At the banquet of the Yi people in this era, everyone sat around a long table. Nurwan sat on the main seat, Yang Huairen was on the left and right, Larouk was opposite him, and the rest of the people sat down in turn in their respective places.

The Yi people have a saying since ancient times, called "The Han people are expensive in tea, and the Yi people are expensive in wine." This means that when the Han people entertain distinguished guests, they will give tea to them, while the Yi people will toast when they entertain distinguished guests.

The wine that the Yi people give to their distinguished guests is different from the liquor brewed by the Han people with five grains as the main raw material, but it is a kind of wine with unique national characteristics made with buckwheat as the main raw material and sorghum and other ingredients.

And the way to drink it is even more interesting. Nurwan's cooks had not yet finished the dishes, so Nurwan waved his hand and served the guests with wine first.

When the guests eat wine, everyone holds a bamboo tube with a beautiful pattern engraved more than one foot long, and inserts a slender and hollow hemp tube or bamboo tube into the bamboo tube containing the wine, and just sucks and drinks, so this kind of wine also has a special name - pole wine.

A group of people gathered around a table, each holding a bamboo tube and drinking wine with a straw, which looked a little strange, but Yang Huairen experienced the most primitive and simple Yi lifestyle, and he enjoyed it very much.

The taste of the wine is very special, and Yang Huairen may not be used to this special taste, but after drinking it, in such a cold day, starting from the stomach, the whole body gradually warms up.

Soon the first dish was served, which was the dish that best represented the simplicity of the Yi people and showed their generosity, Tuotuo Meat.

The reason why Tuotuo meat gets its name is because the pork is cut into large pieces, and when making this kind of meat, there is no need to add any ingredients, that is, to kill the pig, and then cut the semi-fat and lean pork into large pieces and put it in a pot to cook.

You don't even need to add salt, and when it's cooked, it's served directly on a huge copper plate. However, Tuotuo meat has no taste and cannot be eaten directly.

There are also several small bowls in the copper plate, which are filled with mashed garlic with salt, and then used mainly Sichuan peppercorns, and several other unique spices from the mountains are boiled and poured on the garlic paste, so it is made into a dipping sauce.

And the tuotuo meat, which originally had no other flavor, was dipped in this unique flavor of garlic paste, and without chopsticks, he directly grabbed the meat with his hands and dipped it in the dipping sauce to eat, which really made Yang Huairen and others find the pleasure of eating meat in large pieces.

Grab a piece of lump of meat, take a big bite, the mouth is full of meat and garlic, it is indeed a simple and real delicious.

Pork is taken from the unique Yi family in the mountains to raise the big black pig, this black pig food, including a variety of mountain herbs and mushrooms and other mountain flavors, so that the original taste of pork is very delicious and living alone in the mountains.

The strong garlic aroma combined with the flavor of the pork makes people feel that the pork that looks very fat is no longer so greasy to the mouth, and the most important thing is that from the production method, no seasoning is added when cooking the pork, but the dipping sauce is used to add layers to the taste of the pork.

The preparation of the whole dish seems to be very simple, but the Yi ancestors who created this unique way of eating have firmly grasped the key to the taste of this local black pig, all of which show their wisdom in food processing.

After eating this tuotuo meat, with a stomach like Yang Huairen, he is basically full, and the meat is indeed easier to make people feel full, and then there are several unique delicacies of the Yi people on the table in turn.

What attracts Yang Huairen the most is a sauerkraut soup. I have just eaten fatty boiled meat, and although I have satisfied the enjoyment of my tongue, it is inevitable that I will feel a little indigestion when I eat fatty boiled meat in my stomach.

And this sauerkraut soup is very appropriately served, and the sour taste can just remove the residual fat feeling in the mouth, and replace it with a cool and refreshing feeling.

The biggest feature of this sauerkraut soup is that it is made with a kind of round-root sauerkraut that is unique to Daliang Mountain as the main ingredient.

Round root cabbage, the specific scientific name is really impossible to check, but from a botanical point of view, it is a vegetable similar to mustard, or the same genus of mustard plants, but this round root vegetable grows in the alpine area at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and belongs to what we often say to wear natural and pollution-free green food.

The Yi people have a tradition of eating this round root vegetable since ancient times, and after they harvest this round root vegetable from the mountains, they will naturally ferment it into a unique taste of round root sauerkraut by pickling, which is used to make a variety of dishes, such as making soups, or making meat side dishes, or even eating them directly, which is an excellent ingredient that can bring fresh taste.

And from its own growth environment and type, the sauerkraut itself not only contains a large number of vitamins and trace elements beneficial to the human body, but also after fermentation, the beneficial bacteria in it, people can eat it and play a role in strengthening the stomach, helping digestion, and even helping to lose weight of the strange effect.

From the perspective of Yang Huairen, the chef, this order of serving is also rich in the wisdom of the chef, the first dish of tuotuo meat everyone loves to eat, but it is easy to feel fat and indigestible after eating too much, and the second dish is served with a round root sauerkraut soup, and people immediately feel a lot more comfortable in their stomachs after eating.

The next unique food of the Yi nationality, as well as steamed bacon, mixed mountain mushrooms, sheep blood soup, etc., the combination of meat and vegetables is also very reasonable.

The last staple food is a kind of pasta called "baba" made of tartary buckwheat, and the production method is also very simple, that is, add some wheat flour to increase the viscosity with tartary buckwheat flour, add no sugar according to personal taste, and then make it mature directly by boiling or roasting it after it is reconciled.

The tartary buckwheat baba made in Nurwan's house is naturally much more refined, and the taste is much more delicate than that eaten at Asa's, but no matter which one of the two different tartary buckwheat baba appears, it appears at such a welcoming banquet of the Yi people, and the effect is the same.

In addition to being used as a staple food, tartary buckwheat baba contains a unique ingredient called Luxi, which has the health function of softening blood vessels and lowering blood lipids, and is also very effective in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

For modern people, this is one of the best foods for patients with chronic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes, and the Yi people knew such a reasonable and scientific diet a thousand years ago, which made Yang Huairen feel very admired.