Ten Special Cuisine in Datong, Shanxi Province

1. Sipa Gu Er is a famous local food in Datong, which is made by mixing mashed potatoes and oat flour with water. When eating, prepare salt, chopped green onion, pepper and coriander according to personal preference, or eat with pickles. It tastes smooth and delicious.

2. Datong grilled pork strips is a traditional local dish, belonging to the Jin cuisine. The main ingredient is pork belly. The cooking process is very complicated, usually it is boiled first, then fried and finally steamed. It is also an indispensable hard dish for the local New Year.

3. The northern part of Shanxi Province is rich in ground vegetables, also known as auricularia auricula, lichen and auricularia auricula. Locals generally use them as stuffing, and the filled cakes made of ground vegetables are crispy and delicious, brightly colored, very delicious and nutritious.

4. Mutton in Datong Sour Soup is a traditional local dish. Datong is rich in mutton, and the mutton in this restaurant is famous all over the country because of its delicious taste, tender meat, fresh quality and beautiful appearance. This soup dish is made of mutton and sauerkraut made in Datong, which is very distinctive. You must try it when you come.

5. Roasted lamb chop in Datong is a very famous local dish, and it is also a famous dish for entertaining guests in Datong. Its characteristics: beautiful color, fragrant meat, burnt outside, tender inside, dry and crisp but not greasy, very delicious.

6. Yanggao Fried Cake, also known as Hi Cake, is eaten on important occasions such as Chinese New Year, wedding and birthday. It is steamed and fried in yellow wheat, and the cake stuffing is made according to personal taste, including bean paste, jujube paste, pith oil, sauerkraut and minced meat. There are many shapes of oil cakes, and their characteristics are: soft and delicious, and the more you eat, the more fragrant you are.

7. Yanggao bean jelly is rich in yam, which is not only eaten directly by local people, but also processed into vermicelli and bean jelly. In Yanggao, bean jelly is available all the year round. It is mainly seasoned with salt soup, soy sauce, Chili oil, vinegar, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, mustard and chopped green onion, with shredded cucumber, shredded radish, coriander and dried bean curd. It tastes cool and delicious, and has good color, flavor and taste.

8. Yanggao Mutton Miscellaneous Soup is one of the local traditional famous foods. The history of local people eating mutton offal soup can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The practice of Yanggao Mutton Miscellaneous Soup: Wash sheep's head, sheep's hoof, sheep's heart, sheep's liver, sheep's lungs, sheep's intestines and sheep's blood, cook and chop them up, add seasonings such as onion, garlic, ginger, pepper and salt to make soup, and then add yam vermicelli, a local specialty, to the Mutton Miscellaneous Soup. Its characteristics: vermicelli tastes stiff and shaky, and mutton offal tastes spicy and fragrant, which is very delicious.

9. Yanggao glass jiaozi glass jiaozi is a unique folk food in Yanggao. Because its skin is transparent or translucent like glass, people can see the stuffing inside, so people call it glass jiaozi. The raw materials for making glass dumpling wrappers are oat flour and yam. Glass dumplings are usually stuffed with mutton and shredded white radish. Add pepper, monosodium glutamate, green onions, sesame oil and other condiments, and jiaozi will knead them and steam them in a cage. They are very delicious and distinctive.

1. The smoked chicken in Lingqiu is very famous in the local area. It is called one of the four famous smoked chickens in Shanxi. Legend has it that it began in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 1 years. The traditional smoked chicken in Lingqiu is very popular with the local people. The smoked chicken here has four characteristics: "fragrance, rotten, color and taste".