The bait is unique to Yunnan, and it is one of the most famous snacks in Tengchong and one of the common traditional foods in Kunming. The bait is made from high-quality rice, and the production process is to wash, soak, steam, pound, and knead the rice into various shapes. Generally, it is divided into three types: block, silk and sheet. The production method is burned, boiled, fried, marinated, steamed, and fried, and the flavors are different, and you will never get tired of eating for a long time. There is one of the eighteen monsters in Yunnan: rice cakes and roasted bait.

In the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou-Guizhou region of southwest China, bait blocks are known by a variety of nicknames. Such as: bait bait, baba, etc. Moreover, the various names of bait blocks in the above-mentioned places are used at will, and there is no single strict specific tendency. This also extends to the origin of the bait, there are many theories, the main sources are Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, etc., which is inevitably related to the diversity of the name of the bait.

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"Urgent Chapter" has "cake bait, wheat rice and sweet bean soup", and Yan Shigu noted one: "If the rice and noodles are steamed, they are bait"; In the fifth generation of Xu Kai's "Shuowen Jie Zi Biography", it is said that "powdered rice steamed crumbs", and the rice is broken. The method is to soak the rice and steam it, and then go to the scoop, and the scooping is the bait, of course, you can also use a machine, but it is still the rice steamed for the meal, and the rice noodles squeezed out of the rice first grinding and steaming are different.

The raw material of the bait is mainly rice rice, if it is made of glutinous rice, it is called "glutinous rice", and if it is made of glutinous rice flour, it is rice cake, which is different from bait. Nowadays, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the glutinous rice cakes and rice cakes similar to bait blocks are mostly made in the countryside during the New Year, and they need to be pinched into various patterns. In the city, it is made into small strips about five inches wide and about five inches long and sold in the vegetable market, but the name is called rice cake, mixed with glutinous rice products, and it loses its ancient meaning.

The bait can be made into various shapes, except for the filament, which is called the bait wire, the rest regardless of the cake shape, roll shape, and block shape are called "bait". The local pronunciation of this "block" is like "fast", and it is more difficult to find it in the dictionary, but it seems that you can guess that this "block" is "block", and the food should be separated from the taxi, so you can find such a "fast" word.

In addition, there are many people in the Kunming dialect who read the third tone as the fourth tone, which can also be corroborated. Kunming's previous "bait" was dominated by one or two catties of large "blocks", and the "bait" of the existing literary examination was the "bait block", and the source of this was basically clear. Later, the bait was spread to Huili County in Liangshan and became one of the more famous snacks there, such as Huili's chicken fire silk bait and so on. So far, the local Huili people in Huili are very fond of bait blocks, and it has become one of the street foods in Huili, among which the roasted bait blocks occupy a position that cannot be ignored in the breakfast of Yunnan people.

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Bait block is a must-eat for the New Year in Kunming folk customs, usually it is not appropriate to fry or boil or burn, the people in the border areas are keen on "bait", adhere to the tradition and do not fall, it has been thousands of years. In the past, Kunming was the most popular bait for the "Zijian" people, and it was often sold out during the New Year's Festival. "Zijian" people are a branch of the Yi nationality, it seems that this old food, is the most authentic inheritance of ethnic minorities, scholars can praise a sentence "courtesy and loss of courtesy"!

When it is slightly browned, it is coated with sesame paste, hot sauce, oil chili, pickled tofu, etc., and can also be sandwiched with beef and mutton cold slices or fritters, which is a delicious local specialty snack. The bait is cut into small slices of one inch square and fried with shredded cloud legs, meat slices, eggs, vegetables, etc., and it becomes a fried bait that can be used as both a staple food and a meal, the most famous of which is called "the big rescue".

There is also a kind of fried bait called "big rescue", which originated in Tengchong and is also very famous in Kunming. It is said that after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and other Great Western troops came to Kunming in 1656 with the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang. Two years later, the Qing army entered Yunnan by three routes, Wu Sangui led the army to approach Kunming, and Emperor Yongli and Li and Liu led the army west. When it came to Tengchong, it had been cut off several times, endangering his life, and the people of Tengchong fried the bait to serve it before he was relieved.

Emperor Yongli sighed, this is really a great rescue for me. Therefore, Tengchong fried bait is called "big rescue". The difference between the "big rescue" and the Kunming fried bait is that the bait cut into triangles is as thin as paper, and the condiments are mainly eggs, spicy seeds, tomatoes, cabbage hearts, and green onions. Therefore, its colors are like gouache paintings, fresh and bright, red, yellow, white, green, very delicate and elegant. The taste is also relatively refreshing, moderately spicy, and unique.

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The small pot bait silk is famous in Kunming, with a small copper pot with a diameter of about five inches, add minced meat, bean tips, sweet soy sauce and other ingredients, put a little broth, also stew and fry, add green peas, red and chili oil to start the pot, the taste is thick and oily, and it tastes particularly "strong". Qujing's steamed bait shreds are also very delicious, the bait shreds are steamed, a bowl is picked out, plus sweet soy sauce, "hat", scalded leeks and bean sprouts, a little sauerkraut and chili peppers, mixed well and served with a bowl of bone broth, full of flavor.

A bowl of steamed bait shreds every morning is the favorite breakfast of most Qujing people every day. In the rice producing areas, rice is processed into a variety of foods, rice noodles, roll flour, is very common in the south, only bait block this kind of food, except for Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai "small rice cake" is slightly similar to it, Yunnan in the way and variety of eating, seems to be "unique".

There are many theories about the origin of the bait, including the theory that it originated in Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, etc. In the old Kunming customs, the common people always liked to set up a stove at the door of their homes, put the baba on the iron sieve and roast it, and eat it while roasting, which is really unique. Speaking of the origin of this custom, there is another story.

Early one morning, the coarse chaff treasure carried a load of mountain goods to Kunming to sell. As soon as I walked into the big east gate, I saw many ordinary people standing at the gate of the city, one by one, angry and scolding. Some dolls were lying in their mother's arms with their mouths open and crying, and the coarse chaff stood next to them and listened for a while before they understood what was going on.

It turned out that last night, the second hall of the prefect's yamen suddenly caught fire for some reason, and the prefect was so angry that he was so angry that he decided that he was bold and deliberately making trouble. He immediately ordered a notice to be posted at the six gates of Kunming, saying that from today onwards, all people will not be allowed to light fires and cook at home. The ban is valid for three months and is punishable by severe penalties and no tolerance.

The rough chaff treasure beckoned to the villagers, and gave such and such an instruction, and everyone immediately smiled happily. After they returned, everyone moved out of the stove from their homes and baked poop on it, and they ate it very deliciously. The prefect knew about it and hurriedly came out to check. He grabbed an old man and blew his beard and glared at him. Coarse Bran Bao stepped forward and grimaced at the prefect, "Lord Prefect, it is forbidden to make a fire and cook rice at home, but it is not forbidden to bake and eat poop at the door of your home!" The prefect was annoyed, why didn't he expect that the coarse chaff treasure would come to this hand in advance!