Yiming Xuan - a local cuisine restaurant hidden deep in an old house, and also a window to the past. When smoke rises from the stove, the original flavor of home-cooked meals mingles with the scent of old wood, silently telling the vicissitudes of time passing by. Using the best ingredients and simple cooking methods, the owner requires chefs to strictly follow the seasons, selecting the freshest local ingredients from Ningzhou, allowing the natural beauty of food to be perfectly presented on the table.

From August 22 to 24, the 2025 Vibrant Huaning and Orange Appointment series of activities were held, successfully creating a "visible, playable, experienceable, and consumable" feast that attracted over 70,000 tourists in 3 days. Among them, the long street banquet centered on Huaning's Eight Great Bowls became a key link connecting food, special activities, and culture, allowing tourists to touch the cultural context of Huaning and feel the unique humanistic warmth of the small town while satisfying their taste buds.

In June and July, in the mountain forests of Yuxi, wild mushrooms, the elves of nature, poke their heads out of the moist soil, announcing the arrival of another mushroom-eating season. In Yuxi, a city of gourmet food, Baoqi Restaurant is like a food legend, having been cooking authentic Yuxi wild mushrooms non-stop for more than 30 years. For football fans coming to watch the Chinese Super League and tourists from all over the country, this is undoubtedly an excellent place to taste delicious wild mushrooms.

The biggest attraction of Li Xue's colorful Zongzi is its rich filling and unique flavors. The purple zongzi, infused with high-quality ham and abundant fats, is full of meaty flavor without being greasy. The fragrant and sweet jujubes, combined with the sweet and slightly tangy pineapple, create a unique taste whether wrapped in yellow or purple glutinous rice, resulting in a delightful and sweet combination. As for the purple rice zongzi filled with rose petals, it carries a subtle fragrance of the zongzi leaves and leaves you craving for more with every bite.

In Jiangchuan, the traditional delicacy—steamed dishes are not only a treat for the taste buds but also a memory of the countryside and wisdom of health preservation. For steamed dishes to be delicious, ingredient selection is crucial. Fresh ingredients such as pork belly, pork ribs, lotus roots, sweet potatoes, taro, eggplants, celery, and green beans are the "protagonists" in making steamed dishes. These ingredients go through processes like marinating, mixing seasonings, placing in bowls, and steaming, eventually turning into mouth-watering delicacies.

The Yuxi Rice Noodle Festival, which lasts for 81 days from the first day of the first lunar month to the 22nd day of the third lunar month every year, is recognized as the longest festival in the world. It is a traditional festival for people of all ethnic groups in Yuxi. During the festival, villages in Hongta District will take turns to welcome and worship the local god according to the agreed schedule. Every household will eat rice noodles and hold various celebration activities to welcome the New Year. This special topic shows the folk customs of welcoming and worshipping the local god and celebrating the Rice Noodle Festival in Yanhe and other places in Hongta District.

On April 19th, the 2nd Cuoke Watermelon Festival was held in Ganzhuang Street, Yuanjiang County. Using watermelons as a medium and the festival as a platform to make friends, it showcased the development achievements of watermelon industry in Cuoke and shared the joy of watermelon harvest. Cuoke Village has been growing watermelons since 1992. Thanks to its climatic advantages of abundant sunshine and large temperature differences between day and night, the watermelons grown here are highly favored by consumers for their sweet taste, large size, and juicy flesh. In 2025, Cuoke Village expanded its watermelon planting area by approximately 100 mu, bringing the total area to over 300 mu. Households engaged in watermelon cultivation account for 75% of the village's permanent population. With continuous improvements in planting techniques, each mu of watermelon field yields about 2 tons of watermelons, generating an output value of 3.6 million yuan.                                       

In the harvest season for grapes, the middle and high-end grapes in Zhaowei Community, Dayingjie sub-district of Hongta District, are selling well. When walking into Yuxi Tianhui Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. grape planting base, sapphire grapes are like diamonds hanging on the vine, full, mouthwatering. Next to them are the Queen Nina grapes. In the sunlight, they are crystal clear, like many agates.

On June 9, 2023, the 20th Golden Mango Cultural Tourism Festival in Yuanjiang began, and tourists from all over the world gathered in the Sun City Yuanjiang to celebrate the Mango Festival together, and felt the warmness of the Yuanjiang, the sweetness of mangoes and the heat of the festival.

During this period, all kinds of wild mushrooms emerged from underground. It would be great to invite your friends to come to Yimen to experience the fun of picking up mushrooms. What’s more, you can watch how to cook these mushrooms and enjoy wild mushroom cuisine.