Xining Food Street 1, Mojia Street and Shuijing Lane are the old food streets in Xining, and they are the two streets you must visit when you come to Xining. Mojia Street and Shuijing Lane are the food concentration areas in Xining, where there are all kinds of mutton, yogurt, stuffed skin, noodles and noodles. In the 2-mile-long Water Mirror Lane, ethnic specialties, custom snacks and ethnic products are dazzling, as well as local snacks and dry goods on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. (Train station-Mojia Street Didi taxi is about 8 yuan, and train station-Shuijing Lane Didi taxi is about 10 yuan. You can take the airport bus directly and get off at the central square and walk. )
2. Qian Xin International Plaza, near the railway station. Nile Food City on the 5th floor of Qian Xin International Plaza and Qian Xin Night Market on the 5th floor of Qian Xin International Plaza 1 have nearly a thousand kinds of food, including various popular snacks. Here, there are famous international catering enterprises, as well as Muslim restaurants, local specialties, authentic snacks, ethnic customs, Qinghai-Tibet cuisine and so on. It is a collection of ethnic catering with the ecological and cultural characteristics of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is simply a paradise for eating goods! ! ! (Railway Station-Qian Xin International Plaza is within walking distance. You can take the airport bus-railway station when you leave the airport.
Just walking)
3. Xia Nanguan Market is adjacent to Xining Dongguan Mosque. The whole street is famous both inside and outside the province for gathering Anhui cuisine. This is an old street with a history of 100 years. From stuffed skin, yogurt and lamb chops, to zongzi and candied fruit, the long streets are colorful and dazzling. (Railway Station-Xian 'anguan Market Didi taxi about 7 yuan)
Special food finger food mutton
Qinghai produces10.3 million tons of beef and mutton every year. Beef and mutton is one of the staple foods of Xining people. Because it is eaten directly by hand, with cumin and spicy powder (locals usually eat it with garlic, and the taste will really become twice as delicious. You can try bravely! It is fragrant but not greasy, and the meat is tender, which is different from the mutton in the inland plain. It is a delicious food that you have to taste when you come to Xining, Qinghai.
Handmade yogurt
Qinghai yogurt is a must-eat food when you come to Xining. It is different from the yogurt we often eat. The yogurt here has a thin milk skin and is eaten with a spoon. Like eating tofu brain, eat it piece by piece, and the milk smell is particularly strong. After eating it, it can really make you realize what it means to keep your lips and teeth fragrant.
Lamb Kebabs
Perhaps Xining kebabs are not as famous as Xinjiang kebabs. Xinjiang kebabs include spicy noodles, cumin and salt, just these three things, but each kebab in Xining will have an extra soup, which contains more than ten kinds of ingredients. By the fire in front of the restaurant, the young man is holding a kebab. Fresh mutton is cut into thumb-sized slices, strung on iron skewers, and dipped in soy sauce, salt and Jiang Mo. Bake it in a special rectangular oven with fire. Brush seasoning at any time. When it is almost cooked, the mutton will smell fragrant and fragrant. When it is baked on both sides, it is the best time for the meat to be tender and fragrant.
Tu hotpot
The "pot bottom" of local hot pot in Qinghai is generally made of mutton soup with a little sauerkraut, which is spicy and delicious, 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.
A remarkable feature of Qinghai earthen chafing dish is that it has been using traditional copper chafing dish and charcoal as fuel since the appearance of the Western Han Dynasty, which makes the chafing dish heated evenly and tastes natural.
Ga noodles
Then cook it, then add mutton foam and vegetables, or make it into fried noodles, or make it into clear soup noodles, which is one of the staple foods that every household in Xining must eat.