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A taste of Lijiang

You Yi Guo Black Goat, Cured Rib and Wild Mushroom Hotpot

有一锅·黑山羊腊排骨野生菌火锅

A hotpot restaurant in a century-old building in the Heilongtan area, doing the two Lijiang hotpots side by side: cured pork rib and black goat. Black goat hotpot is the other local institution, concentrated on a street of competing shops around Jinkai Square, and this is a cleaner, more comfortable version of it.

¥80–100 per person≈ US$12Ctrip Lijiang list No. 5Heilongtan / Black Dragon Pool area (黑龙潭), Lijiang
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Why come here

A place worth making time for

No. 5 on Ctrip's Lijiang must-visit food list, rated 4.8

The house favourites

What to order

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

  • Black goat hotpot (黑山羊火锅)
  • Cured pork rib hotpot (腊排骨火锅)
  • Wild mushroom pot in season (野生菌火锅)

What it actually tastes like

Black goat is strongly gamey and the pot includes skin and offal as standard — say so in advance if you want meat only. Wild mushrooms must be cooked right through; see the Kunming notes on this.

Allergens in this kitchen

soygluten/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

Cured Pork Rib Hotpot 腊排骨火锅Deeply savoury and salty-meaty rather than spicy, with a clean soup and meat that falls off the bone; the dipping sauce beside it carries the chilli.Black Goat Hotpot 黑山羊火锅Rich, gamey and warming, with a strong goat aroma; the broth is unctuous rather than spicy.Yunnan Wild Mushroom Hotpot 野生菌火锅Earthy, deeply umami and aromatic; the broth gets better the longer it cooks.