Restaurant
"Two Acres" exquisite Chinese and Western cuisine
"Two Acres" exquisite Chinese and Western cuisine
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Map location: 两亩地
Region: Near the ancient city
Distance from ancient city: 2km
Cost per person: 288
Category: Chinese and Japanese food and Fusion cuisine
Features: Fusion restaurants in the fields (mainly Japanese)
Other language services: Chinese only
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"Two Mu of Land" is located on the roadside in the middle of a field from Dali Ancient Town to Cai Village. It is a small kitchen converted from a small iron house. Because the land is two mu, it is called Two Mu of Land.
I have known the owner Erliang and Xiaowo for many years, about ten years. When Xiaowo first opened a small coffee shop in Yueyatang, she was alone in building a house and decorating it. Sister Mao took me there. Later, she and Erliang got together and changed the coffee shop into a Japanese restaurant - Erliang is an experienced Japanese chef. The small shop was very popular in Dali, and later he went to Xiaguan to open a big shop. A few years later, when I met Erliang again, he said, "I want to open a small shop now." Xiaowo was not idle either. I once again saw her selling fresh ginger with beautiful leaves and stems at the market in Chai Miduo. She grew it herself. Sister Mao said that she can do all these jobs and is good at both literature and martial arts.
Last year, they opened their "Two Acres of Land". I went there before it opened and it was being cleaned up. I haven't been there since it opened.
Compared to the orthodox new fine-dining restaurant of Trout and the meticulous courtyard of Hunter&Rou, this is a place with a more rural feel. Erliang is a person who is very serious about cooking and has high requirements for serving food. He can manage a tin house with his own meticulousness. I hope that through this introduction, you can understand a little bit about the restaurant opened by this old friend.
I don't have a review account, so I searched for posts on Xiaohongshu. Most of them were very praiseworthy, and some went to several fine restaurants, but they gave extremely high praise to the characteristics of the food served by the owner of Two Mu Land. I will pick out some of them to show what people like about them.
Author: Nad (Xiaohongshu account Nad)
Dali restaurant reviews of different price ranges/Two acres per capita: 288rmb
01 appetizer salad + 2 appetizers + 1|1 fried dish + 1 soup + 1 rice + 2 desserts
First course: Farm-grown appetizer salad. Freshly picked vegetables from the farm outside the house, kale and purple radish, strawberries, raspberries, and jelly pudding made with local papaya vinegar. I have never eaten such sweet and fresh vegetable leaves. Papaya vinegar is made with sugar, not like the pungent sour taste of vinaigrette. It is sweet! Sweet!
The second dish: Grilled horsehead fish. The fish was grilled at the right temperature, the skin was slightly burnt, and there was no oily smell at all. This is worthy of praise. After asking the chef, I found out that he had been following a Japanese chef to make Japanese omakase before, so I won't mention his skills. The sauce is Saikyo-yaki miso, which is really memorable.
The third dish: Homemade pork rice sausage with salted egg yolk. After the salted egg yolk is fried, the aroma of the egg yolk is fully stimulated. After eating the rice sausage and salted egg yolk, the first reaction is salty, because I don’t know whether it is because the rice sausage is salty or because of the pepper and salt powder. But wait, after the saltiness, the salted egg yolk dances directly on the root of the tongue, magical
Fourth course: Yunnan braised rice
The rice contains Dali marbled beef, king oyster mushrooms, potatoes and green peppers. The beef is amazing. It is the first time I know that Dali also raises Wagyu beef. The rice is a slightly sweet soy sauce stewed rice. I like this slightly sweet soy sauce rice very much. It is the taste of my childhood memory. So every time I eat this kind of rice, the first bite I will say is "the taste of happiness"
Overall dining experience:
These four dishes made me very satisfied tonight. There were four guests sitting at the Itamae in total. Although there was only one chef and one front hall, everything was in order and clean. It was worthy of being a chef who had worked with Japanese chefs. The clean Itamae at any time made the whole dining experience very good.
We were also lucky that the couple who dined with us were also very nice and talkative. Maybe people who come to Dali are naturally relaxed. The whole meal was spent in feeding and communicating. It was very satisfying.
Outside the restaurant is a large farmland, and before nightfall there is a pale pink sky.
The new store of the old neighbor of the Mountain Forest and Grass Tavern is one 12 acres of land
When we first opened the shop in 2017, our neighbor was Erliang Cuisine, a small Japanese restaurant hidden in an alley. When we first opened the shop, there were not many customers. Erliang was the most frequent customer. He would come to our shop to order a cup of tamarind juice and rest for a few minutes during his work. After work, he would come to have a drink or two. Sometimes he would drink too much and shed tears at the bar.
Er Liang is from Hong Kong and used to work in a Japanese restaurant in Macau for many years. He met his lover Xiao Wo in Dali, and the two of them turned Xiao Wo's Cat Cafe into a Japanese restaurant. Cat Cafe is the predecessor of Er Liang Cuisine. At that time, we had not come to Dali yet, but for some reason, the water delivery master always called our house the North Side of Cat Cafe, because the shops in Crescent Alley basically had no house numbers, and our house did not have a sign. In the water delivery master's mobile phone, our house was called "North Side of Cat Cafe". Until today, when I called the water delivery master, he said "North Side of Cat Cafe, right? I know". I guess no one except him knows where "North Side of Cat Cafe" is.
Later, Erliang went to Xiaguan and opened a Japanese restaurant called Herring, and changed Erliang Cuisine into a ramen restaurant. Later, the ramen restaurant became the predecessor of @ BING'S, and Bingbing sold brunch. Later, Bingbing went to Xinmin Road to open the current Bing's, and the neighbor became @ Pu Shi Baker's pasta shop Terra. Two years later, the neighbor changed again, and became the current @ Xiao Nong Zaowu Little Farmer. Neighbors are really changing, but we are still the iron "Cat Cafe North". Haha, I'm getting off topic.
Last year, Erliang closed down the Herring and rented two acres of land in Xiaoyi Village to cook private dishes. Because it used to be a pear garden, he called this place "Liangyuan Shengxia" and the private dishes "Liangmudi". There is a couplet of characters "Liangmudi" in the store, which was written by Mr. Li Meng from Weishan. Unfortunately, the old man passed away last year. I have always wanted to find the old man to write a word, but there is no chance. Alas. I have gone off topic again.
Perhaps because of the accumulation of the past few years, "Two Mu of Land" has been very popular since its opening. I have tried to make an appointment several times but failed until today. There were six of us, sitting at the bar, chatting while watching Erliang cook, and it felt a bit like the Erliang cuisine of the past.
A tin house in the field is the kitchen and restaurant. It is not luxuriously decorated, but has a warm and intimate feeling and beautiful rural scenery outside. The menu prepared by Erliang has everyone's name printed on it. The salad was grown by him and Xiaowo. The strawberries in it came from the farm next door, and the sauce was papaya vinegar from Weishan. The sea bream sashimi and tachiyaki are delicious, which is the foundation of the Japanese food he made in the past. The roll in Figure 3 combines sushi and Dali's local roll noodles. The Shanhai bowl of shark's fin in Figure 6 represents the taste of Hong Kong people. Brian said that he tasted the taste of his mother. Their ancestral home is the Hakka people in Guangdong. The braised rice in Figure 7 has potatoes and marbled beef. It is like the Yunnan braised rice presented in Hong Kong clay pot rice. The dessert in Figure 8 uses local milk fan and buffalo milk. Brian said it is very similar to the dessert in China Town. It seems that he tasted nostalgia here. After eating, it is very comfortable to bask in the sun in the field. This is a special feeling of old Dali.
The word limit is critical, 288 per person needs to be booked. @两亩地






















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