Dongchuan specialty purple potato

It is said that the early years to the Red Land shooting ALICE the photographic travel extensively because the local poor condition, the only accommodation also includes foot of $ 10 a night easy Hostel 10 dollars a day meals using locally produced potato. lovers eat local potato much praise, the most prominent feature is the 'face'. later, the red land a hit, to those who come to drive the sales of the red land near potato houses of the villagers from the soil base thatched cottages into brick structure of multi-storey housing. villagers since then to get on camera to become a good photo of the believers 'the most famous is the sauce a local enterprise, most butter sales are accompanied by roasted potatoes'll feel, annual sales of dozens of tons of this thrust reversers, the potato also absolutely sold each year is a huge amount. (documentation bones)
Special preservation methods
Not only Dongchuan People's favorite potato Throughout the country, various steamed, fried, fried, boiled, baked potato snack stalls, numerous some fried potato store in Kunming, tailored Dongchuan along the potato as a raw material, because only local potato in order to maintain the unique taste of the product.
To trace the history of human eating potato records in accordance with the relevant information in the early 16th century, Spanish explorers saw Indians eat potatoes with Global Travel 400 years, it can be passed on in the world in 125 countries on five continents. about the end of the 16th century and the early 17th century, the potato into the Chinese territory.
Potatoes dug up, a lot of people are worried about is preservation, although compared to other leafy vegetables, fresh time is very long, but once the potato germination means food may touch to the will of alkaloid poisoning Although the Dongchuan people located in the high mountains will not use the refrigerator fresh, but the use of soil the mature potatoes in the ground and stay for a few months, only other food from the ground and dig. During this period, the potatoes will not sprout and grow, so The Dongchuan always eat on the fresh potato.