grey beans

grey beans carry the memories of Lanzhou people from generation to generation. I remember the memories of the older generation: small vendors who used to carry burdens always came to the door with a bowl, which was warm.

nowadays, most snack bars in Lanzhou sell grey beans, and they are very hot. No matter whether it is cold in winter or hot in summer, Lanzhou people's enthusiasm for grey beans is always unabated.

Grey beans are mainly boiled with sesame peas and dates. When cooking beans, it is necessary to add ash and alkali, and it needs to be cooked for at least six hours with slow fire, so that the boiled beans can be made into bean paste. Sweet embryo

Now sweet embryo milk tea seems to be more famous than sweet embryo milk tea. In summer, people have a sweet embryo milk tea to cool off the heat, which is the favorite of Lanzhou people.

As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day passed, people in Lanzhou began to make candied fruits. The practice of candied fruits is a bit like fermented grains, but the difference is that candied fruits are mostly made of oats or highland barley. Peel and steam highland barley or oats, add distiller's yeast, mix well, put into a porcelain basin or jar, and put it on a hot kang or keep warm on a stove. Oilseeds

In the past, during the Spring Festival, you would fry the oil seeds, and the fried crispy fragrance floated all over the house, which was the favorite of children.

the prickly heat is fried by rubbing strips on the oil surface. Now, the prickly heat is bought from the market, and it is still golden and crisp. It is crispy with a bite and full of fragrance.

yogurt

Gansu people like to add a "zi" after dairy products, which is also regarded as Gansu dialect.

People in Gannan buy yogurt in barrels. Basically, there are one or two vendors selling yogurt in every street. The milk is squeezed by themselves. Yogurt is as white and slippery as tofu, with a layer of milk skin floating on it. You can put some sugar to taste when eating, which is sour and sweet, and can achieve the effect of relieving summer heat. The traditional homemade Gannan yogurt does not contain any additives or preservatives, and it is a real healthy food and green food. Noodles zi

Wuwei noodles zi is characterized by strong taste, glittering and translucent Huang Liang color, jade-like translucency, and long strip shape. It is the best food to remove the cool summer heat by adding seasonings such as soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic juice, Chili oil and refined salt.

One of the highlights of Wuwei Nianpi is the vinegar juice poured in it, which is also commonly known as "paste vinegar" by Wuwei people. This vinegar juice is made of flour, vinegar and secret spices. This vinegar juice is different from ordinary light vinegar, and it tastes sour and has a stronger aftertaste. Wuwei rice noodles are stocky, with thick brown and slightly transparent faces, which are elastic with one knife across the board, like Wuwei people's character and dialect, thick and flexible, with some stubbornness in the heavy aftertaste. Niangpi

Niangpi is a kind of dough steamed with flour syrup. There are two kinds, one is ordinary fermented skin, also known as "washed fermented skin", and the other is high-load fermented skin.

A bowl of Huang Liang's transparent stuffed skin, with spices such as pepper, refined salt, soy sauce, garlic paste, mustard and balsamic vinegar, has the characteristics of bright color, delicious taste, rich oil, cool taste, and fragrant spray to relieve summer heat. There are various ways to eat stuffed skin, which can be used as both staple food and vegetable, so it has a very high position in Gansu people's diet. Sliced noodles

Sliced noodles are handmade pasta with Gansu characteristics, and the dough is very particular. Good sliced noodles taste very strong.

there are many ways to eat noodles, such as: stir-fried noodles, dry-mixed noodles with vegetable cover, all of which are delicious! Rub roe

Rub roe is a unique traditional pasta snack in Zhangye City, Gansu Province. It is named after the shape of its finished product is thick in the middle and pointed at both ends, which resembles a small fish. Although the method of kneading noodles fish is slightly complicated, it tastes good and delicious. It can be eaten dry or fried.