The Hui living in the city, most of the breakfast is cooked at home beef and mutton buns, or branded cake buns with fried pickled vegetables to eat, or with preserved beef and mutton to eat, and some old people like to eat with fried peanut rice. There are also more people who eat beef and mutton buns for lunch, and many families like to eat their hoto buns with stir-fried vegetables. Stir-fried vegetables are generally more simple home cooking, such as lotus white fried meat, celery fried meat, vinegar potato, vinegar zucchini, spicy fried pickles, fried chili sauce and so on. Most dinners are served with noodles, which come in many varieties, including broken noodles, long noodles, lo mein, cage noodles, etc. Dumplings, steamed buns, branded buns and leek cakes are also eaten.

Diaspora in various parts of the rural, mountainous and pastoral areas of the Hui people, their dietary practices are influenced by the place of residence. For example, the Hui people in the mountains of southern Ningxia, with potatoes, buckwheat, oat, millet, peas as the main food, the Altai region of Xinjiang Hui people eat horse meat and milk food, rice and flour food relegated to a secondary position, which is obviously affected by the Kazakh dietary practices, living in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan and the Tibetan area of the Hui people, the staple food and Tibetans, eating barley, peas, three meals away from the tsampa and ghee tea. Northwest China's rural Hui diet, the most distinctive when the folk feast. "Nine bowls of three lines" is the authentic Hui banquets, generally in the organization of wedding and funeral ceremonial activities, more than with this feast to entertain many guests and relatives.

On the whole, the daily food of the Hui people has the following distinctive features:

One is that there are more noodles than rice in the staple food. Pasta is the traditional staple food of the Hui people, and its varieties, new patterns, flavors and techniques are unparalleled, showing the ingenuity of the Hui people. According to statistics, the Hui people's diet, noodle varieties up to more than 60%, and other varieties, also more or less use to flour. Ramen, deep-fried noodles, noodles, long noodles, hemp food, wontons, oil tea, won buns, etc., after the Hui people's production, will become a guest of the delicious delicacies, and even the foreigners are also a eat for a quick, good not to stay.

The second is that sweets occupy a certain position. This and Arab Muslims like to eat sweets have a certain origin relationship. Arab Muslim women gave birth to a child, with honey or dates smeared into the baby's mouth, only to start breastfeeding; Ningxia Hui babies after birth, there is also a custom to open the mouth with brown sugar. Hui famous dishes, there are a lot of sweet dishes, such as it like honey, fried lamb's tail, sweet and sour pork. There are more sweets in the rice flour, such as cold cake, cut cake, eight treasures sweet plate, sweet sesame flower, sweet deep-fried noodle cake, patty cake, river rice cake, persimmon cake, paste tor, etc. Ningxia Hui also made the traditional Muslim food oil incense into a sweet, modulation of dough, to the inside to add honey, brown sugar, etc..

Third, the proportion of beef and mutton dishes in the dishes is very large. Hui especially love to eat beef and mutton, which is related to the Islamic dietary ideology. Islam advocates the consumption of beef, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish and other meat, abstaining from pigs, donkeys, mules and beasts of prey meat. Liu Zhi in the "Tianfang Ceremony" said "food and drink, so nourish the temperament also", "where the bird of the grain, the beast of the ruminant food, the nature of all good, edible", and said "but the camel, cattle, sheep, the only pure virtue, complementary sincerity, can be provided for food! They can be eaten". The food advocated by Islam is all good food. The so-called "good and beautiful food", Mr. Ma Jian explains, is pure, delicious and nutritious food, more specifically, it should have a good appearance, fresh smell and taste and rich nutritional value. Sheep, for example, gentle nature, its own clean, delicious meat, but also on the body has a nourishing therapeutic effect. Mutton ingredients contain protein, fat, vitamins and calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals. Regular consumption of mutton, can be appetizing and energizing, dispersing cold to help the sun, beneficial to the kidney to supplement the deficiency.