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Kunming cuisine: crossing the bridge rice noodles, steamed chicken and wild mushrooms.

1, crossing the bridge noodles

Visitors to Kunming, Yunnan, will never forget to taste the rice noodles crossing the bridge. Crossing the bridge rice noodles, with its exquisite soup, unique eating method, sweet and fragrant taste, salty and light, has become a unique flavor snack in Yunnan.

When eating, put a bowl of thick soup made of chicken and pig bones in a big soup bowl. There is a thick layer of oil on the surface of the soup to keep the soup hot. Then put the extremely thin pork loin slices, pork liver, squid and carp into the soup, gently stir them with chopsticks to make them cooked, and then add pea tips, leeks and tofu skin.

Finally, add rice noodles, wait a moment and taste a bowl of rice noodles with rich soup, fresh and tender meat slices and delicious taste.

2. Steamed chicken

Steamed chicken is a unique traditional dish in Kunming, Yunnan Province, which is named after being steamed in a steamer. It has been circulating in southern Yunnan since the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 200 years.

The steamer is a small flat clay pot with a protruding hollow mouth in the center of the pot bottom. When cooking, the chef first puts the fresh chicken pieces into the steamer, then adds the seasoning, covers the steamer, puts the steamer on a pot filled with water, and steam it with the chicken.

Cleverly, after the water is boiled, steam will rush into the boiler from a small mouth, be cooled by the lid and then drip into the boiler. A pot of chicken soup will take three or four hours. Steamed chicken supplemented with nourishing Chinese herbal medicine. Generally, American ginseng, Panax notoginseng, Tricholoma matsutake and Gastrodia elata can be selected.

3. Wild mushrooms

May to 10 is the growing period of all kinds of wild mushrooms in Kunming, Yunnan. If you travel to Yunnan at this time, don't miss the opportunity to eat mushroom dishes. Dried mushrooms, chicken termites, boletus, Pleurotus ostreatus and buttered mushrooms are all beautiful products, and braised chicken termites and wild mushroom hotpot are also not to be missed.