Kunming Special Cuisine:
1. Steamed Chicken
Yunnan Steamed Chicken is very particular about its cooking methods, and its ingredients are particularly unique, so its taste is naturally different. The chicken pieces are fresh and tender, and the soup is sweet and fragrant, which makes people have endless aftertaste.
Jianshui Steam Pot is simple in appearance and unique in structure. Its belly is flat and round, and there is a hollow tube in the middle. The steam enters the pot along this tube, and after being cooled by the pot cover, it becomes water drops into the pot and becomes chicken soup.
2. Barbecued bait block
Barbecued bait block is a local folk snack in Yunnan. It is made of cooked rice and pressed into blocks, usually in the shape of round pancakes.
Baked on charcoal fire and coated with sauces with different flavors. Spicy, crisp and refreshing, it can also be steamed, boiled, fried and burned. Everyone has it.
3. Braised chicken fir
Braised chicken fir is a famous dish unique to Kunming. Chicken fir is a fungus born with termites, which grows out of termites' nests. This fungus is only found in the forests of Yunnan, so it is very valuable.
4. Fried potato
People in Kunming are eating potato for dinner, midnight snack or afternoon snack. Fried potatoes in Kunming are potatoes cut into strips, fried in an oil pan and mixed with seasoning. Seasonings are very particular, such as sauce, marinated juice, onion, coriander, ear root, mint, pepper, etc., all of which are mixed with their own styles, but they are all spicy.
5. Baba in Guandu
People in Yunnan call cakes Baba. There is an ancient town of Guandu in Kunming, where there is a famous Guandu Baba. In the busy street of Guandu ancient town, it seems that everyone has a Baba in his hand, which has become a unique scenery in the ancient town. Guandu Baba is a common baked dough pie. The stuffing inside is fried flax and perilla mixed with sugar. The flax and perilla are very fragrant.