The desert also produces a crop: sand onion, thin, fine like leeks, the flavor is slightly different from our small onions, not pungent, and delicate.
Another example is sand rice noodles. The raw material comes from the seeds of a plant called "sapong". This plant is drought-resistant, grows in the desert, waiting for the time of maturity, take a cloth sheet spread on the ground, grab the sand poncho, upside down and hit and shake, the sand rice shake in the cloth sheet, very similar to the feeling of playing sesame seeds. Take home the sand rice after drying, grinding skin, soaked in water for one or two hours, waiting for sand rice soft, together a handful of polished straw laid on the board, sand rice poured on the straw, with the hands and rubbed and kneaded, and then kneaded sand rice paddle through a fine sieve filtration, pouring the pot to boil, and then cooled, sand rice paddle will solidify into a block. Finally, cut into thin strips or small pieces, pour a little sesame oil, chili oil and other seasonings, with a little cilantro, eat a kind of jelly-like flavor.
Northwest people are good at eating, very good at eating, if in Wuwei's specialties in the food to find a unique to Wuwei, when the three sets of cars.
Three sets of cars, in fact, is a cup of tea, a plate of meat, a bowl of noodles in general. Tea, mainly composed of jujube and porcupine tea, plus some wolfberry, rose, cinnamon, etc., drink, with a little icing sugar, and complementary and delicious; meat, can be pork, beef or donkey meat, etc., outsiders in the eyes of the brisket by the Northwesterners called bacon, meat, fragrant and not greasy, the whole plate; noodles, can be thick or thin, when there are guests, the noodles cooked, and then poured with a variety of mushrooms, vegetables for the marinade. The reason why it is called the three sets of cars, because tea, meat, noodles belong to three different stalls, do tea single do tea, do meat single do meat, do noodles single do noodles, three have no interest. But the tea can be added after the tea, the noodles of the marinade want to add can also be added, are free of charge. Because in ancient times, do the noodles, do the tea, do the meat will push the car in a piece of business, and therefore is called three sets of cars. Three sets of car tea, meat, noodles are indispensable.