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liuzhou

liuzhou

On 7/16/2016 at 12:18 AM, KennethT said:

That evening, we were to meet up with the last of my wife's friends in Beijing.  We wound up going to a Yunnan restaurant in the Sanlitun area.  From what I gather, Yunnan is in the south, and some of the dishes almost seemed Vietnamese in style.

 

 

Yes, Yunnan is in the south, bordering Vietnam, Laos and Burma/Myanmar. And Guangxi, where I am. It is a place I visit often. Famous for its mushrooms.

I did once have an excellent meal in a Dai minority restaurant in Beijing, but I couldn't tell you where. It was about 18 years ago.

I also had a wonderful Burmese meal in a lawless town on the China/Burma border. There was nothing you couldn't buy there from precious stones, to guns, to drugs, to wives. Rampant sex trade. Yet also, the most beautiful, peaceful Buddhist temple I ever found in China (although it was built in Burma - the border has since changed more than once).

But what you ate for sure looks like Yunnan food. The server in the minority costume however, is probably Han Chinese from Beijing.

liuzhou

liuzhou

17 minutes ago, KennethT said:

That evening, we were to meet up with the last of my wife's friends in Beijing.  We wound up going to a Yunnan restaurant in the Sanlitun area.  From what I gather, Yunnan is in the south, and some of the dishes almost seemed Vietnamese in style.

 

 

Yes, Yunnan is in the south, bordering Vietnam, Laos and Burma/Myanmar. And Guangxi, where I am. It is a place I visit often. Famous for its mushrooms.

It is also home to more ethnic minorities than any other Chinese province. I did once have an excellent meal in a Dai minority restaurant in Beijing, but I couldn't tell you where. It was about 18 years ago.

I also had a wonderful Burmese meal in a lawless town on the China/Burma border. There was nothing you couldn't buy there from precious stones, to guns, to drugs, to wives. Rampant sex trade. Yet also, the most beautiful, peaceful Buddhist temple I ever found in China (although it was built in Burma - the border has since changed more than once).

But what you ate for sure looks like Yunnan food. The server in the minority costume however, is probably Han Chinese from Beijing.

liuzhou

liuzhou

2 minutes ago, KennethT said:

That evening, we were to meet up with the last of my wife's friends in Beijing.  We wound up going to a Yunnan restaurant in the Sanlitun area.  From what I gather, Yunnan is in the south, and some of the dishes almost seemed Vietnamese in style.

 

 

Yes, Yunnan is in the south, bordering Vietnam, Laos and Burma/Myanmar. And Guangxi, where I am. It is a place I visit often.

It is also home to more ethnic minorities than any other Chinese province. I did once have an excellent meal in a Dai minority restaurant in Beijing, but I couldn't tell you where. It was about 18 years ago.

I also had a wonderful Burmese meal in a lawless town on the China/Burma border. There was nothing you couldn't buy there from precious stones, to guns, to drugs, to wives. Rampant sex trade. Yet also, the most beautiful, peaceful Buddhist temple I ever found in China (although it was built in Burma - the border has since changed more than once).

But what you ate for sure looks like Yunnan food. The server in the minority costume however, is probably Han Chinese from Beijing.

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