Baotou's specialty foods include: roasted whole sheep, steamed dumplings on the back, hand-roasted sheep, mutton offal, fried sour porridge, yellow river fish, stewed sheep bones, steamed stuffed bun with chopped green onion, oat noodle fish, little sheep shabu shabu, stewed noodles with lobster sauce, stewed sauerkraut with pork vermicelli, sheep scorpion and so on. Roast whole sheep: it is a traditional local flavor food of Mongolian in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The whole sheep is golden and shiny in appearance, brown and crisp in outer meat, soft and tender in inner meat, rich in mutton flavor, quite palatable and unique in flavor.

Steamed dumplings: Baotou Beitou steamed dumplings are a famous snack in Baotou. The stuffing is the finest mutton, with fresh ginger and scallion. The production process is unique, the materials are excellent, the skin is thin and the meat is fine, the mutton stuffing is moderately fat and thin, and the seasonings such as shredded onion and Jiang Mo are complete. The steamed dumplings are thin and delicious.

Hand-roasted sheep: put the mutton with bones in a large iron pot and cook it without salt and seasoning. When eating, the guests grab the sheep bones in one hand, pick the meat with a Mongolian knife in the other and dip it in sesame salt. Its meat is tender and original.

Mutton offal: It occupies a supreme position in Baotou snacks. Mutton offal is made of sheep heart, large intestine, head and hoof meat, sheep liver, sheep lung and sheep belly, cut into strips or filaments, boiled in broth, and seasoned with coriander, Chili oil and vinegar. Taste the soup with water, its taste is mellow and long, and the meat is fragrant and the soup is fresh.