Food

Yunnanese food, with its fusion of delicate flavors from Southeast Asia and stronger flavors from the Tibetan plateau, can be a welcome change from traditional Chinese cuisine. While Yunnan offers the majority of the staples of Chinese cuisine, the area also has a variety of regional specialties that you should try if you visit. Because the Bai people produce cheeses like Rubing and Rushan, Yunnan cuisine is distinctive in China. Other effects on Yunnan under the Yuan dynasty include the settlement of Central Asia by Mongolians, as well as the closeness and impact of India and Tibet. The popularity of Yunnan food is rising in the west.

It is one of the areas in China with the greatest availability of edible wild fungi. More than 250 different types of edible local fungi exist, with bovine liver, Qingtou, chicken fir, dried, bamboo sun, matsutake, and other varieties being some of the more popular ones. According to Xinhua, the food YouTuber Dianxi Xiaoge could be dubbed A Bite of Yunnan for her work bringing Yunnan cuisine to the world, similar to the Chinese documentary television program A Bite of China. The "fungus kingdom," "plant kingdom," and "animal kingdom" are all referred to as Yunnan.