Lijiang’s restaurants enjoy a good standard of cooking, though local treats are ]infited to baba, a rather stodgy deep-fried flour patty stuffed with meat or veg- etables. Tile old town’s inns (not accommodation) around sifang marketplace are interesting places to wolf down ricepots, pork stews and dried ham dishes with locals; some have gone to the trouble of translating tbeir names into English, such as “Welcome to Flourish Snack”.There are also plenty of tourist restaurants and foreign-oriented cafes in the vicinity of Sifang: Old Market Cafe has some good Chinese food; Prague Cafe scores for its blueberry cake, menagerie of animals and video collection; l IN.Il Bistro gets universal approval for its pasta, apple cake and chocolate brownies; Blue Pane Vegetarian provides filling Western and Chinese dishes; Mamafu’s has great outside seating by a stream; while house of Tibet has unusualYak cheese pancakes with honey. The Camel Bar is the most conducive place for a drink. In winter, keep an eye open in the markets for the best walnuts in Yunnan, and bright orange persimmons growing on big, leafless trees around town - these have to be eaten wry ripe and are an acquired taste.
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