Dali Food

The most of the best restaurants of Dali are in the Gucheng. If you want to enjoy the delicacies of Dali, you can go to the Huguo Road in Gucheng. There are western meal coffee parlors with special features of minority such as Bai Nationality, Tibetan etc. which are everywhere. There are still many foreign visitors.

In the Huguo Road, many restaurants sell western meals and Chinese food, the visitors can taste the food of the taste of Yunnan and the local dishes of Bai Nationality.

The basic tastes of the people Bai Nationality are loving sour, hot, sweet and light hot. The skill method of its cooking is taught by the dishes of Han Nationality and the dishes in temples of Buddha influence deeply. The famous dishes are a lot of, such as Chaoguoyu, Xisharushan, Dalier, Huoshuizhuhuoyu etc.

Yanluosi (圆螺丝)

Luosi is the special product of Eel Lake in Dali. The people of Bai Nationality like to eat it and the method of eating is varied, among them preserving Luosi is a special method of eating. The method of preserving Luosi is: Take the flexible Luosi, tip the hull, after wash clearly, soak for a short moment with the boiling water, after tip water and cool it, mix with sour and hot adjust to anticipate then you can eat.

Lengdongbaidoufuyu (冷冻白豆腐鱼)

In winter, in the hotels or on the dining table of crowd of Bai Nationality in some places such as Dali, Dengchuan etc. you can see the frozen vegetables called Lengdongbaidoufuyu which the local people like to eat, it is one of the top-class famous dishes which are treated guests by people of Bai Nationality.

Bai tea (Sandaocha) (山道茶)

Since the Ming Dynasty, it has been common practice for Bai ethnic group people to receive and show hospitality to guests by serving three cups of their unique Bai tea (Sandaocha), which literally means "treating guests with three cups of tea". The first cup of tea is made with Tuo tea (Tuocha), reportedly the best tea in all of Dali, which tastes a little bitter. The second cup is made with sweet ingredients, like milk fan (a local dairy product similar to cheese), walnuts and brown sugar.