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Gansu on the tip of your tongue, here meets all your imagination of northwest cuisine!

The exclusive taste in memory is the treasure of every foodie.

Gansu is an important town in the northwest, with unlimited food.

Food from mountains, grasslands and rivers.

In the hands of local people

Embodies the unforgettable "unforgettable taste"

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Longnan potato jiaotuan

Potato jiaozi is a famous snack in Longnan, Gansu. The most common way is to stir corn flour into sticky mashed potatoes with a wooden hammer.

Take out mashed potatoes, add sauerkraut or vinegar, and decorate with green garlic sprouts, leeks or green peppers. The scenery in this bowl will be different soon. When the potato is stirred at the entrance, you can instantly feel the delicious and smooth taste of the potato between the lips and teeth, and the unique taste brought by the seasoning.

Gangu crisp circle

Gangu crispy doughnut has the advantages of golden color, crisp cotton, oily but not greasy, long shelf life and so on. It is said that doughnuts were invented by a chef named Li in Jiangjiazhuang, Elephant Town in Qing Dynasty. After being passed down by everbright, its reputation gradually rose.

Liangzhou niangpi

Wuwei Nianpi is characterized by rich flavor, and Huang Liang is crystal clear, translucent and jade-like, showing a long strip shape. Adding seasonings such as soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, garlic juice, Chili oil and refined salt is the best food to relieve summer heat.

One of the highlights of Wuwei Nianpi is the vinegar juice poured inside, which is also commonly known as "paste vinegar" by Wuwei people. This kind of vinegar is made of flour, vinegar and secret spices. This vinegar juice is different from ordinary light vinegar. It tastes sour and has a stronger aftertaste.

Hexi mutton rolls

There is a special dish in Hexi area called mutton pad paper, which is very famous in Jinchang area. This dish skillfully combines delicious mutton with rich pasta, rich in nutrition and excellent in taste.

People often say that people in the northwest are simple, which can be fully reflected in the food that greets guests. Locals choose this sumptuous dish to entertain guests from afar, hoping that everyone who comes to the northwest can feel the enthusiasm and freedom behind the food.

Jiuquan protects the country

A large pot of fragrant chicken soup is rolled up, and the broad bean powder juice is put into paste. Then add the special ingredients made of broad bean powder, such as vermicelli, shredded chicken and sliced meat, break the fried big twist into petals and put them into thick soup to emphasize the spicy taste of ginger and pepper. This delicious and fragrant paste pot is Jiuquan people's favorite breakfast.

Jiayuguan barbecue

When you come to Jiayuguan, the food you can't miss is barbecue. Different from other places in Gansu, Jiayuguan roast mutton is unique. Someone once joked that the roast mutton here is a gift from nature, and it is a miracle in itself to drink the snow water in Qilian Mountain and eat the Chinese herbal sheep in the Gobi Desert. Indeed, the beef and mutton here are delicious, tender and without any fishy smell, which is very popular with everyone.

Jingning red-cooked chicken

Jingning roast chicken with a history of nearly 100 years of processing and marinating. Jingning roast chicken is a traditional famous food in Jingning. People often describe Jingning roast chicken like this: the smell is thousands of miles away, and the taste comes from chicken. Jingning roast chicken is big and tender, delicious and fragrant, and has a unique flavor. The cooking of this dish is very particular, with all kinds of ingredients and salty gravy. Only after the time test of slow stewing can this delicious table food be popularized.

Qingyang noodles

Qingyang noodles, also called bed noodles, are cooked in a pot, fished out and filtered with clear water to make the noodles rich in flavor. Pour some soup prepared in advance on the noodles, and the noodles "swim" in the soup, smooth and clear. There are also various side dishes with refreshing noodles.

Linxia finger food mutton

Hand-grabbed mutton, as the most representative famous food in Linxia area, has tender meat, overflowing aroma and endless aftertaste. "Han Chipi Tiemutton" was once a tribute of the imperial court. In Linxia, there is a saying that "don't catch, don't sit down". Different from other methods of fine slow stewing meat, the practice and eating habits of grabbing mutton by hand reflect the bold and unrestrained atmosphere of northwest ethnic groups.

Gannan cangbao

The ingredients and flavor of Tibetan bags are unique, because they are close to grassland customs. The earliest Tibetan steamed buns were steamed with local specialty highland barley flour as the skin and beef and mutton as the stuffing. Nowadays, Gannan Tibetan buns are mostly white flour with mutton as the main stuffing. Gannan Tibetan bag has the characteristics of thin and translucent skin and delicious stuffing.

Tianshui

There are many varieties of Tianshui quack, among which buckwheat quack and flour quack are common. The seasonings used in Tianshui Guagua are Chili oil, soy sauce, salt, vinegar and mashed garlic. It is sour and spicy, and immediately after eating it, I got a sentence: "enjoyable." Quack flavor represents the typical diet style of northwest people, which is different from the delicate and light diet in Jiangnan. The taste here is more prominent and refreshing. Tianshui quack can be a local breakfast or a wonderful dish.

Lanzhou beef noodles

Speaking of Gansu cuisine, Lanzhou beef noodles always cross there like a food threshold, so that you can't enter the door of Gansu cuisine without eating a bowl of beef noodles.

Some people say that Lanzhou people start their morning with a bowl of beef noodles. At eight or nine o'clock in the morning in Lanzhou, the sun is not so strong. If you ride across the street, the place where you can see the most people is the beef noodle restaurant.

Qingyang tunuanguo

Qingyang warm pot is actually a pot of stewed vegetables, but after special utensils (preferably casserole warm pot) and charcoal fire heating, there will be a natural food flavor. Generally, people usually eat warm pots during the Spring Festival. Or for family members to enjoy, or as a kind of entertainment.

Pingliang guokui

Pingliang Guokui, the city is on the Silk Road, and merchants laugh from south to north. In the eyes of regional flavor, Pingliang Guokui has a high reputation, with a diameter of more than five feet, a thickness of five inches and a weight of five kilograms of wheat fragrance. Giving gifts to relatives and friends is a good product, and everyone says it is good after eating.

Donkey meat yellow noodles

Yellow noodles with donkey meat is a famous dish in Dunhuang, which is called the first in China. The yellow face of Dunhuang is as thin as a dragon beard and as long as a gold thread. They are elastic and tense, and taste delicious when mixed with soup or vegetables.

Water sludge

Noodle is probably a meal that Gansu people can cook, and it is easy to preserve after it is made. In summer, just cook the noodles, then scoop out the soup and pour it on them. Therefore, this kind of paste noodles can be said to be the most convenient summer diet in rural areas of Gansu.

The pulp is made of Chinese cabbage, celery, bitter vegetables, radishes, potatoes and bean sprouts. There are other raw materials, which are the same according to tastes and habits, and can also be made in combination. After scalding in boiling water, it is fermented with yeast, in which celery pulp is the top grade. In the south of Shaanxi province, the vegetable that specializes in making slurry water-slurry water dish, also called spicy dish. The surface of pulp is rich in nutrition, which can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. If you cook the paste with peppers and onions, and add Lamian Noodles or handmade noodles, it will become a bowl of authentic paste noodles.

Grey beans

The most famous grey bean in Lanzhou is very good. After taking the first bite, I felt a little burnt, but it was not sweet, rustling, continuous and very strong. Eat cold in summer and hot in winter. No matter when you go, the taste is still the same.

Sweet embryo

Sweet preserves are mainly highland barley, as well as naked oats and wheat. The characteristics of sweet preserves are mellow, cool and sweet. You can eat it dry in summer or soak it in water to refresh your mind and eliminate fatigue. Keep fit in winter, warm the stomach and increase appetite. A cup of sweet embryo milk tea also makes it famous.

Jingyuan lamb

Jingyuan mutton has the effects of warming the middle warmer, benefiting qi, invigorating stomach and kidney, and has gone out of Jingyuan and become a gorgeous flower of Chinese food culture. Won the praise of "making a name for yourself three thousand miles northwest and attracting guests from all corners of the country"

Sour carrion

Take big meat as raw material. First, choose good fresh meat, put it in a boiling water pot, and then take it out and cut it into small pieces. Then, pour a certain amount of mature vinegar into another pot, then pour the chopped meat, and then add various seasonings and mix well. You can also add vermicelli and sauerkraut. Cook for two or three minutes and you can eat it. Its meat is fat but not greasy, and it tastes hot and sour. It is one of the home-cooked dishes in central Gansu.

A nest of silk

The importance of cupcakes can be seen from their frequent appearance. No matter from ordinary bakeries or banquet places in restaurants, they all play an important role. As long as you have experienced freshly baked, fragrant and steaming bread in the bakery, you will be attracted by the special flavor feeling in the bread.

longxi bacon

Longxi bacon has a long history. Pork is fat and thin (commonly known as pork belly), with medicinal properties and pure taste.

Lean meat is gorgeous like Xia Hong, thin but not firewood; The fat meat is as bright as agate, fat but not greasy, and slightly transparent. The meat cured and sun-dried with salt, pepper, fennel, ginger bark, cinnamon, Xiangxiang and other seasonings 10 is delicious in color and unique in flavor.

(Organized in China Gansu Network)