I discovered something very interesting during the short stay in Xishuangbanna . The people here seem to be "night warriors". During the day, the streets are empty and the shops are often late.
At night, the night market on Binjiang is so lively.
The barbecue stall started from four or five in the afternoon, and the stalls were still crowded at around one in the morning.
The taxi driver joked with us, "People often get up and can't come to work because of having late-night snacks with their friends and drinking."
If you are a foodie, it would be so happy to come here!
You can eat all kinds of tropical fruits that are hard to name; you can eat rice noodles with various sour and spicy flavors; you can eat Dai , Thailand, Lao , Myanmar flavored snacks; you can eat mushrooms, flowers, insects; you can also eat skewers until dawn.
Before I went, my impression of it was still in the song "Beautiful Xishuangbanna". What came to my mind was the scene of a Dai girl standing under the banana leaves and splashing water.
After coming back, the style of painting suddenly changed, and what I was thinking about was its midnight snack stall.
In the early morning, the first meal of the people from barbecue
Banna started in the early morning. The drivers who finished the taxi, photographers who shot late at night, and tourists from other places all gathered in this barbecue stall.
After eating the barbecue here, life is not in vain. Why do
say so? Because Yunnan people eat wildly, while Banna is in the southwestern border, they eat wildly.
Roasted pig milk stains (pork breasts), roasted stinky cowhide, roasted heart tube, roasted baby nest (placenta), roasted gums, roasted beef whip... They eat everything.
Here, roasting and roasting are two different things.
roast refers to baking, while roasting is charcoal grilling. roasting means wrapping the food with banana leaves and then grilling on the fire. The roasting is charcoal grilling. The most representative one is lemongrass grilling fish.
Village barbecue
Special spices, secret dipping water, and rich mountain ingredients create Dai flavor barbecue. You will not be able to taste this flavor after you leave here.
Maza Barbecue Private Vegetables
Address: Mengla Road (1.1KM walk from Duogeshui Bonfire Party)
This is a local barbecue that all locals in Xishuangbanna come to eat. They sell private dishes during the day. After 8 o'clock in the evening, they start serving barbecue, but the dishes can also be ordered. After the door opened by
, it was very popular and the atmosphere was a bit like a food stall.
Image source: @Banna Flavor
Barbecue are all small skewers, priced at 1-2 yuan, and shrimp will be more expensive. The signature of
store is live-burning crucian carp . The treatment method is a bit "rough". It means that after knocking the crucian carp unconscious and simply treating the fish scales, it will be roasted directly on the heat because the quality of the fish itself is very good, so this method retains the umami flavor to the greatest extent.
Banna people eat crucian carp, and their favorite thing is the fish roe inside. The roasted crucian carp roe is large and has a good taste. It is fresh, fragrant, soft and glutinous in the mouth, and the most important thing is that it is still very tender.
Cold mustard shrimp, comes in raw shrimp and cooked shrimp. Mustard and other spices are added to the dip. It tastes sour and spicy, and has a unique taste.
People who like it can’t stop eating, and people who don’t like it will vomit quickly.
However, here is more friendly to people who can eat spicy food. The skewers are very spicy and spicy and refreshing. But if you don’t know how to eat spicy food, you may not be able to eat a few strings, and you will want to "spray fire" in place.
ticket Lailai
Address: Jinghong Qingquan Road Jundu Fruit Wholesale Market on the left hand side
ticket Lailai opens on the street in the night market, and there are a lot of delicious food all the way here. This is also a restaurant that locals often eat. The prices are fair and the portions are quite large.
The store’s signature is very Dai’s. For example, there are shrimp chops. The method of chopping raw and pounding is similar. You need to remove the muscles and bones, cut them into slices, chop them finely, and then mix them with seasonings to eat.
Only in Banna can you be a real foodie. The shrimp chops in are all chopped by hand and then eaten with various vegetables.
Carbon baked belly with a unique secret dried ant egg dip. The belly is crispy and tender, and the ant egg is high in protein. It is not eaten here, but is made into dry dip, so it is not that scary.
It can also order takeaway, and these features can be eaten. It's very spicy. If you can't eat spicy food, remember to tell the boss to be slightly spicy.
Laowei Barbecue Restaurant
Address: Haoyu Hotel Xishuangshi Ercheng Commercial Center
Laowei Barbecue, also an old restaurant recommended to me by locals, has been open for more than 20 years.
This old store is very distinctive and does not step on the wrong side at all. The ingredients in the
store are fresh, and the special grilled tilapia are all marinated after being killed and have no fishy smell. The lemon grilled fish is sour, sour and spicy, and very appetizing.
His dry dip or fermented bean curd sauce is very good to eat with beef. The mouth full of fragrance was scented.
with barbecue, you can also try the mixed vegetable soup in the store, which is full of local wild vegetables and tastes very fresh.
Liu Yan Barbecue
Address: 50 meters northeast of the intersection of Mengzha Road and Menglong Road
banna's biggest feature should be that in addition to skewers, there will be many dishes that are choked, fried, fried and cooked. Passionflower boiled fish is also a major feature.
You can eat passion fruit boiled fish in this Liu Yan barbecue. The soup of passionflower is also sour and sour, with the soft pork skin soaked in the soup soft and elastic, and the potatoes are soft and glutinous.
There are three steps to eat fish: First order a portion of meter dry , then scoop a spoonful of soup and pour it on , and mix it.
If you don’t eat dried rice, the fish soup rice in passion fruit is also very good. The small portion is enough for two people to eat.
In addition, you can match some snacks like fried breast fat and fried yellow throat.
Authentic Menghai roasted chicken
Address: Next to Jingfo Hotel, Manjing, Taluo Road,
Come to Xishuangbanna, be sure to eat roasted chicken once. This is the favorite late-night snack item among locals! In the past, roasted chicken in Jinghong was very cheap, about twenty or so, and then the locals would call three or two friends to drink beer and eat roasted chicken together.
Menghai friend told me that after eating Menghai roasted chicken here, I don’t have to go to Jinghong’s internet celebrity store: Man Feilong roasted chicken.
Menghai Roasted Chicken Restaurant, three kilometers away from the city of Menghai County, there are dozens of clean chickens on the grilled chicken rack at the gate, which is very imposing.
25 yuan per chicken. The roasted chicken skin is golden and burnt, and the chicken skin is crispy and full of oily fragrance when chewed.
paired with the store’s special dipping sauce, it has endless aftertaste.
After eating the chicken, the boss will also give you a bowl of chicken porridge. The porridge tastes light and combines the greasyness of the roasted chicken. Local friends said that they would order whole chickens when they entertained their friends.
I got full after eating my legs.
In addition to eating chicken, you can also try the meat in the store, such as grilled tripe, grilled ribs, and grilled lunch meat. You can really achieve "freedom of eating barbecue" when you come here.
In the morning, you must come to a bowl of sour rice noodles
to eat rice noodles in Xishuangbanna. You can change the taste every day. Small pot rice noodles, sprinkled rice noodles, smelly rice noodles, Dai rice noodles, Mengmeng beef rice noodles...
rice noodles can be cooked, eaten hot, or eaten cold. It is cheap and delicious. Even the same rice noodles can be made into a hundred flavors.
Yunxian Chicken Rice Noodles Fast Food Restaurant
Address: No. 80 Menghai Road, Jinghong City
Live in Jinghong City, you can try the chicken rice Noodles in Yunxian.
A friend from Yunnan told me that he thought the delicious rice noodles were mainly concentrated in the central southern Yunnan region: Honghe , Wenshan , Yuxi, Lincang and other places .
yun County belongs to Lincang City, and the local chicken soup rice noodles is really outstanding. This chicken rice noodles store opened in Jinghong is also an old store that has been operating for nearly 20 years.
The store said that their rice noodles must be made from local homemade rice noodles, and the auxiliary ingredients must be made from local mountain black bone native chicken . The soup in the store is full of chicken soup without MSG.
Strong chicken soup with cooked rice noodles, add pickled vegetables, chopped green onion, millet spicy and other seasonings, and then stewed with chicken legs that are fragrant and rotten than palms, which is perfect.
Compared with other heavy-taste rice noodles, chicken soup rice noodles are really suitable for breakfast.
Dai Breakfast Shop
Address: 100 meters east of the intersection of Galan Middle Road and Guanli Lane
Yunnan rice noodles are two types, sour rice noodles and dry sour rice noodles . When you come here, you must try the sour rice noodles (thick) in the store. The fermented sour rice noodles are softer and more delicate.
▲The left thick rice noodles, the right thin rice noodles
acid paste rice noodles must be eaten early. There are more than ten special seasonings in the store, all of which are filled in large pots and can be added to the rice noodles at will, but friends from other places may not be able to tell what this is with their naked eyes.
So it can only be matched by feeling. Only local people can find their favorite pickled vegetables, sour beans, peanuts, chicken blood, mushrooms, etc., and add them to the bowl.
After adding the seasoning, stir evenly and then use countless rice noodles hats (that is, toppings), tofu, rice cakes, mixed sauce, elbows, beef...
A bowl of authentic Dai rice noodles was born.
Little yellow cow rice noodles with skin
Address: Yunjinghong Street Office, No. 18, Building 9, Manjinglan Ancient City, Manjinglan
This "Little yellow cow rice noodles with skin" is hidden in Manjinglan Ancient City. The store has a small storefront in
. You can see a guy making rice noodles on the spot when you enter. The rice noodles themselves have no taste, and the most important thing is the soup.
Picture: @Banna Flavor
Handmark is Skin yellow ox rice noodles . The soup base is super fresh. You can see a pot of broth made of beef bones in the store, and it is slowly simmering.
soup has a fragrant taste without greasiness.
This shop is separate from soup and noodles. serve the soup first, and then add the seasonings yourself.
In addition to beef and soup, the noodles in the store are unlimited, and the seasonings are also available. You can add mint, beans, sauerkraut, pickles, etc., but the soup itself is very fresh, so you don’t need to add too much.
Finally add the cooked rice noodles and stir to make it. When eating, remember one soup, two meats and three rice noodles.
Recommend everyone to add meat, cut the yellow beef with skin into thin skin, which is very tough and it is particularly satisfying to eat it in winter.
There is also fried patten tofu in the store, which is super delicious.
Old Pu'er bean soup
Address: No. 30 Mengpeng Road
This is an old store, open 24 hours a day, and it is a real late-night canteen. Local old men and women like to come here for breakfast.
The store environment is relatively simple, but the bean tofu rice is really delicious!
bean soup and peanut soup are made in the store every day. You can not only drink it separately, but also add dried rice, rice noodles and noodles, and add various toppings and seasonings.
bean soup has a sticky and dense taste, sweet and rich, a bit like rice paste, and dried rice is rice flour.When eating, everyone looked around and didn't dare to sip, and it was a bit unforgettable after eating.
I prefer peanut soup, which tastes sweet and peanuty.
The breakfast I ate in Xishuangbanna really enriched my knowledge. It turns out that my acceptance of rice noodles is only clear soup or chicken soup, and I unlocked many different varieties of rice noodles here.
is really a blind family. If you have the chance, I still hope to eat more different ones.
At noon, have some genuine Dai food
Xi Shuangbanna, Jingdong, northern Thailand and northern Laos are actually all classified into the same cuisine— Lanna cuisine . Lanna cuisine is characterized by a special sense of time and nature, and will connect food and festivals.
Among the traditional cooking methods of the Dai people, there are several types of roasting, boiling, steaming, pounding, marinating, and chopping . Later, the Han people's cooking methods such as stir-frying and frying were combined.
. Dai food is especially simple when it is simple. For example, if you go to the field to work or hunt in the forest, they usually wrap a ball of hot glutinous rice with banana leaves, and stuff some chili, barbecue, pickled vegetables and so on.
is particularly particular when it comes to particularity.
Dai cuisine is made in its own system, rich in raw materials, and is characterized by the use of rich spices. "Limegrass Chicken", "Curry Potato" and "Sauce" are representatives.
'Scattered juice is actually beef bitter intestine water
. It is also more diverse in flavor. Sour and spicy are the standard seasonings, and bitter and odor can be tolerated.
What promotes these unique tastes is "Nami" , which can be understood as dipping water.
cauliflower slut, crab slut, chopped raw slut, roasted spicy slut... from fruits to seafood and internal organs, everything must be made into dipping water.
There is a unique crab sauce in traditional Dai cuisine. Pound the fresh crabs and make crab sauce with seasonings and dip them in glutinous rice or lettuce.
Dai meals in the Gaozhuang Scenic Area often recommend hand-pickled rice set meals, and more special dishes actually require going out of the scenic area and spending time exploring slowly.
Cai Li pounding chicken feet
Address: (Menghai County) Xincheng Garden No. 3-C6
pounding chicken feet sold in almost every cold restaurant in Banna. In fact, the birthplace is Menghai. The source of Menghai is Cai Li pounding chicken feet.
If you want to eat authentic chicken pounding feet, you must be right to go to this store. This is an old store that has been open for more than 20 years, and many locals grew up eating this store.
Each dish ranges from 10-20 yuan, and the portion is very large.
For Dai people, can pound everything. After choosing the ingredients, they will put the ingredients in a bowl crochet differently. The meaning of pounding is to mash and let it mix well.
pounded chicken feet are chewy and mixed with cowpeas, while the soul ingredients are millet pepper and lemon. It tastes sour and spicy, and is very appetizing, but not everyone can adapt to that taste.
suggests that you can also order the brown sugar porridge in the store, which is sweet and glutinous, just relieves the sour taste of the pounded chicken feet.
In addition to pounding chicken feet, the boss will also recommend the pounding tofu and pounding mushrooms in your store. If you can endure "bitter", the local pounding bitter fruit is also very distinctive.
Daiyuan Daiwei Restaurant
Address: No. 19, Manzha Village, Oliveba Daiyuan
There is a chef's village in the Daiyuan, named Manzha. In the past, this village specially trained people who cooked for the Tusi Yamen, so it is famous far and wide.
If you go to Olive Ba, you can go to this store to have a meal.
The Dai cuisine here is closer to the locals' home-cooked dishes, such as rushing to cook chicken, first cooked the chicken in water, then chopped it and stir-fried with spices, and the taste was very fragrant.
The pineapple rice here is also different from the taste that you eat in Gaozhuang, and the pineapple fragrance is stronger.
In addition, stinky dish is also a feature of Banna, which is a fresh vegetable that exudes a strong and strange smell. If you visit the farmers' market, you will definitely see it.
When you come here, you can boldly order a stinky dish fried egg . The stinky dish heated at high temperature will have a very special fragrance.
Shuangweiyuan Dailou Baoyao
Address: Binjiang Avenue South Bund Bar
My impression of Dai cuisine is that it respects the original flavor of the ingredients and respects time.
Here we rely on the river to eat the river. The braised bazaar fish in the store, and only Lancangjiang has it. Simply cook and add some chili to it will be delicious enough.
1 baos are also a major feature in the store.
Bags of roasted water spinach, bags of roasted stinky vegetables, bags of roasted sweet bamboo shoots, bags of roasted tofu, bags of roasted shrimp, bags of roasted fish, bags of roasted beef... There are all kinds of dishes, and bags of roasted food will have the aroma of banana leaves.
The sweet bamboo shoots here are very fresh, and they are really unique with the local wild crab sauce.
Green moss glutinous rice is also the first time I have seen it in my life. I heard that the Dai people would come to the Lancang River to salvage green moss with baskets in their hands. Some will be made into moss slices, some will be dried and roasted, and then fryed.
The most classic way to eat is to dip glutinous rice in moss.
Huajian Theme Restaurant
Address: Ganbu Street 2-1501B
If you want to find a better environment and more elegant in Banna, this one is quite suitable. This is what I saw when I was writing "Wife's Travel".
is different from the previous ones. Huajian Restaurant is actually more inclined to creative dishes and Yunnan dishes. In fact, the taste has been improved for tourists, so there is almost no problem of being unacceptable to it.
Half is a garden-style two-story building with a yard and it is quite beautiful when lighting the lights. On the second floor, you can also see the Gaozhuang Market outside.
The signature sour soup basa fish in the store is soft and tender at the mouth, and the soup will not be very spicy.
Spicy chicken feet are fragrant and not spicy. The coconut chicken soup is very delicious, but the improved taste makes it taste like Sichuan cuisine.
The international flavor meal at night
As a city in the southwestern border, Banna is adjacent to Southeast Asian countries such as Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand. There are 12 ethnic minorities in the territory.
Therefore, local food is all-encompassing. Here, you can eat Dai cuisine, Thai food, Myanmar desserts, Laos iced coffee, beer...
Luoluo Glacier
Address: No. 96 Xuanwei Avenue
This Luoluo Glacier is what I saw in the guide to "Lonely Planet" before. It is considered a local characteristic ice room. There are a wide variety of snacks in
, and they are basically cold and cold. My favorite is a local dessert called Paluda .
This was originally popular in Southeast Asian countries, and later gradually spread to Ruili and Xishuangbanna in Yunnan. The top is large chunks of bread and shredded coconut smell, which smells strong milky and the mixed aroma of bread.
Papaya custard , it looks good and delicious. The sweetness of the cucumber jelly is just right, and it is very spicy with spicy dishes.
Image source: @Xiaoxuanji
desserts and Sleeping Coconut . The coconut juice is very thick, and there are purple rice, pearls and a light ice powder inside, which is relatively sweet.
We didn’t order food. If you want to eat staple food, the chicken oil rice in the store is also good. The chicken oil rice is a bit like Korean bibimbap, covered with poached eggs and shredded chicken, and next to it is a small bowl of chicken soup and mixed sauce.
Shawan Coconut Na
Address: No. A3-1, No. 39 Mengli Avenue (Shawan International Commercial Plaza)
Coconut Na is also a Burmese specialty restaurant recommended by Lonely Planet. Not only is the decoration style in the store in Burmese style, but even the waiters in the store are Burmese. The desserts in
are wonderful, such as lemon meatball rice noodles , which tastes like Thai and spicy, and there are bananas that "like" Indian flying cakes Varadah .
The local chicken oil rice will be harder and taste lighter than Hainanese. The rice will be covered with a crispy fried chicken leg.
tastes not amazing, but it has a very cost-effectiveness. I often eat six or seven dishes, which is only in my early 100s.
Mae Palace Thai specialty restaurant
Address:
In Wanda Vista Resort
When I was writing about the hotel, I actually recommended this Thai restaurant in Wanda. The chef is , Chiang Mai people. He came to Banna from Chiang Mai and has lived in the local area for more than ten years.
The store offers authentic Thai cuisine.
Tom Yum Gong Tang is served by one person. Spicy and sour at the entrance. There were onions, mushrooms and shrimps in it, which was very appetizing when you drank it.
bread curry shrimp is also very recommended. The shrimp meat is very firm, the curry is thick and mellow, and the bread sticks are very appetizing in the curry sauce, and the curry sauce with pineapple fried rice is also very good to eat.
Wantai Lao iced coffee
Address: No. b11, Building 11, Jinghanzhai, Xishuangjingjing, Gaozhuang
The taste of Lao iced coffee is actually not used to it. It is a strong coffee taste, but it is not fragrant and slightly bitter in the mouth. Local people put bags in them and put a plastic bag inside.
Gaozhuang scenic spots are full of Laos coffee, I think you can give it a try in Buddhist terms.
In comparison, the perfume coconut smoothie in the store is too much to my taste. It tastes a bit like ice cream, and the coconut milk tastes not very rich.
also has sweet corn kernels and cereals, which are fragrant and sweet.
Shopping the Farmers’ Market
Finally, I would like to add to the Farmers’ Market in Xishuangbanna.
The vegetable market in Yunnan has always been interesting. If you want to know the novel things on the table in Xishuangbanna, you have to go to the vegetable market to find out.
If you live in the city, the more convenient thing is to visit Jinghong Farmers’ Market .
The vegetables here vary according to the season, including various strange vegetables such as wild ginger, taro, banana heart, elephant ear leaves, sour flat fruits, stinky vegetables, etc.
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vegetable market can not only be seen, but also learn about fresh vegetables, and the snacks inside are also worth eating.
Fine green bamboo poles roasted glutinous rice, only 3 yuan per serving. The old Dai woman carries the load. On one side, she packs rice with bamboo baskets, and on the other side dishes with rice. She can eat one for a few dollars. There are also many wild fruits here.
If you catch up with the bacteria being launched on the market, you can still see all kinds of strange bacteria.
Of course, eating Dai snacks, is the best while it is on the rush. The rushing is the market, and the rushing is the largest during the Water Song Festival.
The rest of the small hangouts will also be available in the surrounding villages. You can pay attention to their weekend markets so that you can have more authentic snacks.
The last easter egg
On the fourth day in Xishuangbanna, I went to a friend’s house in Menghai for dinner.
This family dinner is the best Dai cuisine I have eaten in Banna, and I still miss it now.
In fact, real Dai cuisine is not as terrible as the outside world sees, and they don’t eat bugs often.
The sweet bamboo shoots here are super sweet, and they are refreshing and delicious with the dipping sauce of millet pepper.
Their chicken soup is stewed in a large wood pot. The chicken soup is delicious, most likely because it is cooked in it. It runs in the bamboo garden every day.
The cheek melon here is better than the ribs and tastes like fruit.
There are too many interesting ingredients that are worth exploring. If I still have the chance to go to Xishuangbanna next time, I will definitely follow my friends to the rainforest to experience the "wild kitchen".
This is the last for the food, accommodation and play in Xishuangbanna. You can see more detailed guides in the relevant reading, hoping to help you travel to Banna.
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