The catering in Xining is also famous in the northwest. Most local people use local native products as raw materials, so their diet has a unique flavor. Such as roast mutton, ribs, stuffed skin, beef jerky, glutinous rice dumplings, crispy rice cakes, candied fruit, chop suey soup, etc., are mostly economical and practical, and they are hard to taste in other cities.

Some high-end restaurants in Xining also deal in plateau-flavor specialties, such as Bee's Ridge, Proteus Grass Chicken, Yuanyang Hibiscus Nostoc, Suhe Pills, Clear Soup Mutton Belly, Raft Meat Ball, Hand-grabbed Mutton and so on.

Roast mutton: Cut the mutton into small pieces, string them on an iron skewer and bake them in a special rectangular oven. Then put soy sauce, salt, ginger powder, spicy noodles, pepper powder and other condiments on the mutton, and turn the iron skewer. Its meat is tender, delicious and nutritious. Now roast mutton has developed to roast tendons and kidneys, etc. The roast mutton in Golmud is incomparable in other places.

chop suey: refers to the sliced head, heart, liver, lung, intestine, stomach and hoof of cooked cattle and sheep, and is prepared by scooping the original soup and adding seasoning. The chop suey is soft, tender, rotten and crisp, and the soup is fragrant.