Never been but I buy so much tea from there because it's the most magical place on earth.
Oh if that place is so freakin' great then what kind of dishes do they have?
Psychoactive mushroom hotpot
second best food in china probably, but the competition is tough. do you like vietnamese food? lao food? sichuan food? do you like fermented pickles, sauerkraut, hot sauces, herbs like mint and culantro?
mixian (rice noodles):
wandoufen (yellow pea jelly):
erkuai (sticky rice blocks?) similar to korean rice cake or east chinese niangao
Off the top of my head I mostly know Yunnan dishes for working magic with bamboo. Also don't be too harsh. The Sichuan region may have the best recipes in the entire world, but it doesn't mean other stuff isn't also amazing. ✨
Haven't been to Yunnan myself, but my parents have. They seemed to like it. According to them, the climate was quite temperate compared to the rest of China (which can get boilingly hot in the summer) thanks to the mountains.
Yunnan is one of those provinces I always try to steal from China when I'm playing as the Sikh Empire, it's full of opium, iron AND coal
I don't want to do too much of an Orientalism here but Yunnan is maybe the most truly fantastical place in the real world, between the mountains, wildlife, people, history etc. Made all the more fantastic by the fact that 90% of Americans have never heard of it and probably think so Kung-fu movie mountain vistas and jungles are, like, an hour drive outside of Beijing or something and not halfway across the continent.
fungal diversity
huh you saw that vid too
Possibly. I remember seeing some video a while ago that said they have 600 or so edible species of fungi.
Oh yeah, I'm in {武汉|Wǔ hàn} right now and wish I was in {昆明|Kūnmíng} regardless of fungi.
Outside temperature here: 40°C
Outside temperature there: 27°C
Unfortunately all of my family's here in this oven of a city.
kunming is a popular retirement spot because it's never hot or very cold. i didn't even know it could get to 27, i remember it was like 23 in the summer.
Wuhan family let’s go, my mom was there just a few weeks ago.
hahaha i was just in chongqing and it was 40 too. they're not called the 四大火炉 for no reason.
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I met the sweetest Chinese lady yesterday. She was vacationing in my country and asked me about some berries she picked. Most tourists suck and I hate them because they treat my city like a theme park, but she was just wonderful. First tourist I've met away from the main areas too. Just out exploring on her own. She had harvested blackberries, plums and some cherries.
Made me want to go to china even more.
Big same
The fungal diversity seems so fascinating
The mushroom market in Kunming is great. Expensive, didn't buy anything, but really cool. Around the city there are PSA billboards warning people against poisonous shrooms and to properly cook your edibles. Went to a vegan place that had great shroom dishes.
see the ecological contrasts
So many diverse regions. South/southwest is similar to laos and myanmar. north/northwest is part of the tibetan highland. east is similar to guizhou. northeast is similar to eastern sichuan i guess, haven't been up there.
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