Baoshan is the first city in ancient Ailao. In the long history, it has left a splendid cultural landscape. As far as food culture is concerned, there are the famous Sichuan poison road "Ma Bang Cuisine", the secret system of the Central Plains "Ba Si Er" and the Emperor Yongli's "Great Rescue" and so on. The two feasts promoted in Kunming this time include cold dishes, hot dishes, staple foods, pasta and other staple foods, as well as desserts, drinks, local specialty fruits and other side dishes. The banquet not only tells the cultural story, human geography and natural resources of Baoshan, but also arouses people's desire and saliva for food from all angles of "color, fragrance".
Yongchang Mansion Banquet: Each dish is a cold dish of the cultural Yongchang Mansion Banquet, including three dishes: big-roasted crispy square, red-born qidan and braised by mechanic. Hot dishes include Hongzu shredded bamboo shoots, Jiangshan in a bowl, brown rice shrimp, south red beef, and horsetails, etc. The staple food is called "dried noodles with fresh flower sauce" and the pastry is called "Yongchang mung bean". Each cold dish has its own unique historical allusions and cultural background.
For example, Da Shao Cui Fang, which originated in the Ming Dynasty. When Deng Zilong, a patriotic general, camped in Yongchang, several soldiers who followed him saw the scenery of Zeguo in the river map of Yongchang, which was somewhat like the south of the Yangtze River, and they were homesick. So they decided to cook a hometown dish. After the soldiers slaughtered the strong pigs to remove their hair, they emptied the water and sewed the seams. Coat the pig with sesame oil, honey, mineral salt, tsaoko, etc. for half a day, then add the pig to chestnut charcoal and bake it until the skin is crisp outside and tender inside. The soldiers cut it into squares and ate it, and later named it Big Burning Crispy Square.
Another example is the rice and shrimp dumplings in hot dishes. In 1945, Mr. Li Genyuan resigned and returned to his hometown. He lived in Tengchong and lived a simple life, with only one porridge and two dishes a day. But Mr. Wang especially likes zongmi produced by Tengchong Gudong generation, with a little shrimp or fried or boiled. When RoyceWong, an old friend, visited Li Genyuan, Mr. Wang cooked this dish every day to entertain his old friends. RoyceWong found that this dish was not only delicious, but also cool and purging fire. He even made a special trip to compose a poem for this dish called "Brown Bamboo Shoots".
The dessert "Yongchang Mung Bean", also known as "Century Pudding", tells the story of a foreign friend in Baoshan. Si Nuo, a famous journalist, arrived in Kunming in 193, and began his journey to the clouds. He found that western food culture had penetrated into people's lives in Si Nuo, Tengchong. After getting to know Forrest, a famous botanist, Forrest's private chef made a dessert named "Century Pudding" for Si Nuo, which was recorded in the famous book Red Star over China by Si Nuo.
Crazed Mountain Hot Sea Banquet: the rebirth of peasant earthen pots
Crazed Mountain Hot Sea is a famous landscape in Tengchong. The banquet revolves around the proposition of "hot mountains and hot seas", innovative ideas, layout structure, seamless and distinct levels. The banquet is divided into three levels from top to bottom. The first level is the earthen pot, whose chimney symbolizes the volcano rushing and the earthen pot symbolizes the boiling of the hot sea. The second level symbolizes the volcanic platform. On the "platform", nine specially-made tableware form nine beaded volcanoes surrounded by beads, symbolizing 99 volcanoes and 88 hot springs in Tengchong. The third floor is the table top, symbolizing the flat dam of volcano, and twelve dishes represent twelve months, symbolizing the prosperity of Tengchong land every month and abundant seasons. Some tableware in this banquet are earthenware products fired in Tengchong, which are simple and beautiful, earthy and fragrant, giving people a sense of returning to nature.
The names of the dishes in "Hot Mountain" are "Seeking Fish by the Edge of Wood", "Gold and Silver Piles", "Driving Horse Meat by the Ancient Road", "Red Line Marriage", "Emerald Phoenix Rescue" and "Caravan Hamburg", and so on. Each dish is a landscape, which fully arouses people's vision, taste and smell, and also inspires and affects diners.