Yunnan cuisine is as varied as the flowers there. Due to the complicated region and numerous ethnic groups, each ethnic group has its own special diet. Tonghai and Mengzi are the representatives of southern Yunnan. The grass buds in Jianshui, the tofu in Shiping and the rice noodles crossing the bridge in Mengzi are all famous for their refinement. Northeast Yunnan is the only way to enter the Central Plains, with developed business and relatively developed food culture. Bean curd, hot and sour chicken, buckwheat jelly and crisp red beans are all famous local foods there. You can't miss the casserole fish and hot and sour fish in Dali, western Yunnan, and the Lijiang Baba and Eight Bowls in Lijiang. Midu's trotters, the wind blowing the liver, Tengchong's rescue, fried bait blocks and various cold wild vegetables are all very local.

Yunnan cuisine is prepared on the basis of unique raw materials with special seasonings and processing methods. In contrast, Yunnan cuisine uses more sauces and spices than other local cuisines, and its eating method is unique.

sauce

many dishes in Yunnan use sauce as seasoning, such as Zhaotong sauce, which is salty, fresh, spicy and fragrant, which is somewhat similar to XO sauce in Guangdong. It is very fragrant when cooked with meat. In addition, sweet soy sauce, a specialty of Yuxi, is an essential seasoning for making cold rice noodles. In addition, there are all kinds of assorted sauces, sweet noodle sauces, bean paste, Tang Chi's old sauce and so on, all of which are common seasonings in Yunnan cuisine.

Dipping in water

Another major feature of Yunnan cuisine is dipping in water, which is similar to Chaozhou cuisine in Guangdong. Different dishes should be eaten with different dipping water. For example, if you eat wasp pupae and bamboo worms, you should dip them in water with salt and pepper; if you eat tofu in a copper pot, you should paste chili pepper; if you eat Yunnan spring rolls, you should mix them with fermented bean curd; and "Nanmi" hot sauce is a special dip in water for the Dai people, so you should mix it with a little when you eat many dishes. It is precisely because of these "dips in water" that the taste of Yunnan cuisine is more rich.

pickles

pickles sound a bit abrupt at first glance. In fact, many "pickles" in Yunnan can be eaten alone, and they are also an important part of cooking and seasoning. Besides, there are famous local "pickles" in different places, such as Midu pickled vegetables, radish mash in Jiangchuan, lobster sauce in Yimen and fermented bean curd in Shilin.

great rescue

great rescue rack is one of the famous foods in Yunnan, which is actually fried bait pieces. The bait block is made of rice and is unique to Yunnan. According to ancient records, the food made by wheat was collectively called "cake" in ancient times, and the food made by rice was "bait". Yunnan is the birthplace of ancient humans. Rice planting has a long history. By the end of the lunar calendar, every household should choose the best rice, wash it, soak it, steam it, put it in a jar, grind it as fine as mud, rub it with beeswax on the chopping board, and then knead it into rectangular, oval and oblate shapes, which is called "bait feed" as a gift food. After a long time, ordinary people will put it.

Fried bait pieces were originally ordinary snacks, and they became famous because of an allusion. According to legend, in the late Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui entered Kunming, and Yongli Emperor Wang Gui Zhu Youlang fled to western Yunnan in panic. Fled to Tengchong, it was getting late, and lived in the village. The host fried a plate of bait to satisfy his hunger. The fallen emperor was born in the deep palace, and after months of long-distance travel, he lived a hard life. Today, he ate this food, such as eating delicacies, and said, "It's really a rescue." Since then, Tengchong bait block has gained a reputation as a "great rescue." This point is red, green, white and yellow, and the bait is fine, waxy and smooth, fresh, sweet and beautiful, oily but not greasy, and is well known.

Dry-baked shredded potato

"Children who eat potatoes grow up" (children mean handsome and beautiful) is a mantra of Yunnan people. It can be seen that it is delicious and famous. Potato is the most famous in Zhaotong, and it is easy to learn by eating many ways. The common methods are blowing dim sum, frying potato cake, frying potato shreds, braising potato, old milk potato, cold potato, pickled potato soup, potato braised rice and so on.

Dry-baked shredded potato is the most common and famous potato dish in Yunnan. Although it is similar to dry-fried shredded potato, the final product is to stir-fry shredded potato into a thin round cake. Although it looks simple, it takes a lot of effort to actually make it. Generally, it takes about 5 minutes to fry shredded potato before baking it into a pancake. It tastes crisp and very delicious.