Kunming, January 1 (Chen Xuelian) "Passion fruit sour and spicy fresh meat rice noodles are the first choice for the Yellow River Road check-in package of "Flowers". After the hit drama "Flowers" became popular, Shanghai Huanghe Road and Jinxian Road became Internet celebrity check-in places, and netizens "Walking Scientist" recently spent 14 yuan to order the actor's favorite Yunnan rice noodles in the play on Huanghe Road, and ate them with relish, and did not forget to take pictures and send Xiaohongshu.
Greater Shanghai's cuisine not only blends East and West, but also includes the cuisine of China's Tiannan and Haibei. Yunnan cuisine, among which occupies a place of its own. Recently, audiences and tourists who are chasing "flowers" have flocked to Shanghai's Huanghe Road, where restaurants gather, and a Yunnan restaurant has taken the opportunity to launch a cross-bridge rice noodle set set ordered by the characters in the play, and business is booming.
The picture shows Yunnan cross-bridge rice noodles. Photo by Chinanews reporter Liu Ranyang
"Yunnan's rice noodles, in addition to the most famous cross-bridge rice noodles, there are also large pot rice noodles, small pot rice noodles, bean curd rice noodles, mixed sauce rice noodles...... Li Xiaolin, invited vice president of the Yunnan Catering and Food Industry Association, said Yunnan rice noodles, eat for a month can not be the same, "and rice noodles are only one unit in the hundred gardens of Yunnan cuisine." ”
China's food culture can be classified from various perspectives such as region and economy, ethnicity and religion, food and utensils, consumption and level, folk customs and functions, etc., showing different cultural tastes and reflecting different use values. It advocates the natural beauty of raw materials and seasonings, the simple beauty of cooking, the beauty of strange food customs, the beauty of simple and innocent customs, and the inclusive beauty of the north and the south. Yunnan cuisine is a sensory expression that most intuitively shows the multi-ethnic customs and regional cultural characteristics of Yunnan.
The picture shows the Hani patriarch street banquet in Honghe, Yunnan. Photo by Chinanews reporter Li Jiaxian
Film and television works are often also portrayals of reality. The Yunnan restaurant in Shanghai in the play "Flowers" is "not afraid of deep alleys", but in reality, the Yunnan restaurant "Nanbanzi" located on Jinxian Road in Shanghai is hidden deep enough, and there is no complete door on the street, but there are many gourmets who love Yunnan cuisine.
Not only in Shanghai, but also in Beijing, Yunnan cuisine with strong local flavors and distinctive ethnic characteristics has been praised by directors such as Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen. This is Beijing's first Yunnan restaurant "Dianfeng Building".
In 1990, Liu Fengwen, an old intellectual, returned to Beijing from Yunnan, and because he could not forget the unique taste and dishes of Yunnan, he and his wife Xie Shuping founded the "Dian Feng Lou", which was highly praised for its rich ecological raw materials, unique craftsmanship and distinctive national characteristics. His family's dipping fish are famous, sweet and sour passion fruit hot pot, Maitreya boiling beef, Hani dipping chicken, fragrant pineapple shrimp, and Dian Feng's private duck tongue...... Make customers have an endless aftertaste and praise Yunnan cuisine.
The picture shows the citronella tilapia of the Dai people in Yunnan. Courtesy of Li Jian
Interestingly, after becoming popular in Beijing, the founder Liu Fengwen returned to Kunming, Yunnan Province to open a store. If it is said that "Dian Feng Lou" fired the first shot of Yunnan cuisine in Beijing, then the real representative of Yunnan cuisine to make a national reputation is Yunhai Cuisine Yunnan Cuisine Restaurant. Fifteen years ago, the restaurant was opened in Beijing by four university students, and in less than 15 years, more than 4 restaurants have been opened in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places. In 10, it was rated as the chief demonstration enterprise and the most dynamic growth enterprise of Yunnan cuisine by Yunnan Catering and Gastronomy Association.
Customers from all over the country can not only quickly enjoy a variety of Yunnan specialties, but also taste the unique food innovation here. Li Jian, manager of Yunhai Cuisine Yunnan Cuisine Kunming Main Store, told reporters: "Our most distinctive innovative dishes are, lemongrass tilapia, Yunnan's unique Dai lemongrass wrapped in tilapia grilled together, which tastes very fragrant and tender, as well as black truffle, porcini mushrooms and bullfrog fusion made of black truffle porcini braised bullfrog, our own drink wild sour horn raspberry juice is very popular, and the dessert brown sugar bean curd after the meal, the table must be ordered." ”
Nowadays, Yunnan cuisine continues to innovate and develop in the inheritance, and it is already colorful. "Entering Beijing, entering Shanghai, and going to the South Seas" is even more prosperous. Li Jian said, "Our generation of Yunnan catering people has the responsibility to let those traditional Yunnan cuisine cultural heritages that are gradually disappearing go to a broader stage after systematic excavation, research, application and presentation, and show the unique charm of Yunnan cuisine food culture to the world." (ENDS)