Food during the tour - A pictorial essay

 

 

Inside a tea merchant shop during a tea tasting session in my last trip. All the brown packages behind the lady are tea leaves. We were served more than 10 types of tea, including very old tea leaves and iced Pu erh, a more expensive type of Pu erh tea. Being not a tea drinker, taste adulterated by coffee, Tie Guan Yin, I found Pu erh rather bland. Not to my taste. Pu erh is meant to be very good for health, thus rather pricey. Click to enlarge pics.

 

Food is one of the main items in the whole tour. We ate and ate until cannot tahan. Too much food. Every meal, lunch or dinner, is 15 courses...ah. But this presentation was the last dinner we had. A rather simple meal and lesser in quantity, was a specialty of the Yi minority tribe. It originated from the dedication of a wife caring for her husband who isolated himself in an island to prepare for the Imperial Examination. In the cold winter, the food/chicken was accidentally kept warm by a thick layer of oil. And the husband finally passed the exam on his third attempt.

 

The hot pot was brewing a local delicacy, a poisonous mushroom that must be well cooked. Taking it under cooked is poisonous. We had to wait for it to be thoroughly cooked. Quite frightening experience, and hesitant to try.

 

Closer view of the mushroom, the darker ones in the pot. In the rest of the meals we had, the table would be full of dishes and needed to clear and clear to make way for 15 dishes, including fish, poultry and meat. And they all came continuously, one after another.


Eating China street food or in restaurants is always very kind to your pocket. You can eat all the street food that are interesting and of great value without having to worry about the cost. And you would not be fleeced by unscrupulous sellers. The prices are fixed in most cases while some bargaining may be possible in small shops or stalls. With so much food and varieties available, no need for MacDonald or Kentucky Fried Chicken.