Today, everyone came to Qingyang, and we can't help but introduce our Qingyang cuisine. Qingyang's food culture has a long history, including lamb in Huanxian, sugar cake in Zhenyuan, sugar doughnuts in Heshui and Zhengning tofu, as well as buckwheat noodles, fried lobster sauce, pig blood enema, ran noodles, potato Bula, hemp buns, stir-fried dumplings, sorghum rolls, bean jelly, soft oats, earthen warm pots and so on. Moreover, Qingyang snacks won the title of "Gansu Famous Banquet" with their unique local flavor at the first food festival in Gansu, China.

Among them, handmade noodles with minced meat are the most noteworthy. With exquisite workmanship ingredients and authentic peasant taste, many people have a special liking for it, which makes them linger. Handmade dough, kneading dough, rolling dough and cutting noodles are all very particular. There is a saying that "roll paper, cut it into lines, cook it in a pot, turn it into lotus flowers, catch chopsticks and swing it, and put it in a bowl to compete with peony". Then eating noodles is also very particular. Handmade noodles are usually served in separate bowls of soup and noodles. When eating noodles, chopsticks are used to put the noodles in the soup bowl before eating. This kind of noodles is thin, long, soft and tough, clear and spicy, and spicy with a fragrance. As someone once commented: "A bowl of Qingyang noodles with minced meat, eaten in the mouth, is better than a living fairy". Nowadays, Qingyang noodles with minced meat have become fashionable pasta for breakfast in urban and rural restaurants and an indispensable delicacy in people's lives.

There is another interesting folk custom about Qingyang noodles with minced meat: According to legend, a family married a beautiful, intelligent, diligent and clever daughter-in-law a long time ago. The second day after the new wife arrived at her husband's house, she cooked a meal of noodles for the whole family. After eating, the whole family all praised the noodles for being smooth and delicious. Later, her brother-in-law was admitted to the official position, invited her classmates and friends to visit home, and asked her sister-in-law to cook the best noodles for everyone to entertain the guests. After eating, everyone was full of praise. Since then, "sister-in-law's face" has become famous. Also, because this kind of "sister-in-law's noodles" must be topped with steamed dumplings, people also call it "steamed dumplings". Since then, in order to show women's virtue, the custom of rolling a face in front of the guests the next day after the new daughter-in-law went through the door to test her skills has been passed down. Skillful and skilled, the rolled noodles are even in thickness, and the strips are slender, so that they will not break when they are put into the pot. Such a new wife can win everyone's praise and affirmation.

As a folk song goes, "Going around in 18 provinces (that) is no better than our noodles with shame in Qingyang". Qingyang noodles with minced meat have also formed a unique regional flavor in the course of thousands of years' development. The traditional dietary noodles with minced meat, because it is too spicy, keep whistling in the mouth, also known as "whistle noodles". Qingyang noodles with minced meat are exquisite in workmanship, unique in production and interesting in eating, which is a must.