4/10 /2008
Yunnan is also named as 植物王国, 动物王国, 矿场王国.
It produce thousand of variety of flowers, roses are selling at $10RMB per kg.
Peacock is one of their signature animals.
It produces 142 types of minerals, silver, crystals, emerald, copper, zinc etc…
You can get different types of spices in Walmart at a very reasonable price.
(Almond powder, peanut powder, five spices powder etc…)
There are 4000+ types of chinese medical herbs found in China in which you can find 2000+ types in Yunnan.
There are total of 56 different types of tribes in China and you can find all types residing in Yunnan.
In Kunming we address the ladies Ah Shi Ma( 阿诗玛), Gentleman as Ah Hei Ge (阿黑哥).
They will feel offended if we address them as Miss(小姐), to them Misses are those who work in night life.
They address playboy as Ah Bai Ge(阿白哥).
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1st destination Qicai Yunan (七彩云南)
I will not come back again. The shop selling medical herbs is specially open for ignorant tourists.
Needless to say, price a few folds higher n lower grades.
Additional Ninja turtle faces to show you if you don't buy much.
Satays!
Sprinkle on some spices and chilli powder after deep fried
Look! How mum enjoy it:)
Lunch time, today we will be trying their famous Bridge noodles (过桥面)
Just by adding the ingredients one by one while the soup is still hot.
Not really appealing to me, just some luncheon meat n vegetables into chicken soup.
Hydrangea (绣球花)
As big as mum’s face :)
After lunch, we headed to our next destination
Cuihu Park (翠湖)
Bought 2 pancake with yam paste & pork floss.
Drizzling and we went back to hotel after spending 10 mins in Cuihu Park.
After resting in hotel awhile, we are going for dinner ourselves without our guide.
Met a bride and took a pic with her and her limousine.
After some enquiries from our lobby receptionist, we manage to find a great place for dinner.
Wild mushroom steamboat(野生菌) located in关上, 菌火锅一条街
Is a must try if you ever come to Kunming
After exploring the whole street, we finally decided to try this restaurant老字号野生菌.
Restaurant looks pretty old but full of customers.
We ordered sliced mutton (涮羊肉), sliced beef (涮牛肉), some wild mushroomsand with half a pigeon soup base and a dessert, red bean pancake
The wild mushrooms can be very expensive, some are hundreds RMB per 100g
Kungfu Tea
Golden Pancake, fillings with custard. Not too bad, one of their signature dish as well.
We enjoy this dinner very much, nice soup base, fresh wild mushrooms. $199RMB for this dinner, although is not cheap but overall, food is good and worth to come back again.
In Kunming you can get a bowl of noodle for $3RMBAnd now its time back to grab a cab and back to our hotel.
The power point is loose and mum had a great idea, using the chair which is supported by the coffee table to hold on to the plug.
