Eating on the Silk Road (I) —— Counting the classic food that must be eaten when going to Dunhuang

When traveling, you should not only see the history, culture and art of different places, but also taste different foods. In my opinion, food is the easiest clue to let you know about life in this place, and the most oily place is also the place where you live.

As a snack, it is my duty not only to see the grotto art when I arrive in Dunhuang, but also to take my parents to taste the delicious food here!

the first day I arrived in Dunhuang early in the morning, and I arranged to check in at the hotel. The most urgent task was to fill our hungry stomachs! Using my natural way of chatting up, I grabbed a local sister paper and began to investigate the coordinates of nearby food. The hotel I stayed in happened to be near the local market, which made me excited, because the real local authentic food was hidden in the citizens' market!

with the enthusiastic guidance of sister paper, I decided to eat the mixed juice near the residential area for breakfast! I thought it was breakfast like bean juice, but I didn't expect it to give us a huge surprise!

Warm summer home juice

As soon as I entered the store, I heard the voices of local people chatting everywhere, and suddenly I entered the people dressed by several travelers. It was really a bit abrupt! However, our whole family is the kind of personality that can quickly blend into the atmosphere. After communicating with the waiter, we realized that the original juice is to cook mutton, meatballs, tofu, vermicelli and oil bubbles together with mutton soup. The soup is delicious and can be eaten with sesame seeds! It's a bit like our mutton offal liver soup. It's breakfast in the northwest. If you eat a bowl visually, you should not be hungry until the afternoon!

I ordered the classic mutton sauce! A big bowl of hot food is served on the table, and the fragrance hooks our appetite. Let's have a sip of clear soup first. The rich mutton soup has no smell. I have long heard from my father that eating in the northwest, especially near Gansu, is absolutely heartless, and every meal is beef and mutton! You can break the sesame seed cake into small pieces and eat it in the soup. The sesame seed cake is soaked in the soup and tastes delicious! I like the oil bubbles in the soup. I fully inhaled the soup and ate it with mutton. It tastes soft and tough!

The dining table in the restaurant is the kind of dining table that can be used all the time. When eating, a local mother and daughter face each other. Grandma is very enthusiastic and shows us how to eat mixed juice. Tell us that this store is a local time-honored brand. She took her daughter to have breakfast here when she was young. Now her daughter has got married in Beijing, and she will come back to Dunhuang every annual leave to accompany her to eat juice in the morning! Her daughter told me that she always wanted to eat the taste of her hometown in Beijing, but she couldn't find it. Only when she came back every year and had a meal with her mother, did she feel that she was going home!

Watching the grandmother and her daughter smile at each other, the happy smile, eating this hot juice, filled with warmth and gratitude. Thanksgiving in this strange city, sitting next to my parents, we eat juice together, and have a sense of happiness in having breakfast at home ...

Heavy taste: Hu Yang braised cake

After a day's turn in Mogao Grottoes, we are already hungry! I decided to treat myself and try a hard dish in Dunhuang-Hu Yang Braised Cake. There are many restaurants with Hu-Yang stew cakes in Dunhuang market, so of course, you should go to the local market to find the most authentic food!

Before, I always thought that Hu Yang braised cake was made with mutton and cake, and I made the mistake of looking at the text to make sense! When we arrived at the most authentic restaurant in the market, we realized that we had no imagination! The restaurant is not big, the proprietress is generous, and after ordering mutton stew cake, she also gives us two side dishes to relieve boredom.

I was shocked when the braised cake was served! What a big plate, the amount of root saute spicy chicken is equivalent! Moreover, this stew cake is more like wide noodles, not pancakes in our traditional sense. But this cake is very strong, and it tastes better with the soup of stewed mutton! After consulting the proprietress, I realized that this stew cake is unique. Before stewing, I will oil the noodles and roll them thin. Then, when the mutton is almost stewed, I will put the cake on the mutton and pour the mutton soup before stewing. So the cake will be very tasty and strong! There is also mutton, because it is mutton stewed with materials for a long time, which has a strong taste and no smell. This lamb is also for real, a small portion for three people, more than enough!

Maybe it's because of a hard day's work and eating Hu-Yang braised cakes, the three of us have a refreshing feeling of eating meat in the desert! Of course, I ate meat with some side dishes, and my father ordered a bottle of cold beer, which was perfect!

classic food-yellow noodles with donkey meat sauce

When you go to Dunhuang, yellow noodles with donkey meat sauce is a must-eat food! I miss it, I must take my parents to taste this classic food before I leave Dunhuang! The old shop that Dunhuang locals often eat is called Shunzhang Huangmian, which is said to be a century-old shop and has been passed down for five generations!

as expected, I found this shop in the corner of the market! Ordered classic donkey meat and yellow noodles with sauce! Interestingly, this donkey meat is served on a single plate, and then the yellow noodles are served to us with mushroom sauce. As for how to eat? Donkey meat has a special dipping sauce, which can be eaten directly as a dish. As the saying goes, "there is dragon meat on the top and donkey meat on the bottom." Compared with others, I prefer donkey meat. On the one hand, it is thinner, and the meat is strong. It is not greasy at all with dipping juice.

The yellow noodles are even more amazing. On the one hand, the noodles are very strong, and with the sauce fried with diced mushrooms, diced tofu and diced donkey meat, the entrance is smooth. The tenderness of the donkey meat and the fresh fragrance of diced mushrooms are mixed together, which makes my taste buds fall a little bit ...

Lamian Noodles in Dunhuang is different from Lanzhou, and each Lamian Noodles chef has to use six or seven kilograms of dough to make Lamian Noodles in one go. This is a test of Master Lamian Noodles's physical strength and technique. Even different temperatures and subtle movements will affect the hardness of the surface. And how to make such technology complete? Only by practicing intently again and again, the northwest people are as persistent about noodles as the Japanese are about sushi! Therefore, every dish of Lamian Noodles is the result of repeated practice by Master Lamian Noodles. In the simple words of the boss, don't disappoint the diners who come to eat. This is also the pride of a flour maker!

Of course, I don't forget to try their specialties: donkey meat spring rolls and hot and sour donkey tendons.

only after tasting it did I find that donkey meat spring rolls are my love! The skin is crispy, and the inside is covered with the stuffing of stir-fried shredded donkey meat. Take a bite of crispy shredded pork with cumin flavor! There is an exotic flavor in this spring roll.

Hot and sour tendons are dad's favorite. They are very smooth and chewy when bitten in the mouth. With hot and sour condiments, they taste endless after eating, and they are hot and sour and greasy.

Finally, say goodbye to Dunhuang with a happy sense of satisfaction. But you can still recall the aroma of food here between your lips and teeth. Because every food, I can appreciate the roughness, simplicity, warmth and persistence of Dunhuang city. These qualities turn into food, which makes us diners stutter and feel satisfied with the rising fireworks. It is with these delicious foods that I feel that this city in the desert is no longer mysterious. She lifted the veil and smiled at us with food ...