2. stuffed skin: a traditional snack with strong local flavor in Qinghai. Vendors selling stuffed skins can be seen everywhere in Xining and towns in agricultural areas. It tastes spicy and refreshing, flexible and delicate, and has a long aftertaste.
3. Hand-grabbed mutton: it is the traditional diet of herdsmen in Qinghai. Because it is eaten directly by hand, it is fragrant but not greasy, and the meat is tender but not greasy, which is different from the mutton in the inland plain. It is one of the delicious foods that you have to taste when you come to Xining, Qinghai.
4. Chopped soup: It is a very famous food in Xining. In fact, chop suey soup is a snack made by boiling cattle and sheep in water. Local people often have breakfast, which is a traditional food of Hui people.
5. Yak Yogurt: Yak Yogurt is a very traditional cold milk drink, which is nutritious and helpful for digestion. Pastoral yogurt is made of yak milk. This kind of yogurt is covered with yellow hard milk skin with cream. When the milk skin is peeled off, the soft and glutinous yogurt is as white as snow as tofu, sweet and sour, cool and pleasant.
6. Gluten noodle: it is the most distinctive home-cooked pasta in northwest China. The shape of the dough sheet is very distinctive, small and meticulous. Because it is made of different soups and sauces, some are made into noodle soup, and some are made into fried noodles. Each method has its own characteristics.
7. Sweet grains: one of the northwest specialty snacks is sweet grains, which are made of oats or highland barley. In Xining, the ancient city of Qinghai Plateau, and towns in agricultural areas, you can see the unique folk snack "Sweet Fermented Grains". Candied fruit is made from local materials, which is simple to make, nutritious and appetizing. Xining people are not only addicted to it, but also can be used as gifts for visiting relatives and friends.
8, protein insect grass chicken: protein insect grass chicken is a famous dish in Qinghai. Chop chicken breast into minced meat, add a little salt, ginger, pepper and egg white, stir well, put on a plate, put Cordyceps sinensis (boiled until soft) on the minced meat and steam it. Then change the knife, fill the bowl with chicken soup, steam for a while, take out the pinch plate and pour in the clear soup.
9. Qinghai milk skin: the milk skin is pure yellow with white, greasy spots, full of honeycomb trachoma, fresh and charming in color, creamy at the entrance, crisp, soft and delicious, not oily or greasy, and rich in nutrition. It is not only a daily consumption, but also a top grade for festivals, or a gift for visiting relatives and friends and taking care of elderly patients. Old people like to cut the milk skin into small pieces and soak it in milk tea.
10, Datong Yak Health: Datong Yak is produced in pollution-free natural pasture above 3000 meters above sea level in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the first new breed of yak artificially cultivated in the world, which inherits the genetic genes of wild yak. Meat products are characterized by fresh and tender meat, high protein content, less fat deposition, good water retention, rich mineral content and complete kinds of amino acids and vitamins.