Top Ten Cuisines of Shanxi

1, knife-shaved noodles

The local specialties of Datong City, Shanxi Province, traditional food, originated in the Yuan Dynasty, is the most famous and influential noodle dishes in Shanxi Province, due to the unique flavor, famous at home and abroad. Because the knife-shaved noodles are all based on the knife, hence the name, which is thick and thin, angular, smooth inside the entrance, soft and not sticky, the more you chew the more fragrant, popular with people who like to eat noodles, is well known as one of the most representative business cards of Shanxi cuisine.

2, oat tannins

Traditional cuisine in the alpine region of Shanxi, oat flour fine work of a noodle food, because of its shape like a "fence", folk called "tannins". In Datong City, Shanxi Province, Zuoyun County, Tianzhen County, Yanggao County is more popular. It is a delicate process, the perfect combination of beautiful molding and strong taste, it has become an authentic food, even the Kangxi Emperor pilgrimage to Mount Wutai, also to taste this for the pleasure of life.

3, pick tip

Shanxi noodles in a very representative of a cuisine, originated in Shanxi Yuncheng, Jinzhong and other places, also known as dial fish, pick dial stock. It is easy to make, has a smooth texture and is easy to digest, so it is popular among the public. Pick tip ends long and thin, the middle part of the slightly wide and thick, white, thin and smooth, soft and sinewy, poured with toppings, and then with flavored condiments, eating is very tasty.

4, dial rotten son

Shanxi, Hebei traditional pasta, also known as not rotten son, also called pills in some places, because not rotten son will be steamed when the ball into a ball shape. Bunshaozi is vegetables (such as potatoes, eggplants, bean curd, etc.) mixed into the flour or stick noodles, stirred evenly and steamed in a cage, very nutritious and delicious. Not rotten seeds are rich in starch, nutritional value is very rich, and can provide the body with the necessary energy.

5, haggis cut

Shanxi Huairen a local snack, Shanxi people eat miscellaneous cuts began in the Yuan Dynasty, miscellaneous cuts a mother of Kublai Lie given. Shanxi people love the sheep's heart, lungs, liver, intestines, blood and other clean, cooked and chopped, with pepper, chili, salt, garlic, onion, ginger and other ingredients, plus some boiled broth, made of "haggis cut", coupled with vermicelli to eat together, and now the development of Shanxi's folk cuisine.

6, Shanxi oil tea

Shanxi Jinzhong, a specialty food, with the role of spleen and stomach. The traditional practice is to fry the flour with butter or suet, and then add peanut kernels, batan wood, sesame seeds, walnuts, cumin, etc., when you drink it, you can add salt, can also add sugar, salty and sweet as you like, and its nutritious is the autumn and winter seasons to protect the intestines and stomach of the health of the best, but also the winter festival table must be "warm belly soup".

7, over oil meat

Shanxi's most famous traditional dishes, known as the "three jin a taste", Shanxi over oil meat from the selection of materials to the production of a strong Shanxi local characteristics, its color and lustre golden bright, taste salty smell of vinegar, the texture of the outside of the soft and tender, not thin, not thick, a little bit of bright oil. 10 September 2018 On September 10, 2018, "Chinese cuisine" officially released Shanxi oil meat was named Shanxi top ten classic dishes.

8, Dingxiang steamed meat

Shanxi Dingxiang Seibei a specialty food, according to legend for the local tribute to the court of tribute, and now is also one of the local folk feast essential dishes. Its ingredients are mainly lean pork-based, supplemented with starch, vegetable oil and various seasonings made of meat flavor, more food is not greasy, etc., often eaten to supplement the necessary nutrients, this dish can be eaten hot and cold, the taste is a masterpiece.

9, bowl of lumps

Liu Lin County, Shanxi Province, the traditional noodle snacks, with a history of nearly a thousand years. Invented by Shi Le in the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, bowl lumps can be eaten cold or hot. Bowls are made of buckwheat noodles kneaded together with water, heated and boiled into a porridge-like paste, and then cooled. It is served with vinegar, garlic, and secret oil chili peppers, and then cut open with a knife. Bowls of lumps of soft chewy, fragrant and delicious, never get tired of eating, often eat new.

10, wenxi flower bun

Shanxi wenxi county's traditional famous, a steamed noodle for young and old, is made of artificial surface of various styles of steamed bread, because of the various styles and named the flower bun. Its prevalence in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are "flower cake", "flower buns", "auspicious objects", "plate top" four series There are more than 200 varieties. It was listed as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2008, and was exhibited at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.