Halal Food Guide: Mengzi and Kunming — Rice Noodles, Mosques and Muslim Streets
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Summary: Halal Food Guide: Mengzi and Kunming — Rice Noodles, Mosques and Muslim Streets is presented here as a firsthand travel account in clear English, beginning with this scene: Author: Zainab. The account keeps its focus on Yunnan Food, Kunming Travel, Halal Food while preserving the names, places, food, and historical details from the Chinese source.
Author: Zainab.
We left Shadian for Mengzi to catch the high-speed train back to Kunming. In Mengzi, we ate at Yitiange, a very popular halal bridge-crossing rice noodle (guoqiao mixian) restaurant. They have copper-pot bridge-crossing rice noodles ranging from 12 to 50 yuan. We ordered the 50-yuan deluxe version, which came with 26 small plates. You can get unlimited refills of the meat broth and rice noodles. The plates included raw fish slices, raw beef slices, raw quail eggs, shrimp, dried beef (niu ganba), beef tongue, cold duck slices, cold beef slices, crispy butter, braised beef, grass shoots (caoya), chrysanthemum flowers, pea starch jelly (wandou tuo), bean sprouts, tofu skin, chives, cilantro, mint, green onions, melon tips, ginger, garlic, chili, and chili sauce. This is the most complete variety I have ever eaten!
They also have all kinds of stir-fried dishes and seasonal vegetables, with a huge selection. We ordered the egg-wrapped rice noodle rolls (furong juanfen) and bitter greens soup (kucai tang), both of which were delicious. I recommend this place to all my fellow Muslim friends (dost) planning to visit Mengzi!
After finishing my trip through central and southern Yunnan, I returned to Kunming from Mengzi. I stayed in the same room with a view of the mosque behind Shuncheng Street that I used to stay in. The Shuncheng Mosque is right outside my window.
In the morning, I had a grilled rice cake (shaoshierkuai) at Yingfeng Shaoshierkuai by the entrance of Shuncheng Mosque. I bought pickled vegetable and crispy buns (posubao) at the bun shop next door, then had a bowl of thick bean porridge (xidoufen) at Sayuxiang to start a wonderful day.
I caught the very last day of business for Guiji Xiaojinniu, which had been open on Shuncheng Street in Kunming for 33 years. Their building was taken back by the Kunming Mingde Ethnic Middle School. Since it was their last day, the menu was limited. We ordered small knife duck (xiaodaoya), open-fire roasted tilapia, sesame oil crown daisy, pickled vegetable and red bean soup, and mushroom minced meat tofu pudding (douhua). I first saw this restaurant when I visited Shuncheng Street, but I never got around to eating there. I finally tried it this time, so I have no regrets.
I walked around Shuncheng Street to eat, trying rose oatmeal porridge, red bean baked rice cakes from the cake shop, and pizza from Yunxiangzhai.
Summary: Halal Food Guide: Mengzi and Kunming — Rice Noodles, Mosques and Muslim Streets is presented here as a firsthand travel account in clear English, beginning with this scene: Author: Zainab. The account keeps its focus on Yunnan Food, Kunming Travel, Halal Food while preserving the names, places, food, and historical details from the Chinese source.
Author: Zainab.
We left Shadian for Mengzi to catch the high-speed train back to Kunming. In Mengzi, we ate at Yitiange, a very popular halal bridge-crossing rice noodle (guoqiao mixian) restaurant. They have copper-pot bridge-crossing rice noodles ranging from 12 to 50 yuan. We ordered the 50-yuan deluxe version, which came with 26 small plates. You can get unlimited refills of the meat broth and rice noodles. The plates included raw fish slices, raw beef slices, raw quail eggs, shrimp, dried beef (niu ganba), beef tongue, cold duck slices, cold beef slices, crispy butter, braised beef, grass shoots (caoya), chrysanthemum flowers, pea starch jelly (wandou tuo), bean sprouts, tofu skin, chives, cilantro, mint, green onions, melon tips, ginger, garlic, chili, and chili sauce. This is the most complete variety I have ever eaten!
They also have all kinds of stir-fried dishes and seasonal vegetables, with a huge selection. We ordered the egg-wrapped rice noodle rolls (furong juanfen) and bitter greens soup (kucai tang), both of which were delicious. I recommend this place to all my fellow Muslim friends (dost) planning to visit Mengzi!
After finishing my trip through central and southern Yunnan, I returned to Kunming from Mengzi. I stayed in the same room with a view of the mosque behind Shuncheng Street that I used to stay in. The Shuncheng Mosque is right outside my window.
In the morning, I had a grilled rice cake (shaoshierkuai) at Yingfeng Shaoshierkuai by the entrance of Shuncheng Mosque. I bought pickled vegetable and crispy buns (posubao) at the bun shop next door, then had a bowl of thick bean porridge (xidoufen) at Sayuxiang to start a wonderful day.
I caught the very last day of business for Guiji Xiaojinniu, which had been open on Shuncheng Street in Kunming for 33 years. Their building was taken back by the Kunming Mingde Ethnic Middle School. Since it was their last day, the menu was limited. We ordered small knife duck (xiaodaoya), open-fire roasted tilapia, sesame oil crown daisy, pickled vegetable and red bean soup, and mushroom minced meat tofu pudding (douhua). I first saw this restaurant when I visited Shuncheng Street, but I never got around to eating there. I finally tried it this time, so I have no regrets.
I walked around Shuncheng Street to eat, trying rose oatmeal porridge, red bean baked rice cakes from the cake shop, and pizza from Yunxiangzhai.
