Northwest cuisine generally refers to the cuisines in northwest China, including Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other local flavors, with Gansu cuisine as the representative.

Northwest food style:

The dietary customs in northwest China are simple, rough, natural and thick.

Its staple food is corn and wheat, and it also eats other miscellaneous grains. Millet is sweet, camellia oleifera is popular, black rice porridge, steamed noodles with Sophora japonica and Huang Gui persimmon steamed buns are unique, and beef and mutton steamed buns are famous all over the country. Home cooking is mostly noodle soup, supplemented by steamed buns, pancakes or taro bean snacks. Coarse ingredients are carefully cooked and there are many kinds of dishes. Peasant women also have the ability to "eat a hundred kinds at a time" and "eat 72 meals a day".

Limited by climate and farming habits, they seldom eat vegetables, and farmers often eat big bowls of vegetables in small bowls.