Drinking more milk tea, eating meat by hand and cooking with Central Asian flavor are the early dietary characteristics of Saracens. Later, the food structure changed. Pasta is the staple food, and steamed bread, stewed steamed bread, oil cake, steamed stuffed bun, dough, noodles, fried noodles and paste are often eaten. The "cooking" made of buckwheat noodles is made of vegetable soup, garlic, pepper and other condiments. They are delicious and popular with people. The staple food is mainly wheat, supplemented by highland barley, buckwheat, potatoes and various vegetables. Non-staple food is mainly beef and mutton and camel meat, but also chicken, rabbit, duck, fish and other meat. It is forbidden to eat the meat of pigs, dogs, mules, horses, donkeys and other non-ruminant animals and various fierce animals. The diet is full of animal blood and self-harming animals, including cattle and sheep. Cattle, sheep, etc. Poultry is generally slaughtered by imams and the elderly, and can only be eaten after bleeding. Sarah, people are forbidden to drink or smoke. They are not allowed to scoop rice and pour water on their backs. They are not allowed to bite when eating steamed bread. Three meals a day, children and adults take turns. Wash your hands before eating and read your words clearly when eating.

On holidays, tourists will come here with fried food, scones and egg cakes, cooked meat, steamed sugar packets and vegetable packets, stewed bowls, rice and hot pot. The activities of entertaining guests on the wedding day are very rich. Cattle and sheep are slaughtered, boiled and fried to prepare delicious food. The first order is Nanzi, oily, "Yumuta", steamed bread, sugar bag, wheat ear bag, bowl dish, hot pot, mutton, rice, sausage and meat.

Brick tea and wheat tea are drinks that both men and women like. "Wheat tea" is a self-made traditional drink, which is called "fish-fish" in China. The preparation method comprises parching wheat to brown, grinding into small particles, washing with water, adding appropriate amount of salt, and decocting to obtain the finished product. This product is as strong as tea, fragrant and delicious, and some are accompanied by pepper, fennel, fried bitter almond and so on. Add milk, sweet and delicious, nutritious.

In recent years, Salars have been drinking all kinds of red green tea and Yunnan spring tea. They like to use the "bowl cover" of the "three-bubble table". Salar people are very particular about drinking tea: they pay attention to new and old tea with rich color; Pay attention to cleanliness, no water, spring water first, then well water; Exquisite and elegant tea set, simple and elegant, so light and plain, engraved with flowers, poems or scriptures.

Salars eat, and the first bowl is given to the elderly by women. When entertaining guests, imams and elders sitting in the middle of the kang should be entertained by boys, and ladies are not allowed. Men are generally not allowed to work in the kitchen, otherwise they will be laughed at.