Gansu is one of the cradles of farming culture. The deep loess here breeds a lot of delicious food. Delicious beef noodles, smooth stuffed skin, spicy bean jelly, etc., the main catering feature is the Hui style represented by Lanzhou, and Gansu cuisine is characterized by good cooking of beef and mutton, which is often roasted, boiled and stewed, unpretentious, with less ingredients, salty, sour and spicy taste, heavy use of spices, and strong and greasy taste. Northwest special diet not only inherits the essence of the Central Plains diet, but also is influenced by the cuisines in Sichuan and Shaanxi. After a hundred years of improvement and development, it has finally become a unique diet that is completely different from the snacks of ethnic minorities such as Uygur and Hui. Let's take a look at Gansu cuisine. Eight monsters? Locals regard it as delicious, but foreigners are discouraged and unable to eat.

1. Longxi Money Meat

Longxi Money Meat, also known as Longxi Butterfly Meat and Money Melody Meat, is a famous traditional dish with characteristics in Gansu Province. It is famous at home and abroad for its high nutritional value, exquisite selection of materials, fine workmanship, ruddy color, glittering and translucent, rubbery elasticity, tenderness, mellow flavor and long aftertaste, so it is known as "a must in Longyuan". Golden money meat is a famous dish unique to Longshi banquet, which has a history of more than a thousand years. Named for its shape like money. This dish indicates a wide range of financial resources. In the old days, merchants had to have this dish for banquets. Many foreign diners can only flinch when they know what this dish is made of. The name of this food is a bit indecent, so I won't mention it in Xiaobian. It can only be said that it is an organ on the donkey.

2. Pork dirty noodles

Pork dirty noodles are a traditional Chinese dish cooked with pig intestines and belong to Gansu cuisine. Created by Lanzhou people in Qing Dynasty, Xuanjia Lane had the best flavor in the Republic of China. It is very popular because of its exquisite production, soft and drunken fragrance and unique flavor. The main ingredients are the large intestine, which is cooked after cleaning, cut into pieces and added to the cooked noodles. All kinds of anti-bone ingredients can be eaten, which is smooth and smooth and has a unique flavor. This snack is regarded as delicious locally, but for foreign diners, many people are not used to the taste of pig's large intestine, and it smells bad when it is cleaned.

3. Fazi Noodle Sausage

Raft and Noodle Sausage are traditional snacks loved by people of all ethnic groups in Linxia City, Gansu Province. Fazi, also known as Raft Noodle Sausage, is named after it looks like a sheepskin raft, a local water transport. Hair sausage is a kind of delicious food with fat sausage as the main raw material. The processing technology of hair sausage is similar to that of ham. Hair sausage is made of sheep offal and flour with two different materials. The external packaging is chopped fresh sheep heart, sheep lung and mutton with fresh hair sausage, mixed with onion, oil and seasoning, sprinkled with appropriate amount of flour, made into stuffing, put into sheep fat sausage, steamed in fire, and cut. Many foreign diners can't get used to its smell, so they can only sigh that they have no happiness.

4. Miscellaneous cutting of beef

Miscellaneous cutting refers to a delicious and affordable traditional Hui snack, mainly spicy, which is generally cooked with cattle and sheep in water. Miscellaneous refers to chop suey, animals in the water. Cutting is an action. It is said that this kind of cooked chop suey is usually cut into soup, and there are many things like blood vessels, stomachs and intestines that need to be cut when eating, so it is called miscellaneous cutting. Zage, also known as Zaga in Northwest China, is also a gourmet snack because of its strong taste, which makes many diners avoid it.

5. Gangu Slurry Surface

Slurry surface is a very old traditional pasta snack. It is also called sour rice in Gangu, and it was called Jixian in ancient times. In "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals", Wen Wang was addicted to calamus and pickled cabbage, and Confucius took it when he heard it. He ate it for three years and then won it. This shows that sauerkraut was eaten by people when it was in Zhou Wenwang. Guji County is close to Qishan, Shaanxi Province, where the country was founded at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty. People here like to eat sauerkraut and serous water, so Gangu serous water is the continuation and development of the legacy of the Zhou Dynasty. Many diners still can't accept its taste for the first time and need to get used to it slowly.

6. Lazy pimple

Lazy pimple is a kind of local characteristic home-cooked food in Dingxi City, Gansu Province. It is mainly made of oat noodles (pea noodles or lentil noodles) or naked oats noodles. It has a unique taste, strong flavor of bean noodles, chewy in the mouth, and sour and spicy with sour soup (slurry soup). It is a very delicious home-cooked food in summer. According to legend, there is a family whose daughter-in-law is lazy and doesn't want to cook, so she mixed the noodles with white flour, put them in a pot and cooked them directly, poured the slurry on them, and served them out immediately. After the husband ate them, he found them delicious, but he also smiled bitterly at his wife's laziness, so he called them lazy bumps. The taste of this snack is just like the pulp surface, with a strong sour taste, so many people need to eat more times to get used to it.

7. Camel's Palm in Snow Mountain

Camel's Palm in Snow Mountain, also known as Silk Road Camel's Palm, is a traditional delicacy in Gansu Province. This dish is white in snow mountain, crooked in silk road, rotten in camel's palm, crispy and delicious, light yellow in color, crystal clear and delicious. Camels were the main means of transportation on the ancient Silk Road. It can travel long distances in the Gobi desert, mainly relying on those four solid camel paws. Because camel's paw is full of tendons, its nutritional value is very high, but camels have a long life and are rarely slaughtered, so camel's paw is difficult to find, and it is as valuable as bear's paw. However, many people are still used to this dish. When they hear that it is made of camel's feet, they can try it if they are brave.

8. Slurry

Slurry is a famous traditional dish with a long history in Gansu, which is said to have started in the late Qin Dynasty. Mustard, cabbage, celery, koji, radish sprouts, soybean sprouts, etc. are used as raw materials (there are other raw materials, which are the same according to taste and habits, or can be made by combining several kinds). After scalding in boiling water, they are mixed with a small amount of flour, added with warm water, and fermented by yeast. Among them, rape pulp water and celery pulp water are top grades. In southern Shaanxi, a special vegetable for making serous water-mustard serous water vegetables. The syrup turns pale white and slightly sour. If a little white sugar is added when it is directly scooped out for drinking, it will be sweet and sour. It is nutritious and can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. This dish is just like the bean juice in Beijing. Locals regard it as delicious, and foreign diners avoid it when they smell it.

China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, so its eating habits are also different. Some local delicacies and snacks may not be suitable for everyone's tastes, but from them we can learn about the local customs, get used to their tastes slowly, and finally you will find their delicacies.