The cosy Heavenly Manna is located on the bustling Wenhua Xiang, conveniently situated between Yunnan University and Yunnan Normal University. In the last year or so Manna seems to have become a victim of its own success. Portions have become smaller while prices have risen. Manna is still worth the visit, however. Indeed, at busy times you may have to queue for a table. Their chao rubin (22 RMB), a Yunnan specialty of fried goat cheese, is always fresh and comes with a choice of tomato or broccoli. They also serve a great laonai yangyu (8 RMB ), which literally translates as grandmother’s potato, but will be recognizable to you as mashed potato. It comes fried and flavored with local spices and herbs. The yarou, duck, is all very good but the duck braised in oyster sauce (18 RMB) especially gets our thumbs up. The hularoupian (18 RMB), spicy tasty pork, is also not to be missed. With an eye on their large foreign clientele, Manna maintains a no MSG policy. After witnessing many teary-eyed foreigners flapping at their mouths and asking for cold glasses of water they are also very sensitive towards the levels of spice in the food -your waiter will likely ask you "yao bu yao lajiao?"(which means 'do you want spice or not?') They have an English menu if your Chinese can't cope with the strange local names that are given to many of their dishes.
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