People will always think of Yunnan, a reference to a lot of beautiful places, Dali's romantic, Kunming Expo of the beautiful flowers, tropical Xishuangbanna, and so on. But here, I do not want to say this, just want to chat Yunnan food. In fact, from what to eat in a day, bit by bit can be felt throughout the atmosphere, which is easy to see this place one character. For example, the Shanghai small and exquisite cuisine, reflecting the Shanghai people's fine, the broader market into a bottle of white wine reflects the Northeastern Chinese cuisine and the Northeast were bold and passion. I feel the diet of Yunnan is a word - miscellaneous. This special geographical environment in Yunnan, Yunnan Province, gathered half of China's ethnic minorities, in all regions on the penetration into the food culture of local ethnic minorities living habits, coupled with eating habits then merged with the local specialty, In the Yunnan eating felt particularly messy. We are in different places to eat things that are completely different, with a TV series before a commonly used words to describe "any similarity is purely coincidental."
First of all, from the "Yunnan 18 strange" talking about. The so-called "Yunnan 18 strange", that is strange in Yunnan, there are 18 of them have a few strange things with food related. I am in Yunnan this time to come into contact with the two of them to eat the strange. The first strange thing is "selling flowers when the dishes." As the name suggests, in Yunnan, flowers that people dish on the table. For the first time in Yunnan, eat flowers, I did not feel that ate flowers. It was in a county seat in a restaurant, when a food, do not see what it was, to eat a good time to feel the taste is felt may be a small fish, fried things, they also eat a few mouth. Noon the following day, we eat a dish, eating a local, this is a local specialty of a flower bud. I am very surprised, quickly inside out a careful watch, really! Petal, flower pin, stamen everything with the whole incredible and unexpected. The second eating flowers, the eating is the Pomegranate. Pomegranate relatively large, can parade out of a recognition of its petals is very thick, fried came out, eat very good mouth feel, you can use the "three-ching" to describe: crisp, fragrant and light. The second strange thing is the "straw hat when the lid." This hat is a special little straw hat, not the usual kind of wear our straw hats. Encountered at the time when this strange thing to eat is that things bamboo Egg, in the bamboo tube on the cover of a small straw hat, very small, fine, that is, size is not the same as with the usual straw hat, the other goes for the general , very fun, I do not know why they do this? Yes Creative design, or another source.
Doing dishes to eat poison, which was to be my most thrilling experiences in Yunnan. Once eat with "Aconitum" stew into a soup. Said that under the "Compendium of Materia Medica," on the record, "Aconitum" naturally are highly toxic. However, when we do not know the local people introduced to us that this is Kusnezoffii stewed chicken, very nourishing, within one year after eating may not be too cold. Since there is such an advantage, of course, want it. Clip a piece of chicken, feeling bitter, they say hard on the right, otherwise they may be poisoned. Only then that they more clearly describes the Kusnezoffii are. Upon hearing this I hesitated half-day to eat or not eat, but watch the local people take a bowl of the drinking bowl, I have to be outdone, has also filled in a bowl. Do dish, in order to remove the toxicity of Aconitum to stew a few hours, the potency Kusnezoffii the taste of chicken has been completely integrated together. I picked up a spoon drink and almost did not spit, the taste of its extremely bitter. I normally eat the most bitter things to the number of cold heat granules, and it's among the best in taste, cold Qingre granules have sugar, also mixed with a trace of bitter sweet, and this soup its taste is pure Kusnezoffii The bitterness, there is no hint of savor. Compared to the experience of eating poison, the other to eat locusts, honey, bamboo worms and other insects such things simply can not be what it is.
Yunnan people like booze, according to their own say on the drink in China's Yunnan Province in addition to the number of north-east should. Yunnan has an ethnic minority, which was originally hunting, and later to assist the Government, asking them to change agriculture. But not willing to go farming. When the meeting and no one willing to come, but only one to mention a drink, the locals will be able to come together at once. So, had to be met, they informed that drinking, open and everyone will end with the swill. Also in the Dai people have focused on places where there is a custom to drink before meals, playing cards. They drank their wine is locally brewed rice wine, there are Si Shiduo about two dollars a bottle, very cheap. We all got together for dinner before we sit together and play cards, who lost to who drink, are often not eat rice, a few people get drunk more than 10 bottles of rice wine has.
Yunnan dishes practices are very simple, not as Guangdong, Shanghai and other places like the complicated cooking. In addition, the local people eat more complicated, I think this is a number of ethnic minorities, in the past economic underdevelopment have great relationships. In order to survive, do not pay attention to fine cooking, as long as things can eat food. This custom continues to this day will be the formation of Yunnan today's eating habits. Therefore, from the diet of people of Yunnan have a rough idea. They are addicted to drink, straightforward, simple, warm.
Author: kevin_shaw
