Breakfast is the most important meal for starting a day. There are many kinds of breakfast in Kunming. What do you like best?

In Kunming, the most common breakfast is rice noodles. Rice noodle restaurants are all over the streets. If you eat a bowl of hot rice noodles in the morning on a cold day, you will feel comfortable all the day. Let's see what kind of rice noodles Kunming people can make.

Small-pot Rice Noodles

Small-pot rice noodles are cooked in a copper pot. Its broth is delicious, and is rich in ingredients and sauce flavor. It is the hometown flavor for Yunnan people that can hardly forget!

Photo from the documentary, Breakfast. 

Crossing-the-bridge Rice Noodles 

Crossing-the-bridge rice noodles are probably the most familiar. A bowl of hot stock with several fresh ingredients such as chicken slices, pork fillet slices, ham, bamboo shoots and so on, can stimulate delicious taste. Put the rice noodles in the soup and mix well, then you can enjoy a warm and tasty dish.

Douhua Rice Noodles 

Douhua (a tofu pudding) rice noodles is a popular dish in Yunnan. After the rice noodles are boiled in hot water, put them into a bowl, and add pickles, crushed leek, peanuts, and hot sauce, then scoop a big spoon of douhua to cover the rice noodles. The soft and smooth rice noodles are covered with the fragrance of leek, and the sour and cool pickles make you feel fresh. You would never forget the taste if you tried once.

Shao Er Kuai 

Shao Er Kuai is made of rice, processed into a cake shape and baked on a charcoal fire until it bulges slightly. It is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and can be paired with more than 10 kinds of seasoning, is one of the Yunnan people's favorite breakfast!

Photo from yunnan.cn.

Shao Er Kuai can be filled with fried dough sticks, ham sausage, potato shreds, kelp shreds, shredded mushrooms and so on. Roll it up and eat, you won't be hungry until lunch!

Guandu Baba

Guandu Baba was famous as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties and originated in the Guandu area.

Photo by Wen Lv Yunnan. 

In the 1950s and 1960s, Guandu Baba, a ubiquitous snack, was popular among the old Kunming people.

Mijiang Baba

Mijiang Baba is made from mijiang, which is fermented rice milk, and sugar. Pour the mixed rice milk into a hot pan of oil and fry it evenly on both sides. After a few minutes, a fragrant rice milk baba with golden brown on both sides comes out of the pan. As a classic breakfast in Kunming, Mijiang Baba has preserved the memory of generations of Kunming people.

Photo from Go- Yunnan. 

Beef Noodles

Beef noodles are a specialty of Kunming. It is famous for its delicious meat, fresh soup and chewy noodles.

Photo from Go- Yunnan.

The meat of the noodles is made of beef rib braised in brown sauce, which is fragrant and delicious, the clear soup is cooked of beef marrowbone, and the noodles can be egg noodles.

Braised noodle

A bowl of braised noodle has a variety of ways to cook. It is a good choice to start your day with a bowl of braised noodle.

Photo from Red. 

Crisp Stuffed Bun

Crispy stuffed buns are a traditional snack in Kunming, which is said to have originated in 1903. Compared with ordinary steamed buns, crispy buns have a crispy skin, and look somewhat cluttered and messy.

Photo from Go- Yunnan. 

The crispy stuffed buns are simple in shape. It has crisp layers made of lard, which have rich aroma and strong taste, but not greasy.

Photo from yunnan.cn.

Three-piece set 

Corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are also sold on the streets of Kunming. After baking, the surface of the potato is scraped clean, and is still steaming. The sweet potato is sweet and soft. It is one of the breakfast choices in Kunming.

Photo from Banna Weidao.

Soybean Milk

Soybean milk is the best partner for deep-fried dough sticks, rice noodles and er si. In Tengchong and other areas of Baoshan, soybean milk is very popular among local people. It is poured on the boiled er si and mixed with various seasonings, which is very delicious. 

It is not as thin as soy milk or as thick as porridge. With its own special bean flavor, it can be eaten with dough sticks and add rice noodles.

Photo from Tengchong Wenlv.

Glutinous Rice Ball

Glutinous rice ball in Kunming is made of half white glutinous rice and half purple rice, sandwiched between a deep-fried dough stick, compacted into a rugby ball shape, and rolled on the surface of a layer of white sugar. In recent years it seems to have become increasingly rare.

The glutinous rice balls, filled with all kinds of ingredients, salty, sweet and spicy, are remembered by many as delicacies.

Er Si

Er si has a variety way of cook. They can be steamed, boiled, fried, and braised. As one of Yunnan's characteristic snacks, the unique taste has conquered a large number of Yunnan people.

Photo from Yingjiang Media Convergence Center. 

Photo from Chi He Wan Le Kunming. 

A good breakfast is a great start of a day. Eat well in the morning and you'll be energized all day. Among these Kunming breakfast, which one is your favorite?