As the saying goes, "Good food is good for the people", "one side of the water and soil feeds one side of the people", as a native of Lanzhou, Gansu, Lanzhou, Lanzhou has a lot of gourmet friends, beef noodles, bashful noodles, slurry water, mutton buns, haggis, roasted mutton, hand-grasped Mutton, Steak in Clear Water, Sweet Embryo, Gray Bean, Hot Winter Fruit and many, many more. Here are a few very representative Lanzhou specialties that I would like to introduce to you.
Noodles
When it comes to noodles in Lanzhou, there are probably not many people in the country who don't know about this Lanzhou specialty, that's right, it's called "Lanzhou Ramen", which is not called by us locals at all, but we call it "Beef Noodle" or "Niu Da". Beef noodles are characterized by "clear soup, white radish, red chili oil, green cilantro and garlic green, and yellow noodles". Previously, beef noodles are usually added to the noodle and the time of the ash water, now rarely useful, because of their own burned ash inside there are a lot of harmful substances, on behalf of the arsenic, are now used to improve the noodle pulling agent. A beef noodle is delicious is not mainly soup and chili oil, broth is generally used cow bone, beef (some noodle shop also added the whole chicken to refresh), add dozens of seasonings boiled into, chili oil is also a dozen kinds of seasonings mixed with two kinds of chili or even two kinds of chili noodles deep-fried into, soup and chili oil seasoning each noodle shop has a different ratios, as the so-called thousands of museums thousands of flavors.
Meat
When it comes to meat, we have to mention Lanzhou's hand-grasped mutton, hand-grasped mutton is the traditional food favored by Mongolia, Tibet, Hui, Kazakhstan, Uygur and other nationalities in northwest China, and the hand-grasped mutton is said to have a history of nearly a thousand years, and was originally named for hand-grasping. There are three ways to eat, namely, hot (sliced and steamed in a cage and dipped in oil), cold (sliced and dipped directly in refined salt), and fried (fried in a pan and eat while frying). Characterized by the meat taste delicious, not greasy and not nasty, color and aroma.
Sweets
Lanzhou sweets have a lot of, gray beans, hot winter fruit, twenty cakes, etc., but my favorite or sweet embryo, sweet embryo is a Northwest China's one of the characteristics of the snacks, the main material has oats, wine, etc., belong to the Ching Ming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival Festival food. When eaten into the cool water, sugar, sweet and sour taste, with the effect of summer. Sweet embryo is processed with oat a flavorful snack. The masses have a jingle: "sweet spirits sweet, the old man and doll saliva throat, a bowl of two bowls can be appetizing, three bowls of four bowls of top meal".
There are many other kinds of food in Lanzhou, and the list goes on and on. You are welcome to come and taste it yourself, we Lanzhou people warmly welcome you.