Zhaotong, Yunnan, is a place name that I only heard on TV.

This time I was lucky enough to go on a business trip to Xiong County, Zhaotong Town, Yunnan Province, which is connected with Sichuan and Guizhou. It is known as the "three provinces of cock-crow" and is the birthplace of Chishui River.

Outside of work, I eat local delicacies every day. Personally, I think it is similar to Sichuan cuisine, but not as spicy and numb as Sichuan cuisine. The spiciness is moderate. It is similar to the Sichuan food we eat in Shanxi. Shanxi people are more adaptable.

The rice noodles I ate at the hotel yesterday morning were eaten at a breakfast shop in a residential area outside this evening. It was very local.

I ate fried potato pancakes, which were filled with chili powder, root of folded ears, and chopped green onion.

The first bite was okay, there was no weird smell, but in the second bite, I tasted the smell of Zhelian root [face covering]. It was the first time I ate the famous Zhelian root, also known as Houttuynia cordata, in a restaurant the day before. It had a very fishy smell.

It's big, very irritating, and not acceptable. It seems that the folded ear root is an indispensable bite for the locals.

[Like] I ordered another broken puff pastry bun. It looked broken from the outside, but when I took a bite, it contained pork filling inside. It tasted okay.

I ordered a bowl of mung bean porridge, and it was actually rice porridge with a few mung beans scattered in it [face covering].

Our mung bean porridge in the north is all made from mung beans.

I was given a dish of radish, which tasted normal.

In just ten minutes, I got to experience the local tastes. There are indeed great differences between the north and the south.

In addition, the locals speak Sichuan dialect, including the Guiyang guy who received us, who also speaks Sichuan dialect. It seems that Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are really one family.

I don't understand much about communicating with local people, so I have to listen to it a few times, which is a bit embarrassing.

I like to travel to various places and enjoy different scenery. When I am working in one place, I prefer to go around by myself and use my eyes, fingers, footsteps and taste buds to truly feel the vastly different customs and customs in different regions of China.

, especially in counties and villages, you can experience the most simple human fireworks.

The taste of the market is unique to a place. The dishes in big restaurants are no longer so authentic and pure in order to adapt to the public taste.