Dulong people have the habit of eating two meals. Breakfast is usually fried noodles with highland barley or baked potatoes. Dinner is mainly corn, rice or millet, and the roots of various wild plants are ground into starch and made into cakes or porridge.
Dulong still retains many primitive cooking methods, the most common of which is to cook cooked slate in a special slate pot. ?
When baking slate Baba, we usually use Atun or Dong palm starch, make it into paste with bird eggs, and then pour it on a hot slate pot, which is delicious with baking.
Dulong people's daily dishes include cultivated potato pods and melons, as well as collected bamboo shoots, bamboo leaves and various fungi. When eating, it is usually cooked in a pot with pepper and wild garlic salt. Winter is the peak season for hunting in Dulong area, and wild beef is the main meat in winter. When eating wild beef, air-dry the beef first, then bake it with low fire, then mash it into filaments, make it into floss or cut it into small pieces, seal it in a bamboo tube and keep it or carry it with you.
Dulongjiang is also rich in all kinds of fish, mostly fish with thin scales and thick skin. When eating fish, Dulong people like to roast the fish in the open air or dip it in seasoning after frying, and often drink the roasted fish as a side dish. Bee pupa is one of the most exquisite dishes in Dulong. It is said that there are many centenarians in Dulong, which is related to the frequent consumption of bee pupae. The typical foods of Dulong people are: taro cooked with hemp, roast chicken and soju, Jimmy and so on.
People like drinking, drinking tea and smoking. Dulong people make wine in a strange way. Dig a cellar on the ground, surround it with banana leaves, mix the cooked corn or rice with distiller's yeast, put it in the cellar, cover it with banana leaves, seal it with soil, heat it with fire, and drill a small hole in the cellar three to five days later. If there is strong alcohol, the brewing is successful. Open the sealed mud mouth, take out the corn or rice, put it in a basin and knead it, and mash the filtered juice.
Whether drinking, eating or eating meat, Dulong is divided by housewives. Divide the guests equally when they come. Generally, every family has several fireplaces. Every child will add an extra fireplace after marriage, and cooking will be undertaken by each fireplace in turn. ?