Where is Ordos?

Ordos belongs to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Ordos City, meaning "numerous palaces" in Mongolian, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is located in the southwest of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, in the hinterland of the Ordos Plateau, and belongs to the north temperate semi-arid continental climate zone. There are big changes in the cold and heat in winter and summer. At the end of 2022, the permanent population of Ordos City was 2.2007 million, an increase of 32,300 from the end of the previous year.

Ordos is a multi-ethnic area and the best ethnic customs tourist city in China. Ordos City is one of the 18 typical areas in the past 30 years of reform and opening up, and one of the central cities of the Hohhot-Baotou-E urban agglomeration. Ordos is a national forest city, a national civilized city, and an outstanding tourist city in China. Within the territory, there are Dazhun, Zhundong and Dongwu railways running across the east and west, and the Baoshen and Baoxi railways running through the north and south; the Ordos Airport is accessible to 43 cities.

Ordos local specialties

1. Milk tofu

Cook the yogurt and store it for 1 day, then put it into a coarse cloth bag to store it. Control it for a period of time, then pour it on the wooden board, use stones to press out the yellow water, and make concentrated milk food. Put this milk food on a straw mat and place it on a high place to dry to make milk tofu. Some hold it in their hands and squeeze it hard. The dried milk that flows out between the fingers is called "Asahi Ma", and the dried milk that is pressed out with a wooden mold into strips is called "ripe mule". Milk tofu can be sour or sweet, and sugar can be added to make it sweet. , without adding sugar, it will be sour.

2. Milk tea

Cook the fresh milk and add it to the boiled brick tea water to make milk tea. Mongolian people in various parts of Ordos like to drink milk tea. Two of their three meals a day are dietary milk tea.

3. Yogurt

Put the fresh milk in a wooden barrel or jar, add the paste seeds, place it in an environment of 25°~30C, and ferment for two to three days to make it delicious. yogurt drink. The yogurt after extracting the cream is still drinkable.

4. Milk wine

Pour the yogurt into the pot and cover it with a pot-lid circular curtain made of wicker. There is a round hole in the middle of the curtain for placing the pan. The yogurt is boiled. Finally, place the pan on the round hole and hang a bottle under the pot. There is cold water in the pan. When the yogurt steam meets the cold water, it turns into water droplets and flows into the bottle, which is the mellow milk wine. The quality of the milk wine is the best in the first and second pots. If the water is returned to the pot several times, the quality of the milk wine will be poor.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ordos City