Yunnan Specialty Shop

Opposite the west entrance of Dashilar Street, Yunnan Specialty Shop is the only State-owned shop in Beijing specializing in Yunnan special local products, such as wild funguses, rice wine, rice noodles, pickles, oil fermented bean curd, tea, etc.

Prices for a bag of wild funguses vary from RMB 18 to RMB 40; a bamboo bottle of pseudo-ginseng wine costs RMB 40; a bamboo bottle of gastrodia elata wine retails for RMB55; rice noodles cost RMB 5 /500g; Kuding tea cost RMB 120 to RMB 400 per 500 grams; red snow tea, RMB 130 per 500 grams; white snow tea, RMB 190 per 500g; Pu’er tea, RMB 60 to RMB 150 /500g.

In addition, some special local products from Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Hainan are on sale. For example, preserved fruits from Beijing, white rabbit toffee from Shanghai, etc.

What I appreciated

Unique specialties from Yunnan and other parts of China; reasonable prices.