Mengla County is a county-level city in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which is rich in Dai culture and food. The best food in Mengla County is the Dai specialty. Let's visit the local food culture in Mengla County.
The local people's favorite must be the Dai people crossing the bridge rice noodles, which is an emotional food. The dishes are composed of chicken, pork liver, ham, beef omasum, vegetables, egg flowers, rice noodles and other ingredients. It is characterized by delicious taste, mellow soup and Q-shaped rice noodles. When ordering this dish, the store will send the fresh bottom of the soup to the table with a special hot pot, so that you can season it by hand. Moreover, the locals all say that the longer the soup base of crossing the bridge rice noodles is cooked, the more mellow it will taste.
Barbecue is also a very popular food in Mengla County. The local roasted crocodile meat and roasted bird meat are not to be missed. Barbecued crocodile meat is crisp and delicious, and tastes like chicken. The method is to wash crocodile meat with vinegar first, then marinate it with some onion, ginger and garlic and some seasonings, and finally it can be roasted. In addition, in Mengla County, kebabs made of various birds are also the favorite of barbecue lovers, and the unique local delicacies are worth trying.
The last course is the Yunnan Dai flavor that the public must order-shark's fin with Dai sauce. This dish is a representative of the hospitality of the Dai people. What is provided here is pure natural shark's fin. It is placed in a special Dai fish pot, and fresh spices such as pepper, sour pomelo, cinnamon, clove and star anise are added, and a unique taste is slowly stewed. Eat a bite of fish, spicy, fragrant and fresh instantly burst in the mouth, making people's lips and teeth fragrant. This is one of the best Dai dishes in Mengla County.
These are the best dishes in Mengla County, attracting tourists to experience them. If you have the opportunity to come here, you might as well find a Dai restaurant with a particularly good reputation and taste the local food culture so that your taste buds can be satisfied.