Dali local snacks, how much do you know?

Number of days: 4 days
Time: November
Average cost: 1500 yuan
With whom: a person
Tour kinds: food, shopping, humanities, free travel
The author went to these places: Weishan Dali Dali Ancient City
Updated: 2020-11-19 13:22

1. Green bean cake

In the snacks of Weishan, there is a kind of green bean cake that integrates color, aroma, taste and shape, and is fluffy and smooth. It is a seasonal snack that can only be eaten during the season when green broad beans are formed. The green bean cake is made of rice and green silkworms, the color is green, fluffy and smooth, the green bean aroma is fragrant, the entrance is very sweet, and it is very sticky and glutinous, and the taste is very good. The locals cook and grind the freshly picked green broad beans every year into fine noodles and rice noodles and mix them together, and the steamed cakes are green in color, coupled with the color of brown sugar and the aroma of sesame seeds, and the beautiful green bean cakes have become the favorite breakfast of Weishan people.

2. Carved plum

Carved plum is not only a delicacy in Dali, but also a carefully carved handicraft, named after the carving pattern on the green plum fruit. The production of carved plums mainly has two steps: carving and pickling, using salt plum as raw material, which needs to be soaked in lime water first, taken out and dried; After that, use a carving knife to carve a pattern on the plum meat, squeeze out the plum core from the gap, and gently flatten it, and the plum meat will become chrysanthemum-shaped. Then soak the plums in salt water to remove the sour taste, then mix in brown sugar and honey, put them in a sand jar and soak for a few months, and when the plums are golden brown, they can be eaten. The carved plum produced in this way tastes fragrant, crisp and sweet.

Yang Ji carved plum and Zhao Ji plum in Dali Ancient City are the most authentic, and the local carved plum brand Erhao Hua Mei is also authentic.

3. Binchuan Sea Fish

Binchuan Sea Fish is made of Binchuan local water source and local fish, with exquisite craftsmanship, fresh taste and fragrance. Haishao Lake in Binchuan County is rich in white-scaled fish, with tender meat and particularly good taste. There are two flavors of sea fish: hot and sour and clear soup. The sour and spicy soup is dark red in color and has a heavy and delicious taste. Its spicy and fresh aroma is full of appetite from the inside out, and it is not enough to eat.The thick and sour and spicy soup is eaten with bibimbap, and the feeling is even better. The clear soup is milky white in color, fresh and delicious.

The dipping sauce of sea fish is also very unique, and the dipping sauce is made by stir-frying various ingredients such as chili noodles, minced garlic, Sichuan peppercorns, sesame seeds, and mustard. The moment the dipping sauce is poured with the fish soup, the fresh aroma of the fish and the spicy aroma of the dipping sauce come to the nose, and the strong and mellow aroma is already irresistible.

4. Noden ham

The unique climatic conditions of Yunnan Nuodeng ham make the ham produced by Nuodeng unique. The salt pickled is also very unique, using local well salt, the finished ham is attractive rose color, and it is very fragrant and delicious to chew. The old ham that has been marinated for about three years, ruddy in color, rich in aroma, a bite, it makes people feel extremely fragrant, lean meat is salty and sweet, fat meat is fragrant but not greasy, delicious, full of aftertaste after eating, the taste is more delicious.

The ham of the Duanji souvenir shop in the ancient city of Dali is more delicious, all from Nuodeng Ancient Village, the ham is marinated with local well salt for three years, the taste is delicious, the saltiness is moderate, fragrant and sweet, The aftertaste is long. The price is also reasonable, and you can sample it for free when you enter the store.