Kunming is the rice noodles kingdom. However, there are mainly two kinds of rice noodles in Kunming: sour rice noodles and dry rice noodles. Their cooking makes the difference between them. In other words, they are crude and fine noodles.
For authentic Kunming people, eating rice noodles, refers eating crude noodles, because it tastes more slight and soft. This is how ages formed tastes of old Kunming people.
烧饵块加油条
Roasted rice cakes
烧饵块是昆明非常日常的小吃，看看满大街的烧饵块店就知道了。
This is very common snack in Kunming. Look at the bake shop on the main street.
Cakes itself are already well-done, then add fried dough sticks, and together with noodles it will make you especially full. Just roasted cakes are so warm in your hands and glutinous in your mouth. They are then smeared with peanut butter, sesame sauce, sweet soy sauce, beef sauce, mushroom sauce, brine rot and so on. No wonder Kunming people like to use them as breakfast.
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老奶洋芋
LaoNai potato
老奶洋芋，顾名思义：牙口不好的老奶奶也能吃，可以想见这道菜是多么的绵软了。
As the name implies: bad tooth grandma can also eat it, you can imagine how soft this dish is.
It is a common dish of Kunming people: dried pepper and onions put into a frying pan, pour into boiled mashed potatoes, and then slightly fry for a while.
LaoNai potato has not only soft taste, but it is also full of flavor. It is similar to the mashed potatoes in the fast food restaurants. This dish is simple, many people are very fond of it.
蘸水苦菜
ZhanShui bitter vegetables
对于昆明人来说，最普通的蔬菜也能吃出味道吃上席，苦菜就是其中之一。
For Kunming people, the most common vegetables can also can be made with a special taste, this dish is one of them.
苦菜性凉，具清热解毒之功效。用苦菜做汤，色泽清新可人；汤味略苦，但用来解油解腻，那效果可是杠杠滴。
Bitter vegetable are cool and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification. Soup made with bitter vegetables is refreshing and has nice color. Soup tastes bitter, but it is used to relieve greasy oil, and the effect is dripping.
In this dish, in addition to bitter vegetables, must be lots of dipping water. Dry pepper must be slightly roasted, mashed with noodles, then add salt, sesame oil etc. Each family can make their own taste, I believe you must remember this home taste!
There are pies in the north, and Baba cakes in Yunnan. Kunming's most famous cakes are called Guandu cakes. Guandu cakes appeared in Guandu ancient town, but they are also not bad in ordinary streets and lanes.
官渡粑粑的馅以甜为主，有花生、胡麻、芝麻等，后期还新创了玫瑰馅的，别有一番风味。
Guandu cakes are mainly sweet, with peanuts, sesame, etc. Later, people also created a new rose cakes, with a unique flavor.
Good Guandu cake has a thin skin and lot of stuffing, and people often queue up to buy it. As a Kunming person, early in the morning, when you are hungry, you can buy one. Which one has not experienced this?
Pea flour salad can be easily found in Kunming streets, but there is another way of cooking, that is familiar to the old Kunming people. Fried pea flour is characterized by its crispy skin, soft and tender filling, and excellent taste.
Cooking requirements are higher, frying process is difficult, so not everyone can cook it. But still if you're looking for it, you can find it, and it's rare and expensive. You want to prove that you're an authentic eater? Let's go!
Compared with the homemade dishes and snacks in the past, this duck is considered as a rear dish, and it is a famous in Yunnan. Must be used Yunnan special breed ducks, and pine nuts to bake in the oven.
After you heat the duck in the oven, the yellow crispy skin appeared, that is so soft, sweet and boneless, with nice color and smell. Make people quickly use chopsticks when see it.
Hometown memories of the delicacies, are mostly about some home-cooked snacks and street snacks. These common flavors,that we eat every day, deeply imprinted in our minds ans stomach, and make people remember them.