delicacies
It is a collection of the cultural heritage of a city
Follow in the footsteps of the Banna local Yingzi
Use the taste buds
Remember the taste of a city
Xishuangbanna has fresh air, both beautiful and mysterious tropical rainforests, and colorful ethnic customs. As we all know, Banna is a tourist city, but few people know that in addition to the beautiful scenery, Banna is a paradise for foodies.
There are many delicacies in Xishuangbanna, whether it is flying in the sky, running on the ground, or swimming in the water, it can be eaten in a variety of ways. There are also some local specialties that make us smell discolored, such as cows sprinkled, pig blood, pork chopped, fish chopped raw. In Xishuangbanna, authentic specialties are hidden in the border town, insects are one of them, insects are ugly, but delicious, in some places, the streets and alleys will see fried insects, the variety of many, amazing, after eating people praise! Flower spiders, ant eggs, bamboo worms, scorpions, insects that do not sound like ingredients are daily delicacies in the eyes of Xishuangbanna people. Therefore, the habit of people of all ethnic groups in Xishuangbanna to eat insects continues to this day, and some bugs can only be eaten by VIP guests.
The emergence of each kind of food is inextricably linked to the local customs and natural environment, so let's follow Ying Zi to challenge your taste buds!
Bee pupae
When she was a child, Ying Zi would go to burn the bee pupae with her father at night, take a long large bamboo pole, the other end of the bamboo pole was tied with cloth, pour gasoline and light a fire, carry the bamboo pole to smoke the big black peak, smoke the stinging bees away, and then take their hives.
Fried bee pupae is a rare Yunnan delicacy with high protein, extremely rich nutrition, and delicious flavor.
In autumn, the loess peak, gourd peak or other peak blocks in the mountain are taken back from the tree or soil, the bee pupae that has not yet formed is taken out, and then the pot is heated and then add the appropriate amount of oil, the oil is burned to 70% or 80% hot, slowly fry the bee pupae with a low heat, and then fry the bee pupae into a golden brown and then add salt to taste it, pay attention to the bee pupa must be fried slowly with a low heat, fried until golden brown.
Of course, the famous people of Banna have a unique cooking method for the dish of bee pupae. They prefer to blanch the bee pupae in water, add lemon juice, millet spicy, various condiments, a packet of banana leaves, and roast it on the fire to eat. They prefer the taste bud challenges of that spicy seasoning.
Flower spider
This flower spider bites people very painfully, and when it is a child, it will grab it and pull its silk out of its tail to play. If there really is Spider-Man, Eiko should have become a heroic female Spider-Man before the movie "Spider-Man" came out.
Flower spiders, also called large-bellied round spiders, we have a lot of rubber forests here, and when we go to rubber at night, we will always be turned upside down by their webs. It is a large spider that lives in the alpine jungle, and it is also one of the favorite delicacies of the Brown people in Xishuangbanna!
Although flower spiders are not uncommon in the woods, it takes time to catch enough to eat.
As for how to eat such a terrible and scary thing as this flower spider? In fact, the Brown people have long been deeply rooted in its essence! Generally speaking, for first-time visitors, they will be served a carefully prepared "fried flower spider", that is, with ginger garlic oil fried and sprinkled with pepper salt, the taste is like fried bee pupae, crispy and delicious!
For regular customers or their own families, that's different! Spider goose egg soup that is chopped and fried with goose eggs; charcoal roast spiders that are washed and brushed with spices; and even mummi that chops raw spiders into meat purees and stirs them directly with various chopped spices, some people also call it spider chopping... Writing this, Ying Zi brain made up the picture, well... Good to admire our national friends in Banna.
Ant eggs
The ant eggs that Banna eats are the eggs of yellow ants that nest in trees, this is the most powerful ant That Yingzi has ever seen, it is not afraid of people, the closer you get to it, it will take the initiative to bite you, and Yingzi's family is still behind it.
This ant egg Ying Zi has not really eaten, but when they have eaten it, it is sour, so it is also called sour ant egg. Take the nest down from the tree and take the ant eggs inside, which can be boiled or fried.
Bamboo worms
Xishuangbanna, near the mountains of the villagers, have the habit of cutting bamboo insects to eat, generally in the tropical rainforest, whether it is moso bamboo, yellow bamboo, or dragon bamboo, bamboo worms will grow between the bamboo knots. Every year in the summer and autumn, you can buy or taste the nutritious, crispy and delicious fried bamboo worms.
Making fried bamboo worms is particularly simple, after the temperature of the oil pan reaches a certain temperature, pour clean bamboo worms into the pot, you can see these bamboo worms under the oil pot, the oil instantly appears oil. Use a shovel to evenly turn the bamboo worms in the oil pot, so that these bamboo worms are evenly heated, until the white and tender bamboo worms have become golden yellow, at this time you can fish out the bamboo worms that have been fried and mature, and the golden fried bamboo worms seem to be good.
grasshopper
Have you ever heard a song: You can eat grasshoppers, you want to eat me to catch?
Grasshoppers are actually a harmful insect that is devastating to crops, and it may never be clear that it will become one of Banna's specialties. In this season, it is found in the barbecue stalls in Banna, which is a special dish for drinking.
This season, grasshoppers are fattening, and it is also the best time to eat. The preparation method is very simple, remove the wings of the grasshopper, fry it in oil until it is yellow-brown, remove it, soak it in the condiment with soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, green onion and garlic, and then control it dry. When eaten in the mouth, it is crisp, crisp, fragrant, fresh, and the taste is excellent, and it is a unique flavor.
Water centipede
The local people call it a reptile, and it lives under the stones by the river. Sometimes we go and catch small river fish and block the small river, and there are many stones under it. Grab it back, wash it and fry it in vegetable oil until golden brown, the crispy and crunchy is particularly delicious.
It is not so much that we want to eat reptiles, but rather that we enjoy the process of grasping more, and that we work together to do a particularly meaningful thing, which is our original intention.
cicada
I remember when I was a child, my family was very poor, there were no toys, my parents went to the mountains, saw and knew, they would catch them back and let us be toys. Take the thread and tie it around the waist of the knowledge, and play in the open place. Now that I think about it, I'm so happy!
At that time, we really didn't know, but many years later, knowing it became a delicacy on our table. Catch the know back, take the wings, use the plant in the pot to add 80% heat, put in the processed know, lightly fry for 2-3 minutes, fish out, control the oil, according to their own taste to add salt, five-spice powder, cumin, etc., after frying the aroma overflowing, crunchy.
Xishuangbanna's insect-eating customs have a long history, and originally only local celebrities would enjoy them, and now they are already the most characteristic foods of Banna. If you have missed the mushroom feast in Banna before, then you must not miss the insect feast of this season.
Xishuangbanna's ethnic flavor cuisine is unique, its basic cooking methods are roasting, frying, steaming, chopping, pickling, rarely stir-fried vegetables, come to Xishuangbanna, taste the local unique cuisine, taste the inexhaustible food will make people linger.
For a foodie like Ying Zi, can not enjoy food, life has lost all the fun ~ in the choice between eating and not eating, weighing, simply not too painful good, I have to give up, food should play a beautiful symphony with the taste buds. #我, unconditional writing #