There is a saying in Yunnan that "what moves is meat, and what is green is vegetables", which not only reflects the "gluttony" of Yunnan people, but also contains their pursuit and understanding of food.
In previous articles, the baby elephant has introduced many "dark dishes" in Yunnan, of which meat is mostly eaten, such as raw meat, fried worms and so on.
In fact, Yunnan people are also very "wild" in terms of eating vegetables, so let's go and see it together!
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As a common green decoration, moss seems to be often associated with words such as dark and damp, but the Dai people living in Xishuangbanna have brought it to the table.
Every year in March and April, Dai girls carry bamboo baskets to the river to collect moss, wash them and add spices to dry into moss flakes. Cut it into small pieces and fry them in a pan.
Fried moss is fragrant, crispy, and umami, making it a unique Dai style dish.
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Native to Jianshui County, grass buds have been cultivated for more than 100 years, and its unique crisp taste is its biggest feature.
In Jianshui, people often use grass buds to cook soup, which can also be fried, and the taste is very delicious. When there are important guests in the house, you can also make a table of "grass bud feast" to express the welcome and attention of the guests.
It is also an indispensable condiment in the rice noodles of Mengzi Bridge, as long as you go to Jianshui, the indispensable thing for each meal is grass buds.
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Stinky vegetable is a wild vegetable grown in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, which is very rich in nutrients, and its protein content is even higher than that of soybeans. The veritable stink has put it under the label of "no one near it".
However, this does not stop the Dai people from loving it, they have a lot of tricks in this smelly dish, and frying it with eggs is the most common and popular way to eat it.
It smells bad, but it tastes delicious, its taste is more wonderful than toon, and the wonder of the taste is difficult to describe in words.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > Erhai seafood</h1>
Erhai sea vegetables are produced in Dali Erhai, washed with water and boiled with flower buds, stems and leaves, taro soup, called "sea vegetable taro soup", the taste is refreshing and delicious, is a famous dish loved by the Bai people.
Sea vegetables grow and float on the surface of the Erhai Sea, and Bai folk songs often quote the life that floats around: "Dali Haizi has no root grass, does not float and does not fall and does not take root", referring to the Erhai sea vegetables.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="85" > watery poplar</h1>
You may not believe it when you say it, there is a dish called water-based poplar flower, which grows in Lugu Lake in Lijiang, because it is always constantly swaying with the water, so it is jokingly called water-based poplar flower.
A common local practice is stir-frying, smooth and tender taste plus refreshing taste, and the name of this curiosity, so that travelers who visit here are looking at it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="86" > tang pear blossom</h1>
Yunnan is famous for its flower feasts, and the tang pear blossom is one of the most representative edible flowers.
Flower picking and eating during the flowering season, blanching, rinsing, washing, removing the bitter taste of stir-frying, cold mixing and making soup, if improper handling is easy to leave a bitter taste, so the blanching link is very important.
The fried tang pear blossom is soft in taste, sweet and refreshing, and also has the function of absorbing the lungs and astringent intestines and helping digestion.
As the saying goes, Yunnan has the wildest wet market in China, it is wild in all-encompassing, wild in the unexpected, this kind of wild instead makes it a place comparable to 5A attractions.
These dishes, which seem very strange to outsiders, are the daily life of Yunnan people, and these strange food cultures have made Yunnan the most unique Yunnan.