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This unique Dai snack comes in two varieties: bitter and lemon. It's made by blending lean raw beef, pounded to a pulp, with wild cilantro and chives, creating a harmonious blend. Lemon sauce is made with the juice of local lemons and is particularly appetizing. To enjoy, dip rice noodles, shredded tripe, or sliced meat in the sauce.
Pao Lu Da is a Dai-style drink made with toasted bread slices topped with fresh shredded coconut, atop a milky white water with ice cubes floating in the water, a straw inserted, creating a vibrant and colorful drink. Pao Lu Da is made with tapioca pearls, condensed milk, special flatbread, fresh shredded coconut, ice, and water, creating a sweet and fragrant aroma. The best part is the flatbread, soaked in the rich, milky ice water, which is crispy, crunchy, and sweet.
The Green Leaf Banquet is a renowned Jingpo mountain village feast, both simple and wild. It features abundant local vegetables and game, prepared using traditional methods such as roasting, boiling, frying, and pickling. Food is wrapped in large leaves or banana leaves, which are then folded into spoons and basins for soup. The feast is named for the vibrant greenery of the table, with no bowls or chopsticks used.
Open the "green envelopes" one by one: there are fragrant glutinous rice, delicious Houttuynia cordata, honey pupa fried eggs, flying ant pancakes, pounded and roasted green dove, and pickled fish.
Suanpacai is a dish cooked with a special sour water of the Dai ethnic group. The taste is moist but not dry, sweet but not greasy, and the soup contains a lot of tomato, which is a good combination of meat and vegetables, and is nutritious and healthy.
In Ruili, there are many roadside stalls selling pickled fruits. You can choose white papaya, pineapple, grapefruit, morphine fruit, plum, prune, etc. These fruits are pickled with sugar and salt, mixed with chili powder and eaten. They are sour and a little spicy, and taste very refreshing.
Ruili offers a wide variety of rice noodles, including pickled rice noodles, smooth rice noodles, Tengchong rice noodles, thin rice noodles, and thick rice noodles. Beef and pork versions are available. Seasonings are plentiful, with at least four types of chili peppers: wild chili peppers, oil chili peppers, pickled chili peppers, and "pickled chili peppers." There are three types of soy sauce: salty, sweet, and pickled. You can also add onions, celery, and cilantro (locally called cilantro). Pickled vegetables are usually available, so you can help yourself: bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables, pickled cabbage, and pickled radish.
Beef meatballs and konjac: served with a special "zaolazi" sauce.
Cooking tapioca pearls: Cook tapioca pearls with brown sugar, add shredded coconut and condensed milk.
Soybean flour: Soybean flour mixed with Dai sweet vinegar tastes delicious when mixed cold.
Thin bean flour: Thin bean flour rice noodles or "Haoshuai" as breakfast have very ethnic characteristics and cannot be found anywhere else.
Rolled rice noodles: A thin layer of rice wrapper filled with cold-mixed leeks, bean sprouts, rice noodles, etc., tastes very delicious.
Ruili also offers baba, mixed white mushrooms, green leaf sour meat, bamboo tube roasted pork, lotus leaf fragrant chicken, and insect banquets made with various insects, which are worth trying for those with a strong taste or those who like to try new things. Local snacks include Burmese pot stickers, milk tea, boiled small foreign rice, beef dumplings, dumpling noodles, bitter sapie, dayanzi beef jerky, spicy vegetables, and spicy crab.
Huafeng Food Plaza is located on the road from Ruili to Jiegao. It has a few food stalls where you can enjoy local specialties for 15-20 yuan. You can also buy some international food here. This is also a lively place in Ruili at night.
A well-known cold drink shop in Ruili, it has received many positive reviews online. The cold drinks there are delicious.
Address: Downstairs of Nanyang Hotel, Nanmao Street, Ruili City
Tel: 0692-4123643