Add your favorite places to eat in Kunming. More detail is better but add whatever you can. If it's not in Wenhua Xiang or Beichen, even better! I'll start.

Name: 台湾巷子口
Style: Taiwanese
Phone: 0871-3649156
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Review
It's a new Taiwanese cafe behind JinBi. I've had their fried chicken cutlet rice plate, and it was very high quality ingredients. I'll admit I've had better in Taiwan, but for Kunming, the taste and quality was better than most places. For 18rmb, you get a large fried chicken cutlet well seasoned, lots of rice, some excellent veggies, a soup, and a fried egg on top. To finish the whole plate, I usually come very hungry or after a work out. The food comes out fast and service is pretty good and place is very clean by Kunming standards. Also, they serve this great guqiao tea. My only complaint would be that the rice and egg aren't served hot, but this never stops me from wolfing down the meal.

@joshwa
Glad your post inspired someone to go out and try something. Obviously, I'm not a huge fan on Kunming cooking, but I'm all for people trying new places to eat.

This thread was an ad hoc continuation of the "Restaurants you love to hate" thread, which was love/hate on Kunming restaurants, then became love/hate on food in Kunming. It tended more towards the negative. We'll have to start a separate "Good Eats" in Kunming thread which will no doubt have have a more positive vibe.

The most popular place for erkuai on Wenlin Jie is the Yunnan place next to the French cafe. The locals love it, long line.

This is my personal favorite Dai restaurant. But most Dai places are good. It has moved towards the intersection with yuan tong jie, in a small alley. You might have to ask around as the entrance is no longer visible from the street. Excellent "lao nai" potatoes.

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Not Chinese, but another good place to eat raw veggies is the salad bar buffet at Wicker Basket.

www.gokunming.com/en/listings/item/wic_79/wicker_basket

@aum235
Mamafu's can cook. Had an excellent rabbit dish there, and rabbit takes skill. However, haven't found other places as good, except for Dai restaurants. Incidentally, Mamafu's would be considered only slightly above average in many other cities I've been too.

"Go out and look better !" Did that for all of Kunming. Found the food to be much better elsewhere. Maybe just my tastes or maybe being jaded from having had better elsewhere in China.

Dai restaurants are a great culinary bonus for Kunming, but I never seem to include them mentally as part of Kunming cuisine. I'm probably being unfair in that respect, as many of the people who are so vehement they had their best meals in Kunming, are probably talking about a meal they had at a Dai restaurant.

Yuantong temple vegetarian restaurant has closed. So has the small vegetarian mixian place attached to it.

Don't even start on Cantonese food in Kunming. I couldn't even do justice to what a person from Guangzhou would say about it.

Kunming Muslim restaurants can cook ok to good. But for all the muslim restaurants we have in Kunming, it doesn't even approach 10% of the taste of Xian. That being said, Kunming has more than other cities.

I am sorry if I've been to too many other places that put Kunming to shame foodwise. I have lived in this city longer than any place in China because I choose to and like it. But I'm in agreement with BillDan, I don't live here for the Chinese food.

Back to wild mushrooms, just adding to the knowledge base. This was resolved by informing villagers about how deadly that mushroom was. Kinda scary, since the pictures look likes the mushrooms I get at hot pot!

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