Jingchuan Yejunwang — Restaurant in Kunming

Yunnan has one of the most varied assortments of flora and fauna in China. This includes a delicious array of mushrooms that grow wild in the rainforest. Many of these, like porcini and morels, are prized by the best cooks in Europe, while others have yet to have even their names properly translated into English.

Every year, from June to September, it is mushroom season in Yunnan province (云南省). This is when the fresh wild fungi finds an eager following all over the country but especially in the hotpot restaurants in the provincial capital Kunming. This is when timely visitors to Kunming will be treated to an all-natural feast.

The mushroom hotpot street in Kunming (昆明市) is along Guanxing Road (关兴路), near the old airport and Expo Center. The whole stretch is dotted with mushroom hotpot restaurants that serve only this specialty.

Some of the restaurants serve regular dishes at other times, but they, too, will be pushing the fresh mushrooms - all types, from the common porcini to the exclusive matsutake.

Try the mushroom hot pot in this restaurant, Jingchuan Yejunwang (京川野菌王) - The hotpot restaurants take all precautions, and waitresses will cook the various mushrooms in careful order, and tell you when they are cooked and ready to eat. Trust them, because some of the wild mushrooms are mildly toxic until they are thoroughly cooked.

The varieties of mushrooms were always harvested wild from the mountains surrounding major towns in Yunnan. But because of the popularity of these fresh mushrooms all over China, they are now mostly cultivated to satisfy ever-growing...

Wild mushrooms hotpot is Kunming specialty and no visit is complete without having this delicious meal. Jingchuan did...

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