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A taste of Dali

Cuilu Ye Bai Courtyard Private Kitchen

翠麓野白族庭院私房菜

Small courtyard private-kitchen doing Bai home cooking, with a signature chicken fried with litsea (mujiangzi) pepper.

About ¥65 per person≈ US$9.68No. 6 on Dianping's Dali must-visit food list (大理市美食必打卡榜)Dali
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

No. 6 on Ctrip's Dali City food list, rated 5.0

The house favourites

What to order

Point at the Chinese. Staff will understand it even where the menu has no English at all.

  • Litsea-pepper fragrant chicken (木姜子椒香鸡)
  • Clay pot fish (砂锅鱼)
  • Stir-fried cured ham with local vegetables (火腿炒时蔬)
  • Fried rushan milk fan (乳扇)

What it actually tastes like

Mujiangzi is powerfully aromatic and tastes somewhere between lemongrass, ginger and turpentine — people either love it immediately or cannot get past it. Chicken is chopped through the bone. Rushan is dairy.

Allergens in this kitchen

dairyfishsoygluten/wheatsesame

This is the kitchen, not one dish. Woks, fryers, blanching water and utensils are shared in almost every Chinese restaurant, so for a serious allergy treat the whole premises as the unit rather than ordering around it.

Get to know the menu

Local specialities to try here

Rushan Milk Fan 乳扇Milky and faintly sour, chewy-stretchy when grilled and crisp when fried; the rose jam version is floral and sweet.