The food is relatively rich, mainly ethnic flavors. Affected by the regional climate and natural resource conditions, the taste characteristics are mainly sour, spicy, fragrant and fresh.

I am here to recommend you Banna’s delicacies, which are mainly divided into four categories: 1. Flavor main meals You must eat Dai food once in Banna. If you have not tried Dai food, then your trip to Banna is in vain.

If you don’t want to order or don’t know how to order local dishes, you can directly choose a table meal prepared by the restaurant and choose different set meals according to the number of people in your party.

For example, lemongrass grilled fish, pork belly, grilled chicken, pineapple rice, wild vegetable soup, flavored boiled dried rice, and Nammi platter are all worth trying.

Wild vegetables with special flavor are not only delicious, but also different in all seasons.

If you choose to come to Banna during the rainy season, you will not only find wild vegetables and bamboo shoots, but also wild fungi and insects that will challenge you. The richness will definitely leave you speechless.

If you are traveling independently, it is a good choice to taste Dai food in Jinghong city; if you are traveling by car, go directly to Dai villages so that you can taste more authentic local dishes. Here is a recommendation for you.

The two Dai villages, Suo and Manjingbao, are places that local people like to visit.

2. The best places for Dai barbecue: Jiangbian Night Market (near Splash Square), Gaozhuang Xingguang Night Market, Manting Xiaozhai (near Splash Square) Reference price: The per capita consumption is about 50 yuan, a must for Dai barbecue

Try it, the BBQ taste is very different from other places.

Dai's barbecue dishes are rich and varied, including grilling directly on charcoal fire, baking in banana leaves, and baking in bamboo tubes. Different grilling methods can produce different tastes of food, and they can be paired with different dipping sauces to create endless flavors.

Here are several barbecue dishes recommended for you: grilled ganba, lemon grilled fish, grilled chicken, grilled ribs, grilled pig face, grilled tofu, wrapped roast pork, wrapped roasted pig brains, wrapped roasted wild vegetables, etc.

You can also try the oily beef hide, heart tube, hairy tripe, etc. The strong aroma of the ingredients is mouth-watering.

In order to neutralize the heat of barbecue, those who can tolerate bitterness can order some: seaweed, small bitter fruits, bitter cold vegetables, and water coriander.

3. The best places to taste special snacks: Jiangbian Night Market, Dai Jiangnan Bar Street Banna special snacks are highly recommended: vegetable-wrapped fish: wrapped in lettuce or raw lotus white, fried and fragrant fish, rice money, coriander, topped with special

Sauce, served with a few peanuts.

It can only be described as super delicious.

Price: About 40 yuan/portion Bamboo tube rice: filled with soaked glutinous rice, purple rice, and peanuts with Banna's unique fragrant bamboo, and slowly roasted over charcoal fire to blend the fragrance of bamboo and glutinous rice, which has also become a Banna delicacy

one of the representatives.

Price: 5-10 yuan/rice dried rice: one of the locals’ favorite breakfast!

It is similar to rice noodles and roll noodles from other places, but has a certain difference in taste. It is thin and tough, and local spices are used to blend the taste, giving it a local flavor.

7-10 yuan/bowl of cold salad: Maybe because of the climate, Banna people love cold salad. The sour cold salad takes away the heat.

Very distinctive pounded chicken feet, pounded papaya, pounded cucumber, lemon jelly, oyster sauce mango, mixed pineapple 10-20 yuan/portion Banna small corn: different from corn in other places, smaller in size, very sweet,

Worth a try.

2 yuan/piece.

4. Recommended tropical fruits: urban markets, farmers’ markets, Jiangbei Mange Fruit Wholesale Market, etc.

Mango, pineapple, coconut, passion fruit, papaya, sugar apple, avocado, egg fruit, dragon fruit, jackfruit, grapefruit, banana, plantain. There are many kinds of fruits in Xishuangbanna, which are available all year round and at affordable prices. When you come to Banna, you must try them all

You have to eat all the fruits you have seen to make your trip worthwhile.

5. Recommended shopping spots for Banna specialty products: Thai Street, major scenic spots, ethnic craft streets; Xishuangbanna allows us to take away a lot of specialties: Pu'er tea, small coffee, tropical dried fruit preserves, spices, medicinal materials and some handicrafts with strong ethnic characteristics

, such as ethnic costumes, ethnic brocades, gold and silver jewelry, black pottery, bamboo weaving, wood carvings, etc.

You can also buy Thai and Myanmar products.