What are the specialties of Dali?

Yongping Grilled Chicken

Yongping Grilled Chicken is known as the "Western Yunnan Chicken". The selection of materials is very careful. It must be the local high-quality local chicken, which ensures the fresh and flexible taste of the chicken. Cooked with more than ten kinds of ingredients, such as high-quality chili pepper, strawberry, garlic, dried chili pepper, ginger and so on. The golden color, crispy appearance and tender and delicious chicken meat are favored by diners. The annual "March Street" in Dali is an event for enjoying Yongping Steak Chicken. March Street friends, want to eat steak chicken, turn into the store everywhere, drink a cup of tea, wait a while, a plate of Yongping steak chicken is freshly baked, and then with Yongping special pickles pickled chili. The smoothness of the chicken and the sourness of the pickles will keep you coming back for more.

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Dali fish in casserole

The Bai people pay attention to "freshness" when eating fish, and it's a blessing to eat fish in the Erhai Sea of Dali. The snow-melting mountains become the water of the Erhai Sea, so the water quality nourishes the extra fresh Erhai fish. Dali's famous "casserole fish" is made with fresh carp from the Erhai Sea, tender slices of chicken, ham, and mushrooms, slowly simmered in a casserole dish produced by Xiangyun. On the table, a big plate of vegetable leaf pads, cooked in the pot, fragrant red and green, colorful, makes people's fingers tingle at first sight. Eat it while it's hot and taste the fish that has absorbed more than ten rich ingredients. It is known as an exquisitely delicious fish.

Of course, I would like to remind you that wild fish from the Erhai Sea and fish from fish ponds are not of the same quality and have different prices.

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[Dali Raw Skin]

Dali Raw Skin originated in Eryuan County and has evolved into a traditional Dali dish. The local dialect calls this eating style "haiga". The selection and production of raw hides is particularly delicate. The best rawhide is made from the hind leg, loin, and waist of the pig, and the skin is roasted with straw or wheat straw until the surface of the skin turns yellow, then washed with water and eaten raw with seasonings. Generally there are two ways to eat: one is the raw skin and seasoning is not put together, eat when dipped in seasoning together; one is to use the raw skin, raw meat mixed with seasoning, directly to do cold dishes. The most authentic rawhide has a delicate but not fishy taste, sour but not evil, spicy and fragrant, delicious and amazing.

There are raw skins and raw meat mixed with kimchi, shredded radish and cucumber to eat, as well as those that require dipping. A simple dipping method is to dip it in pepper and salt and eat it straight. The other is to use water to serve up a bowl of colorful dipping sauce, eat different ways, the taste is also different. Of course, the raw skin belongs to the cold dishes, people with bad stomach can selectively eat a small amount.

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Xizhou Ba Ba

Congee Ba Ba is a flavorful snack popular in urban and rural Dali, also known as broken pastry. It is a kind of wheat flour baked cake with complete color, aroma and taste, and it is most famous for the traditional congee poi of the Bai people in Xizhou. There are two flavors of congee baba: sweet and salty. Salted scallions, salt and pepper; the cookies are flavored with ham, diced meat and rose sugar wrapped in their hearts. The biscuits are roasted over two layers of charcoal, and the poi cooked in a pan on a bed of oil is slowly browned and roasted until it is crispy. Whether sweet or salty, the natural fragrance and crisp, smooth texture are unforgettable.

There are two flavors, sweet and salty, starting at $5. Either flavor is worth a taste.

Top 10 must-eat dishes in Dali.

[Eight Bowls of Earth]

If you go to a Bai family's house as a guest, or attend a Bai wedding or funeral, you will have the opportunity to eat the traditional Bai dish, "Tuba Bowl". Tuba Bowl refers to eight dishes: red rice meat, steamed fish, thousand sheets of meat, wood ear tofu, bamboo shoots crispy meat, water vermicelli, gold silk altar beans, lily meat dumplings, plus a platter and shrimp soup. With a variety of dishes combining sour, sweet, spicy and chili flavors, people of all ages will find something that is both appetizing and nourishing to the body.

If you have friends in Dali, or have the opportunity to participate in an authentic Bai Tujia eight bowls of feast, generally let the guests have the prestige of the old man first, which is commonly known as the "open feast". When attending a wedding banquet, you can also take the meat and vegetables wrapped up to take home to the elderly or children to eat, on behalf of you to bring home happiness and blessings.

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[Carved Plums]

Carved plums are a traditional food of the Dali Bai people and one of Yunnan's more famous specialties. It is named for the patterns carved on the green plum fruit. The production process of carving plums is to salted plums as raw materials, first soaked in lime water, take out and dry, and then use a meat cleaver to carve a continuous jagged pattern on the plum flesh, from the gap in the extrusion of the plum kernel, hollow as a wisp, gently pressed into a chrysanthemum-shaped, jagged plum cake, into a basin of clean water, sprinkled with a bit of salt, to get rid of the acidity of the plums, and then put in a sand jar, and then soak for a few months with fine brown sugar and honey. The pickled plums are fragrant, crispy and sweet. It is sweet and sour, thirst quenching, appetizing and refreshing, and rich in vitamin C, glucose, amino acids and other nutrients.

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[Burnt Bait Pieces]

When traveling in Dali, you can see stalls anytime you walk down the street in the early morning. In front of the stall owner there is a fire pit with a wire net on top, a few white round cakes on the net, and reddish maroon colored charcoal burning underneath. This is Dali burning bait dun. After the bait is ready, diners can add hot sauce, sweet sauce, sesame sauce, marinated tofu, crushed peanuts, bean sprouts, pickled vegetables, and minced meat according to their taste. According to Dali people's way of eating, you can also wrap a doughnut, or hot dog or ham sausage in the bait block, so that the whole bait block tastes richer and more flavorful. When you take a bite, the rich filling will be scattered in your mouth. That spicy and warm feeling will surely give you an indescribable sense of happiness.

They are usually 3 ~ 1 for 5 dollars and can be eaten as breakfast or snack. Besides baked bait cubes, you can also order a fried bait cubes at many traditional Bai restaurants, which is also called big camping. It's spicy and tasty and has a great flavor.

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[Milk Fan]

Milk fan is a type of milk fan native to China. Milk fan is a native Chinese dairy product that uses milk as an ingredient, coagulates it in acidic water, and then pulls it into fan-shaped slices. It is the same as Western cheese. Milk fans can be eaten in a variety of ways, fried, sautéed, stewed, deep-fried, rolled into a tube and filled with various fillings to make a variety of delicious dishes. The most common method used by Dali Bai people is to fry it in vegetable oil and then eat it with salt or sugar. It is mellow and delicious with unique flavor.

Prices range from 30 to 40 yuan a catty. If you just want to taste it, it is recommended to buy freshly baked shredded milk powder. There are many stalls in the ancient city with prices around 6 yuan. For those who want fried flavor, fried milk fans are available at all the Bai restaurants in Dali.

The top 10 must-eat foods in Dali.

Three Teas in Dali

Three Teas is a way of drinking tea when the Bai people of Yunnan entertain their honored guests, which belongs to the category of tea culture. The first type of tea - "bitter tea", also known as "Baedou tea" - is bitter and cool, bitter with bitterness, implying that a person has to bear hardships and stand hard work in order to make a difference. The second kind of tea is fragrant and sweet, called "sweet tea", meaning bitter with sweet. The third type of tea "aftertaste" full of saliva, taste fresh, moist throat, implying that life is complex, everything should be "aftertaste". White's "Three Teas" is famous for its tea, which integrates tea drinking with the art of tea and life. The tea ceremony is full of profound philosophy of life.

In Dali, there are three excellent places to taste the Bai's Three Tea Ceremonies. One is the teahouse on Yangren Street in the ancient city, one is the Bai residence in Xizhou, and the third is sailing on the Erhai Sea by ferry. While you are mesmerized by the wonderland of the "Pearl of the Plateau" and the "Penglai on Earth", you can enjoy the "three teas" with the elegant dance of the Bai girls.

Top ten must-eat foods in Dali.

Dali Cold Vermicelli

Rice Vermicelli is a specialty food of Yunnan. As the name suggests, it is a linear food made of rice, which can be boiled, fried, brined or mixed. In Dali, the locals like to eat cold noodles, and different ethnic groups naturally have different flavors. Hui people like cold chicken rice noodles, which is boiled white cut chicken torn into strips and tossed into the rice noodles, adding plum vinegar and some seasonings, and finally drizzled with a spoonful of marinade. It is sweet and sour and smooth in the mouth, which is a good choice for appetizing and relieving summer heat. In Bai people's home, they like to eat cold skin with skin. Eating raw skin alone is a bit greasy, but if you mix it with rice noodles, it will neutralize the flavor. Add shredded radish and some seasonings and a bowl of the specialty is baked. With the sweet and sour of the cold chicken rice noodles, the heavy flavor of the raw skin cold rice noodles, and the hot and sour upgrade, this is a must-eat food in Dali.

Food has flavor, food has feelings, and Dali's food is especially sentimental. This natural food is taken from the folklore of Dali, so it is so touching, simple and thick. Come to Dali, let your body and mind and your taste walk together, feel the food culture of Dali continued for thousands of years.