Golden Peacock Yunnan Style Theme Restaurant is a veteran Yunnan restaurant with a history of more than 20 years, which was founded in 1993, which is rare in Hangzhou, a city that is almost insulated from Yunnan cuisine. The restaurant has been relocated and renamed many times, its predecessor was Yunnan Food Park, August Food Park, and today's Golden Peacock Yunnan Style Theme Restaurant is located in the Meizhu Restaurant in the West Lake International Science and Technology Park on Wener Road, the location is very hidden, if you are not a regular customer, I am afraid it is difficult to know where the restaurant is.

Although it is a Yunnan-themed restaurant, Golden Peacock's products are not all Yunnan cuisine, and there are only a handful of real Yunnan dishes, and more fusion dishes based on Hangzhou cuisine and Jiangsu and Zhejiang home cooking. However, aside from the fusion dishes, the level of Yunnan cuisine of Golden Peacock is remarkable, and these dishes often do not have anything to do with the hot and sour tastes of ethnic minorities that are popular in Yunnan restaurants today, but focus on the "oily and fresh" Han tastes of central Yunnan and southern Yunnan. For local diners in Hangzhou, the taste of Golden Peacock's dishes will be more intimate than other Yunnan restaurants.

Steam pot chicken is one of the most well-known dishes in Yunnan cuisine, and in Golden Peacock, the "Gastrodia Steam Pot Chicken" with Yunnan's native gastrodia is added, which is a signature dish of the town store. Steam pot chicken is a popular chicken dish in southern Yunnan, steamed in a steam pot, the raw materials are put into the pot without adding water, only distilled to condense into soup. The golden peacock's steam-pot chicken is not bad, and the quality of the steer used in the water casserole and Zhaotong gastrodia is not inferior to the Wuding chicken preferred in Yunnan; The chicken is tender and soft, the taste is not dry or rotten, the soup is fresh and sweet, slightly salty, and a little chanterelle flower forces the soup out of the full fragrance. Yunnan likes to eat mushrooms, the mushrooms of the golden peacock are at the first-class level in Hangzhou, and the ingredients are transported from Yunnan, and the porcini mushroom is its masterpiece. The porcini mushroom method of the golden peacock is fried at home, with green peppers, meat slices, fungus, etc. and porcini mushroom slices fried together, the mushroom slices are crisp and tender, the meat slices are delicate, the wok is full of gas, and the fragrance is full, but the frying method is oily, and some porcini mushroom slices have a small amount of sand particles that have not been processed clean. Fried chicken fir rice noodles are also a good choice, and the fried chicken fir and Yunnan rice noodles are excellent in terms of ingredients and seasoning.

The bamboo insects, bee pupa and ground ginseng of the golden peacock are called "three mosquitoes and one dish", which are all unique ingredients in Yunnan, among which the bamboo insects and bee pupae are common edible insects in Yunnan. The bamboo worms of the golden peacock are the classic deep-fried method, and there are still maggots on the table, but they have been fried deeply, oily and crispy, and there is no sense of burden of eating exotic food in the mouth. Bee pupae are also dry-fried, and Yunnan ginseng is a plant-based ingredient, wrapped in syrup and sesame seeds cooked in oil and fried, with a very high sweetness and a taste like maltose. Rose rice cake, Dali iron plate fish, wild yak ganba, etc., most of the ingredients are transported from Yunnan locally, the dry rice is used in Shangri-La's wild Tibetan yak ganba, the iron plate fish is fired by more than ten kinds of local spices, and the rose rice cake is made of purple glutinous rice rice cake from Mengzi, and the exquisite ingredients have laid the foundation for excellent cooking quality. It is worth mentioning that the production of Golden Peacock is obviously heavy in oil, and it is recommended to match meat and vegetables when ordering, and light soups such as steamy pot chicken can also help reduce the greasy feeling.

The décor of the Golden Peacock is quite old, the style is old-fashioned, the floor is poorly soundproofed, and the restaurant is decorated with a lot of Yunnan style pictures. The atrium of the restaurant has a high ceiling and a clear view, while the side dining seats have a low ceiling height and are slightly depressing. The restaurant service is polite and attentive and has a positive attitude. Golden Peacock does not have a menu, diners need to move to the ordering table to choose the dishes, and the various dishes are displayed on the light signs, but there are not many Yunnan dishes, most of the light signs are flashing Sichuan, Cantonese, Hunan and Hangzhou dishes and other dishes. For most diners, the mixed cuisine is the most prominent shortcoming of the Golden Peacock Yunnan style theme restaurant, but its dishes are not without uniqueness, and the Golden Peacock is still a Yunnan restaurant worth trying.