Taiyuan, referred to as "Bang" for short, was called Jinyang in ancient times, also known as Bingzhou and Longcheng, and is the capital of Shanxi Province. Taiyuan is a national historical and cultural city, an ancient capital with a history of more than 2,500 years. It is an ancient historical city that "controls mountains and rivers and stands on the shoulders of the world", and it is also an ancient historical city that "locks the key with four customs and controls Wuyuan capital". The food here is also varied and unique in style, so what are the traditional foods in Taiyuan? Let's take a look at the top ten traditional specialties in Taiyuan!

1, Daoxiao Noodles, Taiyuan

Daoxiao Noodles, Taiyuan, is called "Flying to Daoxiao Noodles" because of its skillful knives and knives. The knife used is a special tile-shaped knife. Noodles should be kneaded into a cylinder more than a foot long. When cutting noodles, people stand in front of the pot, holding noodles in one hand and cutting them from top to bottom with a knife in the other. The cut noodles are triangular, and the width and length of each noodle are the same. The noodles cut by the exquisite chef fell into the soup pot, one was floating in the air, and the other was just out of the knife, and the noodles were cut like fish jumping. It tastes weak inside and hard outside, soft, smooth and easy to digest.

2. Taiyuan Mouse Cave Lantern Festival

Mouse Cave Lantern Festival is a local traditional snack in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. Thin and full skin, sweet taste. People who live in Taiyuan for a long time or who come to visit relatives, friends and tourists temporarily must go to the "mouse hole" to taste. This kind of dumpling has sticky skin, sweet stuffing, fragrant, white color, exquisite ingredients and unique flavor, and has been included in the intangible cultural heritage of Shanxi Province.

3. Taiyuan mind

"Brain" is a flavor snack in Taiyuan, and it is a soup-like food. Put three pieces of fat mutton, a lotus root and a yam in a bowl of soup. The condiments in the soup are yellow wine, distiller's grains and astragalus. When tasting, you can feel the mixed fragrance of wine, medicine and mutton, which is delicious and delicious, and the more you eat, the more fragrant it is. Features: invigorating qi, regulating yuan, tonifying deficiency, promoting blood circulation and invigorating stomach, rich in nutrition, and having the functions of dispelling cold, relieving asthma and strengthening body and prolonging life.

4, Taiyuan mutton offal cutting

"Mutton offal", also known as "haggis", is a famous local snacks in Shanxi. Walking in the streets of Shanxi, you can see small shops that operate "chop suey" everywhere, with small facade and prosperous business. Generally, every store will put a big pot on the fire, put the stock in it, and put all the prepared mutton offal together to wait for the pot. Every time a guest comes, the boss will ask you how much you eat. It means how much meat you want to add. The price depends on how much meat you want to add. Don't think that mutton offal is pure meat, it will go with vermicelli. Each stock has different ingredients and tastes.

5, recognize Yili beef and mutton steamed dumplings

Steamed dumplings with strong recognition of beef and mutton are one of the famous delicacies in Taiyuan, which was founded around 1930 and located in Qiaotou Street. Kan Yili's steamed dumplings are "thin-skinned, small-edged, large-filled, half-moon-shaped, and do not open their mouths or expose their stuffing". The main ingredients used are cardamom, Amomum villosum, Angelica dahurica, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cinnamomum cassia, clove, fennel, pepper, star anise and dried tangerine peel. Known as "Thirteen Fragrances", it tastes fat but not greasy. If there are not enough steamed dumplings, there are many choices in the store, such as mutton offal soup, beef meatball soup, beef wonton, red bean porridge, millet porridge and so on. Everything is delicious. As long as you walk into the shop, you can eat it warmly and go out.

6. A little plum

Slightly beautiful (also called steamed dumplings, hand-cooked wheat and lightly cooked wheat) is also a famous flavor snack in Taiyuan. Make a flower pleat with a special rolling pin, which looks like plum blossoms. There is a saying that "burning plum is delicious but it is difficult to mix noodles, and it is difficult to make flowers with thin skin and stuffing." It is technically difficult to make roasted plum, so it is necessary to use a special rolling pin to make flowers. The more you fold, the more beautiful the flowers will be. A good plum skin is as thin as paper, round as a plate, and there are many flowers on the side. Picked plums are big, mellow and delicious, and put in cages, just like a notice of blooming. Plum blossoms with thin skin and full stuffing and flowers don't look better than fully open ones.

7.mashed eggs

Egg mash is also a special snack in Taiyuan. The egg mash in Haizibian snack bar in Rongmaoyuan has a long reputation, and it is still said that "Haizibian mash is king, and wine is not as thick as mash." Although there are egg mash in many parts of the country, the taste is quite different. According to legend, Zhao Kuangyin gave up martial arts and crossed the Yellow River to Jiangzhou, where he was hungry and had no money or food. The shop saw his extraordinary appearance and made mashed potatoes for him. Zhao Kuangyin didn't know what it was. The shop said, "It's just bad soup." . Later, when Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he missed the "bad soup" and asked the shop to go to Beijing to make it again. He said: "Bad soup is sweet and sour, and the wine is refreshing, so it will be called mash in the future." Yu Yan, the name of the old stove, has been passed down to this day. Jiangbei is mostly called mash, and Jiangnan is mostly called Jiang rice wine.

8. You are embarrassed.

Kool Olao is a famous traditional pasta snack in the alpine region of Shanxi, which belongs to Jin cuisine. "Lollipop" is a kind of flour food made of oat flour, which is called "lollipop" because of its shape like a basket. Oil noodles are one of the top ten pasta in Shanxi. Its exquisite craftsmanship, beautiful shape and strong taste are perfectly combined. In addition, "mutton soup with minced meat and mushrooms, a family eats ten spices" has also become an out-and-out food. Even when Emperor Kangxi worshipped Wutai Mountain, he regarded it as a pleasure in life.

9. Oily meat

Although spilled meat is a common dish in Shanxi and even in the north, the authentic taste is the spilled meat made by a big hotel in Taiyuan. On September 20, 20 18, Chinese Cuisine was officially released, and "Shanxi Oil Spilled Meat" was rated as one of the top ten classic dishes in Shanxi. Authentic braised pork is mainly made of pork tenderloin or ingot meat, finely cut into copper-thick pieces, mixed with egg yolk, starch, refined salt and cooking wine, scattered in an oil pan and fried, and cooked with auxiliary materials such as auricularia auricula, magnolia officinalis slices, onions and spinach. It's golden.

10, buckwheat noodles enema

Buckwheat noodle enema is a snack that can be seen everywhere in Taiyuan. The surrounding counties and cities are called "bowls". The production method is to make buckwheat noodles into paste, put them in a container, steam them over high fire, and leave the container after cooling, which is more vivid. But from the point of view of famous snacks, enema can better explain the core of the problem. The production method of Shanxi enema is mysterious, and most of them are handed down from family. The taste is delicate, smooth and delicious, and it is not greasy after eating for a long time. The preparation is simple. It's better to cut it with secret marinade when eating. Although it is called enema, buckwheat enema is completely different from ordinary enema, and there is no animal viscera.