A man catches a basket of fish in the rice fields, in Xundian Hui & Yi Autonomous County. (Photo/ Zhang Yue)

A father with his son pick apples in an orchard, in Lubiao Village, Anning City. (Photo/ Meng Zhubin)

Xundian Hui & Yi Autonomous County

Food: Guhua Fish(谷花鱼)

Characteristic: living in rice fields, unpolluted, fresh and sweet

Location: Yulongwan Restaurant(誉龙湾餐厅) in Xundian downtown; local farmers’ homes in Qixing Town(七星镇)

Price: around 45 yuan per kilogram

Guhua fish is the fish raised in rice fields. The fish is natural and unpolluted, since it is fed on paddies, mosquito larvae, rice brans and kashas. Its price even reached 80 yuan per kilogram at times.

Tangdian Industrial Park and Jiaozi Mountain Touristic Zone

Foods: pea meal and tofu in Zhuanlong Town(转龙镇)

Characteristics: tender, luscious, all made by condensed spring water

Locations: vegetable market in Zhuanlong Town, grandma Deng(Dengnainai)’s pea meal stand(邓奶奶凉粉摊) nearby the main building in Zhuanlong Town

Prices: 1.5 yuan for one piece of tofu, 2 yuan for a bowl of pea meal

Fumin County(富民县)

Foods: walnuts and chestnuts in Chijiu Town(赤鹫镇)

Characteristic: traditionally planted

Location: markets in Chijiu Town

Prices: uncertain

An intensive trading place will be formed in Chijiu Town at the preceding nights of the market days. Trading volumes would reach up to 60 tons every night.

Dongchuan District(东川区)

Foods: potatoes, noodles, buckwheat cakes

Characteristics: potatoes are soft and glutinous, and noodles are chewy and smooth

Location: nearly all markets in Dongchuan District

Price: uncertain

Jinning County(晋宁县)

Foods: spiced ducks, rotten pig’s knuckles, Grandma Hua(Hualaonai)’s rice noodles(花老奶米线)

Characteristics: the spiced ducks are flaky and savory with thin skin

Locations: Maolin century-old shop for spiced ducks(猫林卤鸭百年老店), Three Kilograms shop for rotten pig’s knuckles(三公斤粑猪脚), Grandma Hua’s rice noodle restaurant

Prices: 60 to 90 yuan for a pack of spiced ducks, 3 to 4 yuan for a bowl of Grandma Hua’s rice noodle

Foods: roast ducks, small sheldrakes, roast ducks made by Li(李烤鸭)

Characteristics: crisp skin and tender meat, fat but not greasy

Locations: Xuecheng Restaurant(学成饭店) in county downtown, Hongxiang Restaurant(洪祥饭店) in Nanyang Village, Nanyang Town(南羊镇羊街村)

Price: 20 to 30 yuan for a roast duck

Food: pig’s knuckles rice noodle

Characteristic: the pig’s knuckles used to be stewed for over 10 hours

Location: Lixiangyuan Pig’s Knuckles Rice Noodle Shop(力香园猪脚米线店) -- in the agricultural products market next to the Cultural Square in Yiliang County

Prices: 5 yuan for a small bowl, 8 yuan for a large bowl, 2 yuan in add for more meat

Roast duck (Photo/ Meng Zhubin)

Songming County(嵩明县)

Foods: ecological vegetables and fruits

Characteristic: ecological

Location: Chennong Agriculture Exhibition Center(晨农农博园) in Side Street(Xiaojie小街)

The Chennong Agriculture Exhibition Center locates about about 40 minutes’ drive away from Kunming. People can drive via Kunming-Qujing Expressway, and turn right when arrived Xiaojie Toll Station(小街收费站) in Songming County to get there.

Luquan Yi& Miao Autonomous County(禄劝彝族苗族自治县)

Foods: Saba Hams(撒坝火腿), honey

Characteristics: fresh, ecological, nutritive

Prices: 55 to 75 yuan per kilogram for Saba Hams in bulk, 160 yuan for a pack of honey( with four bottles in the pack, 500 grams per bottle)

Anning City(安宁市)

Food: apples in Lubiao Village(禄脿村)

Characteristics: scent, sweet, crisp, early listed

Location: Shanglubiao Village(上禄脿村)--1 kilometers out of the Anfengying Toll Station(安丰营收费站) in Kunming- Chuxiong Expressway

Price: 15 yuan per kilogram

People can also pick chestnuts, peppers and pears in Lubiao Village. Chestnuts charge 12 yuan per kilogram, and apples 15 yuan per kilogram. Peppers and pears are totally free to pick.

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(Editors: Tracy, Lynn)