Shanxi's delicacies include Daoxiao Noodles, oat noodle, picking tips, picking rotten seeds, haggis sheep, Shanxi oil tea, oily meat, Dingxiang steamed meat, bowl tray, Wenxi steamed buns, Xinzhou tile crisp, Guo mutton soup, Taiyuan brain, Qingxu enema and so on.

Shanxi, as the birthplace of Chinese civilization, not only has a profound cultural heritage, but also has created many special foods, and these local special foods in Shanxi are basically salty and vinegar-flavored.

Shanxi pasta has a long history, which can be tested for more than 2000 years. Noodles were called "boiled cakes" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "soup cakes" in Wei Jin, "water introduction" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and "cold scouring" in the Tang Dynasty. There are many kinds of pasta in Shanxi, the raw materials are wheat flour, sorghum flour, bean flour, buckwheat flour and oat flour, and the varieties are Daoxiao Noodles, Lamian Noodles, Gepei flour, Tuiwowo and enema. There are more than 280 kinds of recorded pasta.