Unique, mysterious, diversified ethnic cultures, magnificent natural landscape, nature has given Yunnan eternal charm. Yunnan cuisine, also known as "Yunnan cuisine", consists of three regions of the cuisine characteristics. Northeast Yunnan: Because of its proximity to the mainland, more convenient transportation, more interaction with the Central Plains, and border with Sichuan, its cooking, flavors and Sichuan cuisine is similar. Western Yunnan and Southwestern Yunnan: Because of its proximity to Tibet and its borders with Myanmar and Laos, there are more ethnic minorities, and its cooking characteristics are influenced by Tibetan, Hui, and monastery cuisine, with various ethnic minority dishes being the mainstay. South Yunnan region: mild climate, abundant rainfall, rich in natural resources, is the body of Yunnan cuisine dishes.

Second, Yunnan cuisine point characteristics:

Selected materials wide, flavorful, to cooking mountain treasures, water freshness. Its taste is characterized by fresh, tender, fragrant and sweet, moderately sour and spicy, partial sour and spicy and slightly numb, pay attention to the taste and original flavor, crispy, glutinous, heavy oil mellow and thick, cooked but not rotten, tender but not raw, embellishments are appropriate, realistic modeling.

Three representative dishes.

The more distinctive is the panax ginseng steamer chicken, wormwood steamer chicken. Steamboat chicken is Yunnan's unique high-level flavor dishes, it is cooked in a special way, tender chicken, soup, fresh, original flavor, rich in nutrients, both at home and abroad enjoys a good reputation. As early as in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years, the steamer chicken in the south of Yunnan region folk circulation, running today has been 200 years. Jianshui County in southern Yunnan region produced pottery has a long history, the style is simple, special. Local people Yang Lei use Jianshui pottery, original development of a special center with a mouth of the steamer, called: "steamer". Cooking in the steamer under a saucepan full of water, and then put the chicken into the steamer, purely by the steam will be steamed chicken. This dish soup for the steam condensed to maintain the original flavor of the original sweat, tender meat, fresh soup, y praised by diners. Since then, the steamer chicken is famous and popular in China and abroad. Later, people also in the steamer chicken with the addition of Yunnan's specialty of valuable herbs "Panax ginseng", "Cordyceps", "Tianma", etc., so that the chicken soup is more flavorful and sweet, not only to increase the nutritional and medical effects The chicken soup is more flavorful and sweet, which not only increases nutrition and medical effects, but also has a unique flavor, giving full play to the advantages of chicken hot pot which is rich in nutrients and nourishes and strengthens the body. Since then, Panax notoginseng chicken, Cordyceps chicken steamer, Tianma steamer chicken gradually become Yunnan senior unique flavor tonic dishes.

There is also the bridge rice noodle, with the material is exquisite, fine production, eating special, nutritious and popular among the masses. Mainly soup, meat, rice noodles, and condiments made. Soup with fat chicken, pig bones and other boiled, to clear and bright for the best; meat with chicken breast, pork loin, liver, cashew flower, fresh fish, ham, squid, etc. cut into thin slices, set into the dish; rice is to fine white, toughness of the best; condiments with pea tips, yellow sprouts leeks, tender spinach, cabbage with boiling slightly hot, cut into four-centimeter-long segments; plus green onion, bean sprouts, bean curd, yucca slices, and so on. Eat with a deep porcelain bowl, put monosodium glutamate, pepper, cooked chicken oil, and then the boiling chicken, meat soup into the bowl, soup hot oil thick, the bowl does not bubble a trace of hot air, soup on the table, do not taste in a hurry to prevent the soup scalded lips and tongue, first blanch into the soup of all kinds of meat, gently stir can be scalded; and then put the rice noodles into the soup; and then put into a variety of vegetables and coriander, and then according to the preferences of each person. Add chili oil, sesame oil, salt and other condiments can be eaten. Bowl red, white, yellow, green a variety of spices, food reflect, taste delicious, make people appetite Yunnan flavor buckwheat silk, money cloud legs, coconut flavor pickled pepper fried beef tenderloin, braised chicken brown mushrooms, coriander popped matsutake mushrooms, Dai lemongrass grilled fish, the Nujiang River Jinsha prawns, the GaoLiGongShan braised double treasure, the Dali sandwich sand milk fan, Yunnan cold rice noodles, Yunnan spring rolls, and so on.