The Ordos cuisine includes: mutton, Yellow River carp, sour braised vegetables, pork sausage, sour rice, red pickles, buckwheat noodles, deep-fried noodle cake in sheep's oil, sweetened sesame leaves, beef jerky, rice noodles, milk tofu, etc. The mutton is slaughtered locally with fat and tender meat, skinned and boiled in a pot with condiments. Lamb meat is made by selecting fat and tender sheep, slaughtering them on the spot, skinning them and putting them into the pot, putting in condiments and steaming them. Because of the clean hands after eating meat in one hand, one hand holding a knife, cutting, digging, picking, slicing, the meat on the bones of the sheep eaten clean, so the name of the "hand handle mutton".

Sour chowder

The main ingredients of sour chowder are lamb, sauerkraut, and the ingredients are vermicelli, green onion, ginger, garlic, and fennel. Cook the lamb with seasoning and slice it, then fry the onion, ginger, garlic and chili pepper and pour in the lamb broth to boil, add vermicelli, potatoes, etc. to cook, and then add the lamb slices to boil.

Sour rice

The main ingredients of sour rice are salted meat, rice, and the ingredients are sauerkraut. Salted meat sliced and washed, sauerkraut shredded, rice washed and poured into the rice cooker, salted meat and sauerkraut stir-fried with a little simmering water poured into the domestic, it will be cooked.

Red pickles

Red pickles are food with Mongolian nomadic characteristics, red pickles are very salty, dry, soaked can eat, eat especially chewy.

Sheep oil noodle cakes

Sheep oil noodle cakes are made of white flour, oil and sugar. Put oil, sugar and water into a certain amount of white flour and mix it up. Put the molten noodle into a small noodle dosage, roll it into a long thin strip, fold it several times, and put it into a hot sheep oil pot for deep-frying. When eating, break the noodle cake into pieces, soak it in milk tea, and eat it in your mouth, which is crispy and sweet, with a unique flavor.