Yunnan is a mysterious place with various delicious gourmet foods and snacks. Foreigners may want to know where to enjoy delicious food while they study Chinese in the city of Kunming. In the following parts, I will introduce several restaurants in Jiangdong area of Kunming city to enjoy palatable Yunnan food as well as delicate Cantonese cuisine from Guangzhou.
The first restaurant is located in number five to eight of Jiangdong Commercial Street which is famous for the chicken with yam and bamboo shoots. New comers to learn Mandarin in Kunming may be curious about the recipe. Firstly, cut chicken and yam into chunks and put bamboo shoots in the water. Fry the chicken for a while and boil with yam and bamboo shoots. After the soup is boiled, continue to cook with a little fire for about 30 minutes. It will be done when putting some medlar.
Teachers from qualified Mandarin program may tell you that this dish is very nutritious for your health. Among so many species of bamboo shoots, the winter bamboo has the best quality, which has many functions like clearing heat and eliminating phlegm, relaxing the bowels and detumescence. The bamboo shoots are tender but not astringent. The chicken is fragrant but not greasy.
Another restaurant recommended is a Cantonese restaurant with seafood, which is also in the commercial street. The special dish is the orange peel fried with pork ribs. Learners from Chinese school in China should know that this dish contains many ingredients such as fermented soybean sauce, garlic juice, spiced salt, dried orange peel, wine, sugar and vinegar. The peel is crisp and the meat is tender. It is fragrant and suitable for people of all ages.
The special dish of the restaurant of Jiangchuan three courses is the braised fish with copper pot, with which foreigners may be familiar when they learn to speak Chinese in the city of Kunming. The fish is the native fish in Jinagchuan. It is washed to clean and dried and diced then fried. After braising the fish in the copper pot by adding some special sauce, it will be done after adding some spring onion, ginger, garlic and caraway.
In another restaurant, you can enjoy the delicious boiled fish with pickled cabbage and chili, which is famous in Yunnan. If you got chance to come to Kunming when you learn Mandarin in China, you can go to the commercial street to taste this dish. The fish of this dish is also the native fish which is very delicious after being boiled. The reason of the strong fragrant scent is the diverse ingredient such as pickled cabbage, tomato, pepper, dry red chili, star anise, garlic, ginger and so on.
If you don’t like fish, you can try the light soup fish with ginger, which can be tasted in the restaurant at number nine of Jiangdong Garden North Road. Everybody who comes to study in China knows that chicken soup is very nutritious. When stewed with ginger, it will be more delicious. The chicken of this restaurant is the black-bone chicken from Zhaotong, most of which are fed without any chemical elements. Therefore, it is very good for your health.
Last but not least, the Xuanwei Ham in Yunnan province is very famous in China even all around the world. For those foreigners who learn Chinese language in China, the Xuanwei Ham is a delicious food they should never miss. When you can to the Xuanwei Ham food city in Kunming, you will have chance to taste the most famous ham in Xuanwei city, that is, Jinqian Ham. It must be the real ham more than three years.
For those famous dishes mentioned above are all delicious and nutritious ones. When you learn Chinese in China, you should never miss these specialties in Yunnan. What’s more, you can also taste the seafood in Guanzhou city at the same time you are enjoying Yunnan food. Besides, the food introduced above can be enjoyed in the Jiangdong area of Kunming city.
Therefore, with so much information about gourmet food, you can go for them with your friends during the period of learning Mandarin Chinese. To provide more information, I can tell you more about the price, which ranges from 35 Yuan to 85 Yuan per one. So it is acceptable because of the food with low price and good quality.
After knowing so much about the gourmet food in Kunming, you can go to enjoy a delicious food feast in your spare time. At the time of leisure and relaxation, you can eat what you like as more as you can.