The Bai people are very good at crispy ham, sausage, bowfish, pork liver fried, oil chicken tender, snail round sauce and many other varieties of food. The women are good at making candied fruit, carved plums and Cangshan Xuewan sweet thumb. The Bai people are a hospitable people, whenever a guest arrives first invited to the seat, that is, offering roasted tea, fruits, and then with eight bowls, three cheese water and other exquisite and sumptuous Laijun hospitality to guests. The basic taste of the Bai people is sour, spicy, sweet and slightly numb. Their cooking techniques are y influenced by Han Chinese cuisine and Buddhist monastery cuisine. There are many famous dishes, such as: fried pot fish, wash sand milk fan, Dali bait? , Xizhou broken pastry sugar trick, live water boiled live fish, wicker steamed meat and so on. Roasted tea is one of the food customs of the Bai people to honor their guests. Tea color and taste drunk, unique. Roasted tea is generally poured three ways, commonly known as "three-way tea". There is a "head bitter, two sweet, three aftertaste". Wanmei, carved plum is the traditional food of Bai women. Dali, the hometown of the "Five Golden Flowers", is a Bai settlement known for its "wind, flowers, snow and moon" scenery. Cangshan Erhai, Nanzhao monuments, Buddhist mountains, Silk Road ...... are all fascinating excursion. As a long history of the "documentary state", Dali also dedicated to the wind and snow like the white food variety, even a few unique. The first one is "Dali Fish in Casserole", which is made of good casserole from Xiangyun, bowfin, yellow croaker, or carp caught in the Erhai Sea, and rich and colorful ingredients. When served on a large plate lined with vegetable leaves, the pot boils, red and green, colorful and fragrant. Eat while hot, the fish is tender, flavorful and nutritious. Second push "Maidu roll hoof". Maidu roll hooves like Maidu mountain song as famous as three winding, become the traditional food of the Bai people, known as the color and taste, food method is diverse, easy to store by the people of all ethnic groups. It is fresh pig leg as the main material, pepper, grass powder, anise powder, fennel powder, red rice, white wine, salt and other ingredients, first pickled after cooking, refined and made, can be wrapped tightly in tissue paper, hanging up, eat as you go, one time to eat, you can eat the rest of the part of the re-wrapped hanging, October after the color and taste unchanged. Maidu roll hooves eating method is diverse, or steamed, or boiled, or boiled cold, or eat alone, or cooked with vegetables, are fragrant and delicious, with meals and wine are straight. More pleasing to the eye is the carmine red color, than the money when the flower, don't have some of the southern border of the meaning of love, people think of a golden flower pretty little face, can't help but marvel at the beauty of the mountains, the water is beautiful, the beauty of the people, the love of the more beautiful. Three push "papaya chicken". Papaya sour and tasty, from the mid-spring flowers and fruits, to the mid-autumn ripe fall, papaya can be dipped in sugar, salt, sauce eaten raw. The most abundant is made of licorice salt papaya or honey papaya, to produce fluids and cough, appetite and spleen, very popular with the old, middle-aged and young people welcome. Papaya is also used to make wine, which has the medicinal effects of soothing tendons, removing dampness, and removing contractures of the tendons and veins. Therefore, Dali Prefecture, Yunlong County area, with its abundance of sour and tasty papaya chicken to prevent and cure diseases and tonic, but also used to entertain guests from afar, for the guests to eliminate fatigue and relieve fatigue, strong tendons and stomach. Papaya chicken chicken, must be about 1500 grams of chicken as the main material, slaughtered leg hair cleaned, chopped into small pieces, into the hot sesame oil pan stir-fried, add salt and water to cook to seven mature, add peeled and shredded papaya continue to burn until the chicken is tender, then add pepper, grass jelly powder that is made. Papaya chicken, soup, meat and sour, pure flavor, no greasy feeling, after eating to make you appetite, body comfort. Four push "Dengchuan milk fan". Dengchuan abundant grass, Bai, Han, almost every family has cows, so there is "dairy cattle township" reputation. Dengchuan Milk Powder", made from cow's milk, is the best milk powder in Yunnan Province, and Dengchuan Milk Fan, sold by a sister-in-law dressed in Bai clothes, is a household name. It is easy to carry, special shape, easy to eat, baked, fried, cold can be eaten, sweet, salty are suitable. Frankincense refreshing, crispy bubble pine, is a good drink, but also a famous snack. Five push "Xizhou Po Po". It is a snack of Xizhou, a historical city by the Erhai Sea. It is made of wheat flour. Whether sweet or salty, the system uses two layers of charcoal fire to slowly bake the oil in the pot on the bed of the poi yellow, baked incense until baked crispy. Therefore, the crispy and soft and popular Xizhou Ba Ba, and layered, like Cangshan nineteen peaks and eighteen holes, beautiful to eat. Six push "Heqing pig liver fried". This is a meat pickle with meals. With pig liver. Pork belly, pig intestines and other offal chopped and coarsely ground chili pepper, pepper, star anise, fruits, salt and other condiments tide cured and become, the juice into a spicy, fresh and fragrant, take a small dish steamed, a layer of red oil floating out, a burst of meat fragrance came to the nose, attracted to the population droplets, with chopsticks to pick a bit to taste, salty, spicy, fragrant, and good a plate of appetizing pickles! The sun-like red color is really like the bold and cheerful character of the Bai people. Dare to eat Heqing pig liver, only really love the Bai "Jinhua", "Peng", big father, big mom. Hospitable Bai people entertaining VIPs have a unique etiquette
"Three ways of tea". The first tea. Hosts warmly welcome guests into the door, while talking while the fire simmering water, to
water open, the small sand canisters used for baking tea on the fire pot baking hot, and then into a small handful of tea leaves
and hold the canisters constantly shaking, to be the color of the tea leaves yellowish, exudes a tempting aroma, only to rush
into the boiling water, only to hear the "chuffing" sound, the can of tea inside the canisters, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea, the tea. "A sound, the tea leaves in the can tumble, some foam overflowing out of the can
, like a blooming hydrangea. The Bai people believe that this is a symbol of good luck. When the foam falls
, and into the boiling water, the tea will be simmering. This is the first tea, people also call it "thunder tea"
. This first tea, color like amber, crystal clear, the master to the cup on two or three drops, into a little
How much boiling water, they raised their hands to the guests; Bai people have "wine full of people, tea full of deceptive people
" of the guest of honor routine, so that the cup of tea is only enough to taste one or two mouths. The first tea is not much, but
is that the flavor of the bitter with mellow, a unique flavor.
The second tea. After tasting the first course of tea, the host will be sand jar refilled with boiling water, and then take out
a small bowl, the bowl contains thinly sliced walnut kernels and brown sugar, steeped into the hot tea, the bowl
tea tossing, thin slices of kernels shaking like a cicada wing. When you taste it, the tea is fragrant and sweet. This
is the second tea, also known as "sweet tea" or "sugar tea".
The third tea. First scoop half a spoonful of honey, plus three or two red peppercorns into the cup, steeped
tea, the guests shake the tea cup while drinking, the flavor of sweet and slightly spicy and slightly bitter. Then the master of the milk processed with
milk dairy fan to take one, put on the fire grill, to be the milk fan foaming yellow
, kneaded into the tea bowl at the same time to add some brown sugar rushed into the hot tea, a little chopsticks stirred before
Toast Guests. This is not only can drink to the fragrant tea, but also can taste the Bai specialty milk fan, so some places
The third tea called "fan tea".
It is said that "the first bitter, two sweet, three aftertaste" of the "three-way tea" was originally a Bai family to receive
to treat the son-in-law of a ritual, and later evolved into a Bai people entertained guests of honor unique rituals.