Lijiang food is mainly Naxi cuisine. In addition, you can also see many Chengdu and Sichuan restaurants in and around Lijiang Old Town.

The more representative Naxi dishes include Sandieshui, Ba Dawan, and Zhigao. Mushrooms such as matsutake, chicken fir, and morel are not only valuable, but also delicious and nutritious. They are also unique delicacies of Lijiang.

Lijiang Food - Dishes Lijiang Baba: It is a major feature of the Naxi people. It has two flavors: sweet and salty. The sweet version is loved by many teenagers, while the salty version is loved by adults.

Pork liver blowing: It is a traditional famous dish that the Naxi people must have when entertaining guests. It has a special preparation method, beautiful color and refreshing taste.

Blowing pork liver means blowing the fresh pig liver into the twelfth lunar month and then drying it in the sun.

During preparation, cook the pork liver, cool it, cut it into thin slices and mix it with the above ingredients and condiments. Mix it well and it can be eaten as a dish.

Yanbajiu: Chicken stewed with tofu is a traditional delicacy that is fragrant, tender and beautiful in color.

Cut a chicken of about 1 kilogram and 200 grams of ham (cured meat can be used if you don’t have ham). Cut it into pieces and add an appropriate amount of water, ginger, and salt. After it is cooked, add in pieces of tofu and simmer over low heat for 15 to 20 minutes.

It became "Yan Bajiu".

Cured Pork Ribs Hot Pot: Naxi’s main dish, made from Lijiang Cured Pork Ribs, potatoes, bean sprouts, winter melon, and tree tomatoes in one pot. It is a main dish in the third stack of Naxi’s famous dish “Sandieshui”—the warm stack.

There is even an anecdote among the people that some tourists from Beijing immigrated to Lijiang for the sake of this opportunity.

Lijiang Food - Snack Chicken Bean Jelly: It is a traditional snack.

It is delicious, tough, delicious and cheap.

The main raw materials include chicken peas, leeks, mung bean sprouts, pepper oil, spicy oil, fried hemp seed noodles, vinegar, soy sauce, ginger juice, minced garlic, sesame oil, salt, etc.

In winter, cut into pieces, fry in a pan until brown, and serve hot.

It can also be used to make many dishes such as stir-fried leeks with jelly and stir-fried pickled vegetables.

Ice powder cold snack: Lijiang's famous snack, sweet and delicious.

Ice powder is a translucent crystal made from natural fruits, while Liangxiao is made from rice flour and looks like a small shrimp.

The jelly and jelly are mixed with brown sugar and rose petals to make rose sugar, which has a very special taste.

The old lady selling it in front of Dongba Workshop is particularly delicious.