Dali famous snacks

I believe many people are very familiar with "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils". It carried my entire childhood. The happiest thing when I got home from school every day was to finish my homework and then watch "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" in front of TV. I can’t remember the love, hate, and entanglement of various people in the TV show very clearly, but I still remember Dali as a place very clearly. Dali has been instilled into my mind since I was a child. Therefore, I have always been yearning for Dali in Yunnan, and I really want to have the opportunity to visit Dali. Eating, drinking and having fun are the four great pleasures in life. If you want to have fun, you must have food. So what are the famous snacks in Dali?

In Dali, the most famous is Weishan County's specialty Weishan pā (usually written with a character "ba" next to the character "fire", but there is actually no such character) pork bait shreds, which are made with broth made from pork bones and pork elbows, and seasoned with simple spices. When eating, you can add pickled vegetables, kimchi, chopped green onions, mashed garlic, sesame oil and other seasonings according to your preference. The pork elbow meat melts in your mouth and is fat but not greasy.

Most of the key points of good pā meat rice noodles are the soup. The better the soup is, the tastier the rice noodles will be. Here I recommend a favorite of mine, a rice noodle shop next to the SF Restaurant in Baizhouli in the city. They are always packed with people, and they will stop selling when the rice noodles are sold out, which is usually around 2 p.m., and sometimes they are sold out at lunch time. They are in very short supply. In addition, they sell braised dishes in the afternoon, which tastes great too.

Another option is braised rice noodles, which are made by dry mixing. The taste of this method varies greatly because the marinade used in each snack shop is different. I also recommend the same one in Baizhouli, it’s my favorite.

The halal restaurants run by Hui Muslims living in Dali are also unique, and there are also many halal rice noodle shops in Dali that serve delicious food. Halal rice noodles are mostly made with beef bone soup base, which has a mellow taste. The topping is usually fried sauce made from minced beef. Some small shops also add braised beef. Of course, the braised beef in different places is naturally different.

Rice noodles are an ingredient that has many different cooking methods in different parts of Yunnan. The more famous ones include Mengzi cross-bridge rice noodles, Mile braised chicken rice noodles, Dali shredded chicken cold rice noodles, Dehong cross-hand rice noodles, Kunming tofu rice noodles, Yuxi small pot rice noodles, as well as braised rice noodles, fried rice noodles, stinky tofu rice noodles, canned rice noodles and other different varieties distributed throughout Yunnan.

When talking about Dali’s specialties, we must mention the cold rice noodles with shredded chicken, which the locals call cold chicken rice noodles. The method of making cold rice noodles is very simple, just add various condiments and recorded and cooled hand-shredded chicken to the rice noodles. However, it is not easy to make it well. From the quality of the rice noodles to the proportion of ingredients to the chicken marinating process, many details are very particular. Eat it when it is hot, the sour, sweet and spicy flavors mix in your mouth and it is extremely delicious.

This may be the breakfast that many Dali people have been eating since childhood, and roadside stalls can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys. There are generally two types of bait blocks in Dali, one is rolled bait block and the other is hand-kneaded bait block. Both are grilled.

Rolled bait blocks are made by roasting the prepared pancake-shaped bait blocks over fire, then spreading various sauces on them, sprinkling with vegetables, crushed peanuts and meat sauce, and you can also choose to add ham, fried dough sticks or braised eggs, and roll them together. Of course, if you have a good appetite, you can also choose to add all of them and have a "family feast" to your heart's content. Hand-kneaded bait blocks are more common in ancient cities. Semi-finished products are made into pancakes, and the sauce is placed in the middle and then wrapped up to make dumplings, which are then roasted over fire. You can choose to taste salty or sweet.