First Start in Kunming
On our first night in Kunming, we went to watch YangLiPing’s show. Before the show started, we found this Stone House Restaurant just nearby the KunMing Hall. It gave us a great start of our journey. The food was delicious, the ambience was great, and the price was reasonable. We spent RMB110 in total.
We ordered a plate of mushroom (老树菇), green veggie and chicken with ‘magic yam’ (魔芋). They are very spicy – a trait for all Yunnan food. Yummy!
Cost: RMB 110
Address: 昆明市北京路程27号茶花公园
Tel: 0871-3183388
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Most satisfying dinner in Dali
We were transported to Dali from Lijiang by car. The driver is from Bai tribe (白族), originated in Dali. He is very nice (unlike the Lijiang driver!) and wanted to ensure we are happy before he left us.
He dropped us in this restaurant (my God! We didn’t even know the name of the place!) before leaving for his next pick up. When he did that, he even told the shop owner to treat us nicely and not to charge us too much!
Here are the 3 dishes we ordered. Again, they don’t have a menu and we had to order from their rack of ingredients…
The first row is fried meat. After starving from meat for a few days (their chicken has no meat!), this is really satisfying! The second row is fried 茶树菇, a type of mushroom. And the third row is fried wild vegetables – too bitter for us, we ended up didn’t eat that.
There were 2 other dishes not in the picture – fried egg with cucumber, and a bowl of pickles (free).
This meal is the cheapest of all! Only cost us RMB50. Most worthy, coz we were so satisfied with real meat… :p
Sorry, no address, we were kind of lost in that city! LOL!
Cost: RMB 50
Address: Unknown, near the train station
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Cheap Lunch in Kunming
Well, we actually tried to go to either one of two restaurants. With address on hand, the taxi driver dropped us on a spot and pointed on our right that the shop is just ‘there’. But, we couldn’t find. After asking a few people, who were all very unfriendly, we finally walked along the street until we found an eating place – this was just plainly random.
I believe this is a place for local students and workers. It was really, really, really cheap!
We ordered 3 dishes and 3 drinks, and it only cost us RMB 19 (less than RM10!!!).
Cost: RMB 19
Address: Unknown, Kunming
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Dinner in Yunnan Cultural Village
Since we were inside the Yunnan Cultural Village (云南民族村) during dinner, and due to water festival the Dai tribe (similar to Thai) was quite happening, so we decided to eat there.
Here is what we ordered:
Their bamboo stick rice is different from those in Malay kampong. They are made of normal fragrant rice instead of glutinous rice. The rice absorbed the fragrant of the bamboo, smells really good! With the compression of cooking inside the bamboo, the rice also has a kind of chewy texture, though not as strong as the glutinous rice. A must try if you go there.
Other dishes that we ordered were spicy toufu wrapped in some leafs, eggplant, and a plate of grilled spare ribs. The spare ribs are very spicy, but very nice. Love it very much. The toufu is too spicy for me, so I didn’t really take it. :p
Cost: RMB 95
Address: Dai tribe restaurant, Yunnan Nationality Village, Kunming
Website: http://www.Yn25.com
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Lunch at Stone Forest
We were given free ride to the Stone Forest in Kunming, but lunch and entrance fees were covered. So, we ordered our lunch separately from the tour group.
One of a local dishes that we have always wanted to try is double boiled chicken soup (汽锅鸡), so we ordered that and two veggie dishes:
The chicken soup is quite expensive, so we paid quite a lot for this meal.
Cost: RMB 135
Address: Just outside the entrance to the Stone Forest, Kunming
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Mushrooms Dinner
You might notice that we often order mushrooms in many of our meals in Yunnan. Yes, mushroom is one of their local specialties. There is a lot for export and for tourists to purchase home, which I also bought 2 packs – 牛肝菌for my mom and 鸡枞菌for my MIL. The latter is more popular amongst the Naxi tribe, but I haven’t got a chance to try, so bought a pack for MIL to cook. LOL!
After our return from the Stone Forest, the driver dropped us to a restaurant that specializes in mushroom steamboats. We didn’t know it is so expensive to eat that, and got shocked with the price.
As we wanted to try different mushrooms, we ended up mixed with a few. Later, we found out that the locals do not mix, coz it spoils the real taste of the mushrooms, which is true from our experience! We ended up couldn’t tell which is which. LOL!
Top left: Similar to other places, there is no menu, and we have to order from the fridge.
Top center: 3 plates of 6 mixed mushrooms
Top right: 2 veggies and toufu
Bottom left: close up of the most expensive mushroom on the right – 羊肚菌
Bottom right: boiling all in the pot for 15 minutes before they can be eaten, to neutralize the toxic of mushrooms
Cost: RMB 237 (they said normally they spend RMB400-500, and ours are cheaper as we mixed too much!)
Address: Unknown in Kunming
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Real local snack/lunch
And this is our last meal before leaving Yunnan: BaBa wrap YaoZaGuai (粑粑包油条)! The Baba is like roti Naan. They take half stick of YaoZaGuai, wrap it with that roti naan thingy and put sesame spicy sauce inside. This thing is very filling, and the sesame sauce is very delicious, but… * sigh * too spicy for me again!
Cost: RMB 6
Address: NA – road side stall below a bridge
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