1 Qinghai Niangpi

Niangpi is a traditional snack with strong local flavor in Qinghai, which can be seen everywhere in the streets of Xining. Different from the rice skin made of rice in other places, Qinghai stuffed skin is made by mixing a certain amount of gypsum and seasoning into wheat flour, using warm water to make a hard dough, kneading it several times, putting it into cold water for constant scrubbing after the dough is fine and smooth, washing off the starch, and putting it into a steamer for steaming when the dough becomes honeycomb, which is called "gluten". After that, the precipitated starch paste is scooped into a steamer and steamed, and Qinghai stuffed skin is ready. Then cut into long strips, served with gluten, and poured with seasonings such as vinegar, spicy oil, mustard, leek and mashed garlic. The taste is spicy, cool, flexible and delicate, with a long aftertaste.

Step 2 grab the mutton with your hands

From midsummer to early winter, it is the golden season for grass sheep to gain weight, and it is also a good time to eat the freshest and delicious hand-grabbed mutton. "Hand-grabbed rice" is a unique way of eating in Qinghai Plateau, which enjoys a high reputation in the whole country. A plate of mutton is red and white, fat but not fat, attractive in color, and eaten with a knife. Although it tastes oily, it tastes cold but not greasy, the oil is crisp and tender, and the taste is extraordinary.

3. Qinghai Dadi Hotpot

Qinghai people call hot pot "pot", and its ingredients and practices are very characteristic of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a cold climate and is rich in cattle and sheep. The "pot bottom" of Qinghai earthen hotpot is generally made of mutton soup with a little sauerkraut. It tastes spicy, without red oil and too much seasoning. The soup is clear in color and naturally mellow in taste. After a taste, the delicious mutton and refreshing sauerkraut are perfectly combined, which makes people taste fragrant but not greasy. Although the name of food has the word "earth", its practice is very particular and the knife method is meticulous. All ingredients are evenly cut into slices, slices, strips and other shapes, which are uniform.

4. Kangguo mutton chop

Children's shoes that love mutton should pay attention. The main ingredients of Guo Kang lamb chops come from the grasslands in the northwest. Not fishy, moist and fat. Potatoes, corn, hand-rolled powder and other ingredients and cumin, shredded peppers, onions and other spices have drifted far away, making people drool.

5. Gluten noodles

Gluten noodle is the most common and unique home-cooked dish in Qinghai people's pasta, which is equivalent to pulled noodles in North China. After a long period of time, glutinous rice flour has become a popular and prestigious unique pasta, with diverse varieties and different tastes, whether in towns or rural areas.

6. The dog is peeing

Actually, this is a kind of pancake. Although it has an "indecent" name, it does not affect its popularity in the local area at all. You know, it is a well-known food. Affected by the geographical conditions and climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, wheat and highland barley are the main food crops in Qinghai. Therefore, the local people's diet is mainly pasta, and "dog watering urine" is one of them.