Every spring, Weishan Ancient City meets you in Nanzhao Hutong as scheduled. Yes, only food and love can not be disappointed! Weishan snacks are famous all over the world, hundreds of kinds of snacks can be said to be the world's food collection, a friend in Beijing said, I came to Weishan, only for food -
Walking into Weishan Nanzhao Hutong, all kinds of snacks will dazzle you, even if you taste a bite, this day from early to dark has not tasted all of it.
The annual food festival is held at the same time as the Yi Ancestor Worship Festival. The Yi people around the Yungui River all rushed to Weishan Mountain to worship their ancestors. A woman from Liangshan said that Shaxian snacks are not as delicious as Weishan snacks. The Weishan Snack Festival is eaten in the spring light. Weishan snacks are known for their unique flavor, fine workmanship, wide variety, suitable meat, simple and fast, nutritious and economical, and are favored by gourmets at home and abroad.
Lo and behold, a thousand tables of food feasts filled the streets of the ancient city. Table 128 is just one of the food festival's exterior spots. At the Temple of Literature and East Lotus Village, there are also food streets and gourmet long table banquets.
In March, I approached Weishan, where snacks gathered famous, special and excellent products from all over Dali Prefecture. Grilled meat bait, a noodle, candied fruit, green bean cake, Xizhou rice cake, Heqing rice cake, raw skin, cold chicken rice noodles, baked bait blocks, cold powder, dried beef and other Yunnan cuisine, the snacks here will strongly shock your taste buds ——
Weishan Ancient City has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Famous Snacks". There is also a saying that "charming mountains, snack paradise". Since 2011, Weishan has held the Weishan Snack Festival every year.
From ordinary local snacks to roasted whole lamb, is there anything else you won't find here? In the accumulation of thousands of years, the culture of eating has been broad and profound, and it is as if any trip can never be explored to the end. So, come to the conclusion that the richer and deeper the culture, the better the food! No, Weishan confirms such a conclusion. Dali Weishan Ancient Town attracts a large number of tourists to taste the food here every year.
Winter melon candied fruit and plum candied fruit are one of the characteristics of Weishan. It is made by boiling and drying with sugar stains, and its color is brown, golden or amber, bright and translucent, and the surface is dry, which is a slightly sticky dry product. There are many mountains, and all kinds of fruits can be made into preserves. A food made from fruits and vegetables such as plums, peaches, apricots, plums, dates, winter melons, ginger, etc., and marinated with sugar or honey. In addition to being eaten directly as a snack or snack, preserves can also be used as a garnish on cakes, biscuits and other snacks.
Weishan pickles also have dozens of varieties, known for their fragrant, sweet, crisp, tender, bright color and near and far. There are many varieties, including Mailan pickles, peeled radish, pickled tofu, bean paste, Bu sauce beans, Bu garlic table, sauce cucumber, sweets, bad spicy seeds, pickled lettuce, etc., especially Mailan pickles and Bu sauce beans are the most distinctive.
This year, 10 national cuisines have also introduced Weishan, and 10 Chinese cuisines from local states and counties have also participated in the Weishan Food Festival. Weishan walked into the homes of ordinary people and also walked out of the country...
When you arrive at Weishan, you must eat a bowl of Weishan's "grilled meat bait silk", "grilled meat bait silk" has long been famous, has always made people "salivate". When you come to Weishan, many people can't wait to find the aroma of meat, find the steak bait shop, and "throw" a bowl. That grilled meat bait silk, at a glance to see the yellow and white, red and yellow contrast, the soup white pure thick and smooth, the above of the meat fat and not greasy, the entrance is melted, the lean meat is tender and sweet, the bait silk is white and delicate, brought to the table, steaming, full of fragrance attacking the nose, people can't help but saliva straight into the stomach to swallow, quickly move chopsticks to put a piece into the mouth, to alleviate. That moisturizing, fragrant spray covers all the taste buds, delicious! A bowl, which had just been laid down a few minutes ago, began to think about the next time it would come again.
Zhu Ji one noodle is very famous in the local area, one noodle is called "pulling noodles" locally, and one noodle has different ways to eat on different occasions! Eating one noodle plus two eggs on a birthday means longevity, one noodle plus three eggs means a long life, and one noodle plus four eggs blesses long life. At the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom must eat a long noodle, and the bride and groom eat from the two ends of a long noodle to the middle, until mouth to mouth. It means long and long, a hundred years of good union! When the children go out, the mother makes a long face and prays that the children will be safe and smooth!
All kinds of snacks are all over the streets and alleys, such as green bean cakes, Xizhou rice cakes, Heqing rice cakes, Dali raw skins, cold chicken rice noodles, baked bait blocks, cold powder, dried beef and other Yunnan delicacies, Yunnan snacks will strongly shock your taste buds.
You must not have tasted the eight bowls. The "Eight Bowls" is a typical representative of thousands of years of food in the south of Caiyun, and is a condensed painting of Yunnan food customs. In rural Yunnan, every waxing month, villages and villages slaughter pigs; when they enter the Chinese New Year's Eve, every household cooks New Year meals. There are many ethnic groups in Yunnan, with different customs and habits, and in the rural areas of the province, there are different tricks for making New Year meals, and when there are VIPs, they all make "eight bowls". The "eight bowls" mainly include: braised pork, thousand pieces of meat, stewed yellow strips, back pot meat, tamales, fried pork ribs, steamed lilies (or taro), and stewed chicken.
In the accumulation of thousands of years, the culture of eating has been broad and profound, and it is as if any trip can never be explored to the end. So, come to the conclusion that the richer and deeper the culture, the better the food! No, the thousand-year-old city of Weishan confirms such a conclusion.
Weishan is an ancient town that you don't want to leave. In addition to Weishan cuisine, Weishan also has the Taoist Gongguan Ancient Building Complex, Weibaoshan Changchun Cave Ancient Building, Shanlongshan and Tushan Nanzhao Capital City Ruins, etc., where the gourmet snacks, in the folk have a strong historical and cultural foundation, especially with a variety of unique and economically famous, is a Chinese food culture in the hundred gardens of a strange flower, has long been famous at home and abroad, to taste food, to this tip of the tongue of the Weishan mountain.
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Lotu Travel Network and Lotu Inspiration Traveler: Zhu Wenxin Released: 2019.03.28