When it comes to the northwest, we always can't help but think of the words vast and heroic, but we rarely think that the northwest can also be very cute, especially in terms of food, it is even more lovely. Pingliang, Gansu, known as the "Kingdom of Food", what mouth-watering and cute delicacies are hidden here?
<h1>Flat cold lamb soak</h1>
Flat cold lamb soak
When it comes to lamb steamed buns, the first thing that most people think of is definitely Xi'an. However, those who have eaten lamb bubbles in Pingliang are often not included in this list. In the words of the Pingliang people, "these are completely two kinds of eating" - Xi'an is "stewed", the steamed bun is broken in advance, and the material is stewed together; the flat cool is "bubble", the steamed bun is eaten while breaking, and the soup is eaten. The bun in the lamb bubble is a special scone that will quickly expand in the hot soup and melt in the mouth. Lamb bubbles are very popular with locals, and there is a joke that "do not eat lamb bubbles, but cool them to the point of nothing".
<h1>Cool stuffed skin</h1>
Northwest flavor stuffed skin
Stuffed skin, also known as cold skin, stuffed skin, is an authentic local cuisine in the northwest region, and it is also one of the most popular flavor snacks in the northwest region. Compared with other places, the skin is slightly thicker, the color is yellow and shiny and very tough, mixed with garlic juice, chili oil and other spices, eat a bowl of flexible and refreshing, cool and cool. The stuffed skin picks that walk through the streets and the stuffed skin stalls on the street are the old tastes that many pingliang wanderers often chant at the mouth.
<h1>Sake rice roll rolls</h1>
When Pingliang people name food, they like to use overlapping words to indicate the state or practice, such as "rubbing", "kneading", "knots"... Sake rice rolls are also representative of this. This is a rolled snack made from flour milled from sake rice, fermented and steamed. Its main ingredient, gumi, is a good material for winemaking, so it adds a little bit of wine aroma to the already soft and sweet flavor. Beneath the seemingly gentle and lovely name, there is a strong power hidden, which is endlessly evocative.
<h1>Potatoes</h1>
Like the "rice rolls", potato rolls are also a classic example of the use of characters in the naming of Pingliang people's cuisine. "囷囷" may be a word that many people except northwesterns don't know. The word comes from the "A Fang Gong Fu", which means tortuous and roundabout, and in Pingliang, it mostly refers to a kind of snack - potato yuan. Potatoes steamed with potato strips (shreds) mixed with flour can be used as a staple food or as a snack, which was once a traditional food that the older generation of Pingliang people relied on in difficult times. Nowadays, after improvement, the much more delicate potato bowl has been included in the menus of major restaurants and has become a rare local snack.
<h1>An all-encompassing warm pot</h1>
In Zhuanglang, the warm pot is a delicacy that almost every family cooks. The utensils used to warm the pot are very similar to those of the old Beijing shabu-shabu lamb – a small and large cylinder in the middle, plus a circular circular pot around a cylinder. First-timers are often struck by the warm pot, which includes almost every seasonal northern ingredient you can imagine, including meat and vegetables. On a cold winter day, the family gathers around a hot pot and chats while eating, which is both warm and lively, which is a favorite dinner choice of Zhuanglang people.
<h1>Crispy zygotes</h1>
Compared with other traditional snacks of Pingliang, the popularity of crispy hezi is still very short, and it was only created in the 1980s by pastry artists in Chongxin County. This sweet and crispy fried pie, most of which is "five-kernel filling", shaped like dumplings, with pinched flower shapes wrapped around the embellishment, quickly swept the county and even the whole Pingliang after its birth, becoming a "Gansu Pingliang famous snack".
From the cute and vivid specialties, we also felt the city's rich and unique fireworks in addition to the "desert smoke".
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Wen 丨 郭蔷
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The original text is taken from "Authentic Wind Objects , Pingliang" with additions, subtractions and changes
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