Original title: Dongxiang taste rough and subtle

Quinoa porridge

Gaiwan tea

Twisted deep-fried noodle cake

In addition to the scenery, the food is also indispensable during the trip. Dongxiang Autonomous County in Linxia Prefecture is located in the hilly area of Loess Plateau, with high terrain in the middle and low terrain in the surroundings, in the shape of "convex", with the Yellow River, Taohe River and Daxia River flowing around the county, and with rich tourism resources such as high gorges and flat lakes, apricot orchard scenery, Danxia landforms, and cultural relics, etc., and Dongxiang gourmet food with specialties in the region is even more unavoidable.

1, free-range sheep, like a wandering cloud hanging between the mountain beams and mounts

In Lanzhou, the old street of the West Lake, alkali ditch along the Dongxiang hand grabbed the store, always heard a guest said: "to the master said to give a little, hand grabbed on the better."

The so-called "on the good some" nature has to pay attention to, one is the hand to hot up, hand tearing, a few bones can be demolished, eat in the mouth will be soft and fragrant, melt in the mouth; the second with mutton should be fat and thin proportionate, meat, red fat, white, no matter whether it is the ribs, or the back of the goat, it is too fat to eat, too thin is not good.

Their flavor is commendable, but I have a sneaking feeling that the chef must have fine-tuned it to suit Lanzhou tastes.

I've been to the Dongxiang Autonomous County, the origin of this cuisine, and several times at meals, I've eaten hand-held also cold, but the flavor is so delicious that it lingers in my memory.

This time there is an opportunity to go to Dongxiang, must carefully taste the difference.

Driving in the countryside of Dongxiang highway, from time to time, you can see the scattered sheep, like a drift drift cloud, hanging in the mountain beams and ditches between the mount. Dongxiang territory is dry and little rain, annual rainfall of only 300 millimeters or so, but there are more than 8,000 kinds of pasture, belonging to the arid grassland vegetation, grass to Ben's fescue, small white artemisia, cited fruit mustard, thyme-based, mixed with wild onions and garlic and other flavored grasses. Here the sheep in order to get enough food, can only day and night non-stop walking looking for pasture, special geographic environment so that the Dongxiang sheep meat fat and tender meat, meat fiber and delicate, rich in protein and a variety of trace elements, eat more lamb with warm kidney stomach, supplement the role of physical strength.

2. Congratulations on finding the right local best hand-held shop

In the local townships of Dongxiang, the signboards of hand-held stores are numerous and getting more and more dense. You don't need to inquire which store is the most famous, but where the entrance to the restaurant is full of cars, and the door is full of people, then congratulations, you have found the right local best hand-held store.

The hospitable host has already put a plate of sunflower seeds and a plate of dried apricots on the coffee table. Inside the plate of dried apricots, there are both large apricots and pitted apricots.

Received a piece of more folds of dried apricots, slightly sour taste, hard, chewy, this is a large apricot; and then tasted a piece of dried apricot kernel, smooth and almost transparent, sweet and sour in the mouth with toughness, the more you eat the more fragrant. Speaking, the blue and white porcelain tea bowl came up, the dried apricots in the tea, to drink the tea, before leaving to taste the dried apricots, and is another feeling. The host said, these dried apricots are all natural fresh apricots drying, without any additives, and the kind of candied processed dried apricots is a completely different matter.

It is said that there are three treasures in Tangwangchuan, Dongxiang, and the dried apricots made from sunflower seeds and apricots are two of them, so there is another treasure? The answer is in our Gai Bowl Tea, roasted big red dates.

Drinking Dongxiang Gai Bowl Tea is very delicate, the tea table tray with spring tips, rock sugar, cinnamon, chrysanthemums, jujubes, etc., the guests can according to their own tastes to pick a few kinds of into the tealight, and then poured into the boiling hot "peony water", cover the lid of the bowl, and then the left hand lifted the bowl chassis, the right hand clamped the lid of the bowl, the lid from the inside to the outside, shallow and deep, slowly scraping drink. Then, with your left hand, lift the bottom plate of the bowl and clip the lid with your right hand.

The aroma of tea comes to the nose, the tea is bright, vapor curls, drink up astringent in the bitter, bitter with sweet, sweet with sour, sour with incense, gently tasted and swallowed, a pure and rich tea instantly penetrate the internal organs.

Gai Bowl Tea should be drunk slowly, one sip at a time. While sipping, keep adding water until the sugar is gone.

3, Dongxiang hand grasping a wild Gansu flavor

Gai Bowl Tea quench the thirst of the other function, is to eat hand grasping fullness.

In a while, the hand grasping served on the table, is a boiled large pieces of meat, split into ribs, breast fork, sheep back, sheep neck and other parts, respectively, into the plate, the host said, this is a "series of hand grasping" of the plate.

The second is the "integrated version" of the plating method, that is, chopped into large pieces of meat to the chest fork, back of the child, etc., on the bottom, on the ribs. This is a layered, three-dimensional presentation that makes you salivate.

Grab a plate of ribs, tear off, dipped in salt, chili oil and vinegar, with fresh garlic cloves, a mouthful of meat, a mouthful of garlic, the meat is tender and soft, fragrant and delicious, no nasty taste, is called the meat of the best.

Dongxiang's hand grasp, after cooling also has its reason, good chewing, not rotten, meat root and root clear, fat and thin with the meat tight, eat up the full flavor.

People with a light taste can eat directly, people with a heavy taste, with new garlic, oil splash chili, fine salt, and even adjust a little vinegar to eat.

Some foreign tourists say, Gansu is a long and narrow, very different styles, only this hand grabbed mutton, from east to west, from north to south, the long and narrow Gansu united into a flavor, a wild taste of Gansu.

Dongxiang people will be able to carry forward the hand-meat mutton, made into a high gold content of the national cultural card, become a Chinese food garden in a strange flower, which is a good indication of its dietary cultural heritage.

4, hand grabbed + quinoa porridge + cover bowl tea, Dongxiang taste of light luxury with

This time and hand grabbed with the matching pasta, not the famous river along the noodle, but a big pot of quinoa porridge. As soon as it is served, the special aroma of the grain fills the air.

Once again, the host greeted us warmly, "Come and try our quinoa from Dongxiang!"

Dongxiang can also grow quinoa? The host said that in recent years, hard-working Dongxiang people have found their own way out of poverty - planting quinoa. The promotion of quinoa industry in Dongxiang is not all smooth sailing, embarrassed, quinoa and Dongxiang early growth of a local weed called "gray bar" almost exactly the same, but later quinoa ripe, many foreign tourists drove to take pictures of the locals only to find that quinoa's face value is extremely high.

The quinoa spikes are red, and from a distance, the whole field seems to be on fire, compared to the popularity of the past few years, such as powdered messy grass, vervain and other red grass, has become the new favorite of the girls. They have spared no effort to show themselves in the jittery fast hands, so that everyone is looking for, this red-colored plant in the end is where the immortal grass? Originally, quinoa originated in the Andes region of South America, is the traditional food of the Inca indigenous people, there are about 6,000 years of planting history. Even more dramatic is that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations that quinoa is a single plant, can basically meet the basic nutritional needs of the human body, officially recommended quinoa as the most suitable for human whole food.

It is from the distant South America across the ocean, first settled in Tibet, and then to the Hexi Corridor settled, and then to Dongxiang, high terrain, sufficient light, wind, Dongxiang is suitable for quinoa growth in a good place. When you take a sip of quinoa porridge, there is a fragrance similar to the nutty flavor, and the little germ on top is crunchy and chewy, and it feels a bit like sweet grains like fullness, with crispy deep-fried noodle cake in Dongxiang, which is very delicious.

Eating a piece of hand-held, drinking a spoonful of quinoa porridge, and taking a sip of gaiwan will make your trip to Dongxiang a perfect one.