Taiyuan has many special foods and countless snacks. The more famous ones are Taiyuan Brain Slurry, Taiyuan Slightly Beautiful, Taikoo Cake, Youmian, Taiyuan Mouse Cave Yuanxiao and so on. Here is a brief introduction of these snacks for your reference.

Taiyuan Mind

Mind is a nourishing food and a unique flavor snack in Taiyuan, which has a history of more than 3 years. It was invented by Fu Shan, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, in memory of his mother. Put three pieces of fat mutton, a lotus root and a long yam in a bowl of soup paste. The seasoning of the soup is yellow wine, distiller's grains and astragalus. The mixture of medicine and mutton is delicious, and the more you eat, the more fragrant it becomes. The brain is not a thick soup or thin soup made of mutton, sheep pulp, distiller's grains, stewed noodles, lotus root, long yam, astragalus root and ginger, so it is also called Bazhen soup. When eating brain, it should be accompanied by pickled leeks as a drug introduction. People get up in the morning and drink a bowl of brain-strengthening, which not only satisfies hunger and promotes blood circulation, but also achieves nourishing effect. Taiyuan is more authentic than Qinghe Yuan.

Taiyuan Shaomei

Shaomei is a traditional snack in Taiyuan. As the saying goes, "small plums are delicious, but it is difficult to make noodles." Thin skin and flowers are hard to make. " It can be seen that being a Xiaomei is technically difficult and the manufacturing process is excellent. Shanxi has a long history of burning coal. It turned out to be a snack used by wealthy families in rural areas of Shanxi for festive banquets. The steamed dumplings, the capital of Beijing, originated here. The production process of burning beauty is very complicated. You need to use a special rolling pin to play flowers. Shanxi is called "jujube hammer". Specially used for trimming flowers with a little plum skin. The more pleats, the better the slightly plum blossom teeth look. Good plums are as thin as paper and round as a plate, with many flowers on each side. Picked plums are big, fragrant and delicious, and put in cages, just like all notices. Small plums are made of dough, preparations, rolled slices, pressed lace, mixed stuffing and steamed in a cage. Plum-shaped food is delicious, and few guests who travel to Shanxi don't come to taste it, and few don't talk about it.

Taigu Cake

Taigu Cake is a traditional famous food in Shanxi Province, named after it was produced in Taigu County. Beginning in the Qing Dynasty, Taikoo cakes are sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, and delicious. It is famous all over the country for its fragrance, crispness and softness, and enjoys the reputation of "the king of cakes". Taikoo cake is a typical representative of "Shanxi merchants' food culture". The famous singer Guo's crisp and pleasant song "Pingyao Beef Taikoo cake" made Taikoo cake famous all over the world.

oat noodle

oat noodle is a kind of pasta snack in the alpine region of Shanxi. Xinzhou's practice is the most typical: add twice as much boiling water or cold water to make a oat noodle, push it on a smooth surface with your palm, and roll it with your index finger to make it into a tube. When finished, stand in the cage one by one. When steaming, it smells fragrant, and when eating it, it is mixed with mutton or mushroom soup, which makes people drool, makes people have an appetite, tastes delicious and has endless aftertaste.

Taiyuan Rat Cave Lantern Festival

Taiyuan Rat Cave Lantern Festival was originally named Hengyicheng Candy Store, and it is called Rat Cave Lantern Festival Store because it is located at the entrance of "Rat Cave" Lane in Zhonglou Street. Taiyuan Mouse Cave Lantern Festival has the reputation of "overwhelming taste, harmonious reputation and crown". After a hundred years of history, it has always maintained the characteristics of a shop. It not only passed on the production technology from generation to generation with the only standard, but also inherited the flavor of that year in the varieties of dumpling stuffing, mainly sesame, osmanthus, rose, peanut and so on. Over the years, the selection and production of Rat Cave Lantern Festival are very particular, and the standard has never changed. Rice is only glutinous rice produced in Huata Village, Jinci. After soaking in water, it is ground into flour with a stone mill. Roses and osmanthus flowers in the stuffing should be collected with half-open flowers. Pay attention to strength and direction when rolling Yuanxiao. The Lantern Festival made in this way is delicious.