Because for most people, Dunhuang is always mysterious, even if it is a delicacy, we will want to explore and discover it.
We can also know those foods from relevant historical records. As can be seen from those documents, Dunhuang people eat the most cakes. Cake food has many names. There are as many as twenty or thirty names, which shows its richness.
The cakes with these names may sound awkward, but we can see that there are really many delicious foods in Dunhuang. We can also see the love of Dunhuang people for life thousands of years ago.
Many names are unfamiliar to us, but that doesn't mean they have disappeared. These kinds of cakes may exist in our daily life in other ways. Maybe now we can also taste the food that Dunhuang people tasted thousands of years ago when we go to Dunhuang.
Even in the mural records of Mogao Grottoes, the appearance of related foods is recorded. In fact, I think we should be able to get a general idea of what Dunhuang people ate thousands of years ago, because one side nourished the other. Now let's go to Dunhuang or have a look around it. Those traditional cuisines handed down seem to tell us something about Dunhuang cuisine many years ago.
Therefore, more than 1000 years ago, Dunhuang people should take all kinds of cakes as their staple food, and sometimes their geographical environment limited their food to be less colorful than that in the Central Plains.