Zhangjiakou's specialty foods include sesame sauce sesame seed cake, oat noodle, bacon spring cake, mung bean cake, braised pork and yellow cake.
1. Sesame sauce sesame seed cake
The people love it early, and they will leave fragrance in one bite. The necessary staple food after mutton hotpot and hot pot can be eaten layer by layer. First, the sesame seeds are eaten up, and then there is mustard tuber.
2. Youmian
There are many ways to eat Youmian in Zhangjiakou, such as Youmian Wowo, Youmian Fish, Cold Youmian, Fried Youmian, and Youmian Wowo should be mixed with all kinds of boiled vegetables or dipped in mutton soup.
3. Bacon Spring Cake
Slice the bacon, closely slice the cucumber, shred the onion, put a bowl of sweet noodle sauce on it, add a thin spring cake and roll it to eat.
4. Mung bean jelly
The most common ways to eat mung bean jelly are fried leek jelly, fried leek jelly and crispy jelly. Zhangjiakou people especially like to eat crispy jelly, which is fried and cooked out of the pot.
5. Hand-braised pork
Commonly known as "hand-braised pork", it is a very distinctive food in Zhangjiakou area, and was once a famous dish of the Qing palace and court. Because the left hand holds the meat and the right hand holds the knife when eating, it is named "holding the meat with the hand".
6. Yellow cake
A delicious cake is one of the famous snacks in Yangyuan County, Zhangjiakou City. This snack is made by peeling millet, grinding it into flour and frying it as the main raw material. It is golden and attractive in color and delicious in taste.