The specialties of Gansu are as follows, in no particular order:

1 Beef Noodles

The most authentic beef noodles must be eaten in Lanzhou, and any small restaurant on the street has a unique taste. Lanzhou beef noodles have five characteristics: one clear (clear soup), two white (radish white), three red (chili pepper oil red), four green (coriander green) and wuhuang (noodle Huang Liang). They are famous at home and abroad for their rotten soup and fine noodles.

2 Hand-grabbed mutton

Hand-grabbed mutton is a delicious food for people in pastoral areas to entertain distinguished guests. The big fat sheep that is slaughtered now grabs the meat by hand, puts it in boiling water, and can be eaten immediately after the blood is dried. It is delicious and nutritious, especially the breast fork meat.

3 milk and egg mash

milk and egg mash, as the name implies, is made by cooking milk, eggs and mash together. It is rich in nutrition, easy to digest and absorb, and has the function of helping digestion and stimulating appetite. It is the most "nearly perfect food". In addition, it can also refresh the mind, relieve fatigue, beauty beauty and lose weight, which can be called a good product that the majority of female friends can't miss!

4 stuffed skin

stuffed skin is one of the unique snacks of the Hui nationality. It is delicious, refreshing and economical, with both dishes and meals. The fermented peel is orange and transparent in color, soft and tough to eat, and has a particularly good flavor. In the hot summer, if you can eat a plate of stuffed skin, you will feel cool and refreshed, and your appetite will increase greatly.

5 cold noodles in Lanzhou

The cold noodles in Lanzhou are watered with carrots, celery and other halogen seeds, seasoned with mustard, and each cold noodle is served with a bowl of vegetarian noodle soup with celery flavor, which is very appetizing in summer. Don't worry in winter, the store will change the noodle soup to warm one.

6 yoghourt

Tibetan yoghourt is "edible". Yogurt is as cold as ice cream and as sweet and sour as bayberry. It is the best drink in summer. The coagulated yogurt in the shape of tender tofu smells sour with fermentation, tastes like ice cream and melts in the mouth, and the rich milk fragrance diffuses. Sweet diners often add raisins and black sesame seeds to yogurt to neutralize the sour taste and bring a richer taste.

7 vermicelli

vermicelli is a common name for mixed noodles. It is a kind of wheat flour product made directly by hand without rolling or pressing, and mixed noodles made of various vegetables and beef and mutton are a popular pasta that Dunhuang people like, especially the vermicelli of Uygur and Hui nationalities have a certain flavor.

8 candied fruit

candied fruit is one of the special snacks in northwest China, which is made of oats or highland barley. The taste is somewhat similar to that of fermented grains, which are sweet, and can be seen everywhere in the streets and lanes of Lanzhou. It is a good companion to cool off in summer.

9 serous surface

serous surface is a kind of noodles with serous water as soup. Widely popular in Lanzhou, Tianshui, Dingxi, Linxia and other places, among which Lanzhou's is the most exquisite, its taste is sour, spicy, fragrant and unique. The pulp contains a variety of beneficial enzymes, which can clear away heat and stimulate appetite, making it a good summer product.

1 Dunhuang noodles with minced meat

Dunhuang noodles with minced meat is a traditional handmade wheat flour product. Perhaps you will wonder, isn't noodles with minced meat a special snack in Xi 'an? In fact, noodles with minced meat are also traditional pasta in Dunhuang. It is the best hospitality for Dunhuang people to treat guests with noodles with minced meat. Eat a bowl of noodles with minced meat, and all fatigue will disappear. When you go to Dunhuang to see the Mogao Grottoes, you might as well eat a bowl of noodles with minced meat.