Lanzhou white melon, drunken melon, winter pear, soft pear, jujube, Anxi white melon, Tianshui Huaniu apple, Lanzhou black melon seeds and lily; Kangxian auricularia auricula, Minqin, Wuwei Nostoc flagelliforme, Longdong Town original day lily, fennel, Wenxian pepper, Lanzhou hookah; Chinese herbal medicines: wen county Codonopsis pilosula, Minxian Angelica sinensis, and spring rhubarb; The names of traditional handicrafts include Jiuquan luminous cup (Yuzhuo wine glass), Jiayuguan inkstone, Lintao inkstone, Tianshui carved lacquer, Huating Ankou ceramics, Lintao antique carpet, Lanzhou famous wool textile and so on. Gansu cuisine includes Dunhuang camel's paw, stewed whole sheep, Lanzhou roast suckling pig, layered beef patties, Longxi bacon, etc. Famous wines include Xiliang Daqu, Jinhui wine and Subei koumiss wine. Lanzhou is located in the southeast of Gansu, close to Xi 'an, and has been called "Jincheng" since ancient times. It has been built for about 500 years, and naturally its snacks have a long history. There are many kinds of flavor snacks in Lanzhou with unique tastes, most of which are pasta. In addition to the famous Lanzhou beef noodles, there are also major home-cooked snacks, such as stuffed skin, hot winter fruit, grey bean soup, fried noodles, noodles and noodles. In addition, flavor dishes made from Lanzhou specialty melons and other raw materials, such as lily peaches, stuffed white melons, carved melons with eight treasures in Jincheng, goldfish seaweed, camel's paw in snowy mountains, fried humps and stewed ducks with yellow flowers, are well known. There are many snack streets in Lanzhou. There are mainly Farmer Lane, Hezheng Road, Railway New Village Market, Square West Snack Street, Xiguan Cross, Xiaoxihu and so on. In the tourist season, the stalls in the snack street operate until late at night. Visitors can taste all kinds of snacks and fruits. Beef noodles, also known as clear soup beef Lamian Noodles, is the most famous flavor snack in Lanzhou, and is praised by local people as McDonald's in Lanzhou. Beef noodles began in Guangxu period, initiated by Ma Baozi, an old Hui man. They are famous at home and abroad for rotten meat, fresh soup and fine noodles, and they have penetrated all over the country. Lanzhou beef noodles have five characteristics: clear soup, white radish, red pepper, green coriander and Huang Wu. Noodles can be divided into wide, wide, thin, thin, capillary, leek leaves, bridge wheat rafters and other types according to their thickness. Noodles are hand-made in Lamian Noodles, and it takes less than two minutes to make a bowl of noodles, which has become an economical routine for Lanzhou people. There are beef noodle restaurants on every street, among which Jindinghe Fat Beef Noodle Restaurant on Pingliang Road, Mazilu Beef Noodle Restaurant on Wudu Road and Ethnic Restaurant on Zhangye Road are the most famous. Rot skin is common in all parts of Gansu, especially Linxia, which is famous for its fine production and best texture. When making stuffing skin, first make high-quality flour into dough, then add water and a little salt and alkali one after another, and constantly rub and wash it by hand. Pour the washed batter into a special "stuffed basket" and push it evenly. Put it in a cage and steam it for 3-4 minutes before taking it out. When eating, cut into strips and mix with mustard, garlic paste, sesame sauce, Chili oil, vinegar and sesame sauce. According to legend, the hot winter fruit is 1300 years ago, the mother of Kevin·Z, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, coughed due to illness, wanted to seek medical treatment, but was afraid of bitter medicine. Wei Zhi is very filial since he was a child and likes pears very much. He asked his servant to boil pear juice and ground herbs into a paste, which was sweet and mellow. Wei Mu recovered quickly after taking it. The hot winter fruit in Lanzhou originated from the legend that Wei Mu ate pear paste. Dongguo pear is a good fruit produced in Lanzhou, supplemented by boiled rock sugar, and pear is eaten in soup, adding sweetness in the sweetness. beauty beauty has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Grey beans and candied fruit are unique snacks in Lanzhou. The production methods used are similar, but the raw materials are different. Grey beans are cooked red beans, and sweet fermented grains are steamed barley. When the weather is getting hotter, the above two raw materials are mixed with sweet wine medicine and fermented for 3-4 days. The main feature is to clear away heat and relieve summer heat, and no sugar is needed at all. Glucose produced by fermentation can meet your nutritional needs. People who have never been to Lanzhou with serous surface do not know what "serous water" means. Slurry is also based on the principle of fermentation. The noodle soup cooked every day will turn sour in midsummer. Lanzhou people use a jar to store the leftover noodle soup every day, add celery leaves, ferment for one day and eat it the next day. Before eating, put the onion, ginger and garlic into a wok, add the cooked slurry water and boil. Slurry surface is conducive to clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. There are also many young people who bring raw slurry to drink, which also has the effect of dispelling summer heat. Three Fortresses Lanzhou has a long history of drinking tea, the most famous of which is Three Fortresses. Three-bubble table made of fine spring tea, longan, jujube, apricot and rock sugar is a must for Lanzhou people to watch a play, chat after dinner and relieve boredom after drinking. Brewing with a unique cover bowl, the first time is tea fragrance, the second time is sugar sweetness, and the third time is longan sweetness. It is normal for a bowl of tea to soak for 5 or 6 hours. Usually, after dinner, everyone sits together to have a cup of tea and chat, which makes them feel happy. The biggest feature of cold noodles in Lanzhou is that its thickened vegetarian soup contains all kinds of seasonal vegetables, and the application of cold seasonings such as mustard can especially arouse the appetite of anorexia patients in summer. Of course, the taste will definitely satisfy you. Because you eat on a plate, there are more spices and soup. You can drink it first when you eat to prevent it from spilling. In fact, cold noodles can also be eaten in winter, when vegetarian soup will get hot. It is said that some people who sell cold noodles have strange techniques and can make noodles that are not so fluffy to the extreme, which makes people think they are big plates. This is a matter of tight rations. Mala Tang Mala Tang is indeed a Sichuanese, and the name copyright should belong to his hometown. However, after arriving in Lanzhou ten years ago, do as the Romans do and develop into another look. It is said that Sichuan Mala Tang needs many people, such as a small table with a hole in the middle to put the soup pot and so on. And Lanzhou Mala Tang Tang Can just needs a bigger aluminum pot. Hot materials are even different. The most distinctive features of Lanzhou Mala Tang are wide noodles, potatoes and the like. Wide noodles are strips as wide as belts made of local starch in Lanzhou, and potatoes are also local specialties in Gansu. The loess plateau is short of water, and other crops are difficult to grow, but the quality of potatoes is good. After the wide powder is taken out of the pot, it becomes translucent and has the luster of pepper butter. Especially chewy, it is a good exercise to eat masticatory muscles. Judging from the fact that people often burn their tongues and get angry, their popularity can be seen. Slice the potatoes and cook them for a while. They will be slippery and taste like clouds. The soup-filled mutton buns in Lanzhou are very different from those in Xi. Let's talk about steamed buns first. Xi 'an is a dead flour cake, while Lanzhou is a local fermented flour cake. It uses a special fermentation process to keep the original flavor of flour, and it is delicious without any seasoning, especially with turmeric (a food pigment) and Sophora alopecuroides (a slightly bitter grass that is eaten after drying and grinding). If you put sauce meat in the middle, it will be better to pour some broth. The practice is also different. Xi 'an Paomo needs to be broken before cooking, while Lanzhou Paomo just cooks the soup and gives you meat, then gives you a big cake, and then you can do it yourself. You can cross your legs, or put the cake in the soup at once, or take a bite of the soup. The so-called noodles with noodles are usually sold together with beef noodles, and the noodles are naturally pulled out. It is characterized in that fried frozen tofu and various vegetarian dishes are used to thicken the original soup of beef noodles, which is slowly stewed and poured on the freshly cooked noodles, and then several large pieces of beef, garlic, coriander and Chili oil are added; Black melon seeds Lanzhou black melon seeds are known as "Lanzhou blockbusters" and are famous specialties in Lanzhou. It is famous for its large slice, thin skin, flat plate, loose mouth, thick meat, shiny black, meaningful taste and excellent quality. It is one of China's traditional export commodities. Black melon seeds can be processed into various types of melon seeds, such as spiced, creamy, salty, sweet and multi-flavored. It is also an ideal auxiliary material for making cakes, which not only has the effect of strengthening the brain and refreshing, but also can be fried and eaten. Black melon seeds are rich in nutrients such as protein, fat, vitamin B, D, etc. Regular consumption can prolong life. Among the many melon varieties in Lanzhou, white melon is the most prominent and famous. Melon likes a climate with high temperature and dryness, large temperature difference and long sunshine. The soil in Lanzhou area is mostly loose and deep slightly alkaline loess, and the sunshine is sufficient and strong, which is very beneficial to melon growth and sugar accumulation. At present, the annual planting area of Lanzhou white melon is about 8000 mu. Qingbaishi Township on the north bank of the Yellow River in Lanzhou is the most famous "hometown of white melons". The white melon produced here is one of Gansu's traditional export products, and it is rich in white melons around. Mature white melons are spherical, with even heads, each weighing1.5 ~ 2kg, yellow in the white, beautiful in color, storable, easy to carry, green in the mouth, thick and juicy in pulp, crisp and fragrant, full of sweetness, with an average sugar content of about 14% and a maximum of 65438. White melon is rich in vitamins, proteases, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. It is nutritious and has the functions of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, inducing diuresis to quench thirst and stimulating appetite. Whenever travelers from south to north pass through Lanzhou in hot summer, they will buy white melons for their families to taste or give to relatives and friends. People living in Lanzhou prefer to quench their thirst with white melons. Lanzhou white melons are not only supplied to the local market, but also sold to the whole country and Hong Kong, and exported to Southeast Asian countries, which has been in short supply. Lily, dried lily, Nostoc flagelliforme, day lily, garlic, fennel, black melon seeds, white melon seeds, bracken and other local products are famous agricultural and sideline local products in Lanzhou. There are angelica, codonopsis pilosula, astragalus, licorice, rhubarb, gastrodia elata, bezoar, cordyceps sinensis, wolfberry fruit and so on. In addition, the proprietary Chinese medicines Cunliuwei Dihuang Pill, Shiquan Dabu Pill, Danggui Extract Tablet and Eryidan from Lanzhou Foci Pharmaceutical Factory are also well received at home and abroad. The dog skin mattress made in Gansu has a good thick bottom and is a good product for wind and moisture prevention in humid areas. Tan two fur and Tan Lamb skin have always been famous local products, with white and soft fur, wavy bending from root to tip, light and shiny board. Black sheepskin is a specialty of Gansu. In addition, there are some precious furs for sale in Lanzhou, such as Gansu snow-swept fur, programmed fox fur, lynx fur, Sanbei lamb skin and otter skin. Wool textiles produced in Lanzhou have been welcomed all over the country for many years. Dozens of new varieties come out every year. The prestigious high-quality products include Jinmei brand polyester viscose tweed, Jinguo brand full wool navy blue tweed, Murray brand full wool melden, Xuelian brand pure wool uniform tweed, Wuquan brand melden, Peony brand pure wool jacquard blanket and so on.