Yan'an is located in northern Shaanxi Province, but in terms of local snacks and Xi'an is not too different, the local made of millet flour oil cake, yellow bun flavor is also very good.

Oil cake

Also known as rice cake, jujube cake, is one of the most representative of the local flavor snacks in northern Shaanxi Province, millet millet, jujube as raw materials, deep-fried. Golden color, delicate and soft, sweet and delicious taste. Hotels and restaurants are sold as local specialties. When the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi Province, the people of Yan'an used oil cakes to entertain the Red Army soldiers. The oil cake is also described in the folk song "Shandandandan Flowering Red" in northern Shaanxi Province. Oil cakes are commonly used on New Year's festivals or occasions to entertain friends and relatives, especially in wedding feasts. It is served on a plate with ten slices per plate, accompanied by sugar and powdered soup.

Oil buns

Round, ring-shaped, fried, golden like copper coins, in Yan'an folklore is a symbol of wealth and good luck. The finished product is a small round cake with a hole in the center, deep-fried to a reddish-brown color. In the New Year's feasts are on the oil buns.

The taro rub

The taro is the potato, and in Shaanxi, the potato is often called "taro". The potato is rubbed into thin slices an inch long, mixed with peppercorns, green onions, ginger powder, salt, etc., stirred with the flour, and steamed in a pot. When served in a large bowl, seasoned with garlic, chili noodles, sauce, vinegar and green onions and chili oil, etc.; or into the pan fried. The flavor is crispy and delicious.

Cool powder

is one of the northern Shaanxi specialty snacks, made of mung bean flour called "mung bean cold noodles", made of lentil flour called "lentil cold noodles", made of taro starch called " Taro cold noodles", made of buckwheat groats called "buckwheat cold noodles". In particular, ZiChang County's mung bean cold noodles for the best, bright green color, but also has a heat detoxification, quenching the effects of summer heat. Cold noodles have hot and cold two ways to eat, the summer season cold food is the best. With a variety of seasoning modification after refreshing and delicious, sour and spicy flavor.

Pancakes

Processed from refined buckwheat groats, with dried tofu, hot tofu, a variety of fried vegetables. Diversified methods of consumption, cool and fresh flavor, can be eaten throughout the year. It is best to do that is eaten, so that the best taste. Zicang pancakes have long been famous in northern Shaanxi.

Haggis

Sheep's head, hooves, blood, liver, heart, intestines, belly, lungs and other braised into a good tonic effect. Haggis can be fried, braised, flavorful.

Qianqian Rice

Refined from coarse grains. Raw materials for the black beans, after soaking, put on the mill pressed into pieces, shaped like copper, so the people called "money money rice". Bean money into two, rice into eighty, mixed up, one by one into the pot, to be half-cooked bean money, and then put millet.

Buckwheat noodles

Made of buckwheat into a flour-like, and goat soup to eat, the flavor is delicious. In the northern Shaanxi folk "buckwheat noodles noodles goat fishy soup, dead and alive to keep up with" the proverb. Yan'an's Wuqi County and Zhidan County buckwheat, two places of buckwheat noodles taste the best.

Fruit filling

The flour oil and even, rolled into a long sheet, rolled up and pressed the nest, wrapped in the filling, put into the oven repeatedly turned and baked until cooked. The flavor is crispy and sweet. Varieties of date fruit filling, candy filling, bean paste fruit filling and so on.