Kunming Food

Kunming cuisine tastes a bit salty and spicy with strong ethnic and local characteristics. Chicken and fish are used rather often in the dishes. The representative dishes are Over-the-Bridge Rice Noodles and Steam Pot Chicken. The fresh wild mushrooms in Kunming are famous all over China.

Over-the-Bridge Rice Noodles is a typical Yunnan local flavor one shouldn’t miss in Kunming. It is consisted of a big bowl of chicken soup, sliced vegetables and meat and rice noodle. Steam Potted Chicken is one of the well known local nutritious dishes in Kunming. Braised Jizong in Soy Sauce is a mushroom dish with chicken-like taste popular among gourmands. Other famous local snacks and dishes include Xuanwei Ham, Er Kuai, Yiliang Roasted Duck and Stinky Tofu.

Kunming dishes are representative of Dian (Yunnan Province) cuisine, which combines cooking styles of other cities and nationalities outside Kunming in Yunnan Province. With its high humidity and mild temperatures Kunming provides abundant fruits and vegetables all year for local cuisine. Also, there are numerous snack options in high streets and back lanes.

After tasting the delicious Kunming Cruisine, don't foget to try some local snacks as desert.

Steam Pot Chicken is a popular local food for Yunan people. When you refer this dish in a city of Yunnan, locals will immediately show their preference on this delicacy

A typical local delicacy of Yunnan��Across-the-Bridge Rice Noodles is known at home and abroad for its delicate ingredients and preparation, its unique way of serving��its fresh taste, its rich nutrition and its fascinating cooking culture.

During its preparation, chicken breast��ridge por, fish and ham are sliced, and bean curd sheets, cabbage heart, leek��mung bean sprouts, pea sprouts, coriander and onion are cleaned, cut and put on small dishes.

Kunming is host to various wild mushrooms including Jizong. Whenever the sun shines after a rain from June to September, many Jizong shaped like small grey umbrellas appear on the mountain. The chicken-like taste of Jizong is popular with gourmands.

Modern Cake is also called "Modern Baba" by the local Yunnan people. It is not made from any kind of dough, but from different kinds of rice and vegetables.

Inside the cake there are different kinds of stuffings. The flavor of Modern Cake can be divided into two kinds: the salty kind and the sweet kind. The salty kind has ham and onion as stuffings and the sweet kind has regular sugar, brown sugar and red beans.

Xuanwei Ham is reputed as one of the three most famous types of hams in China.It is named after its producing place��Xuan-wei of Yunnan Province and is also called Yunnan Han Ham.

It features small bones, thin skins, rich flesh, tender meat, fragrant aroma, and beautiful color.