Dali is a paradise on earth, with endless landscapes and scenery.

Dali's diet also has some unique features, such as bait and milk fans.

Bait is a wonderful thing.

When I first arrived in Dali, I heard the locals refer to the word "bait" when talking about food. I had never heard of "bait" that could be eaten by anyone other than fish. I was so excited and puzzled.

Local people eat "bait", including "bait silk" for breakfast, and "bait cubes" for breakfast and snacks. There are also some messy food that cannot be named, which are collectively called "XX bait".

In fact, people from the mainland will know what's going on when they eat it: any red sauce mixed with fermented bean curd is qualified to be called "XX bait".

Dali people really like this set.

It is strange to say that fermented bean curd, which we are accustomed to in our hometown, can become so delicious and durable in the hands of Dali people that you can never tire of it.

Dali has a dry climate, so people eat mostly dry food.

Breakfast is a thick rice-noodle mixture that looks like Guilin round rice noodles. It has the smoothness and toughness of rice noodles, but the chewiness of flour. It is really a wonderful idea and good food.

Cooking this thing is the same as cooking noodles. Take it out after cooking, add a little bit of soup, and then scoop a spoonful of real "bait shreds" - ordinary people in Dali often use seasonings with fermented bean curd and chili peppers to put pigs on.

Fry the shredded pork in oil and leave it until it cools down and condenses into a big bowl. For breakfast, add a spoonful to the noodles and drink the hot soup. It tastes a bit like northern fried noodles, and the taste is weird.

It's so delicious, it's really amazing.

Bait cubes are made from two thin pieces of dry flour cake with chili fermented bean curd sauce in the middle. It has a strange texture and is full of fragrance when you bite it, as if you bite into it and the fragrant flavor overflows.

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The breast fan is another fun thing.

It looks like a pile of enlarged spring roll wrappers—it’s rare to see fresh spring roll wrappers sold in the south these days and made at home—it’s a stack of large, round pancakes that are translucent.

, dry, hard, smells faintly of milk powder, very tempting.

The method is to boil the milk in a large pot, and add something to make the milk solidify. It can be regarded as a local curd - once the surface solidifies, lift it up layer by layer and spread it out to dry, which is like a milk fan.

Milk fan is a common dish in Dali.

It's a bit like the way southerners fry lobster slices. Break them into pieces with your hands and put them in a frying pan over low heat to fry slowly. Small bubbles will appear on the fan one by one, and finally the whole thing will become fluffy.

, put it on a plate, sprinkle some sugar and eat - a very simple and convenient dish.

It tastes good, the freshly fried milk fans are crispy, sweet, rich in frankincense, and crispy after being left for a while, and the lobster slices are heaven and earth, so much better - it just doesn't feel like a dish but like a snack, although

Local people eat it seriously as a dish.

The most interesting thing about the milk fan is that it is an animal food that can be eaten without killing animals, and the monks in Dali can also eat it.

Dali has beautiful scenery, surrounded by Diancang Mountain. There are countless temples and nunneries scattered in the mountains. I don’t know how many monks, nuns and masters are healthy and prosperous because of the achievements of the breast fan. It’s no wonder that the king of Dali always likes to become a monk. Anyway, whether he is a monk or not, he has a breast fan.

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The monks in Dali thus became among the happiest monks.

Speaking of monks, when I visited Cangshan Mountain, I served a simple vegetarian dish at a tea pavilion. In addition to mountain mushrooms and wild vegetables, the milk fan was served with another pot of something. At first glance, I thought it was a milk fan, but it was very yellow.

After asking the chef, I found out that it is something called "Huang Kanpi". It is said that it is made from beans or wild plants that have been mashed and dried in the sun. The strange thing is that it tastes and smells like milk.

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