Purple rice in pineapple

Purple rice is a typical Dai sticky food. The rice is marinated in water for seven to eight hours, and then stirred with pork stuffing. A pineapple is cut and stripped of its meat, then stuffed with the purple rice and braised. The rice soaks in the pineapple flavor.

Sour bamboo shoots with chicken

Sour bamboo shoots always have a place on the Dai dinner table. The shoots are first cleaned and then boiled. When the bamboo shoot is done, put the chicken is put into the soup and boiled. Next, the bamboo shoots and chicken are fried together with peppers, ginger and shallots.

Fried lichen

The dish is made of dried lichen slices drawn from the river. The lichen are boiled with ginger and salt and dried in sunshine, then cut and fried in hot oil. Fried lichen taste like seafood and is popular among the Dai people.Where to stay

Jinghong Hotel (two star)

Address: No 16, Galan Zhong Lu, Jinghong
Tel: 0691-212 3166

Xinmin Hotel (three star)

Address: No 2, Jingde Dong Lu,

Jinghong

Tel: 0691-2126888

Daiyuan Hotel (four star)

Address: No 8, Nonglin Nan Lu,

Jinghong

Tel: 0691-212 3888

Getting to Xishuangbanna

Xishuangbanna Airport is in the southern part of Jinghong. It takes about 45 minutes by air from Kunming, Yunnan, to Xishuangbanna. Direct flights to Kunming for transfer are available.

Bus transportation is available from various places to Jinghong, Yunnan. You can telephone the bus station for more information.

Jinghong bus station:

0691-212 3171, 212 3570

Xishuangbanna bus station:

0691-212 4427
                                                                 [Source: Beijing Today]

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