Smoked Smelly Bean Curd
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.
Local specialties include:
Steam Potted Chicken
With tienchi & steam potted chicken with cordyceps used to be made in a restaurant famous for this course. 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
The "goujie roasted duck" produced in the goujie street of yiliang is extraordinarily delicious, with the crispy and yellowish skin, soft and tender duck meat, has a special slight flavor of pine needles.
Xuanwei Ham
Dates back to 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 buy canned xuanwei ham.
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 peapowderbroad bean or pea.
Qujing Pickled Chives Flower
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.
Over-the-Bridge Rice Noodles
è¿æ¡¥ç±³çº¿; guoqiao mixian 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.
The Eight Treasures of Yunnan
Of all the well-known yunnan cakes, the eight treasures of yunnan comes 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.
Fried goats cheese
rubing, sometimes served with sugar or black pepper and salt. on the street, girls dressed in dali minority costumes offer rubing with hershey's chocolate, rose flavor, and condensed milk. occasionally mixed in with green beans.
Local barbeque
At night , steet vendors set up charcoal grills to barbeque potatoes, zucchinis, pork, chicken, beef on skewers - all sprinkled liberally with powdered local chili. the taste is excellent & incredibly spicy - typically pay â¥1-2 per skewer for a great street meal.
Stinky Tofu
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granola-bar type snacks
Muslim vendors can be found hawking granola-bar type snacks in the older part of town north of the train station. A tough but tasty treat sold by the kilo, the vendor will chop a piece off a huge nut- and honey-filled cake, and make bars or squares as you like.
Many restaurants in Kunming offer localized food delivery. One particularly convenient restaurant delivery service in Kunming is called Lazy Bones Home Delivery. They deliver food for restaurants like Daddyâs Diner all over Kunming. Unfortunately they charge a small fee. You can find them on the web or call â532 2515
Heavenly Manna
Yunnan style restaurant in the very trendy and fashionable Wenlin Street area. Fantastic food at reasonable prices. The drinks are less than ¥10. The cakes are also worth trying.
