China is the state of food, looking around the state, each place has its own specialties. Some local snacks, popularity has been known around the world. And there are some specialty snacks that are a bit rusty for outsiders, but are specialties that locals love.

When it comes to snacks in Lanzhou, the first reaction of most people is Lanzhou Ramen. Lanzhou beef ramen restaurants are booming in China, and there are Japanese people who come to China to learn and train and return home to open beef noodle stores because Lanzhou beef ramen is so delicious. Lanzhou ramen is known as one of China's three restaurant giants. However, Lanzhou Beef Ramen is only the beginning but not the end of Lanzhou cuisine. Lanzhou not only has beef ramen, this bowl of Lanzhou snacks, looks black, but is nearly a hundred years of special snacks, you know what it is?

Their name is called "gray soybean", although called gray soybean, look is also black, but this soybean is actually lentils. The hemp-colored lentils will be cleaned, boiled in water, and at the same time add the ash to cook together, until the soybeans are crispy. Often add sugar and jujube to increase the taste, that food to see is not very familiar, in addition to the darker color, and the general red bean paste, red bean paste is also very similar, delicious, melt in the mouth. Warm gray soybean drink stomach, ice drink gray soybean and can relieve the summer heat. Whether it is the elderly also small children, can eat.

The difference of this snack lies in the addition of ash, an alkaline substance obtained from nature, which makes the soybeans crisp up faster and deeper, thus creating this distinctive taste. The ash is also used in Lanzhou ramen and some other noodle dishes.

This bowl of gray soybeans is a delicious snack with a history of hundreds of years, even though the color is not very colorful and the appearance is not very beautiful. Foreigners may have never seen, but to Lanzhou can be found in the local have super that kind of food. Lanzhou people like it more, always can hear the Lanzhou partners are very proud of the foreign partners to introduce this special snack in detail. If you have the opportunity to go to Lanzhou, you must try this kind of specialties that Lanzhou people love to eat.

Now you know Lanzhou people love to eat this bowl of "black paste" is what refers to the Lanzhou snacks and some, you also know what Lanzhou specialties?