed rice dumplings are particularly soaked and the taste is particularly fragrant.
Because it is the use of slate in nature as a cooking utensils, so generally other places can not eat slate slabs, this cuisine set up a local specialty, and only produced in the local area, if you want to eat slate slabs, you must go to Yunnan Dulong ethnic group Oh.