share the food corridor on Gansu Silk Road on the tip of your tongue!

China on the Tip of the Tongue, a food documentary about the relationship between China people and food. This documentary takes the opportunity of tracing back to the birth of delicious food, taking the food that accompanies people's lives as the topic, and opens a brand-new window for the world to understand Chinese culture, and presents us with a unique "flavor" China story through the dining table full of reunion. I will lead you to feel the characteristic taste of Gansu and interpret the legendary story. Next, let's start with the unforgettable food and get to know this silk road that is re-shining.

A bowl of world-famous noodles-Lanzhou Beef Noodles

It is said that Lanzhou Beef Noodles was founded by Ma Baozi, a Hui nationality, whose family was poor. Ma Baozi was forced by life to make hot pot beef noodles at home and peddled them along the street in the city. Later, he put the boiled beef and sheep liver soup into the noodles, and the broth was full of fragrance, which was then called "hot pot noodles". Later, Ma Baozi opened his own shop, stopped hawking along the street, and thought of launching a free "bowl of soup into the shop". When the guests came in, the waiter immediately served a bowl of fragrant beef soup for the guests to drink, and Ma Baozi's clear soup beef noodles became famous. Later, Lanzhou beef noodles became famous all over the world with the unified standards of "one clear (soup), two white (carrot), three green (coriander, garlic sprout), four red (chili pepper) and wuhuang (noodle Huang Liang)".

Jiayuguan barbecue, a natural delicacy under Xiongguan

Jiayuguan has always been "the first Xiongguan in the world"-Jiayuguan attracts many tourists with its mysterious and legendary story color. When people wander in this northwest city, they may still feel the majestic atmosphere of the past when they look at the traces left by history, and the food culture here, like the culture handed down for thousands of years, is frank and unrestrained. When you come to Jiayuguan, the delicious food you can't miss is barbecue. Different from other places in Gansu, Jiayuguan is unique in roasting mutton. Someone once joked that the roast mutton here is a gift from nature, and it is a miracle in itself to drink the snow water from Qilian Mountain and eat the sheep of Chinese herbal medicine on the vast Gobi Desert.

A special dish with rough style-mutton pad roll

There is a special dish in Hexi area called mutton pad roll, which is very famous in Jinchang area. According to legend, when Lin Zexu was exiled to Xinjiang and passed through Yongchang County, the local people entertained him with the traditional dish "mutton pad paper", which was praised by Lin Zexu and his party. Since then, mutton pad paper has become famous. This dish skillfully combines delicious mutton with strong pasta, which is rich in nutrition and excellent in taste. People often say that people in the northwest are simple and honest, which can be fully reflected in the food that greets guests. Locals choose this rich dish to entertain guests from afar, hoping that everyone who comes to the northwest can feel the enthusiasm and freedom behind the food.

The first home-cooked dish in Tongcheng-Baiyin Sour Rotten Meat

When the meat with uniform size meets sour cabbage with strong flavor, it is reasonably matched with vegetables such as green pepper, vermicelli and onion. After stir-frying, the meat pieces are fat but not greasy, and the side dishes become sour and spicy. The next meal created by the creative combination of this common ingredient has become the first choice of "Copper City" people. Although it's just a home-cooked dish, just like the famous pork stew vermicelli in Northeast China, a dish can be closely linked with the local people's life, and the taste of this dish has already merged with the epitome of ordinary people's daily life, reappearing the concept of hard work and simple life for every ordinary family. Perhaps it is this kind of ordinary dishes that make many people lost in urban life reawaken their pursuit of the essence of life.

Tianshui Guagua, the first food in Xihuang's hometown

It is often said that the beautiful mountains and rivers of Tianshui, a famous historical and cultural city, give the local people an inherent advantage in their lives. There are many varieties of quack in Tianshui, among which buckwheat quack and flour quack are common. Tianshui, doused with spices such as Chili oil, soy sauce, salt, vinegar, garlic paste, etc., tastes sour and spicy, and immediately gets a sentence: "enjoyable" after eating it. Quack-quack flavor represents the typical diet style of northwest people, which is different from the delicate and light diet in Jiangnan. The taste here is more prominent, refreshing and spicy. Tianshui Guagua can be a local breakfast or a wonderful dish. It can always appear in this magical land with different table roles.

Four-season breakfast in the aerospace capital-Jiuquan paste pot

A large pot is full of fragrant chicken soup. After adding broad bean powder juice, it becomes a paste, and then adding ingredients such as characteristic skin made of broad bean powder, shredded chicken and sliced meat, the fried big twist is broken into petals and put into thick soup to emphasize the spicy taste of ginger and pepper. This delicious and fragrant paste pot is the favorite of Jiuquan people. The hot breakfast made of seemingly ordinary food can remove the chill brought by the northwest morning for the local people, and the extra weighty ingredients can provide enough "motive force" for people to start a busy day, which belongs to the wisdom of working people.

Jin Zhangye's pasta culture-Sao Mian and Xiao Fan

Zhangye is a gathering place of various kinds of pasta, and various forms of pasta have become pasta "works of art" under different local practices. Today we are going to talk about Zhangye's famous pasta: noodles with minced meat and beef rice. The noodles are thin, bright and strong. The soup of noodles is delicious in broth, and at the same time, it combines the spicy flavor of pepper and ginger powder. The thin tofu slices with green coriander leaves have become a good choice to wake up the stomach. The "rice" in beef rice is not the "rice" as we understand it, but is cut into pieces about the size of rice grains. After the pieces are cooked in water, they are poured with delicious soup and marinated ingredients. The pieces in the soup are like rice grains with distinct grains, and a few pieces of chewy beef on the marinated soup make people feel an instant appetite.

Jade on the table of Yinwuwei-Liangzhou Niangpi

Wuwei Niangpi is characterized by strong taste, glittering and translucent Huang Liang color, jade-like, long strip shape, and is the best food to remove the cool summer heat with seasonings such as soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic juice, Chili oil and refined salt. One of the highlights of Wuwei Nianpi lies in the vinegar juice poured in it, which is also commonly known as "paste vinegar" by Wuwei people. This vinegar is made of flour, vinegar and secret spices. This vinegar juice is different from ordinary light vinegar, and it tastes sour and has a stronger aftertaste. Wuwei stuffed skin is cheap, sour and refreshing, and it is a popular local flavor food. Especially in the hot summer, it can dispel the summer heat and become the best choice.

Crispy snacks on the table of China Potato Capital

Dingxi is known as "the hometown of potatoes in China", and its potato quality is famous all over the world. Today we are going to introduce another kind of food in Dingxi-Minxian dim sum. Minxian dim sum, which has a history of more than 211 years, is a kind of crisp cake with sweet stuffing, which is developed from what China called "crisp" in ancient times. In The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Xiu teased Cao Cao with a "box of cakes", and the so-called cakes are today's cakes and other foods. Minxian dim sum has a thin skin and a large weight, and its stuffing contains many kinds of condiments such as green and red silk, rose, walnut kernel, peanut, rock sugar and white sugar. For a long time, Minxian dim sum is the top grade of local wedding festivals, entertaining guests and giving gifts to relatives and friends, and it has also become the representative work of northwest dim sum.

the popular snack of "Little Jiangnan" in Longshang-potato stir-dough

Longnan is known as "Little Jiangnan" in Longshang. As a famous snack in Longnan-potato stir-up, it is like the landscape here in image, adding a little tactfulness to the thick image. The method of this famous snack is very simple. Peel the steamed potato and put it in a wooden trough, smash it into sticky potato paste with a wooden hammer, take out the smashed potato paste and add sauerkraut or vinegar water. This sauerkraut should be fried with clear oil, and many refreshing seasonings are added to the vinegar water, and the scenery in this bowl will be different immediately. When the potato is stirred at the entrance, you can instantly feel the delicacy and smoothness of the potato between your lips and teeth, and the unique taste brought by the seasoning.

Jingning roast chicken, a famous food that smells thousands of miles away, is known as the "hometown of apples". The apples produced here are also called "Jingning Golden Fruit" and are exported at home and abroad. Jingning is also famous for its delicious food, which is Jingning roast chicken with a history of nearly 111 years of processing and marinating. Jingning roast chicken is a traditional famous food in Jingning. People often describe Jingning roast chicken like this: the smell is thousands of miles away, and the taste comes from chicken. Jingning roast chicken is big and tender, delicious and fragrant, and has a unique flavor. The cooking of this dish is very particular, with various ingredients and savory gravy. Only after the time test of slow stewing, can this delicious table food be promoted.

Qingyang noodles, a special noodle in Longdong granary

Qingyang is known as Longdong granary, and its folk culture is a must. Qingyang embroidery, paper-cutting and other crafts are famous all over the world. There are many kinds of Qingyang pasta, and the Qingyang noodles to be mentioned here are also called bed noodles, commonly known as soup. Earlier, to make noodles, we had to put the mixed dough in a bed, and use manpower to press the lever to squeeze the noodles into long strips. With the development of technology, we rarely use manpower to squeeze noodles. The extruded slender noodles are cooked in a pot, fished out, and filtered in clean water to make the noodles taste strong. Pour some soup prepared in advance on the noodles, and the noodles are smooth and clear in the soup. There are also various side dishes that match the refreshing noodles. The noodles and vegetables are rich in nutrition. Finally, after drinking a strong soup, it is needless to say that you are comfortable.

Hand-grabbed mutton, a well-known Hezhou cuisine in Longshang, is the most representative famous food in Linxia. Its meat is white and tender, its aroma is overflowing, and its aftertaste is endless. The "Han Chi Sui Jie Mutton" was once a tribute of the imperial court. In Linxia, there is a saying that "if you don't catch it, you won't be seated". Different from other methods of fine slow stewing of meat, the practice and eating habits of grasping mutton by hand reflect the bold atmosphere of northwest ethnic groups. If you go to this place with ethnic customs, listen to a melodious "flower" and enjoy the colorful Hezhou peony, don't forget to taste the food business card here-hand-grabbed mutton.

Gannan Tibetan bag, a delicious food on the Moraceae grassland

If you want to fully feel the folk customs on this vast grassland, you must taste the delicious Gannan Tibetan bag. Gannan Tibetan buns, as a delicacy for Tibetan people to entertain guests from afar, are also known as "ox-eyed buns" because of their shape. The ingredients and flavor of Tibetan bags are unique because they are close to the grassland customs. Gannan Tibetan buns are mostly made of white flour with mutton as the main stuffing. Gannan Tibetan bag has the characteristics of thin and translucent skin and delicious stuffing. The eating method of Tibetan buns is similar to that of soup dumplings. You need to slowly suck the oil and water in the buns from the top first. If you pick up the buns, you can bite them directly, not to mention that the oil and water will splash. The temperature of the oil and water alone will make you unable to swallow or spit them out.

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Gansu Province is located in the northwest of China, and we all know that there are quite a lot of delicious foods in the northwest of China, especially the beef and mutton that local people like to eat, and there are many ways to do it. For example, Lanzhou beef noodles are the most famous ones. Clear beef noodles are really delicious and are also a famous pasta in China.

There is also a mutton pad roll that people like to eat in Hejian, Gansu Province, which is also very delicious. In addition to the pasted cakes, there is also a pot of stewed mutton, which tastes particularly fragrant. The cakes are a perfect match with mutton, which is really similar to the stewed meat paste cakes in Northeast China. Tianshui Guagua and paste noodles are also very delicious and are also popular among local people.

In addition to the above, lamb from Jingyuan, hand-grilled mutton, stuffed skin with silver, Jingning roast chicken, Longxi bacon, Jiayuguan barbecue, steamed buns, candied fruits, Kobe beef, eight Muslim bowls, stir-fried Bora, Dunhuang noodles with minced meat, mutton powder soup, apricot skin water, yellow noodles with donkey meat, and sausage with hair noodles are all famous foods in Gansu.

In Gansu, the local people call it "mutton pao", which omits the word "bun". It sounds like cooking a dish with mutton, and that's the truth. Half of a big bowl is made of mutton, and I, a carnivore, have one or two pieces left. Of course, the price is high, and this bowl is 26 yuan.

half a bowl of clear soup and half a bowl of meat, and two spoonfuls of oil and chili pepper are put in, and it becomes red soup. Peppers in the northwest are fragrant but not spicy, so you can join in the fun if you can't eat spicy ones.

Different from Shaanxi, Gansu's steamed buns are dough buns, rectangular and layered. The exquisite advocate split the steamed bun, fished out a few pieces of mutton from the bowl and put them into the steamed bun. The mutton moistened the noodles with the fresh juice of mutton soup, which is an excellent mutton sandwich steamed bun. Flour buns are not resistant to foaming, and they swell up immediately when they enter the soup. Many people don't like them, but they are eaten separately. I love this way of eating. Don't be greedy. Tear a few pieces of steamed buns and put them in. As soon as I sucked the mutton soup, I immediately picked it up and ate it, with meat and powder in it. It was beautiful.

Eating mutton in a bubble must be accompanied by sugar and garlic, which are white and fat, sweet and sour, stimulate the aroma of mutton and relieve boredom. This big bowl of mutton is soaked, at least there are three or two meats, and then two steamed buns are broken. This breakfast is really solid. After eating a bowl, I am not hungry at noon and can do farm work for a day.

26 A breakfast is not cheap. Compared with the breakfast in 6 yuan advertised by loudspeakers in fast food restaurants, people from big cities are a little tongue-tied. But this small shop is full of locals, and there is still a queue outside the door. Think about it carefully, this weight of mutton, 26 is not expensive, for local people, a bowl of mutton bubble is the beginning of the day.

In addition, during the days I went to Gansu, I drank the "Sanpaotai" several times, and the drink consisted of tea, red dates, medlar, longan, chrysanthemum and rock sugar, which was characteristic of northwest China and tasted bitter, sweet and fragrant.

The three-bubble table is traditionally covered with bowls. In order to be convenient and quick, this kind of glass packaging has also appeared. You should try it when you visit the northwest.

Gansu people come to recommend the must-eat food in Gansu, so don't trust public comments! ! ! During the Golden Week, about one third of my friends choose to go to the northwest. Of course, they take the route of Ejina Banner-Jiayuguan-Dunhuang. < P > As a Jiayuguan person, you must write a food guide!

Figure 1: Beef noodles (that is, Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou) must be spiced with meat, so delicious that they fly! You can also order beef jerky and stir-fried noodles at the beef noodle restaurant, which is huge! If you don't pursue the taste of beef,