The top ten specialties of Ordos are: Mongolian-style milk food, sour rice, red pickles, bowl of lumps, mashed potatoes with sand onion, pea and bean noodles, skillful flower buns, cheese egg, yellow rice cake circle, millet cold noodles.

1, Mongolian-style milk food

Mongolian-style milk food is one of the famous snacks of Ordos, which is rich in variety, divided into two categories of food and drink. Food category has white ghee, yellow ghee, milk tofu, milk fruit, milk skin, etc., the fresh milk into the porcelain tank fermented milk, milk can be separated from the paste of white ghee, taste sweet and sour, but not greasy, mixed with fried rice taste more beautiful.

2, sour rice

Sour rice that is, sour rice porridge, called the Hequ people's "life-saving rice", the production of sour rice is very interesting, the tofu sour paste as the "leavening material" poured into the cleaned It is very interesting to make sour rice by pouring the tofu-sour paste into a washed jar with a small mouth, ladling in the boiled rice soup to ferment, then washing a certain amount of rice and pouring it into the jar, and putting the jar on a hot plate, so that one day later, the "sweet rice" becomes "sour rice".

3, red pickles

Red pickles are one of the daily food of the people in the Loop area, which is very popular in Ordos. Red pickles are cabbage, radish, cranberry, taro and other raw materials, after the fall harvest will be cut into silk after pickling up, spring time fishing out to dry to the fast drying time, and then use the acid salt soup will be boiled, clenched into a ball, sun dry.

4, bowl of lump

Bowl of lumps is Ordos specialty snacks, is more concerned about a kind of food, both hygienic, but also to adapt to the season. Ordos bowl of buckwheat raw materials are buckwheat, buckwheat will be washed into the bowl of steamed and eaten when cut into strips, poured with garlic and vinegar seasoning, but also with donkey meat, hot tofu and other side dishes.

5, sand onion mashed potatoes

Sand onion mashed potatoes is made of sand onion and potato made of a special snack, in Ordos is very common. Sand onion is one of the specialties of Ordos, is a kind of edible and medicinal vegetables, with oil frying and steamed mashed potatoes mixed well, rich and soft, silky smooth, Chinese and Western, young and old, is quite popular a special flavor of cold dishes.

6, pea bean noodles

Pea bean noodles are peas as the main ingredient of the staple food and snacks, peas ground into flour to make noodles to eat. The handmade pea noodles are loose but not al dente, and the dough is rolled out as thin as paper, then pulled into noodles and cooked in a pot. The boiled pea noodles, together with the diced potatoes and meat boiled bacon, are aromatic, fresh and tasty, with the special flavor of tarragon seeds in the noodles, giving them a distinctive taste.

7, skillful flower bun

The skillful flower bun is the flower bun, also into the noodle flower, because of the various styles and named. The raw materials for making Hua Bun are mainly white flour, with beans, jujube, rice, pepper and other auxiliary materials, and the production requires the use of scissors, combs, kitchen knives, etc., which are made by cutting, kneading, pinching, pulling, picking, pressing, rubbing, dialing, pressing and other techniques.

8, cheese eggs

Cheese eggs that hard cheese, is one of the top ten snacks in Ordos. Separate out the white ghee of yogurt, boiled and simmered over a slight fire, put into a cloth bag, squeeze out the sour water, into pieces to dry that is the cheese egg, it is the most common dairy products in the food.

9, yellow rice cake circle

Yellow rice cake circle is made of yellow glutinous rice and a small amount of rice flour snacks, is unique Ordos characteristics of the "doughnut". The essence of yellow rice cake is still yellow rice cake, just make it into the shape of a circle, turmeric rice flour kneaded into a dough and add seasoning ingredients to taste, eat can be steamed or fried, steamed yellow rice cake circle will be done in a steamer basket, steamed out of the cage can be eaten.

10, millet cold noodles

Millet cold noodles is Ordos famous traditional snacks, millet will be washed with water and ground into a rice syrup, into the pot simmering and frying, simmering while stirring, almost cooked when adding artemisia seed powder, the simmering rice syrup in the sorghum foils into a pancake, and then a layer of cooled, and so on repeatedly drying into the stall.