In addition to their lifestyles and customs, the cities on the border also have their own characteristics in food. How many kinds of delicious foods have you eaten?

1. Haiyuan sand cake

Sand cake is a special food in the border areas of China and Vietnam, and it is a must-have delicacy during the Chinese New Year. It tastes soft, waxy and sweet. Before and after the Spring Festival every year, you can see sand cake stalls in the streets and lanes. People will choose sand cakes when buying new year's goods, and they often choose sand cakes as gifts when giving gifts.

the sand cakes in Haiyuan town enjoy a high reputation in many border areas, and local residents will definitely give priority to the sand cakes in Haiyuan town when buying sand cakes. The name sand cake comes from grinding glutinous rice into powder and putting it in a bag, and placing the bag on a flat sand pile to make it absorb water and become wet. This process is called sand cake.

second, Vietnamese rice noodles

Vietnamese rice noodles are also available in Guangxi, but in Jingxi city and Jingxi city of Baise, Vietnamese rice noodles are more authentic. Vietnamese powder is mainly made of rice noodles, pork bone soup, beef, brisket meat, fish, fried soybeans, sour bamboo shoots and other condiments.

Jingxi rice noodles are mainly eaten in soup powder, that is, a large bowl of soup is cooked in a large pot, the cooked rice noodles are fished into the soup, and then various ingredients are added. Powder can be cooked very soft and glutinous, or it can be cooked very hard. Jingxi rice noodles can be dipped in sour bamboo shoots, peanuts, Chili sauce, coriander and other ingredients to eat. Rice noodle soup is the essence of Vietnamese powder and the most delicious part.

On the street of Jingxi, there are many stalls selling Vietnamese powder on the roadside. In some stalls, freshly cooked rice noodles are strung with bamboo sticks. Customers can take the bamboo sticks off and eat them first. There are also different flavors of Vietnamese powder, such as fried powder, dry mixed powder or soup powder. Vietnamese noodle soup ingredients are also very particular. Apart from common meats such as beef and brisket, there are also seafood such as squid slices and shrimps. You can also add your favorite vegetables and meat to cook together.

3. Yanji bibimbap

The food you must eat when you go to Yanji naturally has a place for bibimbap. Among them, Quanzhou bibimbap is the most famous and classic bibimbap, with eggs, carrots, bean sprouts, zucchini, platycodon grandiflorum and minced meat as side dishes.

compared with the bibimbap we ate in the mainland, the bibimbap sauce here is less salty, so mixing it together will make the sweet taste of the vegetables more prominent, and we can eat the flavor of the vegetables themselves. Then poke the delicious eggs laid flat on it and mix them with rice. It tastes really delicious!

Fourth, Gannan Zaoba

Zaoba is a special snack in Xizang Autonomous Region and one of the traditional staple foods of Tibetan herdsmen.

"Zaoba" is the Tibetan transliteration of "fried noodles". When you are a guest in the home of a Tibetan compatriot, the host will definitely bring you fragrant milk tea and Zaoba, and the golden butter, milk yellow "qula" (casein) and sugar will be stacked all over the table. The fermented glutinous rice is flour ground after cleaning, drying and frying highland barley. When eating, it is evenly stirred with a small amount of butter tea, milk residue and sugar, and then kneaded into a ball by hand.

it is not only convenient to eat, rich in nutrition and high in calories, and it is very suitable for hunger and cold protection, but also convenient to carry and store. When Tibetans celebrate the Tibetan calendar year, every family will put an auspicious wooden bucket called "Bamboo Suoqima" on the Tibetan cabinet. The bucket is filled with highland barley, Zhuo Ma (ginseng fruit) and so on, and there are highland barley spikes, wheat spike flower schools and a colorful spleen painted with the patterns of the sun, moon and stars called "Zizhuo".

V. Dongxing Citronella fried chicken

Citronella fried chicken in dongxing city, Guangxi can be said to be the Bai Yueguang in the hearts of people who like to eat chicken. The crispy and crispy skin is fried dry and never drags water; The meat is fresh and tender, and there is no taste of inferior fried chicken powder at all, which can give you double surprises.

In addition, the flavor of citronella makes the fried chicken wrapped with a special fragrance of citronella. Compared with ordinary fried chicken, citronella fried chicken has more juice, and the flavor of citronella makes the fried chicken have its own Vietnamese flavor, which is worth a try.