As an important node city for cultural exchanges between the East and the West, Dunhuang has embraced all kinds of food from the East and the West with its broad mind. It not only brings together various food varieties from the East, West, South, and North, but also absorbs various food concepts and

Food etiquette has become a "living specimen" of Chinese food civilization.

Dunhuang Hotel is a time-honored four-star hotel in Dunhuang with a history of 30 years. It is called the "State Guesthouse" of Dunhuang. Its status and image can be imagined.

In the past few decades, it has successfully received hundreds of Chinese and foreign dignitaries and celebrities.

The elegant and unique architectural style and high-quality and diverse services have left guests with unforgettable memories.

In particular, the food at Dunhuang Hotel is famous far and wide for its delicious flavor.

The most famous thing about Dunhuang Hotel is the "Dunhuang Banquet", which is based on the records of Dunhuang murals and Dunhuang posthumous documents, and based on the extensive absorption of local folk snack characteristics and the unremitting efforts of three generations of local famous chefs.

In order to produce a variety of pure delicacies in the "Dunhuang Banquet", the chefs mostly use local ingredients. Scenic sites, historical allusions, folklore, and medicinal foods have also become important elements of the ingredients, which are reflected in every aspect of the meals.

On the details.

Zhang Kefa, a master of Chinese cooking and general manager of Dunhuang Hotel, said, "I think Dunhuang cuisine is like one's own children. From the time she is conceived, to the time she is born, she stumbles until she becomes tall and becomes a talented person. This requires attention, training, and development.

, excavation and innovation. So far, Dunhuang cuisine has been developed for 40 years. We have received many foreign heads of state and dozens of Chinese party and state leaders. We feel very honored. It is not ourselves who are honored, but the two "Dunhuang" people.

"The Dunhuang Banquet shows outsiders not only a variety of delicacies, but also a concentrated display of Dunhuang culture and the spirit of Dunhuang people.

In 2002, Dunhuang Hotel represented the catering industry in Gansu Province and participated in the third Chinese Food Festival held by the China Hotel Association in Hangzhou. The three banquets of "Dunhuang Banquet", "Dunhuang Music and Dance Banquet" and "Dream Dunhuang Banquet" made their debut nationwide.

It became a blockbuster. It conquered the Chinese food industry with its new creativity, exquisite skills, exquisite singing and dancing, unique regional characteristics and rich cultural heritage. It won the highest award at the National Food Festival, the "Golden Tripod Award" and the "Chinese Famous Food Festival".

20 awards including "Banquet", "Gold Award for Chinese Famous Dishes" and "Gold Award for Chinese Famous Dishes".

The achievement of these honors is by no means the work of one person, nor is it a one-time achievement. It is the result of hundreds of years of hard work and wisdom of the older generation of Dunhuang chefs, and the culmination of more than 40 years of hard work by three generations of Dunhuang Hotel staff.

In midsummer in Dunhuang, under the Mingsha Mountain after the rain, the Gobi and desert closely surround a charming oasis.

The air after the rain exudes a rare coolness, sweeping away the unbearable summer heat in Dunhuang.

Coming from the city to the countryside, in a green cornfield that was about to mature, Zhang Kefa walked slowly, with a little calmness in his calm eyes, and he still continued the secret in his earthen jar.

He was looking for an introduction to a delicacy—a type of sweet corn.

Only at the foot of Mingsha Mountain, the large temperature difference between day and night prompts sweet corn to mature early in summer and become the best local food.

In order to ensure the quality of the ingredients, the newly picked sweet corn must enter the production process quickly to ensure the purity of nutrition and taste.

Zhang Kefa is making a delicacy called pulp noodles.

Use an earthen pot to collect fresh noodle soup, add an appropriate amount of ginger, celery, pepper and other seasonings into it. Under the action of microorganisms, it will naturally ferment for three to five days, and it will become a sour and delicious food that can be directly

For drinking, it can also be prepared with sesame oil and cauliflower, and eaten below. It is a delicious local delicacy to relieve summer heat.

Dunhuang people have a long history of preferring pasta. There are precise written records of many varieties of pasta, including glutinous rice noodles, which can be traced back to the Sui and Tang Dynasties 1,600 years ago.

From the Dunhuang murals to various documents unearthed from the Buddhist Scripture Cave, there are abundant pictures and records about food.

Therefore, Dunhuang people have a deep historical origin in the traditional customs of being particular about eating and advocating delicious food.

Zhang Kefa’s earthen jars also contain rich connotations of food culture.

In order to make the traditional pulp noodles have the natural aroma of grain, he added freshly picked sweet corn to it. This time Zhang Kefa achieved great success.

A week later, the new guests who checked into the hotel began to be enthused by the dozen or so exquisite dishes at the "Dunhuang Banquet", but in the end, Zhang Kefa's bowl of syrup whetted their appetites.

Among the 45,000 square meters of murals in the 492 grottoes in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, there are dozens of murals that vividly display many types of food that we can hardly imagine today.

There are also documents unearthed from the Dunhuang Sutra Cave, which also record a lot of information related to Dunhuang people's diet. These materials are recorded in detail from the names of raw materials to the production methods, from the amount of food to the number of people dining, etc. Every aspect of it is recorded

The research results have attracted the attention of the world.

Gao Qian, professor and director of the Dunhuang Business Culture Institute of Lanzhou Business School, said: “Dunhuang food culture has its unique status in the entire pattern of Chinese food civilization.