Food in Lijiang

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Before I continue on to Lugu Hu (Lugu Lake), I wanted to do a quick post about the food in Lijiang and Lugu Hu… First of all, it was very good, but I did eat two things (on different days) that caused me to have diarrhea with a lot of gas. The second time was on the 8 hour very rough road bus trip back from Lugu Lake. But I’ll save the details for the next post. I think it was the local Naxi cooking that caused me the problems, but I can’t be absolutely sure.

That said, here are a few of the delicious things I had in Lijiang…

One type of typical Chinese breakfast is long doughnuts and soy milk, which I enjoyed one morning:

Doughnuts and soy milk - a great way to start the day!

The next item is a pork dish recommended to my by the waiter when I said I wanted it very hot:

A spicy pork dish

The  dish at the top of the page is the best mapo dofu (a Sichuan style (hot and numbing)) dofu (tofu) dish that has pork in it, as well. This one had enough pork and the taste was soooo gooood! Also, I had some chrysanthemum tea, which Wendy at my work drinks. I hadn’t tried it before. It is very tasty and, to me, a little bit spicy.

Anyway, to wash down all this great food, what better to do it with than some Tibetan style yak butter tea? I didn’t know if I’d like this, or not, but one of my English students at the library where I volunteer (and a very good Chinese teacher, too!) told me that she drunk butter tea just inside Mongolia where she lived when she was in China. She continued that the Mongolians and Tibetans share similar roots and that the yak butter tea is one of the cultural traditions they have in common. To me, it tasted like English tea (which many take with milk/cream and sugar). Not bad at all!

Yak butter tea - good to the last drop!

By the way, for you photography buffs…Dennis…you may notice that after that one teapot with cool blurry background shot, I couldn’t resist trying it again this time.

From the timing, I don’t think any of these gave me a problem, in case you were speculating…next up, a trip to Lugu Lake…