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They serve chinese soup. The winter melon soup is delicious.
Dish 1 : Pork (Wu hua) simmered with chestnuts. A little too sweet for me, but I am sure many people find this excellent. I shunned the skin and fat portion, but was told by the owner that's the best part.
Dish 2 : Naxi minorities steamboat, with yunnanese ham and lots of vege & mushroom. Quite an experience. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: No, 68-70, Bei Men JiePhone: 513 9548Directions: North of Cui Hu, walk toward Yuan Tong Street. Keep an eye on your left for Bei Men Street.
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A typical local eatery. The claypot with small mouth ensures the soup stays hot for a long time.
The food is served fast, which is good.
You select the type of flavour you want for your noodle soup, pay for it, and find a table.
Rice noodles of course.
Various meat from very normal pork and chicken to frog to a luxurious type offering all ( I think)
Price starts from RMB 5 (peanut soup - vegetarian).
When the noodle set is served, put the raw raw into the soup first, followed by raw vegetables, then cooked meat, and lastly the noodles. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveAddress: Yuan Xi Lu no 72Phone: 13888 776 855Directions: Still near Cui Hu. On the northern side.
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This specialises in steamboat.
The soup base is made of yunnan ham and chicken cooked with yunnannese herbs. The major herb is Dian Ma, the root/rhizome of some plant.
Health benefits : good for weak stomach, blood circulation, migrane.
It's typical yunnannese eatery settings. You can choose to sit at a proper table (4 person per table), or half-squat on the real low chairs and dine at the real low table.
The stove is right on the table, and the gas cylinder is under the table.
Not much space to move around. All the furnitures are jam packed together.
Sequence of eating the Steamboat :
1) Boil the soup (with ham and chicken and herbs, which are prepared by the kitchen and served in a big pot)
2) Turn fire to small. Drink first the soup
3) Make dip with the various condiments served, and pour a little soup to the dip. The surprise includes fermented tofu (furu) which is very very authentic (well for malaysians at least).
4) Eat the ham and chicken with dip.
5) Add the vege and noodles (you get to order from the menu - in chinese) and start boiling again
6) Eat the vege (and soup)
The soup is a little salty, but the savoury taste is just right to fight off the cold in autumn/winter.
The soup base costs RMB 38. The rest is up to your order. Vege costs between RMB 1 to the RMB 5 for the expensive mushrooms. Two of us went and spent RMB 27 each. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: No 59, Nan Ciang JiePhone: (0871) 646 1818Directions: Right in the city center. Walk east for a few hundred steps along MacDonald's shopfront. Diagonally opposite Xiang Yun Mei Shi Cheng south gate.
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Walk into any local restaurant, and try to order this.
This is pork sliced very thinly, then cooked with preserved Chillies. It's salty spicy. Goes very well with rice.
It's not expensive, about RMB 8 per plate. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than average
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Yunnan is famous for its wild mushrooms. This restaurant serves exactly that.
Chinese modern classic deco restaurant, with bamboo curtains. A gas stove pit in the middle of each table, because you are expected to use it to cook the mushrooms.
The waitress likes to pour chicken fat into the soup once in a while, so if you don't like it too fattenning, stop her.
Menu in chinese.
Just pick any mushrooms on the menu, or rely on the recommendation of the captain, or have a look at the real samples and decide which fancies you most. You can pick a few of course.
Steamboat style. The stock is hot chicken soup.
Some of the mushrooms are poisounous until fully cooked. So while it is cooking, don't pour the soup into the condiment dish. The condiment is made up of certain local herbs, when mixed with the soup, it serves as a dip for the mushrooms.
You can also order beef, and have a beef shabu-shabu. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Next to Jin Kang Garden's main gatePhone: 573 3949Directions: Jin Kang Garden, north Kunming.
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The noodle has a story behind. A man was hiding away in the forest to concentrate on his studies, in preparation for the emperor's examination. The wife took care to deliver his meals everyday from her kitchen in town, only to see the piping hot dishes turn cold when she finally got to where he was. She invented a combo-meal instead, which was a hot soup topped with a thick layer of oil so that the heat would not escape. She also prepared various types of meat, sliced so thin it would cook immediately when dipped in the hot soup. The meat was not cooked beforehand so that it would retain its tastefulness when it entered the mouth. The combo set also included various veges and rice noodles.
This is a chain restaurant. So the standards of hygiene is about there. And what it sells is the most reknown food in Yunnan - Cross Bridge Rice Noodles (guo qiao mi xian), although I think Rice noodles over the bridge is a better translation.
If you order the package above 10 yuan (there are 4 packages, 10, 20, 40, 60), then you get to sit in a nicer hall upstairs with a theme deco, and the quality of the ingredients are "upgraded" according to the price. For example, the 10 yuan package does not include a little condiment made of a kind of expensive mushrooms.
You get to choose if you want plain white rice noodles, or vinegared rice noodles which are bigger size (the noodles, not the serving), and has a yellow taint.
Order the 20 yuan package, you get 2 things:
1) a little bowl of steamed chicken soup. the serving spoon is pea-sized. Cute for the first time. You'll swear the next time.
2) a set of " Rice Noodles Over the Bridge"
The noodles set comes in 3 portions:
1) The very hot chicken soup
2) The rice noodles
3) The numerous little plates of meat/seafood/vege, ranging from raw to cooked.
You will pour the plates of stuff into the soup, starting from the raw. Lastly, put the rice noodles. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: Xiao Xi Men bus-stop, Ren Min Chong LuPhone: (0871) 537 8206Directions: On Ren Min Chong Lu. You won't miss it as it is a double-story building all by itself. The architecture is like those buildings in ancient chinese dynasty, with lots of wood.Website: www.brothers-jiang.com.ch
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When you are in West Hill (Xi Shan), don't forget to have lunch there at one of the farmers' home. The locals call them "Nong Jia Le", which means joy of farmer's family.
The lunch will cost RMB 4 per person irrespective of which home you go to. There are typically 10 types of dishes, ranging from meat to vege to cold entries, and a few types of staple (rice, corn, etc), and include a somewhat tasteless soy drink.
You are free to have a 2nd (and 3rd and 4th)serving for the dish you like most.
You can also lend them a helping hand by washing your bowls yourself (before you use them, that is)
Some restaurants offer farm stay.
It's an experience not to be missed.
The cured tofu (fu zhu) is heaven.
The chilli tofu is also good.
For some reason yunnannese make the smoothest tofu. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveAddress: Up in West Hill (Xi Shan)Directions: Take bus to Terminal For bus route 6. Then take bus route 6 to West Hill.
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This is an eatery with both indoor and alfresco dining. You pay at the counter as you order, then take the coupon to the kitchen counter to exchange for food.
The menu is in Chinese.
It's a quiet place behind Xiao Xi Men. If you can find the "Jiang brother restaurant", and just take the path on the left, walk past the eatery attached to Jiang, and you will come to this one.
A lot of stuff on the menu (include indonesian fried rice), but I recommend the rice in chicken soup (Tu Ji Pao Fan). It costs RMB 5.
And for drink - papaya water - RMB 50 cents.
A surprise is the fermented tofu, which has the authentic taste for those who remember what the real chinese fermented tofu used to taste like in the 70's in Malaysia. And is a free condiment, which you scoop onto a side dish provided. Leave a Comment Theme: LocalPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: least expensiveAddress: Behind Xiao Xi Men's I.Com specs shopDirections: Xiao Xi Men bus stop along Ren Min Zhong Lu. This is a little hidden eatery to the south west of junction of Ren Min Zhong Lu and Dong Feng Xi Lu.
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Shan Xi is a province in the north west. It is famous for its shaved noodles and black vinegar. The restaurant is typically chinese, by the main road, opposite a canal that leads to Dian Chi Lake. The shaved noodles are made in the dining hall itself, so you can watch the interesting process. The menu is in chinese.
The signature dish is the shaved noodles, RMB 3 per bowl. The serving is not big, so you will need to order something else. You get to choose the soup. The hot and sour soup is a good choice.
The dumpling is worth a try: 10 pork & mushroom dumplings per serving for RMB 10. The dip is the famed black vinegar. Dip the hot dumpling in the vinegar and savour the delicacy. Leave a Comment Theme: Chinese/Dim SumPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: On the left of hospital no. 43, Da Guan Lu.Directions: On the way to Da Guan Lou, Dian Chi Lake. Take bus no 54, 52,97 or 90, stop at hopital no.43.
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Buffet breakfast at Camellia hotel only cost 15 Yuan. The serve both Western and Oriental food. Many travellers love to eat here, stuff up themselves before going out for a whole day's walking. Leave a Comment Theme: BreakfastPrice: less than US$10 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: Dong Feng Dong Lu
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