China is a country of food. Looking around China, every place has its own special food. Snacks in some places are well-known all over the world. There are some special snacks, which are unfamiliar to foreigners, but they are also special foods that locals love.

When you go to the snacks in Lanzhou, the first reaction of most people is Lanzhou Lamian Noodles. Lanzhou beef Lamian Noodles restaurant is booming in China, and Japanese people come to China for study and training and return to China to open beef noodle shops because Lanzhou beef Lamian Noodles is so delicious. Lanzhou Lamian Noodles is known as one of the three catering giants in China. But beef Lamian Noodles only knows a starting point of Lanzhou cuisine, but it is not the end. There is not only beef Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou, but this bowl of Lanzhou specialty snacks, which looks dark, is a specialty snack for nearly a hundred years. Do you know what it is?

Their name is "grey soybean". Although it is called grey soybean and looks black, this soybean is actually lentil. Clean the hemp lentils, boil them in water, and at the same time add Peng ash and cook them together until the soybeans are crisp and rotten. It is often necessary to add sugar and jujube to increase the taste. Is that kind of food familiar to you? Except that it is darker in color, it is similar to ordinary red bean stuffing and red bean paste. It is delicious and melts at the entrance. Warm grey soybeans can nourish the stomach, and cold grey soybeans can relieve summer heat. Both the elderly and children can eat it.

The unique feature of this snack lies in the addition of Peng ash, an alkaline substance obtained from nature, which makes the soybean crisp and rotten faster and deeper, thus achieving this unique taste. In Lamian Noodles, Lanzhou, and some pastry, we also prepared Peng Ash.

This bowl of grey soybean is a delicious snack with a history of hundreds of years, although its color is not very bright and its appearance is not very elegant. Outsiders may have never seen it before, but when you arrive in Lanzhou, you can find that there are super-delicious foods here. Lanzhou people like it better, and they can always hear Lanzhou friends proudly introduce this special snack to their friends in different places. If you have the opportunity to go to Lanzhou, you must try this kind of special food that Lanzhou people love to eat.

Do you know what this bowl of "black paste" that Lanzhou people like to eat means now? There are some snacks in Lanzhou. Do you know any special food in Lanzhou?