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Paoluda: the cold coconut-milk dessert for Jinghong afternoons
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Paoluda: the cold coconut-milk dessert for Jinghong afternoons

Dessert shops across Jinghong

A Burmese-influenced dessert drink: coconut milk and sweet milk poured over bread chunks, sago and jelly, served over ice. Dessert shops and night-market stalls all sell it, and it's the local answer to the 3 pm heat.

What locals sayRegulars call it the taste of Xishuangbanna and admit to having one every afternoon.
Time
20 min · mid-afternoon
In Chinese
泡鲁达

Based on what locals and regular visitors share, checked against current sources · Updated September 2026. Details change — check opening times locally.