1. Camelia Hotel Restaurant: good springrolls
In Camelia hotel you have two restaurants: at first floor and at the lobby, which is also a bar.
I tried to go to the restaurant at first floor but no way, noone could understand a word of what I said, so I decided to try the one at the lobby and there, things were better.
The restaurant was good, but, as in the rest of Yunnan, you'll have troubles if, like me, you cannot eat spicy, infact even when they are sure the dish is not spicy it's easy to find there pepper, usually I have been lucky with springrolls, here and in other restaurant I didn't find them to be spicy.
Favorite Dish: Springrolls, I am not sure if they were that good, but at least they were not spicy.
2. Green Lake Park: Small and simple restaurant
When walking around in the Green Lake Parc, and spending some hours there, you can have a simple lunch in one of the pavilions at the back site of this parc. On the first floor, there is even a terrasse, on which you have a splendid view all over the lake.
3. Wei's: Best pizza in Kunming!
As far as I know the only restaurant in Kunming (Kunming travel guide) that bakes their pizza's in a wood-fired oven.
Very tasty stuff!
But more amazing is the wide variety of dishes. The menu is so extensive that it can be hard to make a choice: it varies from Italian, western and Mexican food to Chinese and Indian.
The restaurant itself is built around an open courtyard, three stories high and has a very pleasant relaxed atmosphere about it. It used to be the officers-mess of the flying tigers once, which explains all the flying tiger pictures in the poolroom.
They also have about the biggest library/book-exchange I've ever seen in China, free wifi internet (which I'm now using) and a children play-pen upstairs
Favorite Dish: Although their pizza's are really good (especially the Italian ones, with the thin crusty base) I most enjoyed their Indian food, the chicken tikka masala and the lamb vindaloo. Very authentic! The only thing I didn't really care for was the dal, which was a bit too bland for my taste. The chapatis and nan are good too though.
4. Yunnan Ethnic Restaurant: "Cross-Bridge" noodle - yummy
I had the noodles at this restaurant during lunch.
I won't go into the history for the name....
You get a bowl of noodle, a separate steaming hot bowl of soup and the raw ingredients (meat, some vegetables).
The raw ingredients are mixed into the bowl of hot steaming soup, and then poured over the noodles.
Must try after visiting Kunming attractions.
5. Rice in Banboo shoot: Zhu Tong Fan
This is not really food on a stick, but more like food in a stick.
Zhu Tong Fan is rice steamed a bamboo stalk, A traditional Bai minority group food. Rice mix with some nuts of some sort and steam inside the shoot.
People seemed to ignore
cotton candy man and preferred Zhu Tong Fan.Like just about anything in China, you can be purchase off the back of a bike. I had not seen to many of these Zhu Tong Fan venders around.
They were selling for 1 RMB (unit for China money) a shoot, but before you could eat your Zhu Tong Fan, the vender would have to break it open with a hammer to expose the steamed rice. Because it is cooked under pressure the rise in compacted and more like a chewy paste.
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