The Eating Play Weekly had exclusively planned the tour of delicacies on weekends, which is going to be opened from the Nov.19th (Sat.) and this week a good destination for friends when you learn Chinese in Yunnan is the Wuding chicken.
The Wuding chicken is quite famous and it was called by the local residents as the black-bone chicken, it is unique when you are in Mandarin language courses in China that its bones are pure black while its skin seems similar to that of the ordinary chicken.
It is brilliant enough to attract the attention of all the friends considering about “why learn Chinese in Yunnan” due to its outstanding flavor and quality. The Wuding Chicken had just won the first place in the “Six of Chicken” sponsored by the Department of Agriculture of Yunnan Province.
The Wuding chicken is huge and strongly-built, its legs are thick and neck is long, its muscular and its body hindquarters are broad and deep, it can be seen when you have found a place to learn Chinese in Yunnan that due to its fluffy feathers, it appears to be bulky.
The meat of Wuding chicken tastes delicious and fresh, its fame had been known during the Ming Dynasty, since it used to be selected a tribute to the imperial palace. The appearance of the Wuding chicken is also interesting to be discovered by people in Chinese language school. The feathers of the roosters are in crimson luster, while that of the feathers and tails of hens are black, with crescent-shaped white patterns on the other parts of their bodies.
The foreign friends will attend Mandarin learning courses must be interested about the producing area of Wuding chicken, Wuding chicken is mainly produced in Wuding and Luquan counties, which are located in the Yi autonomous prefecture of Yunnan province. After returning from Wuding after tasting Wuding chicken, people in intensive language courses in China can go to climb the Lion Rock to work out, the Wuding Lion Rock is known to be the first mountain in the Southwest, it got the name Lion Rock due to its shape which resembles a lying lion.
Legends have it that the Jianwen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty had once taken the tonsure at the Wuding Rock to become a monk there; there are a large number of scenic spots in Wuding to be shared with students to learn Chinese in China, such as the Goddess of Mercy Cave, the Sun-view Platform, the caves, waterfalls as well as ancient creeping vines.
Another place worth travelling for students who intends to study Chinese is the street selling potato delicacies in Luliang, the kunmingnese are showing special fondness for the potatoes, the potatoes can be regarded as one of the distinctive food of Yunnan province, there is even a saying goes like this, “eating potatoes enable ones to be smarter and more intelligent” in Kunming.
All types of foods made of potatoes displayed on the street in Luliang city is certainly goes to give an eye feast for the foreign friends when they study in China, the local residents in Kunming would always be able to relate to you some personal experiences of them in eating potatoes.
Mrs. Sun had recounted in this way, “I love potatoes since my early childhood, during the primary school years; I used to eat potatoes contained in plastic bowls squatting on the ground by the old districts; I rode to the potato streets to eat during my middle-school years; and when I was in college, I went to eat the potatoes hand in hand with my boy friend; and even right now, I would like to join in this trip to Luliang to enjoy my “Potato Journey””.
Foreign friends planning to learn Mandarin in elsewhere China would seldom be able to have a try of so mushy and fragrant potatoes, and in the past people were only familiar with the Luliang’ s stuffed buns, and nowadays, the big potatoes are also available here.