You've never eaten these before right?
Next, we're getting ready to go for a walk around the ancient town
to find some old town speciality snacks
Here, try some
See if it's salty enough
Oh, the grasshopper, this one?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Welcome to Dali Ancient Town!
There's a few that look like delicious delicacies
but there's a few
that are best observed from afar...
Give it a smell
They're edible roses
So fragrant
You can make rose jam
Next we're going to eat
two Dali snacks that use these roses as an ingredient
Do you want three?
Four
Don't have that many, there's only three
[Baizu dialect]
Two salty ones
Already busy for 50 days!
I'd like a sweet Xizhou baba
Thanks
Since we arrived in Dali over a month a go, this is probably
the breakfast we've eaten the most
This Xizhou baba is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside
Have a look at this crispy crust, you can see the layers
This is rose and brown sugar filling
It's called
There is a reason why Xizhou baba is called "broken-crispy"
Because it really tastes crispy
Breaks as soon as its in your mouth
Look, one tear and it's broken right?
It's really not the same as normal pastries
I think for a girl, eating one for breakfast will almost make you explode
I think eating half is enough
If you eat one, you're full until lunch
Super delicious
Not over-sweet haha
3RMB
Looks absolutely disgusting
Hmm, I think it looks okay
This is made with pea powder
It's smooth and watery
Very sticky
How's your roast rushan tasty?
Hard to describe...
Ha
I'd like a small rushan
Okay, 7RMB
I've been in Dali for over a month
and I'm always hearing roasted rushan, roasted rushan
but I've never tried it
because it's really looks like it won't be tasty
Looks like fat
I heard that Mongolians brought roasted rushan to Dali
It's made with milk
Look, milk skin (layer formed on boiled milk)
They used fire to heat it and it became soft
Then rolled it up
Before being roasted, it looked like a fan
So it's called "milk-fan"
This is also one of the "18 strange curiosos of Yunnan"
Maybe it's not the kind of thing I like
It's too hard!
Challenges your teeth
Some people say it tastes like cardboard
Like cardboard boxes
I found a shop selling flower cakes
Flower cake
Yeah, you can try some flower cake
How many kinds of flavour are there?
Altogether, there's 5 flavours: rose, jasmine, osmnathus, sweet potato...
Okay, first I'll try some
Spotted the rose flowers
They are pure rose petals, no added preservatives and sweeteners
It's all real flavour from the flower
How many do you want to buy?
Pretty tasty, I can taste the rose flower's petals
I feel like it's a whole petal, not jam
It's not jam right?
Right, no jam, it's flower petals
That's okay we'll separate them
I bought three
Just now, I was taste-testing so I didn't want to say too much
I'll try another now
The outside is crispy, the inside is floral
It's a great combination
I think there's a reason why Yunnan's flower cakes are famous
Really tasty
But you have to chose the right shop
Because there's too many (shops) selling these
This one's better value for money and bigger
It's enough for two of you
Lots of people eat this one
People sit here and eat
Tasty!
But we want to try erkuai
Do you come here everyday?
I'm here everyday
Have been for 40 years
I started when I was 20
I'm Bai
A "golden Bai flower" (beautiful Bai women are known culturally as golden flowers)
So you're one of the five golden flowers? (referencing an old TV show with five golden flower maidens)
Yeah, I'm a golden flower
I'll add some pickles, the pickles are tasty
Did you make these sauces yourself?
Yeah, made with my own hands
Mhmm
These crushed peanuts looks
very tasty
This is youtiao (also called the "Chinese donut")
Half for each of you?
Take away?
Yeah
Okay if you're taking away I'll help you wrap it up
You can wrap them up together. Thanks auntie (polite way to address older woman)
No problem
You can eat it right now and it'll be good
Sure, how much is this?
8RMB
Inside there's youtiao
as well as carrot and potato slices
chilli and crushed peanuts
I'll take a bite
Sure, taste it, take a bite
How is it?
Tasty
It's good?
It's great, just the pickles are a bit too sour
The pickles aren't sour
If it wasn't sour it'd be even tastier
So many flavours
There's lots of different types of flavour
Also there's the youtiao inside
so you won't be hungry afterwards
It can be lunch
Give him a try
Here, try some
I see "chicken skin" (a Dali dish)
First I'd like a bowl of cold chicken rice noodles
[Wechat pay noise]
This is Dali's poster rice noodles
Cold, home-grown chicken, rice noodles
Actually these rice noodles are a bit like Guilin rice noodles
They're a little thick
If you don't have soup, they use these thick rice noodles
and also it's cold
They'll give you some
chicken
Mix it up before you eat
Okay I'll try a bit
This is really tasty
Firstly, it's cold
and, actually the meat's pretty tasty
and there's some chilli spice
and these rice noodles are stretchy and slippery
Yeah, sour, sweet and spicy
Elastic
Hello
Finally found you guys
Do you want a small or large portion?
Uh..!
So anxious haha
Do you eat them?
Yeah I often eat them, we can eat them raw
Because we're used to it
This isn't cooked through
For you, I'll fry them until they're dry, so they're crispy and delicious
Hahaha
For people who haven't eaten bugs before, which is easiest (to eat)?
They're all the same
Because they're not raw
For us, sometimes we just eat them raw
I'll cook them dry for you, make them crunchy
No strange flavours
From inside pine trees
This is silkworm, silkworm pupa
This is locust
This is a bamoo worm
Bamboo worm?
Yeah from inside bamboo
Oh
These are locust that lived in straw
These lived in mulberry leaves
This is silkworm?
Yeah yeah yeah, silk-making worms
You can eat silkworms?
You can
I wanted a challenge but...
I still haven't made up my mind
If I can't finish them I'll give them to you
Hahaha
I'm here now, I have no choice but to eat them!
When I think I feel...
You haven't eaten them before right?
You like spice?
Yeah
Okay
I bet you can't wait?
I can't wait, I'm not in rush
No rush
Try a bit, see if its salty enough
Don't burn your hand, it's hot
One bite, you can eat it in one bite
This one's locust right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just go for it, there's nothing strange about it
It doesn't taste like an insect
Not what I imagined
If you didn't tell me what it is, there's no way I could tell it was a bug
Very crispy, like french fries
Okay be careful not to burn your hand
Now I've eaten one I feel
Uh, actually it's not that disgusting
So I--
I don't know if I... Haha
I'll try a different one
Honestly
it doesn't taste disgusting
The texture is pretty crispy
But to look at, it seems inedible
It's just challenging your--
The first step is the challenge
Do you dare try the first bite
If you try the first bite, the rest is the same
If not
for this film, I think I wouldn't have tried the first bite
A whole leg
I feel its very difficult
I don't feel uncomfortable because it's not tasty
it's pretty tasty
the main thing is because
when I'm eating them I can imagine what they look like
I recommend when you eat it you close your eyes
it's a very good method
I'll eat the rest in one go!
Pretty tasty, the more you eat the tastier they are
The more you eat, the more delicious
I might buy some more
Compared to the green bean powder this morning
I'd rather eat these bugs
I suddenly feel
There's lots of feet in my mouth
So many legs
Quick, let's go eat some hotpot
Wash it away
We've arrived at the hotpot restaurant
Do you think I'm crazy?
I especially like Dali's tea cups
They're all porcelain
15 minutes
Until time's up, don't agitate the soup at all with your chopsticks
It's smells of fungi
Lots of people say
if you come to Dali and don't eat mushroom hotpot then
your Dali journey is not complete
This mushroom hotpot, its soup base
is probably infused with chicken
and inside there's lots of different fungi
This should be the most expensive fungus
matsutake
With my utmost devotion, I await the hotpot
The last 50 seconds
Do we have to take it so seriously?
Why do have to do what we're told?
[timer goes off]
Mhmm, the soup's not bad
Compared to and the traditional mala (spicy-numbing) hotpots, with this mushroom hotpot
you can drink the soup
Did you see? My first mouthful wasn't food, it was soup
Fresh and delicious
I think it's very healthy, this hotpot is very healthy
Yeah, compared to mala hotpot
I'll try without dip first
I feel like this is my first real fungus
There's really a strong
mushroom flavour
Normally, I feel like eating those kinds of mushroom doesn't count as a fungus
So, there's a reason this mushroom hotpot is famous
Very refreshing
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