In Dunhuang, in addition to admiring the murals and feeling the cultural atmosphere, it is also very important to taste the local area with the tip of your tongue! In Dunhuang, the exchange and mutual learning of Chinese and Western civilizations has created a unique Dunhuang culture, and also bred a unique flavor of Dunhuang cuisine, Dunhuang donkey meat yellow noodles is one of the most popular local famous snacks.
A bowl of donkey meat yellow noodles is composed of two parts, one is donkey meat cooking, and the other is hand-pulled yellow noodles. As the saying goes, "Dragon meat in heaven, donkey meat on earth." "Donkey meat is regarded by many gourmets as a taste of the world. Dunhuang's donkey meat yellow noodles, the donkey meat and yellow noodles into one, yellow and attractive ramen, poured with brine or fried sauce, accompanied by donkey meat series of dishes, different, unique flavor, eat very comfortable.
Yellow noodles is a kind of flour unique to Dunhuang, which is carefully made by kneading, prying, throwing strips and other processes, because it is slightly yellow after cooking, so it is named.
The best yellow noodles should be thin and long, thin as dragon whiskers, and as long as gold threads, which also puts forward higher requirements for ramen masters. In Dunhuang, in the distance, you can see the ramen master waving his arms in front of the restaurant, only to see him like a magical magician, dancing a piece of pale yellow dough with his hands, sometimes pulling long strips, sometimes spinning into a twist shape, like a trick to pull a dough weighing six or seven pounds, and then pulling it into a thin fan-like noodle.
Yellow noodles in Dunhuang can be described as a long history. It is said that the murals of Cave 156 of mogao caves have vivid scenes of making yellow faces. As the saying goes, one side feeds the other. After a long period of fireworks, the yellow noodles walked down the Dunhuang murals and into real life, the longer and longer, the more refined, the yellow bright smooth, flexible tendons, become authentic folk food.
The noodles served are bright yellow, naturally uniform and soft. Yellow noodles are eaten in two ways: dry noodles are poured with brine (made of pork belly slices or cooked meat slices, fungus, tofu slices, vermicelli, radish, cabbage, etc.); soup eats the yellow noodles into the prepared cheek soup (there are meat cheeks and vegetarian cheeks), eat noodles and drink soup, it is not pleasant. Whether eaten dry or soup, accompanied by a plate of traditional marinated meat (originally large meat, later turned into donkey meat), it is a tempting meal.
Donkey meat yellow noodles fragrant ancient city, Dunhuang cuisine is famous. Tasting Dunhuang donkey meat yellow noodles, you are not only tasting Dunhuang cuisine, folk customs, but also the Silk Road culture and Chinese civilization on the thousand-year-old road.