Overview
In Dali old town, you will see many nice restaurants, which are mainly located at Huguo Road and Remin Road, serving both Chinese, Western food as well as local Bai's cuisine. Bai people enjoy spicy, sour and fresh dishes. For the new comers, even a little bit local spice may make your tongue burn. In history, Chinese Han culture and Buddhism had an important impact on the development of Bai cuisine.

The most popular drink of Bai people is tea. The Three-course Tea is a very interesting tea ceremony, including the three courses of tea with different tastes: bitterness, sweetness and a mixed aftertaste. This can imply a life philosophy: Hardness and bitterness come first, followed by sweetness, finally the life is a mixture of different tastes.

Famous Snacks in Dali
In Dali, in addition to ethnic cuisine, some snacks are delicious. In a street, there are often mobile stalls selling unseen snacks. Some of you may not have seen them, but you may wish to try them. Maybe you will not forget those snacks.

Rushan
Rushan is a cow's milk cheese of Yunnan, China. It is traditionally made by the Bai people. It is flat and has a leathery texture, served fried or grilled and rolled up on a stick. The Mandarin name means "milk fan" as it is said to resemble a folding fan.

Xizhou Baba
Xizhou Baba is a kind of snack that is popular in Dali, which is also known as the Posu with good color, aroma and taste. It is the most famous Bai nationality traditional snack in Xizhou, and it is must-eat when you come to Xizhou.

Cold Chicken Rice Noodles
The cold chicken rice noodle is definitely the rising star of the snacks in Dali Ancient Town. If you do not have a taste of the cold chicken rice noodles in Dali Ancient Town. The your Dali Tour is not complete.

Raw Hide
Cut the baked pork (mostly from the hip and rear lag) and pork liver into filaments, and then add onions, garlic, parsley, stewed plum, spicy noodles, soy sauce, etc. As the condiments, put the filaments in the condiments for eating. This is known among the people as “eating raw hide”.

Popular Food Streets in Dali
Fuxing Road
Fuxing Road is the main street from the south to the north of Dali Ancient Town. From the 15th year of the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty (AD 1382) to the Republic of China, the street pattern and residential buildings have not changed a lot. In the past, the residents here were more skilled in the handicraft industry. By the 1990s, Dali Ancient Town became a major tourist town, and Fuxing Road changed to a pedestrian street with tourist attractions such as tie-dye clothing, Heqing silverware, marble crafts, Burmese jade, Pu'er tea, etc.

Huguo Road
Dali Foreigner's Street was originally called "Huguo Road", meaning that the people of Yunnan at the beginning of the Republic of China opposed Yuan Shikai as the emperor. Huguo Road is east-west, 1000 meters long and 7 meters wide. It is paved with bluestone slabs, starting from the Yunnan-Tibet Highway in the west.

Yuer Road
Yuer Road runs through the Dali City and is the only way leading to Cangshan Mountain. There are many hotels and restaurants on both sides of the road. The shops are densely populated and it is a very busy pedestrian street.