These 11 featured food parings are only found in Yunnan, the only way to taste them is to come to Yunnan, each of them is full of strong Yunnan feature. Friendly reminder: mind your mouth-watering! If it is a lot to you, then come to Yunnan at once, and taste them!

Dilute bean flour × Twisted cruller

Soya-bean milk + twisted cruller? Yunnan people will say it is too weak compared with dilute bean flour + twisted cruller! It tastes weird for the first time due to the ginger and garlic in the dilute bean flour, but you will be addicted to it after you've tried it once or twice!

Soya-bean milk × White noodles

White noodle is similar to rice noodle, but the classic making of it in the south region of Yunnan is to use soya-bean milk as the soup, which is a little thinner than the dilute bean flour. Soya-bean milk white noodle is also called soya-bean soup white noodle, the process is simple: pour soya-bean milk to white noodle, and then add seasonings, yummy!

Rice cake × Twisted cruller

One of the "Eighteen Strange Things" in Yunnan: Fried rice cake. It is one of the most traditional food in Kunming, as a breakfast pairing with twisted cruller and other sauces, you will not be hungry till the launch time.

Mint × Dried beef

Yunnan people like to eat mint, just like the north people like to eat coriander. Gourmets give the simplest interpretation: beef mate. Fried mint is used to pad the plate for holding the fried beef or fried ribs. Delicacy!

Glutinous rice x Twisted cruller

Kunming's glutinous rice dumpling is similar to Shanghai's rice wrapping twisted cruller. Steamed glutinous rice is pinched by hand into dumpling shape holding a small section of twisted cruller with white sugar sprinkled on it in the middle. The faint scent of glutinous rice and twisted cruller pairing with sweet sugar will give you full energy.

Sour bamboo shoots x beef

Dai nationality's specialty, sour bamboo shoots, pairing with beef, will definitely whet your appetite. You'll feel a bit hard at the first time to adapt to its smell, just like the first time when one smells the stinky tofu. However, ones who like sour bamboo shoots will get energetic on smelling it.

Sour bamboo shoots, just like the stinky tofu, is either loved or hated by people.

Tofu pudding × Rice noodle

Speaking of the competition between "sweet tofu pudding VS salty tofu pudding", Yunnan will say that, the perfect match for tofu pudding is rice noodle!

Sour rice noodles pairing with spiced cabbage, tofu pudding, chive, sauces, chili oil, garlic and ginger, black pepper, peanut, sesame, by using them the noodle could be of different taste, which could only be told by the rice noodle fans.

 

Pineapple × Purple rice

There are roughly two types of pineapple rice, the Thai style (salty and sweet), and the Dai style (soft and sour). In Xishuangbanna and Dehong, people often excavate pineapple and fill in purple rice, then the pineapple rice is done.

Hidden pineapple pieces in the rice, and both in the pineapple juice, in a moist color. Any bite brings you sweet, a bit sour but not greasy taste, really delicious and good-looking.

Lotus flour × Rice cake

Kunming is a romantic city, even a traditional snack can reflect its romance. When the tender lotus flour meets the snow white rice cake, red sugar in the middle meets green strands, it will leave a crispy and sweet taste in the mouth. A bowl of rice cake with lotus flour is like to mix love of ideal and of real life in it.

Milk residue × Water braised cake

Water braised cake is a traditional food in and around Diqing and Lijiang. The smart local people roll the fermented dough into round cakes, then bake them on iron saucepan, add water when they become light yellow, then cover the lid until it is totally braised. Freshly braised cakes taste soft but chewy.

The classic pairing with water braised cake is milk residue, as a Tibet delicious food, which has left deep impression to anyone who has a bite of it.

Papaya juice × Cool rice shrimp

Cool rice shrimp is a Yunnan flavor snack. It is made by cooked rice draining into cold water through a slotted spoon. Shaped like shrimp, hence its name. Pairing it with papaya juice, adding rose sugar, soft, sweet, it is recommended to eat or drink it when it is cold.