Ruili Dining

Dai people in Ruili specialized in cooking different snacks featured with different styles. Many animals or plants become their meals on the table, which attract many tourists come to them and give a try on those specialty.

Paoluda 泡鲁达

This delicious snack is the local specialty of Ruili. It is said that Paouda, a Dai-styled beverage, is imported from Thailand, which made of sago, condensed milk, rusk, coconut and ices. With the taste of sweet and smoothness, Paoluda is quite popular in local. 

Sapie 撒撇

Niusapie is Dai people’s favorite snack, which could be classified into two types: Bitter Niusapie or Lemon Niusapie. The best way to make this kind of snack is to pouch the beef with stick hard, then put the leek and coriander. The beef has to be punched enough that it doesn’t feel any lumps at all.

Fried crabs 炒螃蟹

Fried Carbs is what they called one of the Six Wonders in Ruili, famous for its reasonable price and delicious taste. The stores around the bus station are the most recommended. 

Hand-serving Rice-noodles 过手米线

When you are eating Guoshou Rice noodles, you should not only eat it only with your hands, but also cover the stuff with the noodles. The reason about it might have something to do with the quality of the local rice.

Sticky Rice Cooked in a Bamboo Tube 竹筒饭

The bamboo tube used to cook rice must be fresh, with delicate fragrance. One end of the tube is a bamboo joint. Dai people put some dunked sticky rice and some water into a tube, and stuff the other end without bamboo joint with banana leaf. The tube is then put over a slow fire and baked till the rice is ready.

Where To Eat

There are many good snack bars and restaurants in Ruili City. Most of them sell the special local food. We offers you popular ones for you，such as the Laochengzi Snack Bar and Huafeng Food City.