Xining City, the capital of Qinghai Province, is the first big city in Qinghai Province, with a favorable geographical location, bringing together different cuisines from all over the world, and many cuisines of the Northwest are concentrated here. Xining's specialties include hand-held mutton, handmade yogurt, mutton kebabs, clay hot pots, and ga noodle slices.
Xining Food Street1, Mojia Street, Shui Jing Lane, which is Xining's old food street, come to Xining must come to the place is the two streets, Mojia Street, Shui Jing Lane is the food concentration area in Xining, Qinghai's mutton, yogurt, stuffed skin, noodle slices, scratching the noodles and so on have everything. Shui Jing Lane of ethnic specialties, snacks, ethnic supplies, a wide range of flavors, as well as snacks from all over the Tibetan Plateau specialties and dry goods, all in the two-mile-long Shui Jing Lane competing style. (Train station - Mojia Street drop taxi about 8 yuan, train station - Shui Jing Lane drop taxi about 10 yuan, the airport can take the airport bus directly from the airport - the center of the square get off and walk)
2, the new thousand international plaza, the distance from the train station is very close to the new thousand International Plaza on the fifth floor of the Nile Food City and the negative one floor of the new thousand night market, there are nearly a thousand kinds of food, including all kinds of popular snacks, here, there are international catering famous enterprises, but also halal restaurants, local specialties, local snacks, ethnic flavors, Qinghai-Tibetan cuisine and other catering, convergence of the Tibetan Plateau ecological and cultural characteristics of the ethnic catering Daquan, is simply the paradise of the foodies ah!!!!!. (Train station - new thousand international square on foot, the airport departure can take the airport bus - train station
walking)
3, the lower South Pass market is adjacent to the Xining Dongguan mosque, the whole street is famous for the gathering of Hui flavor food both inside and outside of the province, with a hundred years of history of an old street. From the Qinghai people's special snacks stuffed skin, yogurt, sheep rafts to dumplings, sweet grains, colorful, filling the long street, a wide range of. (Train station-Xiaonanguan market drop taxi about 7 yuan)
SpecialtiesHand-grasped mutton
Qinghai produces 130,000 tons of beef and mutton every year, and beef and mutton is one of the staple foods of Xining people, as it is eaten directly with the hands, with cumin, spicy powder (Locals usually also eat with garlic, the taste will really become double delicious, you can bravely try it yo!) The aroma is not greasy, the meat is tender and not stinky, different from the taste of lamb in the mainland plains, is to come to Xining, Qinghai have to taste the food
Handmade Yogurt
Qinghai's yogurt is a must-eat food to come to Xining, and the yogurt we often eat is not the same as the yogurt, the yogurt has a layer of thin milk skin.
Lamb kebabs
Perhaps Xining kebabs are not as famous as Xinjiang kebabs, which have spicy noodles, cumin, and salt, but every kebab in Xining has an extra broth with more than a dozen kinds of ingredients, and the guy in front of the restaurant's stove is holding a big handful of lamb kebabs, which is freshly cut into thin slices, and skewered on a string. Fresh mutton is cut into thin slices of thumb, skewered through the iron skewer, dipped in soy sauce, salt, ginger powder, chili powder, pepper powder and other condiments prepared by the seasoning solution, put into the special rectangular grill on the fire grill, brush and wipe the seasoning at any time, almost baked when the mutton percolates out of the bared flavor of the meat oil flavor, and so baked to both sides of the charred flavor of the meat is tender and flavorful at the best time, the fragrance of the overflowing!
Earth hot pot
Qinghai earth hot pot "pot base" is generally made of mutton broth with a little pickled vegetables, the taste of the heavy spices, do not add red oil and too many seasonings, broth color is clear, the taste of the natural and mellow; taste! A bite, the freshness of the lamb and the crispness of the pickled cabbage, a perfect combination of teeth and cheeks, but never fat and greasy feeling.
One of the distinctive features of Qinghai clay hot pot is that it has been using the traditional copper hot pot from the Western Han Dynasty to the present day, and charcoal is used as the fuel to make the hot pot evenly heated and with a natural flavor.
Ga Noodle Slices
And a piece of noodle, rolled into a sheet of noodle, pull the sheet of noodle into the size of a fingernail cover, the sheet of noodle cooked, and then with mutton foam and vegetables, or made into a stir-fried sheet of noodle, but also made into a clear broth of sheet of noodle, is one of the staples that every household in Xining must eat.