Yunnan Food Photos

I have most of my photos of my meals in Yunnan (Kunming, Dali, and Lijiang) up on my photostream on Flickr. I won't post the hundreds here, but they are available on the "garyalanfine" page http://www.flickr.com/photos/52391789@N00/

My trip lasted ten days, and for those interested in a similar tour, my tour was lead by Robert Carmack and Morrison Pokinghome of Globetrotting Gourmet, a small tour outfit that specializing in food tours of Southeast Asia http://www.globetrottinggourmet.com/. I recommend them highly. If you are interested PM me.

I may write some more about the trip, but not about all of the meals. But what is missing in these photographs: Very few restaurants serve rice with the dishes - sometimes we received a small bowl of rice and the end of the meal, but rice was not a major component of the banquets.

Thre as a sample

Vegetable Display



Pork Ribs with Lemongrass



Preserved Duck Eggs

I keep meaning to get back to Spring World and try some of the non-$4-lunch-special Yunannese foods - as I'm much more likely to get there than I am to get to the actual province. Thanks for the nudge, Gary, and the beautiful pictorial!

Gary, what's the sauce on the duck eggs? In Wuhan (Hubei Province) the eggs were served peeled, whole, and with a side of *very* hot chile sauce. You ate them by hand, dipping them in the sauce. In a wonderful bit of transcultural graciousness, they were served in the canteen of the university's Foreign Teachers' Residence for lunch on Easter Sunday! Given all the colors these eggs exhibit, they actually *were* quite a bit like Easter Eggs.

I always wanted to go down to Kunming, but never got the chance. I'm sure we'd enjoy your report if/when you felt like writing a bit about it!

Geo

The sauce for this dish (and I had a lot of duck eggs, served various ways) was a chili sauce, but in Yunnan, almost all the chilies and the chili sauce was fairly mild. I don't mean that it had not heat, but it was more flavorful than hot.

The remainder of my Yunnan restaurant pictures on now up on Flickr at "garyalanfine"

I have some market photos that I might add.

Thank you for sharing your photos. I am envious and now hungry. I only wish that I had the foresight years ago to take photos of the food I ate and not just of the sites I saw. It's a wonderful way to remember your travels.

Sharon