Regional dishes & banquets 地方菜与宴席

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Inflated Air-Dried Liver (吹肝) — dish photograph
Yunnan

Inflated Air-Dried Liver 吹肝

Inflated Air-Dried Liver (吹肝) is a whole pig's liver blown up with air through a straw and then cooked or dried, a way of eating liver shared by the Bai, Yi, Naxi and other peoples of northwestern Yunnan.

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Water Flower Greens (水性杨花) — dish photograph
Yunnan

Water Flower Greens 水性杨花

Water Flower Greens (水性杨花) is listed among the local specialties of Lijiang, Yunnan. It is grouped here with regional dishes & banquets; retain the complete Chinese name when comparing local menus.

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Yunnan

Leaf-Wrapped Grilled Dishes 包烧

Leaf-Wrapped Grilled Dishes (包烧) describes a Dai (傣族) cooking method in Xishuangbanna (西双版纳), Yunnan (云南), in which fresh leaves enclose food while it cooks over the charcoal of a fire pit.

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Nanmi Dipping Sauce (喃咪) — dish photograph
Yunnan

Nanmi Dipping Sauce 喃咪

Nanmi Dipping Sauce (喃咪) is a family of Dai sauces from Xishuangbanna (西双版纳), Yunnan. "Nanmi" is a Dai word that can be rendered as sauce or condiment, and the sauces are eaten with fruit, vegetables and sticky rice.

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Sapie Cold Dish (撒撇) — dish photograph
Yunnan

Sapie Cold Dish 撒撇

Sapie Cold Dish (撒撇) is a Dai (傣族) cold mixed dish of beef, eaten with a bitter or sour sauce. In Dai, "sapie" means a cold mixed dish, and "pie" usually refers to beef.

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Lightly Torched Raw Pork Skin (生皮) — dish photograph
Yunnan

Lightly Torched Raw Pork Skin 生皮

Lightly Torched Raw Pork Skin (生皮) is the Bai (白族) dish of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture (大理白族自治州) in which pork skin and meat are eaten with a sour-sweet dip. In the Bai language it is called 'haige' (海格).

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