There are many handicrafts in Honghe Prefecture, such as Gejiu tin handicrafts and Jianshui purple pottery. Especially the purple pottery steam pot is the most famous, which is generally used to steam chicken, pigeon and other meat products. Steamed food The meat tastes particularly delicious. There are also rice cakes from Mengzi and sweet clams from Kaiyuan, both of which are local specialties. These things can usually be purchased authentically in the place of production, and the price is not too expensive. However, purple pottery vessels are best packed well, otherwise they will be easily broken.

Milk-coated tofu

In Yunnan, when talking about tofu, people will naturally think of Honghe Prefecture. Tofu is quite famous in Honghe Prefecture. The types of tofu are also all kinds of strange, including Shiping tofu, There are countless ways to eat tofu in milk, small tofu, dried tofu, water tofu, etc. Different counties and cities have their own unique ways of making and eating them. Today we will recommend a famous snack - grilled tofu in milk. .

Bao Bao Tofu looks no different from ordinary tofu on the outside, but when it is cooked, bite into the tofu and a white liquid will flow out, hence the name Bao Tofu. It is most commonly eaten fried or grilled. The fried ones should be eaten while hot, while the grilled ones should wait and are most delicious when they are still a little warm. To bake tofu with milk, you need to master the heat and time. If the baking time is longer, the pulp will be reduced, and the deliciousness will naturally be compromised.

Others include cross-bridge rice noodles, kohlrabi, and crystal sweet pomegranates from Mengzi; lion cakes, bird's nest crisps, Jianshui grass sprouts from Jianshui, small roll noodles, longans, gecko wine, and grass fruits from Kaiyuan ; Shiping’s tofu, lychee cakes, bayberry, and fried fish with eight sides; Gejiu’s tin handicrafts, wine, Liuguo liquid, Mayu tea, Maitreya wind-blown black beans, hawthorn wine, bear bile wine, cloud tea, and Honghe cigarettes; Yuanyang’s Nansha Ganba, terraced lychees, mangoes, bananas and terraced red rice.