1, Naxi barbecue

Naxi barbecue is a traditional caravan dish popular on the ancient tea-horse road in Lijiang. It is made of fresh pork belly marinated with spices, then baked and fried. It looks shiny and greasy, but it tastes golden and soft. The fat meat is fat but not greasy, and the lean meat is tender and fragrant.

2, ribs hot pot

Lijiang preserved pork ribs are pickled with pork ribs and a lot of salt. Some of them will add some auxiliary wine, sugar and spices. And put them in a bucket that can filter water. After about 15 days of salting, the salt flavor has penetrated into the bone marrow, and the flavor of bone and meat has merged together, and a large amount of water has been salted out. At this time, the smell of meat is not enough; After salting, take it out and dry it in a cool and ventilated place for one to three months, and then its taste will become "full of bacon".

3, rice enema

Rice enema can be divided into black rice enema and white rice enema. Black rice enema is to steam glutinous rice to 90% maturity, add pig plasma, salt, fennel seeds and pepper, stir well, then pour it into pig intestines and steam it in a steamer. White rice enema is to replace pig plasma with egg white, and it is white rice enema after steaming. After steamed by enema, rice can be sliced and eaten hot, or cooled and fried in oil. No matter how you eat it, it is very refreshing, and it is an essential food for Naxi people to treat.

4.yogurt

There are two famous yoghurts in Lijiang. One is yak yogurt, which is sold everywhere. They are no different from other yoghurts, but they are particularly delicious. The other is A 'an Yogurt on Wuyi Road. Now it is brewed with rich yogurt in a beautiful antique bowl with blue flowers. People can't help but miss this beautiful classic while enjoying the delicious food.

5. Lijiang bean stew rice

Yunnan province has four seasons like spring, and fresh vegetables are available all year round. In the dead of winter, vegetables such as green broad beans and green peas are on the market. The so-called green broad bean rice is the green broad bean that has not yet fully matured in its growing period. Peel off the two shells, leaving the meat naturally green, tender and sweet. During the Spring Festival every year, green broad beans or green peas are on the market. People always make bean stew rice to taste the new customs, and people often process it into mung bean stew rice to entertain guests. Bean stew rice tastes like bean green rice and white meat, and tastes like bean sweet rice and glutinous rice with unique flavor.

6. Steamed chicken in Lijiang

Steamed chicken is named after being steamed in a steamer. The purple pottery steamer produced by Jianshui in the south of Kunming is made of local red, yellow, cyan, purple and white clay, which has the characteristics of "color like copper, sound like a chime, light like a mirror and never fading". Steamed chicken is one of the famous dishes in Yunnan, which was circulated among the people in southern Yunnan as early as 2000 years ago. Jianshui produces a unique ceramic steamer, called "steamer", which is specially used for steaming food.

7. Blow the liver

The eating method of pig liver is often used by all ethnic groups in northwest Yunnan (Bai, Yi, Naxi, etc.). ). Blow the fresh pork liver to the maximum with the inserted straw, then remove the straw, steam the expanded pork liver in a steamer, cool it, slice it, and mix it with coriander, soy sauce, vinegar, pepper, monosodium glutamate and salt. Very refreshing, without the unique unpalatable taste of pig liver.

8, ice powder cool night

It's refreshing to eat ice powder at night, which is a snack in many places in Yunnan. Have a bowl of roadside food from the ancient city, which is sweet and delicious and has a unique flavor. Ice powder is a special kind of small fruit, wrapped in gauze and kneaded into translucent crystals, which are smooth and delicious. Liang Xiao is made of rice flour. After cooking a pot of rice noodles, use a special hat to drain out the small particles, and the taste is also very special. When eating, scoop in a few spoonfuls of red syrup, rose sugar, ice powder, sesame seeds, etc. It's on Sifang street.

9. Lijiang Baba

Lijiang Baba is a unique flavor food of Naxi nationality with a long history, which was recorded in Xu Xiake's travel notes in Ming Dynasty. One of its characteristics is good color, smell and taste. Its main raw material is high-quality wheat flour produced in Lijiang, and the dough is filled with the clear spring of Yulong Snow Mountain. Rub vegetable oil on marble slate, then roll it into blocks, rub it with melted oil, sprinkle ham powder or white sugar, roll it into a cylinder, flatten both ends, wrap sesame seeds and walnut kernels in the middle, and then bake it in a pot with slow fire until golden brown.

10, chicken bean jelly

On the streets of Old Town of Lijiang, there is also a famous snack called "chicken bean jelly". Chicken bean jelly is a bean jelly snack made from chicken beans (also known as "chicken peas") produced in Lijiang. Because chicken beans are rich in melanin and the appearance of bean jelly is black, people also call it "black bean jelly". Soak chicken beans thoroughly, grind and filter them into slurry, then boil them into ash, and put them into various containers for cooling and molding, which is chicken jelly.