Go to Yunnan must go to eat wild mushrooms, after all, really delicious, and everyone usually eat mushrooms is not a type at all, but there is one thing to pay attention to, that is, you must find the right store, otherwise you may see the sky flying villain.
Mushuihua Wild Mushroom MarketWhen you come to Yunnan, you can skip the museums, but you can't skip the food market.
When wild mushrooms go on sale every year, the world's largest wild mushroom trading market, Mushuihua Wild Mushroom Market, is the one place in Kunming city that is busier than the CBD.
When people from other provinces come to visit Mushuhua, they are likely to be dazzled by the array of wild mushrooms.
Not only does this place account for more than 90 percent of the province's wild mushroom trade and 70 percent of the country's wild mushroom trade, but 500 tons of wild mushrooms are loaded and shipped to the country every day during the peak season.
And in the shortest possible time, it is served on the tables of gourmets from Japan, France, Italy and many other countries.
Metro to Ford station off, not yet walked to the market range, there are already many roadside vendors set up stalls.
People walking out of the market are holding the "spoils" of their bargains, and they are rushing home to prepare for the wild mushroom feast.
Walking into the market before joining the fungus purchasing army, the first thing you feel is the strong smell of fungus in the air.
While we have missed the morning market time, there are really a lot of people.
Whether it's the bulk buyers of importers, restaurants or the zero buyers of bulk weighing of the public, they all come to Mushuhua to buy mushrooms. In front of the wild mushrooms, devout eaters are equal regardless of their income.
Chicken fir, dried mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms, morel mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, tiger palm mushrooms, green head mushrooms, black truffles, old man's head?
In the mushroom more than people in the wood water flower market, such as me, the provincial people seem to be "Liu Lou Lou into the Grand View Garden", a circle stroll down as if on a wild mushroom biology class.
Yunnan friends deliberately care about me, do not worry about asking the name of the fungus will be timid, be ripped off, because even the Yunnan people may not recognize all!
But when strolling around, you have to pay extra attention to your feet, because in Mushuhua, from ten dollars for a big bag of artificial mushrooms, to 1,500 per kilogram of expensive truffles, there is no price, all piled up on the ground at random to choose.
The beauty of Yunnan people like to put their own fungus out of beautiful shape, look to the customer's proud look, no less than a child's final exams out of the top three in the class good grades.
Hundreds of edible wild mushrooms, matsutake mushrooms are deservedly the protagonist.
Since the matsutake mushroom was introduced in the opening episode of the first season of Tongue in Tongue, this ingredient that grows in the mountains has instantly gained fame.
Of all the foreign diners who know and love matsutake mushrooms, the ones who are the most crazy about them are definitely the Japanese, with special episodes of Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan describing the preciousness of matsutake mushrooms.
According to the stall owner, in previous years, truckloads of mushrooms were sent to Japan once they hit the market.
This year, the number of exported matsutake mushrooms has decreased, along with the overall price of the market also fell a lot.
The most common way to eat matsutake mushrooms is to fry them in butter or stew them with chicken.
Now that we're in the country of origin, the way we eat it is definitely going to be upgraded.
It was only after my visit to Yunnan that I tasted the legendary matsutake sashimi, which is said to be "fresh off the bone," and it's true that "high-end ingredients often require only the most rustic cooking methods."
Mushroom hot pot will be taken away from the tableware before 20 minutes of cooking
Slicing fresh matsutake mushrooms with the fragrance of mountain mud, dipping them in a little sushi soy sauce, wasabi, or simply adding nothing, picking up a slice of it and putting it in your mouth, the unique sweetness of matsutake mushrooms wrapped tightly around the taste buds in an instant, and there are millions of variations of untouched food ingredients.
According to the guideline of "the smaller the open umbrella, the more expensive, the fuller the velvet body, the better, the longer the length, the less," the same quality of matsutake mushrooms in Mushuhua can be cheaper than Taobao nearly half of the price.
I sent two boxes home, 5 ~ 7cm of matsutake mushroom is 170 a catty (if the bargaining skills, I guess it can be cheaper).
Shunfeng, EMS, in the mushroom season have opened the "matsutake special line", express mail, the vast majority of areas can be received on the next day.
If you fly in every year during the mushroom season, you can save a lot of money by acting as a temporary buyer of matsutake mushrooms for your friends and family.
If you want to preserve the flavor of the mushroom season, you can buy a large jar of homemade fir oil at the market for 150 yuan.
Spoonfuls of it when mixing noodles or rice are fragrant without adding any chicken monosodium glutamate.
But for more wild mushroom flavors, you'll have to fly to Yunnan.
Zhuanxin Farmers' MarketMushuhua is a specialty market for wild mushrooms, which are plentiful, but you'll have to go to Zhuanxin to find more street food.
There are dozens of farmers' markets in Kunming alone, but none compare to Zhuanxin in terms of length of existence and depth of feeling among old Kunmingites.
And the vendors here all seem to be natural color-coordination masters, making Zhuanxin itself a condensed version of "Colorful Yunnan".
In Chen Xiaoqing's words, "nine frames are not enough". Half of Yunnan's deliciousness can be attributed to its rich and varied ingredients. The Seal Seal New Farmers' Market is a collection of delicious local products from various cities and towns in Yunnan. Eggs, for example, can be divided into six, seven or eight different types of eggs just by their origins, whereas the common ones can be distinguished as eggs from the earth or from the black-boned chicken. There are many unusual ingredients on the Yunnanese table, such as insects that make people talk about color and flowers that make people feel romantic.
Yunnan, where flowers bloom all year round, has flowers to eat in all seasons. If you're not in Dounan, you're in Zhuanxin. Only when you've eaten edible flowers in season do you feel like you've really arrived at the season. For those who love fruits, you can't help but chop them up when you visit Zhuanxin, can you? Passionfruit and papaya, which are very expensive in supermarkets, are sold at the price of apples and bananas; limes, which are sold by the number of pieces and are not cheap, can be carried away in a big bag for 10 dollars; seasonal figs are also 10 dollars, and at a glance, they are still "kilograms"! In addition to being a great place to see, buy and shop, Zhuanxin is also a great place to eat! The restaurant has been open for 21 years, so it's like having a 21-year old store.
The restaurant uses watery ingredients to make the most common taste of Yunnan people's home. Not only is the flavor authentic, but it is also delicious and inexpensive, and you can tell if it tastes good by looking at how much the neighbors are helping out.
Creative Garden Steamed Pork
Creative Garden Steamed Pork, the flavor of the inheritance from the old city of Jianshui has a history of 30 years of famous stores, CCTV has also been reported.
The steamed pork is made of fat and lean meat, cooked to a crisp without chewing, and the satisfaction of eating meat in the mouth is so satisfying that even people who can't eat fat meat can't help but eat a few more pieces.
In order to ensure quality and quantity, the number of steamed meat is limited every day, sold out of the stall. It's not usually available after 4 p.m., so you'll have to be early to get a taste.
Mojiang sour bamboo shoots fish
After coming to Yunnan, I got hooked on the sour and spicy Dai flavor. Sour bamboo shoots, which are the main character in snail noodles, are also a common seasoning in Dai flavor.
Those who don't love it pinch their noses and go around, but those who love it can't get enough of it.
To judge the authenticity of a store, you can look at the name of the place in front of the store's name; the smaller the authenticity, the more likely it is.
Mojiang, a Hani autonomous county below Pu'er, sounds much more authentic than "Yunnan Sour Bamboo Shoots and Fish".
The fish is marinated and seasoned in advance, so all you need to do is stir-fry it and heat it up, and it's a rice-killer on the table.
Mu Jiang Zi Original Chicken Feet
Another Dai classic, Hua Wa Dai Chicken Feet, can also be found at Seal New.
This chicken foot with wood ginger seeds is a regular on TV food programs and a must-have for many people whenever they come to Zhuanxin.
There are two kinds of chicken feet: non-spicy and spicy. If you can't eat spicy food, the spicy one is highly recommended, and it's a big bowl of chicken feet for 10 bucks.
The flavor of wood ginger soaked through the meat of the chicken feet, even the bones are good to sip!
After weighing the chicken, the owner serves a bowl full of celery and carrots, and the side dishes are very flavorful. Add some extra soup and it's superb with rice noodles.
Small Meng Tofu
The tofu, which was popularized by "Tip of the Tongue," is available in Yunnan and Guizhou, and you'll find it at Seal Seal's new market, where you'll find it from both Wanguo and Jianshui, which are both equally famous in Yunnan.
The tofu is slow-roasted over a charcoal fire, and when you bite into the golden-colored shell, the tofu inside is so soft and tender that you don't even need your teeth.
Dipping water is the soul of roasted tofu, dry plate, wet plate, fried garlic oil plate, every family has a different recipe for dipping water, there is no such thing as a bad dip, one word: absolute!
Huize Black Goat
Expanding from a single storefront to three, Huize Black Goat relies on regular customers to make a name for itself.
Their family's mutton wins in the slightest no stink, tender meat, meat aroma enough, black goat meat into the mouth the more you chew the more flavor, feel before eating are fake lamb skewers.
On the first floor, most diners will order a bowl of mutton rice noodles, mutton, mutton blood, mutton, a bowl of material is very sufficient; the other side can also buy cold slices of mutton.
The second floor is a lamb hot pot, when the weather is cold, order a stewed lamb soup pot, cassoulet lamb pot, eat the whole person is very comfortable.
Spicy Snacks Bean Blossom Rice Noodle
Rice noodle store Kunming is everywhere, come to Seal Seal new you can try this one, in the whole of Kunming is very famous, meal time to come to almost all have to queue up more than 10 meters.
Must point signature one is the bean flower rice noodles, rice noodles smooth toughness, every day freshly made bean flower bean flavor, according to taste a little bit of dipping spices, a bowl of belly super satisfied!
Spicy hot home spices can not be underestimated, can be accompanied by a bowl of papaya water, sweet and spicy.
The other is the Bean Noodle Soup Dumplings, which are sweet but not at all greasy, and are quite a traditional Kunming flavor.
There are meat and vegetable "hats" (the equivalent of toppings in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, I think) available, ranging from 6-8 yuan a bowl, which is quite inexpensive and good value.
Specialty Rice Cake
The name of the restaurant is simple and brutal: it's called Specialty Rice Cake, and residents around the area often buy this place's rice cake for breakfast or afternoon snacks.
The exterior is fried to a golden brown color, and the rice cake wrapped inside is soft and sticky, which children especially like.
There are many kinds of rice cakes, and the most popular is the one with red bean filling. The boiled red beans are crispy and fragrant, and the sweetness is doubled when wrapped in the rice cake.
Tonghai Duo Duo Xiang Sweet White Wine
Yunnan's sweet white wine is similar to that of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, but it tastes less juicy and the grains of rice are firmer.
Seal Seal New has several sweet liquor stores, and the recommended one, Tonghai, does a great business in the market, with really long lines and dozens of jars sold every day.
Sweet white wine can be eaten directly as a small sweet water scooped with a spoon, or can be cooked together with dumplings, Tonghai have to sell.
Because it smells really good, there are still a lot of bees flying around on the open sweet white wine, which is shocking at first glance, but regular customers have long been accustomed to it.
Wang Zengqi once wrote: "When you arrive at a new place, some people love to shop in department stores, some people love to store in bookstores, but I'd rather go to the food market.
Look at the raw chickens and ducks, fresh fish and vegetables, green cucumbers, red peppers, hot, crowded, let a person feel a kind of joy of life."
Kunming may not have the attractions of note, but it's the slow, unassuming pace of life that makes my temporary stay here so satisfying.
The annual mushroom season is coming to an end, so if you don't want to miss out on the freshness, you'll have to hurry.