When it comes to snacks in Qitai, the locals are very happy and talk endlessly. Potato roe, fried roe, mutton stew cake, pulling strips, grabbing slices, Qitaixiang Shilikeng barbecue, yellow noodles cold rice noodles, Wangdan barbecue, "Yangmazi" oil cake, Guo Xiangqi Yuanxiao and many other things ... after a while, it will be endless. Qitai snacks have three characteristics: first, fine workmanship and exquisite materials; The second is continuous innovation; Third, distinctive features, pay attention to color, fragrance and taste, such as yellow noodles, cold noodles, yogurt, oil tower and so on. Especially the oily noodles, everyone who comes to Qitai must try it, so Qitai doesn't eat oily noodles, so it means that it doesn't come to Qitai. Among many snacks, the most impressive one is "potato roe". "Potato roe" is a kind of pasta made of potatoes and noodles, that is, potatoes are processed into powder, mixed with a little flour, kneaded into loach, or made into soup or dry mixed, which is convenient and delicious to eat. In fact, what Qitai people like best is fried potato roe with some clear soup, which is fragrant and refreshing. In recent years, there has been another saying in Qitai: "I didn't eat mutton stew cake when I went to Qitai, but I came for nothing." "Mutton stew cake" is made by cutting mutton into small pieces, mixing with oil, salt, pepper, monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and other ingredients, adding water after stir-frying, and steaming with ready-made pancake pieces and potato pieces. It is characterized by fresh fragrance without losing the original juice. Mutton slices are tender, fragrant and full of five flavors. Qitai has many unique snacks, such as the mouth-watering "leek zygote" and the unforgettable "steamed cake". Qitai is also rich in ethnic snacks, such as Hui-style oil fragrance, noodle soup and meatball soup. Uygur-style pilaf, barbecue, baked buns and naan; Na Ren, milk tea, horse milk and camel milk with Kazakh flavor are all unique folk snacks. And minced meat noodles. Qitai's noodles with minced meat are famous for their "thin, tender, smooth, sour, spicy and fragrant" characteristics. There is a legend about the origin of noodles with minced meat. A long time ago, a peasant family fled the war and died, leaving only his uncle and sister-in-law to live alone. Due to years of drought and war, the crops failed. Wise and virtuous eldest sister-in-law, in order to survive the famine, went out to collect wild vegetables and Artemisia ash (seasoned wild plants) every day, dried the collected wild vegetables and Artemisia ash, ground them into powder, and mixed them with the only remaining bean flour, corn flour and wheat flour at home to make noodles, which not only solved the food for two people to survive the famine, but also made my brother-in-law applaud after eating it. Later, her brother-in-law went to sea, and she remembered her sister-in-law rolling noodles. In memory of his deceased sister-in-law, he opened a "sister-in-law noodle restaurant" at the plow tip of Qitai. When the guests ate it, they all praised it. Since then, "Sister-in-law's face" has become famous. Over time, the "sister-in-law's face" became a "shame face", which has continued to this day. In the past, distinctive and common folk snacks were mostly associated with noisy streets, smoky night markets and hawkers' selling, so it has been difficult to make snacks elegant. Nowadays, well-known snacks such as potato roe, boiled fish roe and noodles with minced meat created by Qitai people are not only favored by Chinese and foreign merchants, but also show their talents in Urumqi, Lanzhou and Xi 'an. Qitai county has distinctive tourism resources. In the south, there are Tianshan Mountains, towering snow-capped mountains and glaciers, endless forests and grasslands, beautiful streams with green valleys, wonderful scenery of Youtiaoling and Yangwadan. The strange slopes and circular slopes of Tianshan Mountain are fascinating and fascinating. The central part is rich in cultural landscape, and it is located at the only pass of the ancient Silk Road. It is located in the center of the "dry dock" town, with a long history and profound cultural accumulation. It is a place where Central Plains culture and Western Regions culture exchange and converge. Before liberation, there were 36 temples, among which Dongdi Temple, Sanqing Palace and other cultural relics have high archaeological value and tourism value. The Gobi desert in the north is vast and magnificent, with marine stratigraphic fossils and continental stratigraphic fossils from 800 million years ago to 65.438+0.5 billion years ago. Known by experts as "Zhundong Hanhai Natural Museum" and "Prehistoric Museum", the natural wonders such as Shiqiantan, silicified wood, dinosaur ditch and ghost town are even more mysterious and magnificent. General Gobi is known as the "hometown of dinosaurs", and more than 20 dinosaur fossils/kloc-0 have been found in dinosaur ditch. From 65438 to 0986, scientists from China and Canada excavated Mamengxilong, which is 32.9 meters long and is the largest dinosaur fossil in Asia and the second largest in the world. Now it is in China vertebrate paleontology Exhibition Hall. From June 5, 2004 to 10, Xinjiang Qitai Silicified Wood and Dinosaur Ditch were awarded "Xinjiang Qitai Silicified Wood-Dinosaur National Geopark" by the Ministry of Land and Resources. In June 2005, Qitai Silicified Wood-Dinosaur National Geopark successfully declared the largest silicified wood garden in Guinness World. The "Wind City of Nuo Min" in General Gobi, commonly known as "Ghost Town", is the largest landform city in Ya Dan discovered in northwest China at present, which is more distinctive and larger than the "Ghost Town" in Wuerhe. Geological relics formed in the Gobi and their unique features are of great archaeological and tourism value. In 2006, Qitai County hosted the Third International Tourism Festival, and assisted the Chinese Academy of Sciences and CCTV to successfully hold the dinosaur fossil excavation and live broadcast ceremony. Qitai is not only rich in products, but also magnificent in scenery, especially the Gobi in the north, which is simply an exhibition hall of magical scenery. Here, you can see the largest silicified wood group in Asia, the mysterious windy city of Nuo Min ghost town, the illusory mirage, Shiqiantan, the burning Yamakaji, and the dinosaur ditch where the world's second largest dinosaur fossil was unearthed. The cultural landscape of Qitai is also of great value. The ruins of Shule City in the Han Dynasty, the ancient city pier in the Tang Dynasty and the Dongda ancient style in the Qing Dynasty remain the same.