As the saying goes, "Food is the most important thing for a good citizen", and "one side of water and soil will nourish one side of people". As a native of Lanzhou, Gansu, Lanzhou has many food friends, such as beef noodles, noodles with minced meat, mutton in soup, haggis, roast mutton, hand-grabbed mutton, clear water steak, sweet eggs, grey beans, hot winter fruits and so on. Let me introduce some very representative Lanzhou specialties to you.

Pasta

When it comes to pasta in Lanzhou, there may be few people in the country who don't know this special food in Lanzhou. Yes, it is "Lanzhou Lamian Noodles". In fact, we locals don't call it that at all. We all call it beef noodles or Niuda. Beef noodles pay attention to "one clear (soup clear), two white (radish white), three red (Chili oil red), four green (coriander and garlic green) and wuhuang (noodle yellow)". In the past, beef noodles were usually mixed with plaster water, but now it is rarely used, because there are still many harmful substances in the plaster, which represents arsenic, and now they all use improved ramen. A delicious beef noodle is not mainly soup and Chili oil. Broth is generally made of beef bones and beef (some noodle restaurants also add whole chicken to freshen up) and add dozens of seasonings. Chili oil is also fried with more than a dozen seasonings mixed with two or even more kinds of Chili noodles. Every noodle restaurant has different proportions of soup and Chili oil, which is the so-called thousand restaurants and thousands of flavors.

Meat

When it comes to meat, we have to mention Lanzhou's hand-grabbed mutton. Hand-grabbed mutton is a traditional food loved by Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, Kazakh, Uygur and other ethnic groups in northwest China. It is said that hand-grabbed mutton has a history of nearly a thousand years and was originally named after eating it with hands. There are three ways to eat, that is, hot (after slicing, steaming in a cage and dipping in triple oil), cold (directly dipping in refined salt after slicing) and fried (frying in a pan and eating while frying). It is characterized by delicious meat, not greasy or greasy, and full of color and fragrance.

sweets

There are many sweets in Lanzhou, such as grey beans, hot winter fruits, twenty cakes, etc., but my favorite is sweet embryo, which is one of the special snacks in northwest China. The main materials are oats, distillers' yeast, etc. It belongs to Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival. When it is eaten, it is mixed with cold water and sugar, which tastes sweet and sour and has the effect of relieving summer heat. Sweet embryo is a flavor snack made from naked oats. There is a jingle among the masses: "Sweet and sweet, old people and dolls drool, one bowl and two bowls can appetize, and three bowls and four bowls can top the meal".

There are many kinds of delicious foods in Lanzhou, and the list is endless. You are welcome to taste it in person when you have time. We in Lanzhou warmly welcome you.