Datong's mutton soup is famous, and the locals also like mutton offal soup, which tastes similar, but the price is definitely cheaper than mutton soup. There is also the mutton soup in Huguan, which pays attention to seasoning with soup stock, boiling with sheep bones for several hours, and then fully integrating the bone marrow inside the sheep bones into the mutton soup. That kind of mutton soup is really delicious. When Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu entered the Central Plains from Shanxi and passed through Quwo County, his mother, the Queen Mother Zhuang Sheng, was ill, and Xu Guozhen, a famous doctor in Quwo, made a diagnosis and treatment for him. Chef Hsu's mother, Han Shanshan, was very sorry to see the Mongols eating mutton and abandoning it in the water. She picked it up and washed it, cooked it, and served it with green onions and peppers. It was delicious. Mutton offal is a healthy meal she made for the Queen Mother.
Walking in the streets and alleys of Taiyuan, you can see stores that operate "sheep miscellaneous cutting" everywhere. The facade is not big and the business is booming. Generally, every store puts a big pot on the fire, with soup stock in it, and all the prepared mutton offal are put together to wait for the pot. Every time a guest comes, the boss will ask you how much to eat. It means how much meat you want to add, and the price depends on how much meat you want. Don't think that mutton offal is pure meat, it will be accompanied by vermicelli. Each soup stock has different ingredients and tastes.
Datong mutton offal is a local snacks made from the head, hoof, heart, liver, intestine, lung and blood of sheep, also known as mutton chop suey soup. Yam vermicelli is added to the mutton chop suey soup. When it is cooked, it is red and white, steaming, oily but not greasy, and it is a health food that warms the stomach and drives away the cold. When you arrive in Datong, you must taste a bowl of spicy and fragrant mutton offal noodle soup, which is glad you came.