Recommend five or six must-eat foods in Dali.

Dali is not only a tourist attraction, but also a gourmet kingdom. No matter in the stalls in the streets and alleys of the ancient city or in the small restaurants with rich Bai customs, you can enjoy a clear spring, taste charming flowers, feel the collision between buds and flavors, challenge raw skins and raw meat, bamboo worms and grasshoppers, and try your courage ... There are many delicious foods in Dali, so foodies don't have to be at home. You can enjoy a delicious trip while enjoying the beautiful scenery of Dali. Now I recommend ten delicious foods that Dali must eat!

Yongping braised chicken

Yongping braised chicken is known as "a chicken in western Yunnan". It is very particular about the selection of materials. It must be local high-quality native chicken to ensure the fresh and flexible taste of chicken. It is cooked with more than a dozen ingredients such as high-quality peppers, tsaoko, garlic, dried peppers and ginger. Golden color, crisp outside and tender inside, delicious taste, deeply loved by diners. Dali's annual "March Street" is a grand gathering to enjoy Yongping braised chicken. Friends who visit March Street want to eat braised chicken, so they just turn around and have a cup of tea. After a while, a plate of Yongping braised chicken was freshly baked, with Yongping's special pickles and pickled peppers. Chicken is smooth and kimchi is sour, which makes people eat it without getting tired and linger.

Food tips

To taste authentic Yongping braised chicken, it is best to go to Boda Post Station at the intersection of Qudong Expressway in Yongping and Wangxiao braised chicken hotel located in Bonan Road, the county seat. It is also a good choice to eat braised chicken in March Street in Dali from March 15 to 22 every year.

Dalibaizu casserole fish

Bai people pay attention to "freshness" in eating fish, and it is unique to protect Dali Erhai Lake to eat fish. The melted snow in the snow-capped mountains merges into the water in Erhai Lake, so the water quality nourishes the exceptionally fresh fish in Erhai Lake. The famous Dali "casserole fish" is made of fresh carp produced in Erhai with more than ten kinds of ingredients such as tender chicken slices, ham and mushrooms, which are slowly stewed in a casserole produced in Xiangyun. When serving the table, the big mat paved with vegetable leaves is boiling in the pot, and the aroma is overflowing, red and green, and colorful, which makes people's index fingers move when they see it. Eat it while it is hot and taste the fish that has absorbed more than ten kinds of rich ingredients, which can be called a delicate and delicious fish.

Food tips

If you want to eat authentic casserole fish, you can go to Renmin Road in the ancient city of go to dali. The "Meizijing Hotel" on the road and the "Xinghua Village Hotel" on Yu 'er Road are both worth a try. Friends who especially like to eat fish, especially recommend Shaba, which is a good place to eat hot and sour fish. Of course, I want to remind you that the quality of wild fish eaten in Erhai Lake is different from that in fish ponds, and the price is also different.

Dali rawhide

Dali rawhide originated in Eryuan County and developed into a traditional dish of Dali nationality. The local dialect calls it Haig. The choice and production of raw hides are particularly particular. The best raw skin is made of pig hind legs, tenderloin and loin. The pig skin is baked with straw or wheat straw until the surface of the pig skin turns yellow, then washed with water and eaten raw with seasoning. Generally, there are two ways to eat: one is that raw hides and condiments are not put together, and the condiments are dipped when eating; One is to mix raw skin and raw meat with seasoning and make cold salad directly. The most authentic rawhide tastes delicate but not fishy, sour but not evil, spicy and fragrant, and delicious.

Food tips

In different parts of Dali, raw hides are eaten in different ways. Specially recommended are Bay Bridge rawhide, Zhoucheng rawhide and Eryuan rawhide. Some people mix raw skin and raw meat with pickles, shredded radish and shredded cucumber, while others want to "dip in water". A simple way to dip in water is to dip in pepper and salt and eat directly. The other is to serve a bowl of colorful dipped water, which tastes different in different ways. Of course, rawhide is a cold dish, and people with bad stomach can selectively eat it in small amounts.

Xi Zhou Ba ba

Xizhou Baba is a popular snack in Dali urban and rural areas, also known as crispy. It is a kind of wheat flour scone with good color, fragrance and taste, and it is most famous for the local Bai traditional Baba in Xizhou. Xizhou Baba has two tastes: sweet and salty. Salty with chopped green onion, salt and pepper; Cookies are flavored with ham, diced meat and rose sugar. When baking, slowly bake the Baba in the pot with two layers of charcoal fire until it is crisp. Whether it is sweet or salty, the natural fragrance and crisp and smooth taste that play to the extreme are unforgettable.

Food tips

Xizhou Baba can be bought all the way from Xizhou to Xiaguan. The one in front of the old house in Yan Jia Courtyard, an ancient town in the Western Zhou Dynasty, is the most authentic, usually 3~5 yuan, with sweet and salty tastes. No matter which flavor it is, it's worth tasting.

Tubawan

If you are a guest of a Bai family or attend a Bai wedding banquet, you will have a chance to eat the traditional dishes of the Bai nationality-"large bowl". The large bowl refers to eight dishes, including Redmi meat, steamed fish with rice flour, thousand pieces of meat, fungus tofu, crispy bamboo shoots, gouache strips, golden beans and lily balls, plus a platter and shrimp soup. A variety of dishes combine sour, sweet, hemp and spicy tastes, and people of all ages can find delicious food that suits their appetite and has nourishing effects on their health.

Food tips

If you have friends in Dali, or have the opportunity to attend the authentic Bai Eight Bowl Banquet, you should generally let the prestigious elderly among the guests sit first, which is commonly known as "opening a banquet". When attending a wedding reception, you can also wrap your own meat and vegetables and take them home for the elderly or children, which means bringing happiness and good luck home.

Carve plums

Carved plum is a traditional famous food of Bai people in Dali, and it is also one of the more famous specialties in Yunnan. Named for carving patterns on plum fruits. The production process of carved plum is: taking salt plum as raw material, first soaking salt plum in lime water, then taking it out to dry, and then carving a continuous zigzag pattern on plum meat with a carving knife. Plum core is squeezed out from the gap, hollow as a wisp, gently pressed into a chrysanthemum-shaped, serrated plum cake, placed in a clear water basin, sprinkled with a little salt to remove the sour taste of plums, placed in a casserole, and soaked in fine brown sugar and honey for several months until plum cakes appear. Pickled carved plum is crispy and sweet. Sour and sweet, it is a kind of food beneficial to human body, because it can promote fluid production to quench thirst, stimulate appetite, refresh the mind, and is rich in nutrients such as vitamin C, glucose and amino acids.

Food tips

Carved plums can be eaten everywhere in the ancient city of Dali, with authentic taste and authentic practices, such as "Carved Plums in Yangji" at No.303 Fuxing Road.

Shaoerkuai

Traveling in Dali, walking on the street in the morning, you can see stalls at any time. There is a brazier with barbed wire in front of the stall owner. There are several white round cakes on the Internet, with red chestnuts burning under them. This is Dali bait block. After the bait is prepared, diners can add hot sauce, sweet sauce, sesame sauce, marinated tofu, peanut powder, bean sprouts, sauerkraut and minced meat according to their own tastes. According to Dali people's way of eating, you can also wrap a fried dough stick, or hot dog or ham sausage in the bait block to make the whole bait block taste richer and more fragrant. With a gentle bite, the rich stuffing will be scattered in your mouth. That kind of spicy and warm feeling will definitely make you feel unspeakable happiness.

Food tips

Many streets in the ancient city, such as Renmin Road and Fuxing Road, sell bait pieces, which are generally 5 yuan 3 ~ 1 piece and can be eaten as breakfast or snacks. In addition to baking bait pieces, you can also order fried bait pieces in many traditional Bai restaurants, which is also called saving. It's spicy and delicious, and it tastes good.

Milk fan

"Milk is sold as a fan" means "milk fan". Milk fan is a native dairy product in China, which takes milk as the ingredient, solidifies in acid water, and then pulls it out like a fan-shaped slice, which leads to the same purpose as western cheese. There are various ways to eat breast fans, such as frying, stewing, frying, and rolling into a tube with various fillings to make various delicious dishes. The most common method used by Bai people in Dali is to fry vegetable oil and sprinkle it with salt or sugar, which is mellow and delicious and has a unique flavor.

Food tips

If you buy a milk fan in Dali, you can go to Yangji Milk Fan on Renmin Road. His family is an old-fashioned milk fan in Dali ancient city. The quality of milk fans is good, and the price ranges from 30 to a catty in 40 yuan.

If you just want to taste it, it is recommended to buy a freshly baked breast enhancement fan. There are many chest fan stalls in the ancient city, and the price is around 6 yuan. Want to eat fried, all Bai restaurants in Dali can eat fried milk powder silk.

Dali sancha

Three teas are a way of drinking tea when Bai people in Yunnan entertain distinguished guests, which belongs to the category of tea culture. The first kind of tea-"Bitter Tea", also known as "Baidou Tea", tastes bitter and cold, with astringency in bitterness, which means that you have to work hard in life to make a difference. The second tea is fragrant and sweet, and it is called "sweet tea", which means that everything comes through hard work. The third kind of "aftertaste tea" is refreshing and moistening the throat, which means that life is complicated and everything should be "aftertaste". Sancha, a Bai nationality, is famous for its tea, which integrates tea drinking with tea art and life. Tea ceremony is full of profound philosophy of life.

Food tips

In Dali, there are three good places to taste the "three teas" of Bai people. One is the teahouse in the ancient city of foreigner street; Second, the Bai folk houses in Xizhou; The third is to sail on Erhai Lake by passenger ship. While intoxicated in the fairyland of "Pearl of the Plateau" and "Penglai on earth", while enjoying the "three teas" with the graceful dance of Bai girls.

Dalibaizu cold rice noodles

Rice flour is a special food in Yunnan. As the name implies, it is a linear food made of rice, which can be cooked, fried and mixed with salt water. In Dali, local people like to eat bean jelly, and different nationalities naturally have different stresses. Hui people like cold chicken rice noodles, that is, tearing boiled chicken into strips and mixing them into rice noodles, adding plum vinegar and some seasonings, and finally pouring a spoonful of brine, which is the best choice for appetizing and relieving summer heat. In Bai people's homes, people like to eat raw skin and cold skin. Eating rawhide alone is a bit greasy, but if it is mixed with rice noodles, it will neutralize the taste. Add shredded radish and some seasonings, and a bowl of special dishes will be baked. With the sweet and sour taste of cold chicken rice noodles, raw skin cold rice noodles are biased and sour and spicy, which is a must-eat food in Dali.

Food tips

If you want to taste delicious Hui cold rice noodles, you can go to the "Looking Back" on Renmin Road and the "Colored Wood" in the ancient city. This is an old cold rice noodle shop with local characteristics, and the "Daguang" on Xiaguan Culture Road is also a distinctive old shop. If you like to taste the bean jelly of Bai people, go to the Wei Long snack in Heilongqiao, Xiaguan and the rawhide shop in guanyin temple. They are all authentic.

What you eat is delicious and what you eat is affectionate. Dali eats very strongly. This kind of natural food is based on the rural customs of Dali, so it is so touching, simple and heavy. When you come to Dali, you might as well let your body and mind follow the taste, enjoy the food and feel the food culture that has lasted for thousands of years in Dali.