Over the Bridge Rice Noodles
It
is a typical Yunnan local flavor that could only be tasted in some
parts of Yunnan. The Over the Bridge Rice Noodles has along
history and it carries with itself a vivid love story.
This famous dish consists of several courses and a big bowl of
chicken soup with very thick oil on top to keep the heat for
cooking the food items, including raw pork, cooked chicken pieces,
pork liver, slices of squid and slices of carp for the first
course to be dipped into the boiling hot soup. Vegetables are then
added afterwards as the second course, and the rice noodles follow
as the last course. It is a kind of snack food in Yunnan . Surely
enough , you are eager to have a taste of Yunnan Over the Bridge
Rice Noodles. Steam Potted Chicken,
Steam Potted Chicken with Tienchi & Steam Potted
Chicken with Cordyceps
In
the old times , there used to be a restaurant famous for its steam
potted chicken. Later they created a new variety with gastrodia
tuber in the soup, becoming one of the well known local nutritious
dishes in Kunming. Early in the Qianlong Era of the
Qing Dynasty, the steam potted chicken became popular among the
common people. Jianshui County has a long history in producing the
best pottery ware in Yunnan. Pots produced in this county has
different shapes and forms. The steam pot has a
hollow tube fixed in the center, up to the height of the pot. Food
including the raw chicken pieces, ginger, salt and so forth are
put around the tube and the pot is placed onto a bigger pot with
boiling water underneath. Steam will come up from the small hole
in the middle to heat the food in the pot. The Chicken will be
ready about three or four hours. The same method is used to cook
other food and will increase the flavor of the dish.
Yiliang Roasted Duck Have you ever heard that
the Yiliang Roasted Duck can be compared with the famous Beijing
Duck? Only they are roasted each in their
own
way. Therefore, they have different tastes. The "Goujie (dog
street) Roasted Duck" produced in the Goujie Street of Yiliang is
extraordinarily delicious, with the crispy and yellowish skin,
soft and tender duck meant, has a special slight flavor of pine
needles. Xuanwei Ham Xuanwei
Ham is also famous as Yunnan Ham, one of well-known hams in China.
The history of Xuanwei ham dates back to the fifth year of
YongZheng times in Qing Dynasty (AD 1727). Xuanwei ham won a prize
at the Panama Fair in 1915. In 1923, Mr. Sun Zhongshan wrote an
inscription "Yin He Shi De" (which means "eat properly for a sound
mind") for Xuanwei ham and taste it at a food competition held in
Guangzhou. Xuanwei ham has been selling well to Southeastern Asia
and European countries. As a rule, the Xuanwei ham
is processed during the winter. Select the best pork leg and press
out the pork blood completely. Rub it with salt and smoke or air
it dry after the salt permeates to a certain depth of the pork.
Try to test the pork leg in three when the surface of the pork
turn in green. The quality standard is to have the ham fragrance
from three needles punched in the pork. Cut the ham open from the
middle, it looks bright in color and has a clean fresh color. It
can be preserved well in cellar with low moisture or in a
warehouse with good air conditioning. Xuanwei ham can be bought
from any big or small stores. If not convenient for travelling, it
is possible to by canned Xuanwei ham. Sweet
Tonghai Peapowder Candy The sweet Tonghai
peapowder candy is a famous traditional snack. It is very easy to
get it from any store and shopping stand. The
ingredients of the sweet Tonghai Peapowder Candy is made of
quality white sugar, rice cerealose, and roasted peapowder(broad
bean or pea). Er Kuai (Rice Cake)
Er Kuai is made of quality rice, pressing it into its form after
the rice is cooked, so it is called "rice cake".
There are different ways in cooking Er Kuai. You can boil, roast,
or oil fry it. Er Kuai is a very popular local dish, it is
indispensable to every household during Lunar New Year family
party. A special cooking method is to smoke if over
a charcoal fire, then put some jam on the top. Er Kuai cooked in
the way is often found at the breakfast table in Yunnan.
Meigui ( Rose ) Rutabaga Meigui rutabaga (
preserved rutabaga with rose smell ) has a history of over seven
hundred years. It is made of selected local quality rutabaga.
Eryuan Cheese Piece Eryuan in Dali Bai
Nationality Prefecture is a hometown of diary cows. Cheese is one
of the diary products. It is made of yogurt and fresh cow milk.
After being boiled, the mixture of the yogurt and milk is made
into a shape of fan. It can be oil fried or baked for eating. It
is one of the major food items in the Three Courses Bai Tea
Ceremony. It is easily kept for a period of time and is easy to
cook. Lunan Preserved Smelly Bean Curd
It is said that the production of Lunan Smelly Preserved Bean Curd
has a long history. The main ingredients include smelly bean curd,
chili, anise and fennel, and some additives such as wine.
Qujing Pickled Chives Flower This local
product was first produced in the Guanxu Year of the Qing Dynasty.
Main ingredients include chives flower, salt, wine, chili, and
brown sugar. Sweet Pickled Kaiyuan Chinese Onion
Kaiyuan is a place in the south Yunnan and it is famous for its
delicious sweet pickled Chinese onion. It is made of the Chinese
onion, salt, chili, brown sugar, wine. After being sealed in a jar
for three months, it is ready. It tastes crispy and slightly
sweet. Smoked Smelly Bean Curd
It is one of the popular snacks found in the night snack market in
Kunming. Quality Bean Curd is used as the raw material and it is
smoked over a charcoal fire. If you have chance to be at the night
snack market in Kunming, remember to experience it yourself.
The Eight Treasures of Yunnan Of all the well
- known Yunnan cakes, the Eight Treasures of Yunnan comes the
first. It is packed in eight small pieces. It consists of one hard
- skin cake, a ham - stuffed moon part, two crispy white parts
stuffed with puree and two crispy parts stuffed with sesame,
peanuts, mushroom and rutabaga pickle. |