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The endless flow of the Yellow River water, the endless northwest flavor
Lanzhou, Gansu, is the hub connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions, and it is also one of the most important transit cities on the Silk Road. There is a city between mountains and the Yellow River is her sash. In the east is the Longdong Plateau, which nurtured Chinese civilization, and in the west is the Hexi Corridor connecting the world.
The Loess Plateau, the Inner Mongolia Plateau, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau converge around Lanzhou, where farming and nomadic food customs blend. The integration of immigrants from all over the world and the local customs has created a unique “Jinglan accent”, and also made the four-way customs such as white melon, yellow river honey, lily, and peach into the authentic specialties of Lanzhou.
The Yellow River flows from Lanzhou to the distance, like the “big” beef noodles in Lanzhou width”. Photography/Yang Wenjie
Lanzhou flavor, just like the name of Lanzhou “Golden City”, is a unique golden horse and iron horse, The vast atmosphere, Lanzhou people are also quite interesting in hospitality. Here, the highest treatment for tourists is: “What about the group, don’t worry about it!(What are you doing, don’t be so polite, food and lodging, all-inclusive for Lanzhou friends)“.
What is the most fierce food night in the Northwest?
“Lanzhou, Lanzhou” sings: Lanzhou, I always run away in the morning and get drunk at night. In addition to the literary atmosphere,Lanzhou people often go to the night market when they walk.
Summer is the hottest time for Lanzhou night market. No matter which night market it is, the most not to be missed is the barbecue. Barbecue, you have to eat it by the handful, in order to show the “dry powder” (lean) of the Northwest people. Usually two lean and one fat, the fat makes the mutton shine, and the red hot peppers are dotted on it. One bite is full of blessings (satisfaction)!
The skewers need to be grilled by handful. Photography/serious
Connoisseurs order skewers, usually mutton and lamb tripe, lamb liver and lamb loin, and roasted skin with tendons. /strong>, cover everything. Eat skewers instead of spicy wine (white wine), it is more suitable to drink a large glass of Yellow River beer, you can also have a braised lamb’s head or hu spicy lamb’s trotters , eat the main food, there are also refreshing cold noodles, which are most suitable for all kinds of meat.
Grilled skewers with plain cold noodles and Masan potato chips. Photography/Serious
Another hometown snack that Lanzhou people never forget is Masan potato chips. The potato is sliced, cold-soaked and hot-cooked, and the key to seasoning is a tablespoon of spicy oil. In addition to potato chips, you can also order some special dishes such as bean skin, tripe and fried rice cakes, and inhale a bottle of the matching drink – Carotene, just to relieve the spicy taste.
As many night market snacks as there are, there are as many sweets
After eating the barbecue, come again Dessert. To be the king of Lanzhou night market desserts, it has to be Milk and Egg Mash.
Since its debut in “A Bite of China”, the stall that makes “Ma Ye’s Egg Mash” has been set up halfway On Zhengning Road, a white-hatted and white-bearded uncle Ma(the real uncle has no beard, and has moved to other night markets), and his hands are full of mashed glutinous rice rolls, The milk is fragrant. This dessert also includes many dried fruit ingredients from the Northwest: raisins, walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds…It tastes sweet with a little sour taste, smooth and palatable.
Milk and egg mash, the first dessert in the night market. Photography/Serious
In winter, the soothing taste of Lanzhou becomes Hot Winter Fruit.
A cauldron was set up on the coal stove, and the cauldron was full of hot big winter fruits with yellow and orange oranges. The so-called winter fruit is the frozen winter fruit pear. After steaming, it is simmered and boiled slowly. Scoop a bowl, the pear flesh melts in your mouth, as if the body is warm enough to melt in the soup bowl.
A hot winter pear like a hot pot. Photography/Serious
Grey Beans, both winter and summer. It is a dessert made of peas and ash. In addition to peas, red dates and sugar are added. This kind of bean porridge should be cooled a little before drinking, it will not burn your mouth, and it is full of sweet and pleasant taste.
Grey Bean is the magical transformation of Mawan Bean. Photography/Serious
Others such as Apricot Skin Water made from Dunhuang “Li Guangxing”, fermented from barley or highland barley The sweet fermented grains, which relieve greasy and spicy, are all popular authentic flavors in Northwest China.
However, Lanzhou people drink sweet glutinous rice grains very well. Milk tea, although the name is Fangha (Northwest dialect: put down, look away), but the big buckets of milk tea that are sold at every pound are sweet and refreshing, so delicious that you can’t put them down. Hey!” Well!
Slightly fermented sweet glutinous rice grains with a fragrant wine flavor . Photography/Serious
How good are people in Lanzhou eating meat?
Barbecue at the night market is just the tip of the iceberg of meat eating in Lanzhou. In Lanzhou, where we eat meat and drink and drink, every sheep are clearly arranged.
Lanzhou people usually land at Zhongchuan Airport and go straight to Asia, which is located between the airport and Chengguan city. A plate of hand-grabbed mutton, a plate of braised mutton, and a cup of sanpaotai have almost become the city card of Lanzhou.
Baishuihand-grabbed mutton, weighed by jins, is the heroic way of eating sheep in the northwest. Sheep, preferably lamb from Jingyuan, Gansu. Can be eaten hot (sliced, steamed and dipped in oil), cold (cooked and cut into strips, directly dipped in salt) , Fry and eat(instant heat, fry and eat). The meat is the most tender when eaten cold.
Yellow Braised Lamb, it is the Plus version of hand-caught mutton, cooked hand-cooked, with spring onion and ginger Garlic, hot sauce, and then simmered slowly, with Dingxi’s potato vermicelli, full of mutton soup, the most suitable for dinner.
In Lanzhou, there are two classic side dishes for lamb: wine and garlic. According to an old saying of Lanzhou people: “Eat meat without garlic, the nutrition will be reduced by half.” To eat a pound of hand, you often need to kill a head of garlic. . A good sheep should be accompanied by spicy wine. In Lanzhou, as long as the mutton is strong enough, people can “drink one brand a year”.
If you don’t drink alcohol, you can also have a bowl of Gaiwan tea“San Pao Tai”: the finest Chunjian tea leaves, Yong Deng The county’s Kushui rose, Ningxia wolfberry, Xinjiang candied date… Sanpaotai contains the essence of the northwest scenery. But this is not enough, there must also be dried longan from the far south, plus a few pieces of rock candy, soaked in boiling water, colorful, and relieve tiredness.
Lamb’s trotters and tripe’s tripe are all used in Lanzhou. Photography/serious
Eat the mutton, and the bold white boiled sheep’s head, a hideous sheep’s head, torn into pieces by hand. The dish of meat is quite bold and unrestrained in the northwest. Sheep’s head meat – preferably the “sheep face” on both sides of the cheeks. Sheep eat grass and chew all their lives to form the most essential “living meat”.
The head of a sheep can be the finale of a mutton restaurant, or it can be braised with lamb trotters as a snack;Large pieces of mutton are braised in hand; small pieces of mutton are grilled hot; >(Stomach hoof) boiled into a soup pot, chopped and seasoned, served cold or with soup; even sheepskin can be used to the best of their ability, turning into a raft, roaming on the long Yellow River .
Cold haggis, garlic isThe key to seasoning. Photography/serious
Drinking and eating meat is the daily delicacy of Lanzhou people. In addition to grasping mutton, braised mutton, offal, and stir-fried mutton Slices, elbows, mutton rolls… Even the casserole that Lanzhou people love to eat is full of meat, showing the heroic northwest.
Cassette, a delicacy in the daily life of Lanzhou people . Photography/Serious
More formal meat dishes are hidden in the “Eight Great Bowls” during Chinese New Year. Such as ribs, hairtail, etc., the more common and more distinctive ones are sand and poor.
Lanzhou’s Shaped Pork is a complicated process, using good pork fat or beef and mutton legs, and then Put a layer of tofu skin or egg cake skin, a layer of egg batter, spread the meat filling evenly, and then put another layer of egg batter and cake skin.
Sour and spicy mixed with sand, the soup is tempting. Photography/serious
Cut the sand into long strips, put them in the oil pan and fry them until cooked, you can make sweet and sour sand, hot and sour sand or warm The pot is also a good ingredient for Lanzhou casserole, but the best thing to eat is the sand that has just been fried. .
“It’s delicious in the New Year’s Eve dishes, and the meat in the bean curd is rotten.” Lanzhou people’s New Year’s Eve dinner is indispensable A crimson and lovely piece of bad meat.
This bad meat is also one of the earliest foreign flavors in Lanzhou. Slice the pork belly into thin slices, spread the red fermented bean curd evenly, and steam it in a basket. The steamed glutinous meat has a very festive color. A piece of meat, served with a glass of wine, or sandwiched in a lotus leaf bun, is the New Year flavor in the mouth of old Lanzhou.
Lanzhou food rivers and lakes, don’t miss the noodles
Noodles are eaten all over Gansu , Lanzhou is surrounded by the Hexi Corridor and Longdong, which are rich in grains. Naturally, they “cover everything”. For example, in Lanzhou, two million bowls of beef noodles can be sold a day.
In the early spring of 1915, the Hui nationality Ma Baozi was forced to make a living, carrying a pole to Lanzhou Nanguan Shizi to sell “Hot Pot Noodles”, four years later, he opened his first beef noodle restaurant in Lanzhou.
By 1932, beef noodles had become a “Qing and fat lotus, since the gourmet Tang Lusun’s mind. Cheng Xinyi, Tang Shen Ruojin, clear to the end” is a wonderful thing in the world. This bowl of noodles later became a Lanzhou-style “necessity” equivalent to water, electricity and gas. Once the price of each bowl of noodles increased by 50 cents, it could make headlines in the newspapers.
It is not time, place and people, and this bowl of “China’s first noodles” cannot be born:
Lanzhou has always been a business center in the northwest, with a prosperous flow of people, which is suitable for fast food such as beef noodles; the characteristics of Han, Hui, Dongxiang, Tibetan and other ethnic groups According to dietary customs, you can also use a bowl of beef noodles to “duanping”. In this bowl of noodles, there are wheat from Longdong and Hexi Corridors, chili from Tianshui Gangu, grass from the fields around Lanzhou, beef from Gannan Plateau… It’s simply the geography of the northwest in a bowl .
The meat of beef noodle is best served with soup. Photography/serious
Beef noodles, pay attention to one clear, two white, three red, four green, and five yellow. That is, the broth is clear and fragrant, the radish is white and sweet, the chili oil is red and bright, the coriander and garlic sprouts are bright green, and the noodles are bright and strong.
A small piece of dough, in the hands of the Lanzhou beef noodle master, can now pull out nine types of noodles, from thin to thick, from narrow to wide It is capillary, thin, three thin, two thin, two pillar, buckwheat edge, leek, thin wide, large wide. In the past, there was also a face shape, the cross-section was the shape of a train track, which has basically been lost. Lanzhou people’s morning starts with “Xi Wan Niu Da”. After choosing the thickness, they are matched with a fashionable “Meat and Egg Double Fly”. This day, it takes off like this.
Get up early and start a beautiful day. Photography/serious
It’s just that this bowl of noodles is out of Gansu, so it’s not easy to find. If you want to see a “Lanzhou Ramen” restaurant that sells beef noodles with fried eggs, as well as large plate chicken and rice bowls, it goes without saying that this is a ramen restaurant in Qinghai. In Lanzhou, beef noodle restaurants generally consist of noodles, side dishes, meat and eggs. At most, they sell cold noodles in summer.
Cold noodles are the summer food code of Lanzhou people. The cold noodles are poured with carrots, cauliflower and other ingredients, stir-fried with sauerkraut, and two tablespoons of oily spicy seeds, garlic juice, and balsamic vinegar. The muscles are refreshing and you can’t stop. This is not the end, the noodle shop in Lanzhou is often next to the barbecue restaurant, come with a few strings of sizzling and oily barbecue, and make sure you eat a round belly.
Three elements of plain cold noodles, cauliflower, carrots, and spicy oil. Photography/serious
In the north-northwest, in the eyes of Lanzhou people who are often drunk, there is also a secret recipe for hangover-Jerky water surface. It is widely popular everywhere, but Lanzhou’s glutinous noodle restaurants often have hidden secrets.
When you enter the glutinous noodle restaurant, first come to a bowl of glutinous rice noodles to quench your thirst, and then take a look. The side dishes of the gravy noodles, which are harder than one: Tiger-skin pepper, Longxi bacon, big pig’s trotters, braised pork ribs. The fragrant gravy is paired with the meat, eating and eating, often also It evoked the wine worms in the stomach, and started a new round of happy “ton ton ton”.
Lanzhou people who love to drink pulp water, sometimes I also need to fill a large bottle and put it in the refrigerator to refrigerate. Sprinkle with sugar as a drink. In recent years, milk tea shops have also sold lime syrup and honey, which can be called a trend in the milk tea industry.” Northwest mudslides”.
Lanzhou people can have more noodles, such as pulled strips, fatty intestine noodles, fried noodles with red oil tendon meat, hot The Jianwei Fried Sauce Noodles in the city are all delicious and authentic. Other carb delicacies, such as thousand-layer rose roasted bun, yellow-yellow glutinous rice dumplings, hot fried jelly, and sweet oil cakes and glutinous rice balls , then haunt breakfast shops, night market stalls, and compete with those fierce meat eaters.
Thousand-layer rose roasted bun, feel the reality of the Northwest people. Photography/serious
After drinking and eating, my eyes are blurred When I saw a stranger order a Heilanzhou, it flashed in the neon lights and the dark night, and in a trance, my heart was filled with the grandeur of the rivers and lakes in the northwest. .
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