When it comes to the delicious food near Yunda, perhaps the most neglected place is near the North Gate. The north gate faces the 121 Street, and there are many digital products shopping malls in the whole street. If there are any delicious snacks around here, you have to say the alley next to Yunnan University for Nationalities.
When you walk into the alley, you can see the bustling crowds and numerous food stalls. There are a wide variety of snacks, such as Dali Bai bean jelly, Yuxi-style snacks, Dangdan dumplings, fried Lamian Noodles, fried potato, hot and sour rice noodles and so on, among which stinky tofu rice noodles are the most distinctive. Of course, you can eat rice noodles everywhere in Yunnan, such as native rice noodles, tofu rice noodles, cold rice noodles, canned rice noodles, etc., but this stinky tofu rice noodle is not so easy to find, and here you can eat a bowl of stinky tofu rice noodles with unique flavor for only three yuan and fifty cents. Continue along the alley, and you will see some small restaurants when you come to the railway. The facade is not big, but it has authentic food. There is a "Dongdong" hotpot restaurant that often can't find an empty seat. Vegetables and all kinds of meat are strung together with a bamboo stick half a foot long, and the strings are neatly placed on the shelf according to the types. Just take whatever you want, and you can have a spicy and delicious hot pot at only 2 cents for a string and five yuan for the bottom of the pot!
If there are the most concentrated and distinctive cuisines near Yunda, it should be Cultural Lane and Wen Lin Street near Ximen. With the change of years, Culture Lane is no longer that shabby alley. There are more exotic flavors and delicacies in the cultural lane. There are Korean, Thai and Japanese shops next to each other in the whole street, such as Hanjiang River, Free and Beautiful Restaurant, Mana, Arirang, Teresa, Indian Kitchen and Pot House, and so on, which make you dazzled.
Only the Korean restaurant "Hanjiang" has two stores in this alley. The boss is a Korean, and he has opened a shop in Yunnan for several years. The "Hanjiang River" has also developed many chain stores. Personally, I think its seashell soup rice is very delicious, and the soup is thick. After eating, the mouth is full of delicious seafood. The "free" food tastes good and the price is not expensive. It is a good choice for classmates and friends to get together there at ordinary times. I didn't eat "Indian Caicai", but my friend said it was delicious, especially the curry there was very authentic, but the price was a little high. "Mana" is a place worth visiting. Flavor beef and Jinsha corn are classic dishes, especially matcha cake, which is full of the fragrance of tea and the waxy fragrance of cake. There is something you can't eat in Mana. Its main ingredients are white cream, coffee, chocolate powder, wine, etc. Because it is taken out of the refrigerator when you eat it, it is called "ice cake". It's cold to eat, and a sip of coffee can only be understood, and such comforts are only priced at 1 yuan. The person in charge told me that "manna" is a kind of delicious food in the Bible. Even if it is only for such a wonderful name, I should try the taste here. Next to "Mana" is a shop called "Jialai". If the owner manages Thai hot pot, if he has friends who like Thai flavor, he can come here to try it. There is a shop on this road that you must not miss, and that is "Hujiu Snack". The owner of this shop is Yuxi-style, and the special snacks such as ice porridge, pea powder and cold rolled powder are all authentic, especially the rose cake, which tastes fragrant and sweet and has a waxy taste. Many girls come here to eat this. Here, I would like to strongly introduce you to a griddle-eating shop called Happy Golden Sun Spicy Crab Hotpot Restaurant. In a place called Fengjie Street, the street name sounds strange. In fact, the store is not far from Yunda. When you get out of Wen Lin Street, turn left from the hutong of Longxiang Street and go on for dozens of meters. The spicy taste of this dry pot is very special. Red Chili oil sinks to the bottom of the pot, tempting your taste buds. Want to serve a dry pot, and then order some other dishes and stir-fry them together. When eating, I sigh the spicy aroma and the delicious taste, and the price is moderate. Oh! I almost forgot that the "Yixingzhai" on Jianshe Road is also a good place to eat, especially when winter is coming. There, you have to serve a jar of folk crock soup. All kinds of soups are very suitable for cold weather, and you have to serve a few broken cakes. You can also buy a roast duck, drink soup and eat steamed buns with roast duck. What a beauty!
Go out from the south gate of Yunda and you will come to Cuihu North Road. Cuihu Lake has always been an important place for Kunming people to relax and entertain, and there are numerous bars, tea bars and emotional restaurants. There are many western restaurants next to each other, such as Jingana, Golden Coast, Acacia after a drink, and Sand Washing in the Holy Land. For example, "Holy Land Taosha" has always been committed to recommending coffee culture to fashionistas. It was the first to introduce coffee maps from all over the world, which can let you know the basic knowledge of world-famous coffee and coffee culture around the world. And launched a unique "coffee on-site table service" to present the whole process of making coffee to the guests, and "tailor-made" their own coffee according to their preferences. Drinking coffee, tasting spaghetti and Hawaiian dried fruit steak, a pleasant state of mind naturally lingers in my heart. That kind of rigorous and romantic western food is interpreted as a classic in Kunming. Noble western foods such as flickering candlelight, crystal red wine, beautiful fruit salad and mysterious fancy coffee are often mixed with local hot and sour noodles and fried rice with eggs on a table. In addition to the western restaurant, there are several hot pot restaurants near the south gate, such as Weitenghai Hot Pot and Qianhe Bone King Hot Pot. The signature of this restaurant is the bone pot, a secret sauce bone in a big casserole, and a pair of gloves and a straw will be included in the matching tableware to facilitate customers to chew bones with their hands, and that straw is used to suck bone marrow, which is a very intimate little detail. However, if you want to eat here, you have to book in advance. You know, everyone enjoys eating delicious food.
If the store on Cuihu North Road is "Yangchun Baixue", then the store on Yuanxi Road near the east gate of Yunda is "Xialiba people". It is definitely consumed by civilians, and there are many snacks from all over the country, such as Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou, Pancakes with Coarse Grains in Shandong, Mongolian Barbecue, Cold Rice Noodles in Xi 'an, Rice Noodles in Huaxi, Guiyang, and Chicken Oil Rice in Taipei ... There are also special snacks in Yunnan, such as Tengchong Bait Silk, Dai Family, and Fuyuan Tui Rice Noodles, which attract many diners every day. Especially "Dai people's family", Dai-flavored grilled fish, Dai-flavored sour soup, pineapple rice, fried meat with sour bamboo shoots, old milk potato and distinctive fried banana flower, roasted pork belly and citronella grilled fish, the names will make you swallow your mouth. Ghost chicken, in particular, sounds terrible, but it's not. The fiery red pepper, strong garlic and tender shredded chicken make this dish colorful, and the rich spicy taste greatly increases people's appetite. On this road, I personally think that the most worth introducing to you is the golden clay pot crossing the bridge rice noodles. A big casserole with a bowl of rice noodles and a plate of ingredients, pour the rice noodles and ingredients into the boiling soup pot and stir it to enjoy the food. Rice noodles are smooth, tender and tasty. After drinking soup, the whole stomach is warm, and its soup can only be scooped out of this tall casserole with a big spoon, which adds some interest.