Taigu smoked pigeon is a traditional dish of Han nationality in Taigu County, Shanxi Province. The smoked pigeon with golden red color, rich smoked flavor, mellow entrance and rich nutrition served on the table, which made people salivate. Before marinating, blanch the pigeons with boiling water, then put the blanched pigeons into a marinating pot, and add spices and drugs such as pepper, aniseed, fennel, Amomum villosum, cardamom, ginger, onion and salt. After boiling, simmer over low heat. Pigeons are basically cooked when they are pickled enough to be penetrated with chopsticks. After taking out, put the pigeons into a fumigation tube, ignite the fumigation pot with willow sawdust and cypress sawdust, and then ignite the fumigation pot. When smoking, buckle the casserole on it until it is golden red.

2, Jinzhong snacks sweet buckwheat noodles bean jelly

Sweet buckwheat noodles bean jelly, often eaten in Shouyang area, is one of the cold noodles with summer flavor.

3. Jinzhong snack Pingyao beef

Pingyao beef is one of the quintessences of China food culture, which is profound and has a long history. In the ancient Han Dynasty, there was a description of beef processing that "selling knives to buy calves and selling blades to buy cows is handy", and Pingyao beef with unique flavor and long reputation was exported to Asian countries as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the late Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi passed Pingyao. After she tasted Pingyao beef, she smelled its fragrance, mentioned its spirit, tasted its taste and solved its difficulties.

Pingyao beef has a unique traditional production technology, from the operation procedures and methods of slaughtering raw cattle, cutting raw meat, pickling and boiling, to the use of salt and water and even the solar terms and seasons of processing. The beef is ruddy in color, fresh and tender in meat, fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood, mellow and delicious, rich in nutrition, and has the effects of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen.

4, Jinzhong snacks oil noodles

Oil noodles are a traditional food in Taigu county. It looks like steamed bread and is made of fried bread. Crispy outside and soft inside, sweet and delicious.

5, Jinzhong snack oil cake

Oil cake is a kind of food fried with yellow rice (that is, soft millet flour) and filled with sugar or jujube paste and red bean paste. Golden color, tender outside and soft inside, sweet and delicious. There are many kinds of oil cakes in Jinzhong area. Due to different production methods, there are cloud cakes, jujube cakes (also known as cut cakes) and raw pancakes. Because of the different raw materials used, it is also called glutinous rice cake and vegetable cake; Because of the homonym of "cake" and "cake", people often eat it on New Year's Day or weddings, children's full moons, birthdays, old people's birthdays, and building houses, so they are also called rice cakes and wedding cakes.

6, Jinzhong snacks Taikoo cake

Taigu cake is a traditional famous food in Shanxi province, named after it is produced in Taigu County. Taigu cake, which began in Qing Dynasty, is sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, and delicious. It is famous all over the country for its fragrance, crispness, softness but not greasy, and enjoys the reputation of "king of cakes".