Northwest, located in the northwest of China, is historically called "the western boundary" or "back to Xinjiang". Compared with other regions, the food style in Northwest China is simple, rough, natural and heavy. 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, I seldom eat vegetables. Farmers usually have big bowls and small bowls. It is enough to have spicy oil, refined salt, syrup (vinegar juice brewed with old leaves) and garlic cloves all year round. If guests come to visit or slaughter sheep, or kill chickens, or fry a few dishes of shredded pork, eggs and alfalfa, roll fine noodles and steam steamed bread, it is also quite rich.
From the flavor of dishes, the meat in Northwest China is mainly sheep and chicken, with few wild mushrooms, freshwater fish and seafood, and few fruits and vegetables. Its techniques are mostly roasting, boiling, burning and stewing, which is sour, salty and crispy. Highlight the main ingredients when serving, "eat meat to see meat, eat fish to see fish", emphasize the separation of raw and cooked, cold and hot, sweet and salty, and try not to interfere with each other. In terms of food types, I don't like to carve too much and pursue the true interest of nature; Pay attention to food hygiene and clean the kitchen and tableware. China people love to drink white wine, but Muslims generally don't drink alcohol, and drink more scented tea. Black tea and milk tea, as well as cow, sheep and horse milk; Smoke Mohe cigarettes and dry cigarettes; Often spread white cloth in the yard or grass to sit around and eat, and bring your own knife, which is a legacy of grasping vegetables.
There are many famous foods in the northwest, many of which have historical dust and are quite old. Like Shaanxi gourd chicken, Shangzhi meat, money-made laver, elbow with handle, beef and mutton bread in soup, slate steamed buns, glutinous rice cakes, oil sprinkled noodles, imitation Tang banquet and dumpling banquet; Gansu lily shredded chicken, steamed pigeon fish, Lanzhou roast pig, hand-grabbed mutton, beef Lamian Noodles, oil cake, a bundle of firewood, high-loaded mutton, twelve-body workers and golden carp mats; Qinghai's Cordyceps Snow Chicken, Fengziling, ginseng sheep tendon, sweet and sour yellow croaker, fried dumplings, dumplings, horse chops, mutton fried noodles, etc. In addition, there are xifeng liquor, Huang Gui thick wine, Danggui wine, Longnanquan, Yili Tequ, chinese wolfberry wine, white wine, Ziyang tea, milk tea, Sanpaotai eight-treasure tea and ginseng tea; Black rice drinks and Hami melon juice are also famous.
In terms of eating habits, local people like to eat cold food in summer and make up cold food in winter, treat guests sincerely, feast for a long time, and often entertain with singing and dancing instruments. A family is busy with banquets and will never neglect those who come in. The Kazakh proverb: "Letting guests go at sunset is a shame that cannot be washed away by jumping into the river" is a vivid example. "China Xinjiang Customs" also records: "When Muslims feast, they always respect and kill more livestock. Camels, cows and horses are all top grades, and there are hundreds of sheep. All kinds of melons and fruits, rock candy, high sugar, sesame oil, cooked meat, cakes, snacks, stir-fried dishes and steamed rice are all stored in tin-copper wooden plates. In different circles, they are in the forefront, and they want what they want. Musical instruments are mixed, singing and dancing are noisy, and the group applauds to welcome its festival. It is always happy. " "If the guest gives the old food to others or takes it away after the party, the host will be overjoyed and think he will be very happy."